Is wearing a long shirt with a skirt and hijab considered a Sharia-compliant garment for a woman?
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The questioner : And if a woman's clothing consists of a shirt, meaning a shirt that reaches approximately to the middle of the man's body, and she wears a skirt underneath that is also long, and the shirt is long, along with the hijab, is this clothing permissible for a woman?
The Shaykh : I think your expression was not precise.
The questioner : Just so you know...
The Shaykh : When you said "with the hijab," what do you mean by hijab?
The questioner : No, I meant that this clothing is, in other words...
The Shaykh : The problem is that your word does not match your intention.
The questioner : I meant that this is the entire clothing, meaning it is the hijab, that is what I meant.
The Shaykh : The hijab, may Allah reward you, is the garment that covers the woman's body from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. This is the hijab. And without a doubt, as we explained in the book *The Hijab of the Muslim Woman in the Book and the Sunnah* previously, and then in the new edition *The Jilbab of the Muslim Woman*, it has many conditions. One of the eight is that it must not be decorated. So when you mentioned the shirt and the skirt, I do not think you meant a plain shirt and a plain skirt.
The questioner : No, I intended...
The Shaykh : It must be, what? Decorated, with green, multicolored, blue, red, and so on. So this is adornment.
The questioner : If it becomes... Shaykh, they objected to us by quoting from the same book that red and yellow were in the jilbab of the Muslim woman.
The Shaykh : Yes, if it is plain.
The questioner : Plain, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Plain, but let us suppose its color is, for example, white for half of it and black.
The Shaykh : There is no objection.
The questioner : Ah, that is the intention.
The Shaykh : With the conditions mentioned there, there is no objection, as long as it covers the entire body.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It does not cling, it does not cling, and it does not reveal.
The questioner : Yes, it does not cling to any of her limbs, and it does not reveal or become transparent. Yes.
The Shaykh : There is no objection.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware, okay, does the one who wears this hijab wear the khimar?
The questioner : How is the khimar? I mean, she wears the hijab which is in the shape of...
The Shaykh : The ishara.
The questioner : It is not an ishara; it comes down to, meaning, her arm from here and her arm from here, and her face is exposed.
The Shaykh : No, the issue is not about the face.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : But what do you call this, hijab or khimar?
The questioner : By Allah, in the language, I do not know, Shaykh. They call it hijab. When they go to buy it, they call it hijab.
The Shaykh : Okay, that is why we said earlier, but I felt that it did not appear to you what I said earlier. The hijab is what covers from the head to the soles of the feet.
The questioner : This is the hijab.
The Shaykh : But the ishara, this is not called that.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : The ishara, if it is long, is the khimar.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And few of the committed Muslims among their women, whether they are wives, sisters, or daughters, combine the khimar and the jilbab. It is obligatory to combine the khimar and the jilbab.
The questioner : To complete the hijab.
The Shaykh : The khimar is thrown over the head and shoulders and over the breasts, and the jilbab is over all of that.
The questioner : Over?
The Shaykh : Over all of that.
The questioner : I mean, not underneath?
The Shaykh : Underneath what?
The questioner : I mean, for example, she wears...
The Shaykh : Under the coat.
The questioner : If not, she wears the jilbab, the jilbab which is, for example, let us suppose, the shirt.
The Shaykh : Brother, this is what I told you, this is it.
The questioner : And she wore the shirt.
The Shaykh : This is not a jilbab, this is a coat.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : If we suppose she wore a coat and then threw the khimar over her head and then over her shoulders, she has worn the khimar, but she has not worn the jilbab.
The questioner : And she has not completed the hijab.
The Shaykh : Ah, because the jilbab is what is placed on the head over the khimar.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : In some Arab countries, even today, like Saudi Arabia, and even Iraq, despite its deviation, they use the abaya.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And the abaya is placed on the head, but especially the Iraqi women, you find them letting the abaya down and everything is visible, her chest, and perhaps her ears and her hair. So it should be placed under the jilbab, or what is the abaya, the khimar that covers her head, her hair, her neck, and her breasts, and over that comes, what, the jilbab.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : This does not exist today except very rarely.
The questioner : Except very rarely, yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, and therefore I wanted to repeat, for the reminder benefits the believers. It is obligatory for the Muslim woman to combine on her head by placing the khimar and over it the jilbab.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : I think your expression was not precise.
The questioner : Just so you know...
The Shaykh : When you said "with the hijab," what do you mean by hijab?
The questioner : No, I meant that this clothing is, in other words...
The Shaykh : The problem is that your word does not match your intention.
The questioner : I meant that this is the entire clothing, meaning it is the hijab, that is what I meant.
The Shaykh : The hijab, may Allah reward you, is the garment that covers the woman's body from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. This is the hijab. And without a doubt, as we explained in the book *The Hijab of the Muslim Woman in the Book and the Sunnah* previously, and then in the new edition *The Jilbab of the Muslim Woman*, it has many conditions. One of the eight is that it must not be decorated. So when you mentioned the shirt and the skirt, I do not think you meant a plain shirt and a plain skirt.
The questioner : No, I intended...
The Shaykh : It must be, what? Decorated, with green, multicolored, blue, red, and so on. So this is adornment.
The questioner : If it becomes... Shaykh, they objected to us by quoting from the same book that red and yellow were in the jilbab of the Muslim woman.
The Shaykh : Yes, if it is plain.
The questioner : Plain, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Plain, but let us suppose its color is, for example, white for half of it and black.
The Shaykh : There is no objection.
The questioner : Ah, that is the intention.
The Shaykh : With the conditions mentioned there, there is no objection, as long as it covers the entire body.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It does not cling, it does not cling, and it does not reveal.
The questioner : Yes, it does not cling to any of her limbs, and it does not reveal or become transparent. Yes.
The Shaykh : There is no objection.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware, okay, does the one who wears this hijab wear the khimar?
The questioner : How is the khimar? I mean, she wears the hijab which is in the shape of...
The Shaykh : The ishara.
The questioner : It is not an ishara; it comes down to, meaning, her arm from here and her arm from here, and her face is exposed.
The Shaykh : No, the issue is not about the face.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : But what do you call this, hijab or khimar?
The questioner : By Allah, in the language, I do not know, Shaykh. They call it hijab. When they go to buy it, they call it hijab.
The Shaykh : Okay, that is why we said earlier, but I felt that it did not appear to you what I said earlier. The hijab is what covers from the head to the soles of the feet.
The questioner : This is the hijab.
The Shaykh : But the ishara, this is not called that.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : The ishara, if it is long, is the khimar.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And few of the committed Muslims among their women, whether they are wives, sisters, or daughters, combine the khimar and the jilbab. It is obligatory to combine the khimar and the jilbab.
The questioner : To complete the hijab.
The Shaykh : The khimar is thrown over the head and shoulders and over the breasts, and the jilbab is over all of that.
The questioner : Over?
The Shaykh : Over all of that.
The questioner : I mean, not underneath?
The Shaykh : Underneath what?
The questioner : I mean, for example, she wears...
The Shaykh : Under the coat.
The questioner : If not, she wears the jilbab, the jilbab which is, for example, let us suppose, the shirt.
The Shaykh : Brother, this is what I told you, this is it.
The questioner : And she wore the shirt.
The Shaykh : This is not a jilbab, this is a coat.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : If we suppose she wore a coat and then threw the khimar over her head and then over her shoulders, she has worn the khimar, but she has not worn the jilbab.
The questioner : And she has not completed the hijab.
The Shaykh : Ah, because the jilbab is what is placed on the head over the khimar.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : In some Arab countries, even today, like Saudi Arabia, and even Iraq, despite its deviation, they use the abaya.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And the abaya is placed on the head, but especially the Iraqi women, you find them letting the abaya down and everything is visible, her chest, and perhaps her ears and her hair. So it should be placed under the jilbab, or what is the abaya, the khimar that covers her head, her hair, her neck, and her breasts, and over that comes, what, the jilbab.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : This does not exist today except very rarely.
The questioner : Except very rarely, yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, and therefore I wanted to repeat, for the reminder benefits the believers. It is obligatory for the Muslim woman to combine on her head by placing the khimar and over it the jilbab.
The questioner: Yes.
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