{"id":3189,"date":"2011-09-03T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T10:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2011-09-03T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T10:18:23","slug":"niqab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/niqab\/","title":{"rendered":"Niqab"},"content":{"rendered":"<table dir=\"ltr\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">What is the ruling of niqab?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Answer <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The awrah (nakedness) of a woman in front of a non-mahram (those with whom marriage is lawful) consists of the whole body except the face, hands and feet. (Raddul Muhtar p.531 v.9)<\/p>\n<p>Niqaab (face cover) according to the scholars is not part of the awrah. However, wherever there is an apprehension of fitnah or temptation then it will be compulsory for a woman to cover her face.<\/p>\n<p>Allahmah Ibn Abeedeen Shami (RA) has said: (\u201cA young woman will be prevented from exposing her face) not because it is part of the awrah, rather (for the fear f temptation.\u201d) (Raddul Muhtar P.532 V.9)<\/p>\n<p>Wearing the hijab or niqaab is compulsory upon every woman who is close to the age of puberty or has reached it.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to your question explain to the sister that wearing the niqaab is compulsory irrelevant whether she is married or not. It is a command from Allah (SWA). Furthermore, by her fulfilling the commands of Allah (SWA) and the Prophet of Allah Sallallahu Alahi Wasalm she will be rewarded abundtly.<\/p>\n<p>Allah (SAW) in the Holy Quran has said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd whoever obeys Allah and his messenger achieves a great success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">(Surah al \u2013Ahzab V.71)<\/p>\n<p>For a detailed article on the topic of hijaab, please click of the following link:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/hijab.htm<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah Knows Best<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta Birmingham.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of niqab? In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. Answer The awrah (nakedness) of a woman in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}