As-Salamu Alaykum, Dear Brothers And Sisters. Islam Means To Achieve
Peace; Peace With God, Peace Within Oneself And Peace With
The Creation Of God-
Through Wholly Submitting Oneself To God And Accepting His
Guidance. One Crucial Unequivocal Verse In The Quran Lays
The Ground For The Concept Of Equality Between Men And Women.
That Is The Believers Men And Women Are Allies Meaning (Awliya) Of One Another.
They Enjoin The Common
Good Meaning (Al Maruf) And Forbid The Bad (Al Munkar),
They Observe Prayers (Salah) And Give Charitable Alms (Zakat)
And Obey God And His Prophet. Quran Ch.9 V.71.
Brothers And Sisters, Human Beings In Islam Have The Highest
Rank And Are The Highest Physical Creation Of Allah.
They Have Both Material And Spiritual Characteristics.
The Creation Of Human Beings In Islam Is From An Original
Couple By God-
Adam And Hawwa (A.S), They Are Representatives And
Trustees Of God On Earth.
They Are The Only Creations Of God With The Freedom, Will
Power And Ability To Choose The Dimension They Want.
Human Beings Have A Responsibility That God Bestowed To Them.
Depending Upon The Biological Makeup Of The Man And Woman,
Depending Upon Their Physiology, Depending Upon Their Psychology,
Depending Upon Their Physical Makeup, Almighty Allah Has Given
Different Roles To Men And Women Our Creator Knows What Is
The Best For Us.
Let'S Listen To Ustad Asim Khan Whether Women Need To Cover
Their Feet And Mufti Menk On Halal Tattoo From The Islamic
Perspective. May Allah Give Us Wisdom And Courage To Truly
Act Upon Our Religion.
May Allah Give Us Courage To Show The Beauty Of Our Religion
To The Societies.
Jazakallah Khair
Question; As-Salamu Alaykum
I Want To Know, I Would Like To Ask You On The Ruling On Covering
The Feet.
I'M Aware That Women Must Cover, Must Cover From The Ankle
And Above But I'M Not Sure About The Covering Of The Ankle
And Below In Front Of Non -Mahrams.
So Is It Permissible To Leave What Is Below The Ankle Uncovered?
So Here, This Is Actually An Area Of Disagreement.
So As For A Woman Who'S Out In Public Or In The Company Of
You Know, Men That Are That She Could Potentially Get Married
To ....A Woman Has To Cover Up, Right?
So What Did She Have To Cover Up?
You Know, There'S Agreement That The Hair And The Neck And
The Generally Speaking The Body Has To Be Covered The Extent
To Which It Must Be Covered Is Subject To Further Discussion,
But Generally Speaking Up To The Hands To Be Covered And
Then The Issue Of The Hands The Face And The Feet Is Subject
To Disagreement. Some Scholars Saying They Can Show Their
Hands, Their Face And Their Feet, Other Scholars .....
Scholars Saying That They Cannot Show Their Hands, Their Face
Or Their Feet And They Are Some Views In The Middle As Well.
When It Comes To The Feet In Particular;
We Find That, You Know, Imam Shafi, Imam Malik (Rah)
And Some Of The Scholars From The Hanafi Madhhab What Actually
Of The View That A Woman Should Cover Her
Feet As Well And This Is The Majority Opinion From The Amongst
The Imams That A Woman'S Feet Should Be Covered And There
Is A Narration In The Sunnan Of Abu Dawood That Umm Salama (Ra)
Ask The Prophet (Saw) And Umm Salama (Ra) Is One Of The Wives
Of The Prophet (Saw), That If I Pray And Way This Long Khamis
Is Like A Dress In A Khmer, And And The Proper
Hijab, But My Feet Are Uncovered Is It Okay, And The Prophet (Saw)
Said That So Long This Khamis/ Dress
It Drapes Down.
It'S So Long That It Ends Up Covering The Top Of Your Feet
Then It'S Okay. Based On That Hadith
The Other Scholars Said, No, A Woman Must Cover Her Feet.
It Is Part Of The Awrah, Awrah Which Means That You Know, Even
In The Prayer And Outside The Prayer A Woman Has To Wear
Socks And Cover Her Feet And I Will Two More Things
And One Thing I Would Say Is According To The Scholars Like
Some Hanafi Scholars That Do Allow For The Feet And
That Say That The Feet Are Not The Awrah Of Woman.
Therefore Technically Can Be Shown In Public, Firstly They
Say That Is Only Up To The Ankles And That'S A Very Important
Point Because I'Ve Seen Many Sisters, Especially Young Sisters
That They Will There'S A New Trend Where They Will Wear Trousers
Or Leggings..
Well Above The Ankles. So That The Bottom Part Of The Leg
Is Shown And It'S A Fashion Kind Of Trend And According
To All Scholars
That'S Not Actually Allowed, That Is Showing Part Of Your
Beauty And That Would Actually Be Something Haram Which Could
Have Serious Consequences In The Hereafter. Islam It, You
Know, Once You To Dress In A Modest Way, That'S The Whole
Idea For Both Men And Women But Women More So And It'S A
Sacrifice. It'S Not A Complete, You Know An All-Time Ruling....
Whether It'S At Home Or With Your Friends And Every Place
That You Have To Cover Like .... No,,, Just In Public And
Amongst Men That You Could Potentially Get Married To....
So In Those Scenarios Woman Needs To Uphold The Islamic Guidelines
On Proper Dress Code.
So If You'Re Going To Go With The Opinion That Feet Can Be
Shown It Can Only Be Shown Up To The Ankles And Not Above,
The Above That Is Considered To Be Awrah According To All The
Scholars. The Second Thing I Would Say Is That Even If You
Do Follow The View That Your Feet Can Be Shown After Appreciate
That ... Woman'S Feet Can Be A Source Of Beautification
And Attractiveness To The Opposite Gender And As Such Out
...... Out Of A Desire To Please Allah And To Be Cautious About
The Limits That Allah Has Set. It Would Actually Be A Good Idea
To Cover Your Feet,
Even If You Don'T Believe That Technically Haram To Show Them.
It'S Like What They Could Arabic ......... Is To
Be Cautious Of Allah'S Boundaries By Stopping At Something
That Could Possibly Be Wrong.
You'Re Not Quite Sure But I'M Gonna Give It Up For The Sake
Of Allah Even Though I'M Not Sure... That You Know.. Itself
Is A Great Act Of Worship Which Can You Know Result In You
Getting Lots Of Blessings And Happiness
In Your Life, So There'S Something To Consider And You Know,
And It Is Well Known That You Know, For Some Men The
Feet Of Women Are Something That Can Be Very Attractive And
You Know Something That Well I Think You Know What I'M Talking
About Basically. So Having Said All Of That, You Know, There
Are These Two Opinions : Some Majority Say You Can'T ....You
Can'T Show Them There Are Awarah, Minority Said You Can Even
Those Who Say You Can Only Up To The Ankles And Even They
Say Out Of Cautious The Woman Should Still Cover Her Feet
But In Salah Technically Speaking If You Don'T Have Socks
On But You Wear An Abaya That Does Cover The Top Of Your
Feet Then In Sha Allah It Is Fine.
You Can Pray Your Salat Without Socks On So Long As The Top
Of The Feet Are Covered And Insha'Allah
This Will Be Fine
According To This Opinion.
The Body You And I Have Was Actually Entrusted To
Us By The Almighty Who Made Us So It Doesn'T Belong To Us
And That'S Why When Someone Passes On We Usually Say
Inner Illahi Wa Inner Illahi Rajiyoon Which Means, We All
Belong To Allah And We'Re All Ultimately Going To Return
To Allah. So When Allah Gave Me The Body It'S Only To Use
For A Few Years That I'M On Earth After That It Will Decompose
Into The Soil In The Case Of The Vast Majority. Allah Says (Surah Taha)
We Have Created You From The Soil Or The Dust And We Will
Return You Into The Earth And We Will Resurrect You From
It Thereafter.
So Meaning Once Again, Now Once We Understand And Realize
That The Body Is Entrusted To Us By The Supreme Deity Who
It Belongs To And We Wants It Back.
We Will Then Realize That We'Re Not Allowed To Do With It
Whatever We Want To Do, But We Will Only Be Allowed To Do
What He Allows Us To Do, What He Has Permitted.
So For Example, When It Comes To Piercing, You Cannot Just Pierce
Anywhere And Everywhere Thinking It'S My Body. A Believer
Doesn'T Look At It
That Way. A Believer Says This Belongs To The Almighty.
I'M Not Going To Cause Any Harm To It.
I'M Not Going To Damage It To The Best Of My Ability
And For This Reason Allah Says Don'T Ever Throw Yourselves
Using Your Own Hands Into Destruction.
So I'M Not Allowed To Just Pierce Anywhere And Everywhere For
Females, They'Re Allowed To Pierce Their Ears And The Piercing
Elsewhere Is Disallowed. Some Scholars Have Allowed A Little
Bit More Than That.
But Let'S Look At The Issue Of Tattoos.
So If I Am Using Say For Example, Henna Or A Little Bit Of
A Dye That Is Permeable, And I'D Like To Put A Design On
My Hands Or Whereverelse
I Would Be Allowed To A Certain Extent To Do That.
But If It Is Permanent, Then We As Believers Look At It By
Saying Who Gave Me The Right To Make A Permanent Change To
This Body Of Mine That The Almighty Has Entrusted Me With.
If I Find It In The Teachings Of The Messenger Peace Be Upon
Him I Would Do It. If I Don'T I Will Abstain From It Because
When I Give It Back To Allah Almighty I Wanted To Be In The
Best Possible Shape I Could Have Kept It And You Will Earn
A Reward For That.
I Will Earn A Reward Too.
So We Should Not Be Doing Permanent Tattoos.
In Fact, The Vast Majority Of Scholars Say That It Is Prohibited.
Now When It Comes To Someone Who Already Has Done It Or Sometimes
You Were Not Practicing Much Or You Weren'T A Muslim At A
Certain Stage And You Did A Permanent Tattoo What Happens?
Or You Did It And Now You'Re Regretting It. Now
It'S Not So Easy To Remove It Because Sometimes It Is More
Damaging To Remove It Than To Just Leave It.
You Know, You Made The Mistake And It Was There Once, If I'M
Going To Try And Rectify It
I Might Damage My Body Even More In Which Case You Don'T
Try And Rectify It.
You Leave It As It Is And You Seek The Forgiveness Of Allah
And He Will Forgive You.
There Are Many People I Know Of Even My Personal Friends,
Some Of Them
Have Had These Tattoos Before They Accepted Islam, When They
Reverted It Was Impossible To Remove It Or Extremely Difficult,
Painful Or It Was Going To Be More Damaging. So They Didn'T
Do It. In Some Cases
I Told Them Don'T Do It Because Then You'Re Defeating The
Purpose. You'Re Trying To Cure Something With Something Even
Worse. So For That Reason, You Will Find A Lot Of People
With Tattoos Not Because They Are Defying Allah,
They Did It When They Were Either Ignorant Or
Non-Muslim Or They Were Not Practicing So Much And Now They
Won'T Be Able To Remove That Tattoo.
So Don'T Judge People When You See People With Tattoos.
I Know There Are Few Scholars Who Actually Have A Few Tattoos
That Are Quite Embarrassing To Them According To What They'Ve
Told Me And Then Subhanallah Because They Know The Ruling
And This Is The Ruling Actually That You Don'T Have To Remove
It If You Cannot Remove It Or It Is Difficult,
Harmful, Or Painful Etc.
You Don'T. So If It Is Easily Removable, Then Bismillah, I
Received An Email Today Actually From Someone Telling Me
I'Ve Been Trying The Laser Treatment And This Is To Remove
The Tattoos That I Have But It'S Still Leaving Marks,
So Subhanallah,
I Just Responded To Say Just Do Your Best And That'S It.
You Know, You Don'T Really Have To Worry The Almighty Has
Forgiven You.
You The First Time You Ever Said I Regret It And I Shouldn'T
Have Done This, Forgive Me And It Shall I Won'T Do Any More.
The Moment You Say That Genuinely You'Re Totally Forgiven.
Even Though You Might Have To Live With That Tattoo.
Now, Let Me Explain To You The Young And The Old, Don'T Do
Permanent Tattoos In A Rush.
I Know Of Quite A Few People Who Say I'Ve Got My Boyfriend
Or Girlfriend'S Or Even Husbands Or Wives Name
Tattooed Permanently In A Certain Part Of My Body.
Sometimes It'S A Bit Embarrassing Way
They Did It And Sometimes They Did It Somewhere And Now We'Ve
Broken Up Or We'Re Divorced Or His Passed Away.
What Do I Do?
Subhanallah,
You Didn'T Think, Did You? Or People Regret
I Did A Tattoo And Now I Don'T Know What To Do; Big Regret,
Big Regret.
So If You Really Want Do Something That'S Not Permanent,
You Know, Maybe You Can Have A Temporary Tattoo.
Maybe You Can Have Someone Made With Henna, Maybe You Can
Have Something That Is Removable So That You Won'T Regret It.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us Goodness
And Ease. I Thought I'D Spend A Few Moments To Beautifully
Explained To You That Yes, There Is A Detail As Believers.
We Do Believe That The Body Belongs To The Maker Himself
And We Are Just The Soul In That Body.
We Have To Carry The Body In The Best Possible Way.
Don'T Do Things That Will Embarrass You.
Some People Actually Go And Pierce Their Private Areas.
They Tattoo, You Know In Some Of Those Areas As Believers,
That Should Not Be The Case.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Protect Us And Grant Us Goodness
All Of Us And May Allah Almighty Have Mercy On Us And Our
Offspring And Remember Try Your Best To Be The Cleanest Possible
Person. One Thing That I Learned And I'Ll End On This Note
Is If You Have Used Some Of These Tattoos; The Permanent Ones
And So On You You Cannot Even Donate Blood, You Cannot Even
Donate Blood And Very Quickly.
You Are Allowed To Donate Blood
In Fact, If If There Is A Need And You Are Able To Give Then
For As Long As You'Re Not Buying And Selling And There Is
The Need It Is Recommended To Actually Give Your Blood And
To Help Humankind.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Help Every One Of Us.