Fashion Shows

The Shaykh Al-'Allaamah Ubaid Ibn Abdullaah Al-Jaabiree On Fashion Shows:

Questioner: “O Sheikh! Some of the Salafi sisters here have put on a fashion show and organized in the same manner of the fashion shows put on by the disbelievers having “cat walks,” the wearing of high heels and other than this. Some of these sisters have claimed that these shows are permissible because they are from worldly affairs, and the origin of worldly affairs is permissibility; they went on to say that the students of knowledge did not present any strong evidence that would prevent them from putting on the likes of these shows. So what is the ruling concerning these types of events according to the Book and the Sunnah?”

Sheikh Ubayd al-Jaabiree: “All praise is due to Allah. The prohibition of imitating the people of disbelief has been authentically established on the Prophet. The scholars of the religion have stated, ‘That what is intended by this is what distinguishes the disbelievers and is from their distinctive features or characteristics.’ So that which was mentioned in the question is a distinguishing mark of the disbelieving people. [Therefore] what is obligatory upon these Muslim women is to have fear of Allah and abandon these shows in the manner mentioned in the question.”

27 November 2011