Jilbab al-Marah al-Muslimah fi al-Kitab wa al-SunnahNasir al-Din al-Albani

the first holds that it is unlawful, a position authenticated—and indeed endorsed—by al-Nawawī. The second considers it merely reprehensible; al-Rāfiʿī declared this sound in one passage. Yet the sound, indeed the correct ruling, is that stated by al-Nawawī: it is forbidden—rather, as I have already indicated, it is a major sin. I later found some scholars who catalogue the major sins including it among them, and that is plainly correct.

Ibn Ḥajar writes in Fatḥ al-Bārī (10/273–274) while commenting on the aforementioned ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās—Ḥadīth 3, in its second wording, “The Messenger of Allah cursed the men who imitate women and the women who imitate men”—and his words, in summary, are as follows:

• Al-Ṭabarī said: It is impermissible for men to imitate women in clothing and adornment that are unique to women, and vice versa.

• Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Ibn Abī Jamrah said: The apparent wording forbids imitation in every respect, yet other evidences show that what is intended is imitation in dress, certain traits, movements, and the like—not imitation in virtuous acts. He added: The wisdom behind cursing those who imitate is that they divert a thing from the form in which the Wisest of Judges has placed it. This is the same point indicated in the cursing of women who add hair extensions by his words: “those who alter Allah’s creation.”¹

(1) Reported by al-Bukhari (10/306), Muslim (6/166–167) and others, on the authority of Ibn Masud, as a prophetic saying: “Allah has cursed the women who do tattooing and those who have themselves tattooed, the women who pluck eyebrows and those for whom this is done, and the women who file their teeth for the sake of beauty, thereby altering Allah’s creation.” One must realize that whoever alters the form and “coloration” granted by Allah—wa man ahsanu mina Allahi sibghatan (And who is better in coloration than Allah?; Qur’an 2:138)—without His permission is in fact following Satan, who said: wa la-udhillannahum wa la-umniyannahum wa la-amurannahum fa-layubattikunna adhana al-an‘am wa la-amurannahum fa-layughayyirunna khalqa Allah (I will surely mislead them, fill them with vain hopes, and command them so they will slit the ears of cattle; I will command them so they will alter Allah’s creation; Qur’an 4:119).
أحدهما أنه حرام، وصححه النووي بل صوبه، وثانيهما أنه مكروه، وصححه الرافعي في موضع، والصحيح بل الصواب ما قاله النووي من الحرمة، بل ما قدمته من أن ذلك كبيرة، ثم رأيت بعض المتكلمين على الكبائر عده منها وهو ظاهر". وقال الحافظ في "الفتح" "١٠/ ٢٧٣ - ٢٧٤" عند شرح حديث ابن عباس المتقدم برقم "٣" باللفظ الثاني: "لعن رسول الله المتشبهين من الرجال بالنساء والمتشبهات من النساء بالرجال" ما مختصره: "قال الطبري: لا يجوز للرجال التشبه بالنساء في اللباس والزينة التي تختص بالنساء ولا العكس وقال الشيخ أبو محمد بن أبي جمرة: ظاهر اللفظ الزجر عن التشبه في كل شيء، لكن عرف من الأدلة الأخرى أن المراد التشبه في الزي وبعض الصفات والحركات ونحوها لا التشبه في أمور الخير. قال: والحكمة في لعن من تشبه إخراجه الشيء عن الصفة التي وضعها عليه أحكم الحكماء، وقد أشار إلى ذلك في لعن الواصلات بقوله: "المغيرات لخلق الله"١.
١ أخرجه البخاري "١٠/ ٣٠٦"، ومسلم "٦/ ١٦٦-١٦٧"، وغيرهما عن ابن مسعود مرفوعًا: "لعن الله الواشمات والمستوشمات، والنامصات والمتنمصات، والمتفلجات للحسن، المغيرات لخلق الله". وينبغي أن يعلم أن من يغير خلقه تعالى وصبغته: ﴿وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ اللَّهِ صِبْغَةً﴾ بدون إذن منه، فإنما هو يتبع الشيطان في قوله: ﴿وَلَأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ وَلَأُمَنِّيَنَّهُمْ وَلَآَمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ آَذَانَ الْأَنْعَامِ وَلآَمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللَّهِ﴾ [النساء: ١١٩] .

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