What is the ruling on women displaying their adornment at weddings among themselves?

The questioner : Regarding, my master, the women who display their adornment at weddings.

The Shaykh : At weddings.

The questioner : At weddings, what is their ruling? Is it permissible...?

The Shaykh : What is this question?

The questioner : I mean...

The Shaykh : There is no doubt and no blame, but it is a question that has no substance.

The questioner : The display of adornment referred to here is the short clothing.

The Shaykh : Understood, my master, the display of adornment.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : But the question...

The questioner : Among women, among women, inside, one among the other, meaning this is what is intended, not in the streets, among the women.

The Shaykh : I think the worst part of the question is that it is wrong, and the least part is that it is incomplete, but I will keep it because when you mentioned at weddings, when you mentioned at weddings, pay attention, pay attention, at weddings, at parties, let us leave weddings and parties, let us imagine two women, one pious and not displaying her adornment, and another displaying her adornment and not pious, does the picture differ from that picture you asked about?

The questioner : There is a very big difference.

The Shaykh : Meaning this one is permissible and that one is not permissible.

The questioner : By Allah, my master...

Another questioner : So he fell silent.

The questioner : ... everyone fell silent.

The Shaykh : Listen now.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : So one of the two possibilities has become apparent: that the worst part of the question is that it is wrong, and the best part is that it is incomplete, and now you will know one of the two matters. Also, to clarify, I do not want to say a word, also a Syrian word, we will strike it, 'ala'iyah, 'ala'iyah, meaning with a very big difference.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : A woman here is sitting, covered, modest, pious, perfectly, and there is another woman wearing what is called in Arabic "tabban" and in the foreign language today "shorts," meaning it does not cover except the two private parts, okay, and she has put her leg like this on her leg, what is visible? Her thigh.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Okay, is it permissible? There is only that pious one and this one displaying her adornment, is it permissible?

The questioner : It is not permissible.

The Shaykh : It is not permissible. So if you know that this is not permissible, what is the difference left between here and the parties or weddings? The last difference remains with you: here, the one looking at the 'awrah is one modest woman, whereas there, there may be more than one modest woman looking at the 'awrah of the woman displaying her adornment. This is the difference, but regarding the woman displaying her adornment, she is committing a forbidden act because she is exposing her 'awrah before women. The real question that should be directed and raised, whose answer is clear, is what most Muslims do not know. I wish that this majority was from the majority, I wish that the matter was limited to the majority of people whom the Lord of the Worlds described in His saying in the Noble Qur'an: , no, the matter has exceeded the majority to the minority, and they are the scholars. What is the question? What is the 'awrah of a woman in relation to a woman? What is the 'awrah of a woman in relation to a woman? Many scholars, and this is mentioned in the books, say that the 'awrah of a woman in relation to a woman is like the 'awrah of a man in relation to a man, meaning the entire upper part is not 'awrah. This is a mistake, a grave mistake, contrary to the Noble Qur'an, because Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says: or or or, what does it say at the end? , so now, is it permissible for a brother to see from his sister what is above the navel to the breasts to the armpits to the flanks to the back? These are not places of adornment, and therefore they are 'awrah. Or is it permissible for a father to see something of that from his daughter? The answer is no. Or is it permissible for a mother to see something of that from her daughter? The answer is no. So this limb, it is not permissible for a woman to expose it before a woman, let alone wearing a shawl that exposes the armpits, let alone what reveals something of the breasts, something of the upper back to the end, all of this is forbidden, forbidden, forbidden. Therefore, in brief, the Muslim woman is not allowed to expose herself before her Muslim sister except with the members of wudu' only. When a woman wants to perform wudu', what does she need to do? She needs to roll up her sleeves, so this is not 'awrah. She needs to expose her head and neck, she needs to wash her feet and something of her lower leg, something.

The questioner : To the knee, it becomes.

The Shaykh: No.

The questioner : And not below.

The Shaykh : This is up to you, up to just above the ankles, a very little, because what is above the ankles is the place of the anklets.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : He (the Exalted) said: , this is adornment that was covered by the long, flowing jilbab, so it is not permissible to expose the feet except during wudu'. These members that she exposes before the daughters of her sex during wudu' are not 'awrah because they are places of adornment. So all places of adornment for the Muslim woman, whether she has adornment on them or not, it is permissible for her to expose them at that time. You have taken the answer, and an extra.

The questioner : May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : Clear?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : It does not help...

The Shaykh : Heh.

The questioner : What do they do... they should know that this is a legal reality and excellent, but they will be wearing this jilbab over it and wearing it underneath.

The Shaykh : If it were not you, Abu Faris, you are Abu Faris and you would not be... upon us, okay, not Abu Faris... heh.

The questioner : My master, may Allah bless you, and we are happy.

The Shaykh : ... .