Fatwa ID: 06453
Answered by: Maulana Sibghat Ullah
Question:
Can Muslims wear bindis? Is it haram?
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Answer:
In Islam woman is allowed to wear jewellery but one should make sure of the following:
- It should not represent or imitate the disbelievers. It is narrated by Abdullah ibn Umar that the Prophet: “He who copies any people is one of them”.[i]
- Avoid wearing it in front of ghair mehrams. Allah says in Quran:-
And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which is apparent and to draw their veils over their bosoms and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
Sura Nur, 24: 31
- Don’t try to wear it to show off and show arrogance.
Ibn ‘Umar reported that the Prophet said, “If anyone behaves insolently or walks with arrogance, he will meet Allah Almighty covered with His anger.”[ii]
- It should not be harmful to your body. There is a rule in fiqh, No harming nor reciprocating harm.
Qawaid ul Faqih, Page 28
So, any jewellery or clothes which coincide with the Islamic sharia as mentioned above will be permissible to wear.
Only Allah knows best.
Written by Maulana Sibghat Ullah
Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah
Darul Ifta Birmingham
[i] Abu Dawood, Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas), Chapter: A Garment Of Fame And Vanity
[ii] Al Adab Al Mufrad, Book of General Behaviour, Chapter: Pride
