Will Allaah Punish Mutabarrijat Women
Who Make A Wanton Display Of Their Beauty (Tabarruj)?
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My question is about the grave sinners, we
believe that his/her matter is up to Allah, if Allah
wills He will punish or forgive them. But the hadeeth
in which the prophet, peace be upon him says: "there
are two types of people I have not seen, (until he
mentions), and women who are clothed yet naked, they
will not enter paradise or even smell its fragrance"
this hadeeth was explained by imam an-nawawi, may
Allah have mercy on him, as follows:
If they do what they do believing it is not haram,
then they will never enter paradise. Or they may be
punished in hell first then they will enter paradise.
This means they will definitely be punished first and
they are of evil doers, is it possible that they might
not be punished?.
Praise be to Allaah.
According to Muslim belief, the one who commits a
major sin is in grave danger and has exposed himself
to the punishment of Allaah, but the will of Allaah is
to decide, and Allaah may forgive or pardon him, or He
may punish him in a manner commensurate with his sin,
except for the one whose sin reaches the level of
disbelief in Allaah. In that case he will deserve to
be punished and to abide forever in Hell.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah was asked – as it says in
Majmoo' al-Fataawa (11/646) – about women who pile
their hair on top of their heads, and they will not
see Paradise or smell its fragrance. But it is
narrated in the hadeeth from the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): "Whoever
says La ilaaha ill-Allaah will enter Paradise."
He replied:
It is proven in Saheeh Muslim and elsewhere from Abu
Hurayrah that the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) said: "There are two types of the
people of Hell whom I have not seen: men with whips
like the tails of cattle with which they strike the
people, and women who are clothed but naked, walking
with an enticing gait, with something like the humps
of camels on their heads. They will not enter Paradise
nor even smell its fragrance, and its fragrance can be
smelled from such and such a distance."
Whoever claims that this hadeeth is not saheeh and
that what it mentions of the severe punishment is not
true is ignorant and has gone astray from the path of
sharee'ah, and he deserves a punishment that will
deter him and other ignorant people like him who
object to the saheeh ahaadeeth that are soundly
narrated from the Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him).
There are many saheeh ahaadeeth about this warning.
For example:
"Whoever kills a mu'aahid unlawfully will not smell
the fragrance of Paradise, although its fragrance may
be detected from a distance of forty years."
"No one will enter Paradise in whose heart is a
mustard seed's worth of arrogance."
"There are three to whom Allaah will not speak on the
Day of Resurrection nor will He praise them, and their
will be a painful torment: an old man who commits zina,
a king who tells lies and a poor man who is arrogant."
There are verses in the Qur'aan which speak of this
warning, such as the verse in which Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
"And whosoever disobeys Allaah and His Messenger
(Muhammad SAW), and transgresses His limits, He will
cast him into the Fire, to abide therein; and he shall
have a disgraceful torment"
[al-Nisa' 4:14]
This is something on which the Muslims are agreed,
that the warning in the Qur'aan and Sunnah to those
who commit major sins is true, but Allaah has stated
in the Qur'aan and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) that the warning
mentioned in the Qur'aan and Sunnah does not apply to
the one who repents, as He says (interpretation of the
meaning): "Say: O ‘Ibaadi (My slaves) who have
transgressed against themselves (by committing evil
deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allaah,
verily, Allaah forgives all sins. Truly, He is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful"
[al-Zumar 39:53]
i.e., to the one who repents.
In another verse Allaah says (interpretation of the
meaning):
"Verily, Allaah forgives not that partners should be
set up with Him (in worship), but He forgives except
that (anything else) to whom He wills" [al-Nisa'
4:48].
This applies to the one who does not repent. Shirk
will not be forgiven, but with regard to anything less
than shirk, if Allaah wills He will forgive and if He
wills He will punish for it.
In al-Saheehayn it is narrated that the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "No
tiredness, exhaustion, worry, grief, distress or harm
befalls a believer in this world, not even a thorn
that pricks him, but Allaah expiates some of his sins
thereby."
Hence when the verse (interpretation of the meaning):
"whosoever works evil, will have the recompense
thereof" [al-Nisa' 4:123] was revealed, Abu Bakr said:
O Messenger of Allaah, this is going to destroy us;
who among us has not done evil? He said: "O Abu Bakr,
do you not get tired? Do you not grieve? Do you not go
through hardship? That is part of the recompense."
By means of calamities in this world, Allaah expiates
the sins of the believers that may be expiated by
means thereof, and the same applies to the good deeds
that he does. Allaah says (interpretation of the
meaning): "Verily, the good deeds remove the evil
deeds" [Hood 11:114]. And the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "The five daily
prayers, from one Jumu'ah to the next, and one
Ramadaan to the next, are expiations for whatever (of
minor sins) come in between them, so long as one
avoids major sins." And Allaah does not wrong His
slaves in the slightest, as He says (interpretation of
the meaning):
"So whosoever does good equal to the weight of an atom
(or a small ant) shall see it.
8. And whosoever does evil equal to the weight of an
atom (or a small ant) shall see it"
[al-Zalzalah 99:7-8].
So the warning may be cancelled out, either by means
of repentance, or by means of good deeds that one does
which are equal to the bad deeds, or by means of
calamities through which Allaah expiates sins, or by
other means. End quote.
Hence the scholars interpreted every verse or hadeeth
the apparent meaning of which is that those who commit
major sins will abide forever in Hell in ways that are
in accordance with other texts of the Qur'aan and
Sunnah.
Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in Sharh
Muslim (17/191):
The words of the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him), "will not enter Paradise" may be
interpreted in two ways:
(i)
They may be interpreted as referring to the one who
regards what is haraam as permissible, despite knowing
that it is haraam; so she is a kaafir who will abide
forever in Hell and will never enter Paradise.
(ii)
It may be interpreted as meaning that she will not
enter it at first along with those who are successful.
End quote.
It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah (2/27):
Question: is it permissible for us to believe that the
women who are clothed yet naked are kaafirs, because
the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) said, "They will not enter Paradise nor will they
smell its fragrance…"?
Answer:
Those who believe that it is permissible after being
told about the ruling and having it explained to them
may be regarded as kaafirs. Those who do not regard it
as permissible but still go out clothed yet naked are
not kaafirs, but they are committing a major sin and
they have to give it up and repent to Allaah from
that, in the hope that Allaah may forgive them. If a
woman dies in that state without having repented to
Allaah, then she is subject to the will of Allaah,
like all those who commit sin, because Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
"Verily, Allaah forgives not that partners should be
set up with Him (in worship), but He forgives except
that (anything else) to whom He wills" [al-Nisa'
4:48]. End quote.
It also says (17/104):
Those women who regard that type of dressing as
permissible are kaafirs who will abide forever in Hell
if they die in that state, and they will not enter
Paradise or smell its fragrance. If they wear that
type of clothing even though they believe it is haraam,
then they are committing a major sin, but that does
not put them beyond the pale of Islam, and they are
subject to the will of Allaah: if Allaah wills He will
forgive them and if He wills He will punish them for
the bad deeds they have committed, and they will not
enter Paradise or smell its fragrance until after they
have been punished first.
This is the view of Ahl al-Sunnah, which reconciles
the texts which speak of promise with those which
speak of warning. This is the middle path between the
views of the Murji'is, Khawaarij and Mu'tazliah.
Shaykh Ibn Baaz said in Majmoo' al-Fataawa (6/356):
With regard to the words of the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him), "they will not enter
Paradise nor smell its fragrance", this is a stern
warning, but that does not imply that they are kaafirs,
and they will not abide forever in Hell; this applies
to all sinners who die as Muslims. Rather they and
other sinners are all given the threat of Hell for
their sins, but they are subject to the will of Allaah:
if He wills He will pardon them and forgive them, and
if He wills He will punish them, as He said in two
places in Soorat al-Nisa': "Verily, Allaah forgives
not that partners should be set up with Him (in
worship), but He forgives except that (anything else)
to whom He wills" [al-Nisa' 4:48]. The sinner who
enters Hell will not abide therein forever as is the
case with the kaafir; rather those who are meant to
abide there forever – such as the murderer, adulterer
and one who committed suicide – their abiding therein
is not the same as that of the kuffaar, rather it is
an abiding that will come to an end, according to Ahl
al-Sunnah wa'l-Jamaa'ah, unlike the Khawaarij and
Mutazilah and those innovators who followed in their
footsteps. The mutawaatir saheeh ahaadeeth from the
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) indicate that he (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) will intercede for the sinners
among his ummah, and that Allaah will accept his
intercession several times, and each time He will
stipulate a number for him and he will bring them
forth from Hell. The same applies to the rest of the
Messengers, believers and angels – all of them will
intercede by His leave and He will accept their
intercession for whomever He wills of the people of
Tawheed who entered Hell because of their sins and are
Muslims. Then there will remain in Hell the rest of
the sinners who were not included in the intercession
of the intercessors, but Allaah will bring them out by
His mercy and kindness, and there will be no one left
in Hell but the kuffaar who will abide therein forever
and ever, as Allaah says concerning the kuffaar
(interpretation of the meaning):
"whenever it abates, We shall increase for them the
fierceness of the Fire"
[al-Isra' 17:97]
"So taste you (the results of your evil actions). No
increase shall We give you, except in torment"
[al-Naba' 78:30]
And He says concerning the kuffaar who worship idols
(interpretation of the meaning):
"Thus Allaah will show them their deeds as regrets for
them. And they will never get out of the Fire"
[al-Baqarah 2:167]
"Verily, those who disbelieve, if they had all that is
in the earth, and as much again therewith to ransom
themselves thereby from the torment on the Day of
Resurrection, it would never be accepted of them, and
theirs would be a painful torment"
[al-Maa'idah 5:36]
"They will long to get out of the Fire, but never will
they get out therefrom; and theirs will be a lasting
torment"
[al-Maa'idah 5:37]
And there are many similar verses. We ask Allaah to
keep us safe and sound from being like them. End
quote.
To sum up, the woman who makes a wanton display of
herself (tabarruj), despite the fact that she is
exposing herself to a painful punishment from Allaah,
is still subject to the will of Allaah: He may forgive
her and not punish her, or He may subject her to a
painful punishment. Moreover, some of the believers
who commit sins will inevitably enter Hell, as is
mentioned in the mutawaatir ahaadeeth.
See also the answer to question no. 14627 and 9924.
And Allaah knows best.
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