Selected Fatawa for Women

The role Muslim women play in the world has grown, and with it the number of situations where a woman needs to know the ruling and has nobody convenient to ask. Darussalam produced this booklet for that gap: reliable answers, in her hands, on the questions that actually come up.

Question and Answer

The rulings appear as fatawa — each one issued in response to a real question, from the highest scholarly sources. That format matters. A woman with a specific situation can find the case that matches hers and read the answer, rather than working her way through a chapter of general principles and hoping her circumstance falls under one of them.

What It Covers

The subjects are those bound up with daily routine and the acts of worship: purification and prayer, fasting, questions of dress and covering, conduct within the family and outside it, and the ordinary matters of household and social life where a woman wants to know she is on firm ground.

The scope is deliberately practical. This is not a treatise on the status of women, and it does not argue a case. It answers questions.

Who It Is For

Muslim women wanting reliable answers without a research project. New Muslim sisters, who accumulate questions faster than they find people to ask. Sisters' study circles and halaqahs. Islamic schools and masjid libraries. Short and inexpensive enough to buy several and hand them out.

Related Reading

• Islamic Fatawa Regarding Women — over 350 rulings, at greater depth
• Menstruation and Postpartum Condition — purity rulings covered on their own
• Hindrances on the Path — social and household failings, and how to correct them