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Are the women mentioned in the Hadith: "Women who are clothed yet naked, inclining [to evil] and causing others to incline, they will not enter Paradise nor smell its fragrance, though its fragrance can be found from a distance of five hundred years," adulteresses, and is it permissible to describe them as such? What is the ruling on marrying them or those among them who have repented? Is it permissible to point to specific women and state that the Hadith applies to them? Do they intentionally commit this act, or is it out of imitation? Are they Muslim women?

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The aforementioned Hadith in Sahih Muslim warns the woman who adorns herself excessively [for display]. It is accurate to describe women who apply perfume and go out such that men perceive their scent as "zina" (fornicatresses), meaning "zina of the eye," not the "zina" that necessitates a legal punishment (Hadd). One should not marry a woman in such a state; rather, one must seek a righteous and religious woman. It is not permissible to judge a specific woman as being included in this warning, for they are disobedient Muslim women, as long as they do not deem the disobedience permissible.

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