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18. To cover ears with a cloth.
19. To place one’s own hand or someone else’s hand onto the nose
or the head. (Cloth or handkerchief cannot be placed.)
20. To cover the chin underneath the beard with a cloth.
21. For a Muḥrim to place a sack of cereals on the head is permissible
but it is Ḥarām for him to place a bundle of clothes onto his
head. However, a Muḥrimaĥ is allowed to place both the things
onto her head.
22. To eat the food in which clove, cinnamon etc. have been cooked;
it does not matter even if fragrance is still emanating from it.
Similarly, it is permissible to eat the food or drink the beverage
in which uncooked fragrance has been added and the fragrance
does not emanate from it.
23. To apply ghee or fat or bitter oil or the oil of almond or coconut
or lettuce to the body or hair provided it has no fragrance.
24. It is permissible to wear such shoes that do not hide the instep
(i.e. the raised middle part of the foot). [Hence the Muḥrim
is advised to wear flip-flops, i.e. an open sandal with a thong
between the big and the second toe.]
25. To wear a Ta’wīż around the neck, wrapped in an unsewn piece
of cloth.
26. To slaughter domesticated animals such as camel, goat, hen, cow
etc. It is also allowed to sell, purchase, cut and eat their meat.
(Baĥār-e-Sharī’at, vol. 1, pp. 1081-1082)
Difference in Iḥrām of man and woman
The abovementioned rulings of Iḥrām apply equally to men and
women both. However, there are some other permissible acts for