Indexes:
1- Topics and benefits:
3- The introduction to the new edition and a note on some of its advantages over the earlier prints, the foremost of which is a demonstration of Ibn ʿAbbās’s precise understanding of the verse, “except what is apparent of it” (24:31), confirming that the verse refers to the face and the hands.
4- The author began to draft an introduction for this edition that contained a refutation of Shaykh al-Tuwayjirī and others among the hard-liners. When he saw that it had grown until it exceeded the size of the original work, he separated it into a stand-alone book entitled “The Decisive Reply to Those Who Oppose the Scholars…,” and, in the present preface, he briefly extracted the most important errors of the opponents.
5- First: Their interpretation of the “idnāʾ” verse as requiring the covering of the face, which is contrary to the Arabic language and to the explanations of Ibn ʿAbbās and others.
Second: Their interpretation of “jilbāb” as a garment that covers the face—again at odds with the language and with the scholars’ exegesis!
Third: Their insistence on interpreting “khimār” as a covering for both the head and the face, having added “the face” from their own imagination!
Fourth: al-Tuwayjirī’s claim of consensus that a woman’s face is ʿawrah, an unfounded assertion with no precedent. It contradicts the position of the three imams and one narration from Aḥmad, a view also held by many leading Ḥanbalī scholars such as Ibn Qudāmah and Ibn Mufliḥ, and al-Bājī the Mālikī explicitly states that it does not include the face.