The Shaykh’s remarks on his dissatisfaction with the image placed on the cover of his book *The Muslim Woman’s Hijab*, which features a picture of the modern jilbab.

The Shaykh : First, it is not in accordance with our knowledge, and second, it is not in accordance with our approval.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : There is a new edition in which the image was corrected, though the correction is of no value. We asked the person in charge of the printing not to proceed with such an action. I think it was yesterday; it was him.

The questioner : Yes, Shaykh.

The Shaykh : I think he was sitting here yesterday. We told him: First, you acted on your own independent legal reasoning, and this is not your right. Second, your independent legal reasoning was wrong, because this garment does not represent the jilbab that I am talking about in the book. Third and finally, we asked him, as an expiation, to paste a sheet on this cover that is plain, containing only the title of the book, the name of the author, the printer, and the publisher. He excused himself by saying that the book had left his possession and gone to Saudi Arabia, to al-Suwaydi bookstore. In any case, if it is facilitated to print a third edition, it will be, if Allah wills, plain without any image. It is not hidden from you that the jilbab is what covers from the head to the bottom. This is what covers the shoulders; this represents the modern jilbab today, which we call in Syria the balto.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : But they lengthen it a bit downward and put this khimar on the head, thinking that this is the jilbab. This is not the jilbab. So the one who took the picture, or the one who commissioned the photographer with the modern jilbab, is affected by it, and he does not know.