HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? HIJAB IS NEITHER A PIECE OF CLOTH NOR A FASHION KIND OF DRESS!


CLAIM ONE: Hijab is an ancient Arab style of clothing.

REPLY: Qur'an warn the wives of the Prophet "... and do not display your finery like the displaying of the ignorance of yore..." [sura al-Ahzab: 59]

Had hijab/Jilbab was an ancient Arab style of clothing, why would this instruction be effected?

It is obvious the Arab women of yore display their fineries publicly but Islam instruct believing women saying "... and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers..." [sura an-Nur: 31]

With this establishment, how can Islamic Hijab be said to be Arab cultural dress of yore?


CLAIM TWO: Hijab is just a piece of cloth.

REPLY: Hijab isn't "just a piece of cloth". It is a command dress code for the Muslim women. Apart from sura Nur: 31 quoted above, here's another verse on Muslims' women dress code:


 Surah Al-Ahzab, Verse 59:

O Prophet! say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they let down upon them their over-garments; this will be more proper, that they may be known, and thus they will not be given trouble; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful"


So, it is a weird and distant claim that "Hijab or Jilbab is just a piece of cloth".



CLAIM THREE: Even in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Iran Saudi Arabia etc non-Muslims' tourists use Hijab, so what's the big deal?


REPLY: First, those non-Muslims who use Hijab were only "compelled" by the law of those lands. They don't use it with the intention of Islamic viewpoints.


Second, a non-Muslim is free to use Hijab or Jilbab (as we could see the Catholic Nuns, the Jains etc) but obviously their aims and objectives is quite different from that of Muslim women although the two can knowingly or unknowingly agree in protecting the society from the harm, evil and corruption of flagrant sexual display of women and the protection of women from being made as sexual advertising objects.


Third, while a non-Muslim woman is free to use Islamic version of Hijab or Jilbab, she must not impersonate Islam or Muslims as a result. This is where it becomes sensitive. Imagine a commercialized alawo woman (African traditional religion who worship satan and other gods) using Hijab?! While as an individual she might not be rebuked but going by her commercial activity and nature of her job as fetish healer, people will be confused and Islamic value being a monotheistic religion will be smeared.



CLAIM FOUR: Where's the African identity if an Afrcian Muslim woman dressed with "Arabian cultural dressing"?

REPLY: Again, Islamic Hijab or Jilbab is not Arabian cultural dressing. Furthermore, Islam respect people's cultures so long it's not barbaric (like dressing naked, killing for rituals etc). Therefore, there is no exact specification of cloth mentioned in the holy Qur'an while instructing Hijab/Jilbab; rather, only general rules were instructed which can be summarized below:

# A Muslim woman should cover her body from head to toe

# A Muslim woman should draw a large garment over herself; therefore, tight-fitting and transparent dress is completely ruled out

# A Muslim woman should not display her fineries and ornaments publicly (except to her husband, father etc as specified in the holy Qur'an).

Fact is, any dress that WILL NOT be seductive, NOT tight-fitting to reveal a woman's shape, NOT transparent and that will be able to cover women's bodily parts is welcome by Islam; be it African style or European or Arab style. A woman who wears a "spaghetti" dress or fit tighting trouser and put a piece of head cover called "hijab" has obviously not use Islamic version of Hijab. A woman who uses for example the Yoruba traditional "iro and buba" while her legs, quarter of her hands, her chest expose has not used Islamic version of Hijab.


Hijab is a Muslim woman's pride! If you don't like it, do not ignorantly attack those who passionately embrace it.



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Hmmn
Hypocrite men, why don't you face your own problems, always talking about sisters.

Topics like...
Men should gaze down can never be seen.
Men should be of good behaviour
Men should cover up their body and stop wearing revealing cloths

But you all have the headache of talking about sisters every minutes. Abeg go

AlBaqir:
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? HIJAB IS NEITHER A PIECE OF CLOTH NOR A FASHION KIND OF DRESS!


CLAIM ONE: Hijab is an ancient Arab style of clothing.

REPLY: Qur'an warn the wives of the Prophet "... and do not display your finery like the displaying of the ignorance of yore..." [sura al-Ahzab: 59]

Had hijab/Jilbab was an ancient Arab style of clothing, why would this instruction be effected?

It is obvious the Arab women of yore display their fineries publicly but Islam instruct believing women saying "... and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers..." [sura an-Nur: 31]

With this establishment, how can Islamic Hijab be said to be Arab cultural dress of yore?

Hijab or head covering was an Arab culture and not only in the Arabians, it was popular culture in the Jew, Persians, Greek, Indians etc

The thing is it wasn't compulsory before Islam came, Muhammad made it compulsory for women.

CLAIM TWO: Hijab is just a piece of cloth.

REPLY: Hijab isn't "just a piece of cloth". It is a command dress code for the Muslim women. Apart from sura Nur: 31 quoted above, here's another verse on Muslims' women dress code:


 Surah Al-Ahzab, Verse 59:

O Prophet! say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they let down upon them their over-garments; this will be more proper, that they may be known, and thus they will not be given trouble; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful"


So, it is a weird and distant claim that "Hijab or Jilbab is just a piece of cloth".

Hijab is still a piece of cloths to cage women femininity and unfortunately many of these women face harassments too.

CLAIM THREE: Even in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Iran Saudi Arabia etc non-Muslims' tourists use Hijab, so what's the big deal?


REPLY: First, those non-Muslims who use Hijab were only "compelled" by the law of those lands. They don't use it with the intention of Islamic viewpoints.


Second, a non-Muslim is free to use Hijab or Jilbab (as we could see the Catholic Nuns, the Jains etc) but obviously their aims and objectives is quite different from that of Muslim women although the two can knowingly or unknowingly agree in protecting the society from the harm, evil and corruption of flagrant sexual display of women and the protection of women from being made as sexual advertising objects.

Again, it doesn't protect anything. Women that covers up face sexual harassment.

Third, while a non-Muslim woman is free to use Islamic version of Hijab or Jilbab, she must not impersonate Islam or Muslims as a result. This is where it becomes sensitive. Imagine a commercialized alawo woman (African traditional religion who worship satan and other gods) using Hijab?! While as an individual she might not be rebuked but going by her commercial activity and nature of her job as fetish healer, people will be confused and Islamic value being a monotheistic religion will be smeared.

Ok.

CLAIM FOUR: Where's the African identity if an Afrcian Muslim woman dressed with "Arabian cultural dressing"?

REPLY: Again, Islamic Hijab or Jilbab is not Arabian cultural dressing. Furthermore, Islam respect people's cultures so long it's not barbaric (like dressing naked, killing for rituals etc). Therefore, there is no exact specification of cloth mentioned in the holy Qur'an while instructing Hijab/Jilbab; rather, only general rules were instructed which can be summarized below:

# A Muslim woman should cover her body from head to toe

# A Muslim woman should draw a large garment over herself; therefore, tight-fitting and transparent dress is completely ruled out

# A Muslim woman should not display her fineries and ornaments publicly (except to her husband, father etc as specified in the holy Qur'an).

Fact is, any dress that WILL NOT be seductive, NOT tight-fitting to reveal a woman's shape, NOT transparent and that will be able to cover women's bodily parts is welcome by Islam; be it African style or European or Arab style. A woman who wears a "spaghetti" dress or fit tighting trouser and put a piece of head cover called "hijab" has obviously not use Islamic version of Hijab. A woman who uses for example the Yoruba traditional "iro and buba" while her legs, quarter of her hands, her chest expose has not used Islamic version of Hijab.

Still doesn't change the fact it's Arabian culture.

Hijab is a Muslim woman's pride! If you don't like it, do not ignorantly attack those who passionately embrace it.

Nope, it's not a woman's pride, it's a bondage forced down on them by some Arabian misogynistic patriarch men.

Many Muslims don't know the history of hijab in Islam

Xmuslim:
Many Muslims don't know the history of hijab in Islam

First, it's Arab culture but not compulsory before Islam

Second, it was compulsory because men use to loiter around the area where women answer the call of nature

Third, it was made compulsory to distinguish slave from free women. Slave were not allowed to wear it. Thus, men are allowed to see them freely when they go out to ease themselves.

Fourth, it was suggested by a companion of Muhammad, not originally from Allah

If I have time I will come with evidence to back up all these claims from sahih hadith

if Seeing a woman hair is giving you an Erection, my brother you have problem oo