Refuting A Claim Against The Obligation Of The Niqaab, By Ibn ‘Uthaymeen

Kakorot

Junior Member
Neither is growing the beard mentioned in the Qur'aan. Nor is the prohibition of plucking the eyebrows is mentioned.

The Sunnah is wahy and is equal to the Qur'aan in terms of legislation.

I know that. But regarding the niqab, there's doubt whether it's obligatory because of the different interpretations in the Qur'aan and hadeeths.

The scholars that suggest it's obligatory got their proof and those who say it's optional but recommended got their proof.

All I'm trying to say is if there's such huge emphasis from scholars about niqab, then why isn't the word even mentioned in the Qur'aan? Which is what causes doubt in it being obligatory.
 

Kakorot

Junior Member
Here you go:

Regarding Allaah's statement, "...and let them not stamp their feet, so as to reveal what they hide from their adornment." [Noor:31]

Ibn 'Uthaymeen says:

"This means that a woman must not strike her foot so as to let it be known what she conceals (from her adornment(), such as her ankle bracelets or anything else that she adorns herself with for a man. SO is a woman is forbidden (in this aayah) from stamping her feet, for fear of causing fitnah for a man, due to what he hears rom the sound of her ankle-bracelet or its types, then how about exposing the face?

Which of the two is a greater cause for fitnah? That a man hears the sound of the ankle-bracelet produced by the foot of a woman, not knowing who she is, nor her beauty nor if she is young or old or if she is unattractive or beautiful. Which of these two is a greater fitnah? This, or that he looks at a woman's uncovered face that is perhaps beautiful, fair, young, bright, enticing, and which is perhaps beautified with that which attracts fitnah (temptation) and calls for the prohibited look?

Indeed, every man that has an interest in women knows which of the two is a greater fitnah and which is more deserving of being covered and concealed."​

[Taken From "The Four Essays On The Obligation Of Veiling" p.31]​
That's a good explanation but my question is if niqab is obligatory and there's such huge emphasis on it being so, then why isn't the word niqab mentioned in the Qur'aan?
 

thariq2005

Praise be to Allah!
I know that. But regarding the niqab, there's doubt whether it's obligatory because of the different interpretations in the Qur'aan and hadeeths.

The scholars that suggest it's obligatory got their proof and those who say it's optional but recommended got their proof.

All I'm trying to say is if there's such huge emphasis from scholars about niqab, then why isn't the word even mentioned in the Qur'aan? Which is what causes doubt in it being obligatory.

Read my second post inshaa'Allaah
 
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