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Clarification on Hijab Assalamu aleykum, ====================================================== Assalamu Alaikum. Hijab is indeed one of the most
sensitive issues of Islam that Allah -subhanahu wa taala- has put as a trial to
Us. It affects Men and Women equally. The Believer and the non-believer also. To
the disbeliever it’s hell. Very intolerable. To the believer it’s an
injunction he drives pleasure in worshiping his Lord with. And a lot of others
fall within the spectrum, each according to the power or weakness of his faith. A western thinker was quoted as saying
that the West cannot succeed over the Muslims until when it is able to remove
the hijab from the Muslim woman and then cover the Quran with it. And in
recent times there was a roar over some female university students wearing the
headscarf in turkey. In fact no statement can over emphasize the prejudice. One
thus could understand why some Muslims this day try to give a compromising
ruling on the issue in trying to please people by concocting lies against Allah
and his Prophet. The prescription of hijab during the
time of the prophet went through stages just like the prohibition of alcohol. If
one thus quotes the following verse as evidence that alcohol is only forbidden
during prayers:”O ye who believe! Draw not near unto prayer when ye are
drunken, till ye know that which ye utter, nor when ye are polluted, save when
journeying upon the road, till ye have bathed. And if ye be ill, or on a
journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have touched women, and ye
and not water, than go to high clean soil and rub your faces and your hands
(therewith). Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving.” [4/43], that will be
considered a misguidance. So the same when one quotes instances when there was a
mixing of both sexes during the time of the prophet before the prescription of
hijab towards the end of the fifth year after hijra. From then on there
was no more mingling even in times of travel. This lead to the incidence of lies
against Aisha the wife of the prophet in the sixth year when she was left behind
because the man who pulls her camel thought she was inside her howdah [camel
litter] were as she has gone out of it looking for her jewel that dropped. The prophet was narrated as saying
“The woman is pudendum [aurah], when ever she goes out the Satan looks up to
her”. [tirmizi]. Malik then ruled base on this hadeeth and others, that the
VOICE of a woman is ‘Aurah’ therefore it is haram to listen to it with the
aim to be enjoyed. Allah said: {O Consorts of the Prophet ye are not like any of
the (other) women: if ye do fear (God), be not too complaisant of speech, lest
one in whose heart is a disease should be moved with desire: but speak ye a
speech (that is) just}.[33/32]. Men are no doubt moved by the feminine
voice. Even by a woman’s movement and dalliance. Muslim narrated from jabir
that “The prophet [peace be upon him] saw a woman, then went to his wife
zainab, she was then cleaning a new goat skin of hers, then he satisfied his
needs [from her], then went out to his companions and said: Women come and go in
the shape of Satan, therefore who ever among you sees a woman he should go to
his family, for that will remove away what is in his mind” In light of the above, it is easy to see
why Islam has chosen the home and child-upbringing as the best role for a woman.
(And stay quietly in your houses, and make not a dazzling, display, like that of
the former Times of Ignorance; and establish regular Prayer, and give regular
Charity; and obey God and His apostle. And God Only wishes to remove all
abomination from you, Ye Member of the family, and to make you pure
spotless.}33/33. The prophet [peace be upon him] has
prophesied the ‘metamorphosis’ the Muslim women will undergo in the end of
the world. Muslim narrated the prophet saying:” Two kinds of companion of the
Hell I have not seen. Men with lashes/whips like the tails of cows beating
people. Women dressed, nude, attractive to men, attracted by men, their heads
like an inclined hump of a he-camel, they will never enter the paradise, nor
will they smell it’s sent. And its fragrance can be found from the distance of
so and so.” Ahmad bin Hanbal also narrated the prophet as saying:” Before
the hour, greetings will be for the known [i.e. not to strangers], trading will
spread until a woman will help her husband in trading and foe between
relatives”. Ahmad also narrated from jabir: he said the prophet came on one of
the lava fields of medina and we were together with him, then he said: “what a
good land medina is, when Dajjal will come out, all the passes leading to medina
will have an angle at them so he will not enter it, then when its like that, the
city will quake with its people three times until no hypocrite man or woman will
be left without going out to meet Dajjal and the most in number that will go out
to meet him are the women ... ” This looks just like a prophesy of women
libs. Worldwide women are echoing it. Statistics has shown that one out of every
Four American woman is raped. And virtually all were at least once sexually
harassed in their lifetime. But still they are mesmerized by this new found
‘freedom’. Islam stands both corrective and
punitive. So what is the punishment for a man or a woman that exposes any part
of his/her body that is considered private? This is an offence that the Law has
left the Leader to decide what is the best punishment that should be mated out
to such people with the view of deterring others from committing it. It does
differ from community to community. From the forgoing it will become clear that
there is absolutely no excuse for a woman to go out without: 1. A lawful reason,
which will be left to her conscience. 2. Properly applying
the hijab, which may exclude the face and both palms if she is not attractive. 3. Avoid fragrances. 4. Avoid shaking and
chatting with men. 5. Avoid being in
seclusion with men. It is therefore very irrelevant for a
woman to stand in front of men lecturing them except of course if necessity
demands that or if she falls into the group below: {Such elderly women as are past the
prospect of marriage, there is no blame on them if they lay aside their (outer)
garments, provided they make not a wanton display of their beauty: but it is
best for them to be modest: and God is One Who sees and knows all
things}[24/60]} .AhmadGummi ================================================================= Amin aleykumussalam,
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