# Is wearing my hijab turban-style allowed?

*Is a turban-style hijab enough? Modesty, covering the hair, and al-Hajjaj's turban*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/3/
- Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (17:03–23:51)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=1023s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/

**Topics:** Hijab and niqab; Dress and appearance; Umayyads and Abbasids

**Question as asked:** Does the turban-style hijab come under the Quranic command of the khimar?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Yes, he says a turban-style covering is fine, because covering the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran or Sunnah; the emphasis was on modesty.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that, according to him, a turban-style hijab is fine because covering the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran or the Sunnah.

**Evidence, his words at 17:42:** “according to me that's fine because the covering of the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran wasana it is something part of Muslim culture” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=1062s)

## Longer summary

A chat question asks whether a turban-style hijab comes under the Quranic command. Mufti Abu Layth refers to his detailed video on Surah al-Nur and says that, according to him, it is fine, because covering the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran or the Sunnah, though it is part of Muslim culture and of the madhhabs. He says early Islam emphasised modesty, but there was ambiguity for one to two centuries over what it meant, from those who would leave only one eye showing, which he calls as dumb as it gets, to those for whom the face, arms or feet were not part of it, before a culture standardised covering all but the face and hands. On the turban, he recounts al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf's speech on arriving as governor, quoting a poet's line that when he puts on his turban they will know who he is, and explains that certain turbans then signified war; he jokes that she can wear a turban and sit at home teaching Sahih al-Bukhari. He then has some camera trouble, and a question on the adult breastfeeding hadith is noticed but not taken.

## Sources and names cited

- hijab
- Surah al-Nur (his video on it) [?] (reference uncertain; possibly https://quran.com/24/31)
- al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf
- imamah (turban)
- modesty

## Transcript (machine tier, 17:03–23:51)

[17:03] somebody sing which it he talked about a lot of afro D frittata yeah right so Soul Reapers his wife asking wife asking if the turban style hijab comes under the Quranic Lamar Vava is it the turban like the the proper the Sikh turban style is it the Aladeen look I've

[17:42] already discussed the hijab issue in much detail I've got a clip if you type in my name on YouTube with surah Noor I've got an explanation on surah Noor I go into detail according to me that's fine because the covering of the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran wasana it is something part of Muslim culture however and it is part of the mother hip v but when you look at the tea-table sunnah it's difficult to find anything

[18:19] that proves the covering of the hair to be mandated by the Sharia so I've got a detailed video rather than me going over it now but that's the gist of it this seems to be in early Islam an emphasis on modesty there seems to be some ambiguity around what modesty means what by ambiguity I mean like some people take it this way some take it that way and that goes on that ambiguity probably over a hundred - between the best part of a hundred to two hundred years after the Prophet this you know some people feel for example covering everything

[18:58] that the woman shouldn't she shouldn't even have two eyes showing that's considered exact being indulgent why when you could just have one eye oh my god you say yeah I have at the Dajjal I came across this oh come this clip right a jar with a small deal a minute that Giles no problem but there is one the jar with the big deal okay yes yes sir cobby who what is

[19:38] he talking about what's all these who are these the J Dilla with the big in small these so yes so there seems to be some understanding of covering up with some taking it to the extent that just she should cover one eye and just have one eye exposed which is as dumb as it gets but we're gonna speak a little later on speaking of that we are gonna take a little look later on at our

[20:12] beloved in the masala segment we will be looking at that so some people take it to great extremes other people seem to have huge differences for example of many of them obviously the woman turn cover the face to some she didn't cover her arms to some you know she didn't cover her the yeah the feet the ankles things like this they weren't really part of seen as part of the hijab there seems to be some kind of to some people

[20:51] the hair was you know it wasn't really like him I'm Alex Fatah what about the woman with her hair in front of servants and things like this it clearly it was different so you start to see that after one to two hundred years the the first maybe two centuries there is a culture that then prevails in which the woman it's standardized that it's at most is just the exception of the face and the hands so yeah but I've got a detailed video you can watch that but to me that seems to be the emphasis was really just modesty so the turban

[21:30] somebody wants to wear the turban the Imam ah you know had judge when he took over was he when he was sent to to basarat' belief or maybe Kufa but he came in and he was now the daddy so he says he sits on the the kind of member and he says this is after he's shown the

[22:06] sword he says ana blue jalla what the life an ayah matter Allah Allah he says I'm such-and-such I'm the son of this you know this legit it's just oh he's quoting a poet try but then the second line he says when I put my imama on then you will know who I am then you'll know that I'm the daddy

[22:43] basically what it is is that in that day and age when they wore a particular kind of a mama like sometimes a black imam al something a designee knit kind of signified war or something like that so yeah so she can we're an imam and sit at home and and teach Sahil Bihari she goes had that Anna had nothing

[23:15] what happened to camera mirror image what why what's going on what's going on with the camera mirror image right what do you think about adult breastfeeding Hadees I you met in that somebody's trying to write so let's take a look at right where of the other questions gone right I don't seem to see my other questions

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment a6H5lYE4MN8/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/3/

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