Woman wearing a wig

21-12-2005 | IslamWeb

Question:

Can ladies wear wig? And can they modify it by cut short, curling, straightening, coloring, etc.?

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention as well as that of his family and all his companions.

 

It appears, Allaah Knows best, that it is permissible to wear a wig if the following conditions are met:

   1-      It must be pure; there is no harm in putting pure hair on one's head, especially when there is a need for it, like a woman beautifying herself for her  husband.

2-      It must not be joined to one’s hair; some scholars concluded from the narration which reads: "Allaah has cursed the woman who joins the hair and the woman to whom the hair is joined…" [Al-Bukhari and Muslim], that it is permissible to put hair on one’s head without joining it to the original hair.

 3-      It must not resemble the shape of dissolute or non-Muslim women. Also, it must not resemble men’s hair; since if it is permissible to wear the wig, then there is no harm in trimming it, straightening it and colouring it, but it should not be shortened to an extent that it resembles men's hair.

However, it is more appropriate for a woman who does not need to wear such a wig to avoid it.

Allaah Knows best.