DALEEL: THE HADITH OF THE CAMEL HUMP HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHATS HARAM IN REGARDS TO HAIR-STYLE!

[Laila Nasheeba]

 

 

As Salaamu Alaikoum,

 

O you who believe! Do not put yourselves forward in the presence of Allah and His Prophet and fear Allah. Verily Allah is All-Hearing and All-Knowing." [Surah al-Hujuraat 49:1]

 

"Verily, it is indeed Satan that makes you do evil and say things about Allah (or His deen) of which you have no proper knowledge." [Al-Baqarah 2:169]

 

"Say (O Muhammad (peace be upon him)): indeed the things that my Lord has forbidden are: (and from them is) saying things about Allah of which you have no knowledge". [Al - A' araaf 7:33]

 

One of the things we try to stress to the students of Sunnahfollowers is to be careful using the word "haram" because only Allah has the authority to make things Haram. Also we stress the importance of being careful to not think you can teach yourself Islam. Too many Muslims today think that they can teach themselves, so they read a hadith or a verse of the Quran and then mis-interpret it to mean something that it did not mean. Allah warns us against this and doing this is a form of Association, so we must fear Allah and stop mis-interpreting hadiths and using the word "haram" for something that is not.

 

Many women have confronted me with the issue of a woman wearing her hair in a ponytail or a bun. Many women are saying that this is haram and they are using the following hadith from Sahih Muslim. I want you all to look at the transliteration of this hadith and read it carefully:

 

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said this: Two are the types of the denizens of Hell whom I did not see: people having flogs like the tails of the ox with them and they would be beating people, and the women who would be dressed but appear to be naked, who would be inclined (to evil) and make their husbands incline towards it. Their heads would be like the humps of the bukht camel inclined to one side. They will not enter Paradise and they would not smell its odour whereas its odour would be smelt from such and such distance.

 

First of all, there is no mention made here of it being haram for a woman to wear her hair in a ponytail or a bun. In fact this hadith does not address what is lawful or unlawful for a woman to do with her hair at all. There is no mention of a bun or volume or any of that. Instead it is speaking of one of the people of the hellfire whom the prophet had not yet seen... and those are women who have clothing on but are still naked.

 

Only a person who lacks reading comprehension skills would read this and think it to mean anything else. My suggestion: fear Allah people! Instead of you women arguing and bickering over how high a sisters hijab is because she has more hair than you.. instead focuss on the point that is made here which is: to be dressed and still naked.

 

Many of you woman are dressed and still naked. When you put on short tops with tight fitting jeans, you are the woman spoken of here. When you wear see through hijabs, you are of the women mentioned here. When you refuse to wear hijab at all you are of the women mentioned here. When you tie belts around your waist to emphasize your shape, you are of the women mentioned here. Again this has nothing to do with the volume of your hair!!

 

Fear Allah sisters and stop allowing your jealousy of one another to cause you to fall victim to the shaytaan!

 

One of the reason why there will be more women in the hellfire is the fact that they are envious of one another. Get over this!

 

In reality, this hadith when the narrator mentions the head being like the hump of the camel, many scholars of hadith say this is referring to the punishment that Allah will inflict upon such women on the Day of Judgement. He will put them in hell and cause their head to take on this appearance as a means of inflicting more punishment and pain to the woman for not dressing the way Allah commanded.

 

So thus stop trying to teach yourself islam when you do not even possess simple reading comprehension skills. Focuss on learning the deen in its truthfulness from the people of knowledge. Focuss on fulfilling and perfecting your obligations to Allah such as the prayer. Most the women who waste their time arguing the deen do not even know how to recite Al Fatihah correctly!

 

May Allah keep us all firm upon the straight path and remove the jealousy and envy from our hearts for one another.. Ameen!

 

 

Laila Nasheeba

Managing Director
sunnahfollowers.net