bodies and private parts. They are clothed only by name but actually naked’. (1)

Hish?m Ibn ‘Urwah related that once Al-Munthir Ibn Az-Zubair came from Ir?q and sent as a gift for Asm?’ bint Ab? Bakr a thin Quhiyyah cloth- a cloth made of fabrics manufactured in Q?hast?n on the out skirts of Khur?s?n. Asm?’ had been blind by then; she touched it with her hands and then said: ‘Faugh! [out of resentment] Return back his cloth to him’. Al-Munthir felt heart broken and said: ‘O mother! It is not transparent. ’she said: ‘If it is not, it still displays the shape of the body due to its thinness’. (2)

As-Saf?r?n? said in “Gith?’ul Alb?b”: ‘It is forbidden for a male and a female to wear thin clothes that display one’s private parts. This is a unanimously agreed-upon opinion amongst the ‘Ulamah’. (3)

Ash-Shawk?n? said in “Nayl Al-Awt?r” (vol. 2 / p .ll5): ‘A woman must screen her body with thick wide clothes that do not display in any way or manner the size or shape of her body. This is a pre-condition [for the validity of Sal?t]”. This meaning was stated by many ‘Ulamah. (4)

Some of them even stated that such clothes were never worn by the righteous predecessors. (5)

[3] Offering Sal?t while the private parts [or parts of them] are uncovered:

The following kinds of people fall in this mistake: