Is the parents' refusal to allow their daughter to wear the niqab —for now— until graduation or engagement, or their giving her a choice between the niqab and continuing her studies, a test from Allah Almighty, or is it a result of her Istikhara and supplication to avert evil from her? And what is the legitimate Shar'i response that can convince them?
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We have previously clarified the ruling on the niqab and the ruling on removing it for the purpose of study or work in several fatwas, and those fatwas suffice us from repeating the explanation here.
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