Is it permissible to remove the head covering in hijab if the doctors determine that it is the cause of a certain illness, and likewise to shave her head?
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The questioner : A woman is asking from one of the Arab countries, and she says: She started wearing the hijab at the age of fifteen.
The Shaykh : She started.
The questioner : Wearing the hijab.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : At the age of fifteen, and after about two years, she was afflicted with tuberculosis.
The Shaykh : Tuberculosis.
The questioner : Yes, in her left ear.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : In her left ear.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : And she needed a surgical operation, and this disease was excised. Then the doctor indicated and said: It is necessary to remove the hijab so that the head is exposed to the sunlight. And after a year, she was afflicted with this disease again.
The Shaykh : After she uncovered her head.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : After she uncovered her head, after she uncovered her head.
The questioner : After she uncovered.
The Shaykh : And after that, did she remain with the hijab?
The questioner : She did not clarify in the question. Then she says: After that, after about a year, she was afflicted; the disease returned to her, and she was afflicted with swelling in the head. And she went to another doctor, and he indicated to her the same, meaning the words of the first doctor, and the removal of the hair from the head, since her hair is long and it prevents the sunlight from reaching the scalp to breathe. So what is your opinion?
The Shaykh : Our opinion: These people should not be obeyed. It is obligatory for her to wear the hijab and to cover her head and her face. And I ask: Is she always in the market? Is she always in the market? Most of the time she is in her house. And if she is most of the time in her house, she goes out to the roof and leaves her head exposed to the sun for an hour or two, or as much as she wishes. And all of this is either a guess by these doctors, or for a bad purpose, in order to remove her modesty. Because if a woman loses her modesty, that is it; she becomes like a man, or worse than a man. And the loss of modesty has causes: among them is free mixing, and among them is that the woman wears, from her youth, clothes far from modesty and shyness, so she becomes accustomed to this thing. The important thing is to tell her: Do not obey these people. She should veil herself. And what does she know? Perhaps she will obey them, and then the disease returns, and she will be sinful, and the disease will remain. Yes.
The Shaykh : She started.
The questioner : Wearing the hijab.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : At the age of fifteen, and after about two years, she was afflicted with tuberculosis.
The Shaykh : Tuberculosis.
The questioner : Yes, in her left ear.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : In her left ear.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : And she needed a surgical operation, and this disease was excised. Then the doctor indicated and said: It is necessary to remove the hijab so that the head is exposed to the sunlight. And after a year, she was afflicted with this disease again.
The Shaykh : After she uncovered her head.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : After she uncovered her head, after she uncovered her head.
The questioner : After she uncovered.
The Shaykh : And after that, did she remain with the hijab?
The questioner : She did not clarify in the question. Then she says: After that, after about a year, she was afflicted; the disease returned to her, and she was afflicted with swelling in the head. And she went to another doctor, and he indicated to her the same, meaning the words of the first doctor, and the removal of the hair from the head, since her hair is long and it prevents the sunlight from reaching the scalp to breathe. So what is your opinion?
The Shaykh : Our opinion: These people should not be obeyed. It is obligatory for her to wear the hijab and to cover her head and her face. And I ask: Is she always in the market? Is she always in the market? Most of the time she is in her house. And if she is most of the time in her house, she goes out to the roof and leaves her head exposed to the sun for an hour or two, or as much as she wishes. And all of this is either a guess by these doctors, or for a bad purpose, in order to remove her modesty. Because if a woman loses her modesty, that is it; she becomes like a man, or worse than a man. And the loss of modesty has causes: among them is free mixing, and among them is that the woman wears, from her youth, clothes far from modesty and shyness, so she becomes accustomed to this thing. The important thing is to tell her: Do not obey these people. She should veil herself. And what does she know? Perhaps she will obey them, and then the disease returns, and she will be sinful, and the disease will remain. Yes.