Women Cutting Their Hair

Walaikum assalam,

In general, the books of the Hanafi school are very strict about women not cutting their hair. The scholars differed, however, about what exactly is meant by this.

What I learned from several scholars was that a woman’s hair cannot resemble a man’s (therefore, it should be below the shoulder); it cannot imitate those of kafir or corrupt women; the best is that it be long.

The recent ‘answer’ by Shaykh Taqi on http//www.albalagh.net is similar to this.

And Allah knows best.

Wassalam,
Faraz Rabbani