When I was talking with a Christian woman she told me that it wasn't fair that men feel they have the right to touch, or violate a woman just because of the way she dresses or because she is overly friendly. She also added that she wished that she could have the respect that Muslim women get from wearing hijab, by just wearing regular clothing. In my response, I replied that it would be wonderful if we had that kind of freedom, but the way the world is and how it is perceived, it will never be like that. It is not God plan for us. And added, because it will never be like that, we as Muslims should protect ourselves from it, and in that we do that by "wearing hijab, wearing loose clothing, and lowering our gazes to the opposite gender."
When we look at hijab and we are contemplating whether it is fard or not, we should look beyond just looking for the word "hijab" in the Quran. Instead we should ask ourselved "How does Allah s.w.t. see the female creation and what would he advise to have his creation protected". As we already know, the world morality is declining at an enormous rate. What used to be considered shameful decades ago is now acceptable. So in the midst of this change, how can Muslim women, protect themselves from the ongoing world change on morality? Public acts of perversion in the midst of this decline have unfortunately increased at an enormous rate! Can you think of any thing else a Muslim woman can wear or do, to prevent herself from being a victem of perversion and prevent males from instigating acts of perversion? Wouldn't you agree that the root cause of this would be the female beauty? What is the most beautiful feature on the woman and has the most impact on her beauty....ofcourse the hair (has a nice scent, the way it moves, the way it curles, the styles it has...) One fact that never changes, is that "Hijab helps prevent you from being a victem of perversion, and helps prevent those from instigating acts of perversion...and this includes other females not only males". Some people try to modify the look of hijab by combining it with Hats, turbans or other material but must we forget that the traditional square hijab or shayla comes with a statement saying "We are Muslim". Even the unbelievers, even if they hardly know anything about Islam, when they see a woman in hijab they know it is for a religious purpose. The statement that comes along with wearing the traditional square or rectangle hijab is what protects us. If you wear a hat, a sport hood, a turban, the unbelievers will be confused, and because of that may still approach you as if you didn't wear it, hense subjecting oneself to being a potential victem of perversion. So when you think about it, hijab just makes sense.
Inshallah this helped to shead some new light on the subject. Jazakallahu khairan & wa alaikum salam
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