20- The author urges the shaykhs and preachers to be “a middle nation,” citing two hadiths that forbid excess and harsh rigor in religion.
21- The reason the book’s title was changed to “The Muslim Woman’s Jilbab,” together with Ibn Taymiyyah’s distinction between the jilbab and the hijab.
22- A note that the publication rights previously granted to the Islamic Office have been withdrawn, with an explanation intended as a lesson for anyone who will take heed.
23- A concluding remark that includes an apology to the typesetters.
25- Preface to the second edition, stating that we have grown even more convinced of the need to republish the work after seeing how many believing women responded to its clarification of the conditions the jilbab must meet—among them some who went on to cover their faces as well, following the example of the Mothers of the Believers and others.
26- An outline of the positions taken by scholars and students of knowledge toward the book and its style, especially its explicit statement that the face is not nakedness; they fall into two groups, each viewpoint is presented, and both are answered briefly.
27- One group agrees with us—out of adherence to their school—yet, claiming ijtihad, maintains that disseminating this view is impermissible as a preventive measure. They are refuted with texts forbidding the concealment of knowledge and with the hadith of the Khathʿamite woman, in which the very pretext existed yet she was not commanded to veil her face.
29- A rebuttal to a certain professor who imagined that my fatwa—that the face is not nakedness—contradicts the covering observed by my own family, together with my reply to him in a letter.
30- The author’s denunciation of disgraceful unveiling (sufūr) and shameless display (tabarruj), explaining that the remedy is not to forbid what Allah has permitted but rather two things: first, to make the ruling clear to the people, and second, to train them to live by it.
35- Preface to the first edition, setting forth the motive for writing the book and a reference to