Woman [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

12. The author, depending on the "Quranic" texts, considers it binding upon the Muslim woman to observe a limited amount of an outward adornment throughout all her lifetime, whether being at home or outside. And the outward adornment he considers to be: tinging the hands by Hennah, colouring the eyes with darkblue and painting the cheeks. The lawgiver exempts the woman from this obligation only in time of mourning ceremonies over the dead "vol.IV, p.251". For all of these matters he cited examples from the texts "from Quran and hadeeth" as an evidence. For instance he reported a hadeeth that the Prophet said to a woman: Change "colour of" your fingernails with Hennah "vol.IV, p.254".

Then he says: Emphasis of texts on these points never means that only the women can benefit from them these days, but rather these things change with change of time and place "vol.IV, p.262".

13. He regards the narrations forbidding women from using sweet smell "teeb" to be allocated for three occasions:

In time of attending congregational prayers in the mosque;

Going out from the house with a manifest perfume;

Doing this with the intention of displaying the charms and exciting the men's lust. Other than these three cases, there is no interdiction on making use of scent whose colour be apparent and smell is hidden "vol.IV, p.265".

14. The narrations forbidding women's imitating and copying the men, are interpreted to intend the general "outward" shape of the woman. That means the general form of the woman in clothing should not be similar to that of men, in the way that if one piece of clothes of the woman be like that of men there is no interdiction on this "vol.IV, 278".