A Critic upon Jilbab
By Nong Darol Mahmada
This book takes the view that wearing the jilbab is not an obligation. Even Al Asymawy has proclaimed that hadits taken as the reference regarding jilbab or hijâb obligation is hadits ahad (transmitted by single person) cannot be perceived a shaving a legal foundation. If jilbab was obligatory for women, the impact would certainly be substantial. As he quoted: “the statement that woman’s hair is aurat, is because it is their crown. It follows that her face, which is her throne, is also aurat. Then her voice which is her authority becomes aurat and her body which is her kingdom aurat. Eventually, the entire female being is considered aurat.” The implication is ultimately that woman cannot do anything as Allah’s creature because she is all-aurat.
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</i></i></i></i>a man who says that Jilbab is merely the product of Arabic Culture is extremely wrong!!. It is Islam that influences the Arabic culture. Before the coming of Islam, Arab people lived in stupidity (jahiliyah era). Therefore, the woman haven’t wear Jilbab yet.Islam then came and asked Arab women to wear Jilbab. They have to wear Jilbab to protect their Aurat. By protecting their Aurat, woman will be far from sexual harrasment by man. Those who say that Jilbab is only worn for public decency are stupid.Imagine that in 2050 nudity is accepatable in society, should Muslimah also follow that public decency!.
It is so sad when muslims say, women must wear hijab, women should not spend their time out, women should be placed seperately so they won´t get harassed by men. Why should women be punished by the action made by men? When will men take the responcibility of their own actions, and when will we stop the blame on women for what they have not done?
If men can´t stop themselves fom harassing women who don´t wear a hijab, then it is the man NOT the women is the be blamed. A womans rights is not variable to the actions of men.
in islam, to wear Jilbab. Why would God created man??? So that man can harass / molest women??? To keep/to force women wearing Jilbab???
What kind of God would that be???
For all who think that the jilbab, hijab, chadors are obligations, please read the following link: http://www.submission.org/dress.html , so they can see that every jilbabi is now living in jahiliyah and being deceived by wahhabi ulamas.
Think about this: if the jilbab were an obligation, why was it worn by women in primitive comunities in the desert and mountains until the 1980’s and only by super-fanatics in arabic cities? Why not everywhere in Muslim countries since the days of the prophet, without a single exception? Why did Khomeini obliged (!) all Persian women to wear the chador through sharia law if it was so obvious from the Qur’an, as the ignorants always claim?
The new development towards a radical Islamism comes and is sponsored mainly by Saudi Arabia. What religion dominates this country? It’s not Islam but Wahhabism, a violence-loving, women-hating SECT! Think about this. It would be the same, as if the Vatican would be 100% dominated by Scientologists.
The consequences of Wahhabism are obvious: sharia, misogynism, violence, hatred, separation, jilbab, terror, fear, lies and spreading (da’wa) through taqiya. Two similar movements spread through Europe and the world during the 20th century: comunism and nazism. No difference with wahhabism, except that the latest is a political cancer hiding under the name of religion with the support of billions of petro-dollars. And since every Muslim learns that Saudi Arabia is the craddle of Islam and a study there is the dream of every future imam, the Wahhabis have a very easy game in giving thousands of scholarships to completely brainwash them in their ‘universities’.
A muslimah that uses the REAL Islamic veil is Benazir Bhutto (see http://www.harrywalker.com/photos/Bhutto_Benazir.jpg), as well as Queen Noor and the wife of Gus Dur. They really KNOW that in the Qur’an there is absolutely no mention of hiding the hair or the throat under unislamic tight jilbabs. Remember: Covering is not the same as hiding.
Aurat? If anything can be defined as aurat than obviously the eyes and face of a woman, not dead cells like hair. I would be very thankfull if a fanatic could explain me the difference between a man’s and a woman’s hair and why women cannot get “excited” when looking at a man’s hair, be them on his head or chest.
Last but not least: if Indonesian fanatic women are so keen in hiding their hair, destroying every local tradition (adat) and exchanging them with a wahhabi one, then the word konde will be a thing of the past. A pity, as this is typical of the Indonesian woman’s identity.
Assalaamu ‘Alaikum.
I can’t believe people can be so…I mean, it’s sooo obvious that Islam commands you wear the jilbab! The majority of the ‘Ulema state that a woman should not leave any part of her body exposed except the face and hands. This view is even proven by the Ahadeeth. How can we all contradict that? And who was the person who stated that it’s men’s fault if they molest women?!! Lady, you need to understand that men have more of a tendency to get sexually excited, so allowing them to harass you would be stupid.
Plus, if you’re testing their patience, then you’re harassing THEM! There was also someone who stated that women can also get sexually attracted to men, so why don’t men cover themselves? Mam, as I mentioned, men have a greater tendency to get attracted to women. Why do you think that it is always MEN who rape WOMEN, and not WOMEN who rape MEN? Plus, woman was CREATED attractive, therefore she needs to cover herself more! Sorry ladies! But if women start thinking like you, there’s gonna be a lot of “fasaad” on this earth!
Iam not agree with Islamic views about hejab. For me hejab is the creation of male mentality and male dominance. For me hejab- henceforth burqa- is the symbol of male dominance and women’s subordinate position. It is nothing to do with any kind of respect of women that some Muslims and Islamic scholars say. Unfortunately, like almost all cultures and civilizations, men were and are the dominant rulers and decision-makers. In Afghan context, the picture is much more disturbing and gloomy. In Afghan context, it is not just the question of sharia. We face the question of sharia in one side, and the grip of tradition in another side. Men never want to give Afghan women the freedom and respect they themselves enjoy. Worth mentioning that here I am not going to discuss the problem of freedom and rights in general, as Afghan people in general are deprived of their real and meaningful human rights and freedom. Here I want to focus on women issue in Afghan society, a society fully under the rule of customary and Islamic laws, a society where civil laws are not considered dominant in most parts of the country, even outside its formal courts in its capital, Kabul. Informal courts with their informal laws are stronger. Women are unrepresented in these courts and mostly the victims of their rulings.
Customary laws consider woman the property of man- man’s honor and pride. If the honor is dishonored, the man is allowed to wipe out the scar, even by killing his fiancée, wife, sister and mother. The definition of honor is the definition of men mentality and his historical dominance on all aspects of life, including marital and familial relationship. He is the ultimate truth and he is the owner of his woman, in the forms of fiancée, wife, sister and mother and even female cousins and other close female relatives. He has the “divine” and traditional duty of protecting woman, not for her happiness and rights, but his satisfaction and rights. He enjoys full rights on her, but she knows only one undisputed right, that is to accept the rule of male members of her family and clan. From childhood, her mentality and domestic education (most girls are not allowed to participate in social life of society) is shaped and reared in a way to serve the man in times of sadness and happiness. If her husband meets his death, she must share the grief of him, by denouncing remarriage and personal happiness. She has to wear “appropriate” clothing and her code of dress must and always remember and revere her dead husband’s memories. If he wishes to remarry, even if she is alive and young, she must obey because he needs “double happiness and excitement” and she cannot denounce it. She must laugh when he brings the second wife. Years of exclusion from social life, male-orientated domestic education, concept of honor and chastity, the “sacred and divine” duty of a wife to husband, a sister to brother, and a daughter to father form a mind-set and revered concept that is considered as a perfect womanhood, wifehood, sisterhood and motherhood.
This concept cannot be challenged from within (resistance of women) because it will (if they succeeded to change the status quo) give woman a different and contradictory identification which is not acceptable by society. Her resistance means her exclusion from family and society. She will be insulted, abused, defamed, and named “unchaste”, “dishonored”, “bandit”, “unrespectable” and many more. The social set-up will not take her side in her resistance. She will lose hope and, in absence of support and tolerance, take unpredicted steps, such as flight and suicide. Concept of “honor” takes its toll. If caught during flight, must be killed to protect the “honor” and if found dead, the cause of her death must be unspoken and uncovered because, again, the “honor” is in stake. In both cases, she is the loser and male-made laws and concepts are the winners.
Family disputes and feuds are not uncommon in Afghan society. Again women are the main losers of much of these men-directed and men-caused disputes and feuds. The sister must be ready to give her brother his love. He needs that pretty girl of his dream. The girl’s family is not ready to say yes for the marriage, concept of courage and bravery gives the boy the right to kidnap the girl and takes her to his home. The scenario is bleak. Girl’s family has to protect their honor. It is all men’s world. Women are pawns at the hands of men. The best solution (without blood) requires the boy’s family to give a girl (probably boy’s sister or even female cousins) in exchange, badal. Again the customary laws take the side of men and give them “happiness” and “honor” by depriving women of their love and right and happiness and most importantly honor. Bad is worse than badal. Bad is a woman who has to be given to solve a blood feud. She will become the property of the family and they have the full rights to use them whatever way they wish. There are not barriers to stop them of abusing or misusing her. She has to make it and take it. Her silence is the sign of her “good and modest” family education and her resistance brings more trouble to her and her family. She is weak enough to resist. Her family needs her silence to protect their right for existence and appearance in public, otherwise they must be ready to accept another death, this time theirs- certainly a man, more precious and needed than their woman.
Customary laws and general mind-set of society creates double-standards values and morals. Islamic verses and interpretations also give rise to double-standard values and morals. In both cases, women are the victims. In both cases, men are the judges and executioners. Men love these values because the values give them the “property right” over women. If they commit adultery, the community and family will ignore, if they drink wine, the community and family will ignore, if they elope with a girl of their dreams, the community and family will ignore, if they misbehave in pubic, they will be ignored by public, if they harass women in public, they will be ignored, but in case of women, all the above mentioned points will be considered upside down. A small mistake by women means their “social death”. Family and community will scorn her and she will lose her dreams and career for future. She has to make herself ready to accept these “values” and give it “value”. She cannot ignore the scourge of society and men-made laws and values, because socially she herself is the creation of men. She can be made and destroyed, but cannot make and cannot destroy. She is a property and has different owners during her entire life and she has to respect all of them, no matter who they are and how they behave her.
The overall setup of the Afghan society and traditional values that are covered/venerated by the thick cloak of religion and customary laws, regard women a toy at the hand of men. Patriarchal system and male pressure give woman a false and predefined identity. The identity she cannot resist or change, but unwillingly accept and respect. Social and familial pressure molds the brain of women and they must accept it and must be ready to change it when required by men and their needs and requirements. While at her father’s house, she must act according to the needs and requirements of her father and brothers, while at her husband’s home, she must act according to the needs and requirements of her husband and in-laws.
During childhood they are considered lower than their brothers. They take less food and father and mother also take the side of their sons. If there is less food, they should save it for their brothers. If money is not enough, it should not be spent or invested for girls. Sons are priority, daughters are not. According to Afghan traditional and Islamic concept, daughters are not the property of the family. Sooner or later, they will marry. Their real owners are their husbands. Therefore, spending and investing on girls is meaningless. For marriage proposal, the conditions are tough but insulting. They will not ask about girl’s education and mental maturity. They will ask about what kind of food they can cook and how much obedient and male-fearing they are. In some cases, freshness (untouched and young) and beauty is considered important than education and maturity. That is why child-marriage is common. Actually the education and traditional-Islamic concepts and mentality itself force the family to say good bye to their daughters when they are young. Better if they experience their first period at husband’s home. From the day they enter into their husbands’ home, they should surrender themselves fully to the wishes and rules of their husbands and in-laws. Resistance is out of question. No body will take her side. She is alone in her odyssey. She must tolerate and live for others. She is not the captain of her ship in the untamed waves of male’s ocean. Her presence in the ship is for her travel (transformation) from daughterhood to wifehood, and from wifehood to motherhood. Captains will be changed, but the destination is certain, making a perfect womanhood in men’s world. Poverty catalyzes this painful transformation in most cases.
Hejab will give her “honor”, “grace”, “good character”, and “purity”. She is born to wear hejab. If a man abuse or rape her, she is to be blamed. She is also responsible for all moral sins of men. It was she that seduced the man by revealing her nape, leg or hairs or face. She is responsible for her chastity and man’s chastity. If she is covered, both will be secured and clean. If she is raped, she must keep quite because the law and as well as society and community will not take her side. If tortured by her family and husband, again she must keep quite because the law will not take her side, because she feels insecure to ask for legal support. Economically she is dependent. She needs food and a shelter to sleep. The family and husband will provide these things and in exchange she must obey and accept the rule of father, brother, husband and the son. Opposition means more torture and more oppression and exclusion. Uncertain future threatens her and uncertainty forces her to surrender. She is educated to accept and respect her false and predefined identity.
During war and conflicts, again she suffers the most. History has proved this in each and every culture and religion. She is unprotected during war. From 1992 to 2001 (still they continue the same acts in most parts of Afghanistan), the jehadis, the Taliban and Islamic warlords committed uncountable crimes against Afghan women. Sons of “Islam” and “jehad” proved that they can rape even a woman of 70 and a girl of 6 years. They proved that they like to see a woman during delivery in an open street and love to look at naked-women dancing. In these things they are not “Muslims” and God-fearing, because they forced women to dance and deliver their babies to “entertain” them. They are double-faced even in their Islamic values. They shout and get crazy for Mohammad’s cartoons, but they forget their own actions, their own crimes and hypocrisy. They forget their history and the deeds they committed under the banner of Islam and jehad. Their jehad was not against “infidels”. Their jehad was against their own Muslim people and their own Muslim women. If innocents killing, throat-slitting, stoning to death, raping, destruction and rocketing are jehad, fundamentalists and Taliban should be praised for their jehad in Afghanistan and many other Muslim countries.
Unfortunately women are educated in this way. To change women and give them security and full rights, the men-made definitions of social values and mores should be modified, and in most parts should be discarded. Until and unless, the definitions of values are changed, women will consider them “respectable” and “undisputed”. “Respectable” should be made “unrespectable” and the values and mores should be given new meanings and definitions, otherwise, burqa will rule, not only on Afghan women, but on most Muslim women in many parts of the world. If a Muslim girl continues to cover her head even in French schools, it is not her fault. She is raised in this way. She got the meaning of values from men perspective. She cannot change her mind. For this change, she must be economically independent and introduce new definitions to values that are created, nourished, divined, forced and protected by men for the most part of human history
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salaam alaikoum brothers and sisters,
This is a very hot issue,
However it should be very clear that Quran does not order hijab !
The one who says he can read it in the Holy Quran is changing the
Word of Allah. Even a wahabi imam wil admit it’s not in Quran if he has enough taqwa ! Even if he will find another way for this veiling.
A woman should be free to chose what to wear. Nobody should
tell her how to get dressed. Remember Allah saying: why making something forbidden which I have not forbidden, why allow something that I have not allowed ?!!! Islam is in the heart not in
clothing! Sometimes it would even be more appropriate not to ware hijab to keep peace.
Furthermore I can assure everyone that my wife even always waring hijab gets harrassed by Moslim men almost every single day. It should be clear that men should learn to behave according Quran and lower their gaze when attracted by female gender!! Islam is great and beautifull, Making abuse of Islam is ugly. Allahalam! Peace for all of you,
Ismail
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I agree. I think wearing Jibab is not an obligation. It is rather a method of distinguishing religious adherence to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Wearing of the Jilbab is a sign of affiliation with Islamism and for me, it is not an obligation. And yes, making it as an obligation to women makes the effects substantial.
Wearing of the Jilbab is a sign of affiliation with Islamism and for me, it is not an obligation. And yes, making it as an obligation to women makes the effects substantial.
I agree. I think wearing Jibab is not an obligation. It is rather a method of distinguishing religious adherence to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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