Women & Perfume - Islamic Advice

Shopping Malls  "Ya'ani - Go to malls, go to malls and watch the men ah, don't watch women, watch only women, and laugh your head off. You find people, respectable people walking, decent people, married people, and the minute they hear the high heel sound 'tick tock, tick, tock', immediately you find heads turning. It might be a man wearing a high heel ah, but the sound itself, ignites something. So SubahaanAllah, Shaythaan works in strange ways. His job is to tempt you. The Prophet (ﷺ) went further to forbid women from wearing perfume to non-mahrams. Even if coming to the Masjid. 

Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) saw a woman fully dressed in niqab and mashAllah nothing, and he found a beautiful smell, a beautiful scent, coming from her (Incense) and he asked her: "Where are you going - the slave of Allah - The Almighty? Where are you going? To the Masjid?" She said: "Yes". He said to her: "Go back and have a full shower." Because the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Whoever (among the female slaves of Allah) goes out wearing perfume, going to the Masjid, Allah would not accept her prayer until she goes back and has a full shower." Because of that perfume, and, biologists tells us that they discovered recently that there is a gland in the nose of men, that provokes a sexual desire. Not only that, the Prophet (ﷺ) says: "Whoever (that is a woman) - Whoever wears perfume, and goes out of her house, and passes by men so that they can find the perfume smell, she is committing an act of fornication, or adultery." Imagine?! And the Prophet (ﷺ) instructed women when they come to the Masjid, to come without any sort of perfume. To the Masjid! How about if they are going to...which is...what is the Masjid? The Prophet (ﷺ) tells us: "The most beloved piece of land to Allah is the Masjid. And the worst and most abhorred piece of land to Allah Azzawajal is the markets." And how do our women go to the markets? Half a bottle of perfume. Why? What are you doing? She says: "I am a muslimah, I have to show people that Islam is beautiful, and Islam smells good." Yeah, But you are doing it on the wrong place. You should do this but you don't do it to non-mahram, because this has more harm than good."

By Sheikh Assim Al-Hakeem