A woman was bereaved of her husband and her relatives worried abouther eyes (which were diseased). They came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), andasked him to allow them to treat her eyes with kohl, but he said, "Sheshould not apply kohl to her eyes. (In the Pre-Islamic period ofIgnorance) a widowed woman among you would stay in the worst of herclothes (or the worst part of her house) and when a year had elapsed,if a dog passed by her, she would throw a globe of dung, Nay, (shecannot use kohl) till four months and ten days have elapsed."