What is your opinion regarding the short sleeve for a woman when she is with her father and her brothers?
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The questioner : What is your opinion regarding the short sleeve for a woman when she is with her father and her brothers?
The Shaykh : What I see is that women should accustom themselves to clothing that covers from the ankle to the wrist, because this is a great station and the danger is serious. If it is opened up for a woman to shorten her sleeves or her clothes, she will gradually move from what is permitted to a matter in which there is no permission, just as we have seen in many issues where the door is opened for people in a matter in which they like to expand, and then it is not long before you see reprehensible matters built upon this permission.
But if a woman is in her home, occupied with work, and has rolled up her sleeves so that her arm is visible, and there is no one around her except her mahrams, then there is nothing wrong with this, because the arm is not an awrah in relation to the mahrams.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : What I see is that women should accustom themselves to clothing that covers from the ankle to the wrist, because this is a great station and the danger is serious. If it is opened up for a woman to shorten her sleeves or her clothes, she will gradually move from what is permitted to a matter in which there is no permission, just as we have seen in many issues where the door is opened for people in a matter in which they like to expand, and then it is not long before you see reprehensible matters built upon this permission.
But if a woman is in her home, occupied with work, and has rolled up her sleeves so that her arm is visible, and there is no one around her except her mahrams, then there is nothing wrong with this, because the arm is not an awrah in relation to the mahrams.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.