What are the limits of a woman's 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered) in relation to mahram (a relative one may not marry)?
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The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What is a woman's 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered)?
The Shaykh : The ones mentioned in the verse[An-Nur 24:31] to the end of the verse, these are the mahram (a relative one may not marry) who were mentioned, or rather some of them, not all of them. The places of adornment are the only ones that it is not permissible for a woman to show to the mahram (a relative one may not marry) alone. The places of adornment are the forearms, the lower legs where the anklet is worn, and the head and what it contains, and the matter ends there.
The questioner : What is a woman's 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered)?
The Shaykh : The ones mentioned in the verse
And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
ولا يبدين زينتهن إلا لبعولتهن أو آبائهن أو أبنائهن ...
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