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Is a woman's prayer in the mosque, when she is wearing perfume, invalid?

1 min readAlso available in العربية

It is not permissible for a woman to go out to the mosque wearing perfume. If she does so, she is sinful and must return to wash the perfume off her body or clothing, or change her clothing for another without perfume. As for her prayer while going out to the mosque wearing perfume, it is valid and she does not need to repeat it.

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