Question: I have a quick question regarding women’s hijab: does the hijab have to cover up to the tip of the chin or is the part of the face below the chin but above the neck not included? Is this the consensus view? Answer: Almost according to all Maraje’ covering the tip of the chin [...]

Question: My mother is ill and needs help, I would like to take off my hijab so I can get a job to help her. Can I do this? Answer: Hijab is a major obligation and one cannot ignore it simply to get a job. In any case, it is possible to have a job [...]

Question: Is a woman allowed to pluck her eyebrows? Answer: Plucking the eyebrows in sense of just removing the extra hairs is not Haraam. The permission for this rule is taken from the Word of God: وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا – “and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof” [...]

Question: Is a nose piercing forbidden (for a female)? If so, why?  Also, what piercings are acceptable? Answer: If a nose piercing is considered a form of beautification according to the custom of your society than this is not allowed. The proof is the quranic ayah ordering women not to make apparent their beauty. Piercing in parts [...]

Question: What proofs are there from the Quran and Sunnah that all women must wear hijab outside of their houses in an Islamic State as is the case with Iran right now? What about non-Muslim women, slave women, etc. in the time of the Prophet (s) and Imams (a.s.)? Answer: 1. Islam is not a private [...]

Question: My question is about hugging in islam. I am a student at university and each time I go to see my supervisor for my project, he always comes to hug me as a welcome even though I appear indifferent to that and no feelings arouse from what he does. Is it forbidden in Islam? This also happens even [...]

Question: I am going to be wearing the hijab this Ramadan, and I’m still 9, so if I wore a hijab with butterflies or something with a picture on it, is it haram? Answer: Congratulations and well done on wearing the hijab. Wearing colourful scarves with pictures should be okay. As you get older though it’s better [...]

Question: What is Islam’s point of view on “ghira”; the protective feeling a man feels towards his sister or wife when she is talking to a person of the opposite sex; what are men’s rights on this viewpoint; is ghira really beneficial like they say or does it prove a lack of trust in the [...]

Question: Do I have to wear hijab when I’m at home and visitors come? Answer: There are a few categories of mahram men – those in front of whom a woman does not need to wear hijab. They are listed in the Qur’anic ayah below. Besides these groups of men, a woman needs to wear [...]