The Shaykh’s condemnation of some muftis who permit a woman to wear a wig on her head for the purpose of adorning herself for her husband.

The Shaykh : For example, you must have heard that some Syrian jurists, and others besides them, say that it is permissible for a woman whose hair is falling out to wear a wig, or to take false hair, in order to adorn herself for her husband. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the women who do less than that, who join their hair with the hair of others to make their braid larger at the expense of another’s hair. Since a woman’s beauty lies in her hair, she enlarges her braid until women think she is a beautiful woman. What then of a woman whose hair has fallen out and thinned on her head, making it a defect even in the eyes of women, so she takes this modern, European, disbelieving fitnah of the wig, changing her head every single day?

The questioner : Even men are in it.

The Shaykh : This expression is permissible: she changes her head every day!

The questioner : The one on her head.

The Shaykh : It is permissible linguistically, because when you read the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic): . What is meant is the hair, so she changes her head every day.