(Clarification that Ibn al-Qayyim’s description of women is a description of adulterous, sinful women, not of the righteous) O you whose gaze is tormented by them*** they have stripped away
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The Shaykh : This is what Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in his description of women. Perhaps he means by this the women who commit fornication, i.e., those who betray their husbands through adultery and taking lovers, and the like. He does not mean by this all women, because Allah the Exalted said in His Book: [An-Nisa 4:34] And how many women are not as Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) described them in this. But he means by this the fornicatresses; he means the fornicatresses who deceive with their beauty, which is a sham, cosmetic enhancement and not true beauty, a thin shell beneath which is calamity. And the appraiser, and the appraiser means the one who sees the thing clearly.
“They see what is beneath it*** and most of the people are among the blind”
And for this he said: “And the chaste women among them guard what cannot be seen”. Yes.
So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband's] absence what Allah would have them guard
فالصالحات قانتات حافظات للغيب بما حفظ الله“They see what is beneath it*** and most of the people are among the blind”
And for this he said: “And the chaste women among them guard what cannot be seen”. Yes.