بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والصلاة والسلام على رسوله الكريم
والعاقبة للمتقين
The downfall of a nation
is intimately tied to the corruption of its women. It can be said, quite
fairly, that corruption has spread among the women of the Muslim Umma. The
spread of sexual immorality, in particular, is among the reasons for the agony
which the Muslim world is having to endure, just as this was the cause of the
destruction of the Israelites of old. The lack of modesty and bashfulness among
the women of our Umma at times makes even Jews and Christians surprised and
ashamed. Of all the religions in the world, Islam indisputably lays the
greatest emphasis on modesty and chastity, exemplified in the institution of Hijab.
Additionally, Islam seeks to preserve the masculinity of men and the femininity
of women. For this reason, the Prophet Muhammad (upon whom be peace) cursed men
who attempt to resemble women and cursed women who attempt to resemble men. In
these trying times we see a catastrophic narrowing of the dimorphism between
men and women. For example, Muslim women are increasingly donning masculine
style of dress such as trousers while a lot of young men consider it fashionable
to wear gold necklaces, piercings and other forms of jewelry which is a sign of
femininity. Hair is one of those things which is one the most obvious examples
of sexual dimorphism in the human species. Men are meant to have beards while
women have much longer hair. For a man to be clean shaven is a dishonor for him
and an emasculation, while for a woman to cut her hair short is likewise
something shameful and a repudiation of her femininity. Abd Allah b. AmruRA
narrated:
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى
اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنِ الْجُمَّةِ لِلْحُرَّةِ وَالْعَقِيصَةِ لِلأَمَةِ
The Prophet (upon whom
be peace) forbade free women from cutting their hair above their shoulders (Mu’jam
al-Saghir of al-Tabarani #370)
al-Haythami said the
narrators are thiqaat (Majma al-Zawa’id, v.5 p.169)
Therefore, Muslim ladies
should be aware that they are forbidden from cutting their hair short. The
minimum length of their hair has to be shoulder length, and any shorter than
that is prohibited as it will be considered as resemblance with men (likewise,
men are forbidden from growing their hair beyond shoulder length as that will
be a resemblance with women). And Allah knows best.
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