Why do Muslim women Wear Black: Part I

There is a misunderstanding that it is an Islamic requirement for Muslim women to wear black, when this has become more a cultural practice and a matter of personal preference.

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[HollyR0X]

Maybe they wear black to look thinner lol - just joking :)

I was told that they wear black in order to absorb the heat and that makes them sweat - wich makes them cool ?! I think that how it works..because its really really hot where they live

[Pixieilovehishma]

HollyROX: When its 50 degrees out white or black, you're hot anyway, so it doesn't matter:P

In humidity though, lighter colours DO made a difference. Dry heat though? Anything works the same.

[Pixieilovehishma]

I can wear anything modest and loose and it can be even a bright colour and it acheives the same. Black doesn't stop men from looking at a woman, in fact in some cases, a black niqab can emphasise her eyes, ect, ect. Don't get me wrong, I love black just not uneducated persons in the ummah that like to name certain colours haraam when the Prophet sallalahu alahi wa salaam and his companions never did.

[Pixieilovehishma]

Ibn Abbas and Qatadah said it is the eye outline, the coloring of the hands and the ring (I also agree with them---who I am I to disagree with the companions). No one ever said that colour was ornament, the exception of it being worn for social status. As stated 100xs, even by the Prophet forbidding men to wear saff dye, it was because dyes were expensive. Pink is not expensive and isn't showing off for me. SubhanAllah, you trying to make haraam what neither the Messenger of Allah nor Allah did!

[Pixieilovehishma]

Of what may be apparent (Al-Azhab ayah 59 tells the believing women not to show their Zeenah--- adornments--- except for what naturally may be shown.), I follow the opinions of Ibn Mas'oud who has said said that it is the outside clothes (no matter the colour). Imams Al-Hasan Al-Basri, Ibn Seereen, and Ibrahim An-Nakha'i adopted the same opinion as Ibn Mas'oud.

[Pixieilovehishma]

This makes your point about women not wearing colours (such as orange and yellow and yes, even a shad eof red, mute).

There isn't a hadith about Aisha R.A wearing black, but that does not mean she did not also wear black, but she is mentioned wearing bright colours and thus this was halal. The scholars I am speaking of are those who have spoken on what may be apparent of a woman in public:

[Pixieilovehishma]

So that point is also mute. It is half the info on the matter. It was NEVER forbidden for women. It was forbidden for men to resemble the kufar while showing off their social status. WOmen had to be weary of this also, but wearing the dye itself, or gold, or silk, was not haraam for them, or necessarily showing off in the same way the Prophet sallalahi alahi wa salaam regarded it for the women.

[Pixieilovehishma]

No harm in it for women. From the lips of the Prophet sallalahu alahi wa salaam. That is why:

Aisha [May Allah be pleased with her], from Al-Qaasim and he is Muhammad ibn Abee Bakr As-Siddeeq: " Aaishah used to wear clothing dyed with safflower while she was in a state of Ihraam." Ibn Abee Mulaikah reported: "I saw upon Umm Salamah a garment and a covering coloured with safflower [i.e. yellow/red]."

[Pixieilovehishma]

I recognised what he disliked. I then came to my family who were burning their oven. I threw it (the garment) in it and came to him the next day. He asked: Abdullah, what have you done with the garment? I informed him about it. He said: Why did you not give it to one of your family to wear, for there is no harm in it for women.

[Pixieilovehishma]

He turned his attention to me and I was wearing a garment dyed with a reddish yellow dye. He asked: What is this garment over you?