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Women wearing wigs

Question: 1171

What is the ruling about women wearing
wigs to appear attractive to their husbands?

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

Both husband and wife should make themselves attractive to one another,
in ways that the other likes, so as to strengthen their relationship, but this has to be
within the limits of what is allowed in sharee’ah, not by doing things that are
prohibited. The use of wigs started among non-Muslim women, who were so well known for
wearing them and adorning themselves with them that this became one of their
distinguishing features. If a woman wears a wig and adorns herself with it, even if she
does this for her husband, she is imitating the kaafir women, which the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade: “Whoever imitates a people is
one of them.” Wigs also come under the ruling about hair extensions, which is even
more vehement in its prohibition: the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) forbade this practice and cursed the one who does it.

Fataawa al-Lajnah
al-Daa’imah, 5/191.

Humayd ibn ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn ‘Awf reported
that he heard Mu’aawiyah ibn Abi Sufyaan at the time of Hajj, standing on the minbar
and holding a piece of hair that had been seized by his guards, saying: “Where are
your scholars? I heard the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) forbidding this kind of thing and saying that Bani Israa’eel were destroyed when
their women started to use such things.” Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with
him) reported that the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“Allaah has cursed the woman who adds false hair and the woman who has this done, and
the woman who tattoos and the women who has this done.”

(Reported by
al-Bukhaari, 5477). And Allaah knows best.

Source

Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

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