🎀 Excerpt from the book [Fatawa An-Nissa] فتاوى للنساء

QUESTION :

"Some women, may Allah guide them, dress their little girls in short clothes that expose their legs...And when we advise these mothers they answer us:

"We dressed like this when we were little & it didn't hurt us when we grew up"

What is your opinion on this?"

Response from Shaykh Ibn Al-'Uthaymin رحمه الله said:

"I am of the opinion that a person should not dress his daughter in such clothes when she is young because if she gets used to it, she will stick to it & take it as something normal when she grows up, whereas if she gets used to modesty from a young age, she will stick to it when she grows up.

And what I advise our Muslim sisters with:

"Let them abandon the clothes of foreigners among the enemies of Islam and let them accustom their daughters to modest clothes, for modesty is part of faith."

Fatawa An-Nissa page 359-360.