Hijab vs Women | To veil vs not to veil | All you need to know about - Akhbaar express
Most Muslim men want that women should cover their heads and some want they should cover their whole body including their face except their hands and feet. They wanted them to dress in veils to protect them from others. In Pakistan (a Muslim country), where almost all the women wear hijab, and there more than 1000 rape cases are registered every year in the court. So, I don’t think hijab literally protect women from other. If a girl and a woman are beautiful, is it their fault? Of course not, right? Some scholars said women’s beauty corrupts men's minds. It is not the fault of beauty, that mind is already corrupted.
Hijab, Niqab, Burka, Chador, Shayla, Al–Amira, and Khimar are the different – different types of Muslim modest dresses for women. A bunch of Muslim scholars think wearing a veil is an Islamic duty and the most important thing in Islam. Quran instructs women to dress modestly, veil help to maintain modesty and privacy in society from the unrelated male.
Today, women in many countries are protesting against the hijab. They don’t want to wear it forcefully. This is the 21st century and women should have the right to choose whether they want or not want to wear hijab. A bunch of Muslim scholars is forcing women to dress in hijab. Muslim women are killed as honor killing for refusing to wear the hijab and in countries like Afghanistan, girls and women are punished for not wearing hijab. Women have to cover their whole body including their faces as well. They said the face of women is the source of corruption for men.
Dress code
As per an estimate, there are seven Muslim-majority countries (Egypt, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, and South Arabia). Different women considered different dressings to be the most appropriate ones. Women considered the headscarf the most appropriate one in Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, and Turkey. In South Arabia, the majority of women considered the niqab as the most appropriate one. In Pakistan, The niqab, full-length chador, and hand scarf are considered the most appropriate. In Lebanon, half of them responded choose no head covering at all. The result is also the same when asked by men except in Pakistan where more men want women to wear a veil.
Although women are protesting against hijab, they more strongly believe in women's right to choose what to wear. Literate people do less debate about wearing hijab than those without one. Some women change hijab into nontraditional form of hijab like turban. Some are considered as a proper head cover and someone not, they believe head cover should not leave the neck exposed.
Quran about veil
According to some scholars, people misinterpreted the wording of the Quran. Quran never said women to wear a veil
In Quran, hijab means a veil, partition, or separation. The verse in which it is mentioned is addressed to the prophet's wives only.
Quran says,
And when you ask [his wives] for something, ask them from behind a partition. That is purer for your hearts and their hearts. And it is not [conceivable or lawful] for you to harm the Messenger of Allah or to marry his wives after him, ever. Indeed, that would be in the sight of Allah an enormity
The word partition (hijab) is meant to separate the wives of the prophet from others. it’s not for Muslim women, otherwise, it would have been mentioned in verse.
In another verse,
And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests
It only recommended that women should cover their private parts. There is nothing mentioned to cover the whole body and face as well. The verse does say to cover hair, it is misinterpreted with time as covering the head, whole body and more than half face as well except hands and feet. by some corrupt scholars.
Some scholars said there is no evidence to prove covering the whole body and face is recommended in Quran. Quran only mentions covering the private parts of men and women. If covering the whole body is an Islamic tradition then why is it not mentioned in Quran? Why is it mentioned to cover only the private part?
Muslim women's views toward hijab
In some countries like Iran, women are protesting against the hijab. They want to let them decide what they want to dress. According to a survey by Pew Research Center, out of all the Muslim women in the U.S., 43% percent wear a head cover. In the U.S., freedom of choice is given to women, so they can decide whether they want or not want to wear hijab.
In Iran, it is legally required to wear a hijab. Women can’t hang outside without a hijab. Laws related to hijab are very strict. Women get punished, fined, or both for not wearing hijab. Even a woman died in custody after she was arrested on the basis of new strict law.
In Turkey, women can wear hijab in public areas but it is banned in private areas and state universities and colleges. Women can wear the non-traditional dress of a head covering like a turban.
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Legal and ban
- Hijab is legal in Iran and Afghanistan
- Saudi Arabia turn down the law of wearing hijab in 2018. But crown prince Mohammad bin Salman stated, “women should wear a respectful and decent dress like other gulf countries”
- In Gaza, the government rejected a hijab policy for women.
- In Europe, the government imposes a ban on hijab in a public places.
Forcing Muslim women to dress in hijab
They do not stop at advising women to dress in hijab but they force women to dress in hijab. Women are punished and fined for not wearing hijab.
In Srinagar, India, in 2008, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, a previously militant group (Lashkar – e - Jabbar) did an acid attack on women. They punished women for not wearing the burqa, and threaten women for dressing the burqa.
Women are punished by their own families for not dress hijab. A 22-year-old woman was killed by morality police for not wearing hijab properly. The protest in Iran rises after the death of a woman against the hijab. Recently, Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabi who supports the protest against the mandatory hijab is found missing after the tournament. As per the BBC news, Iranian authorities took her passport and mobile phone forcefully.
Final Thought
If men have the right to dress what they want then women should also have the right to dress what they want. Forcefully making them wear hijabs is totally wrong. Dress should be good according to society too. You can’t hang around publicly wearing undergarments just because you have the right to choose. Having rights doesn’t mean you can do anything.
Banning hijab is also not the solution, if do this then we are also forcing them not to wear hijab. Just let them decide what they want.
Certain rules should also impose like,
- No one should wear religious dress in a government office, schools, and collages
- People can wear their religious dress in public only if it is good according to society.
People are forcing and manipulating children to make them wear hijabs. I don’t want to hurt the sentiment of anyone but this true,
Parents are in trouble in some Gulf countries, where ministries of education, teachers' unions, and student unions are under Islamic control. One mother described what happened when she transferred her 11-year-old daughter to her new school. She thought she was too young to wear a hijab, so her mother asked why. The teacher said that if the girl did not do her hair, she would be burned on Judgment Day.
Reference in the Qur'an does not make it mandatory. It may be acceptable or ideal practice, but it is not essential
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