Is it permissible for a woman to have a forelock?
Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 2026
There is no evidence prohibiting a woman from letting her hair fall over her forehead, provided that it does not involve imitation of disbelieving women and that it is done in the presence of her mahrams. The narrated in the two Sahihs from Mu'awiyah does not refer to letting hair fall over the forehead; rather, it means joining a woman's hair with something else, which is what the majority of scholars have concluded: prohibiting the joining of hair with anything else, whether it is hair or not.
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