"she cant unviel her face"

[shudnt_have]

In the name of Allaah the most beneficent the most merciful



Assalaamu alaikum warahmathullah

All praises are due to Allaah and may Allaah have mercy on you all

On this topic, a famous historical incident is mentioned, so that males and
females with a sense of honour and enthusiasm may know how the pious
predecessors despised a woman unveiling her face before men, although in the
following instance it was permissable to unveil the face.

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During the third century hijri, the qaadi of Rayy and Ahwaaz, Musa bin Ishaaq,
sat to adjudicate people's disputes. Among the litigants was a woman who claimed
five hundred dinars mahr from her husband.

The husband denied the claim.

The qaadi said to the husband, "Bring your witnesses."

The husband said, "I have brought them."

The qaadi said to one of the witnesses, "Look at the wife so you may point her
out during testimony."

The witness stood up and said to the woman, "Stand."

Upon this, the husband said, "What do you want from her?"

The husband was told, "It is necessary that the witness sees your wife unveiled
so that he may know that it is your wife."

The husband detested his wife unveiling her face for the witnesses in public. He
screamed, saying, "I make the qaadi my witness that this mahr of my wife is an
obligation on me, and she must not unveil her face!"

When the wife heard this, she thought it was wonderful that her husband
disapproved of her unveiling her face before the witnesses, and was protecting
her from the sight of people.

She too screamed at the qaadi, "I make you a witness that I have granted my mahr
to him, and have absolved him in this dunya and the aakhirah!"

The qaadi said to those around him, "Record this as a moral standard."

'tarbeyyat al-awlaad fil-islaam' by shaikh abdullaah naasih 'ulwaan

[lyesh]

I've heard tht somewhere else before. Really nice.... shows us how important it is to veil ourselves.

[Umm Safiya]

:sl:

Masha Allâh.. :D