We seek advice for women regarding the trial of the niqab

The questioner : This is a long letter, but its summary, according to the honorable Shaykh, is that the trial of women regarding the niqab has spread, become widespread, and overflowed. This brother wants advice from you for women not to wear this niqab that exposes the eyes and their charms, knowing that they have started coloring their eyes and exposing their charms when they wear this hijab and this niqab.

The Shaykh : Yes, the niqab was known in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). For this reason, he said: meaning the woman in ihram. This indicates that women used to wear the niqab. But the women in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) were not like the women of today. A woman cannot open up more than what she needs for her eye. In our present time, if she is permitted the niqab, she will expose the size of the eye, but she will apply kohl to the eye, causing temptation. This is in the first week or the first month. In the second month, she expands it a little. Yes, until the eyelids are included. In the third month, yes, she expands it until the eyebrows and cheeks are exposed. Then the women expand it further. For this reason, I do not issue a fatwa permitting it, but I am not saying that it is forbidden. I mean that by not issuing a fatwa permitting it, I am refraining from the fatwa of permissibility. But I am not saying that it is not permissible, and it did occur in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Rather, I refrain from issuing a fatwa permitting it because women have not used the niqab in the prescribed manner. Yes.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.