What is Hijab?
Muslim women cover themselves by wearing Hijab. Hijab, which is also known as the veil, is the Islamic dress for women consisting the head covering, along with the body covered modestly. In Learning Islam 2, according to historians, the practice of Hijab was “part of [the] everyday dress for women in Ancient Christian and Jewish communities”(D32). Back then, many Christian and Catholic women wore a head covering as a sign of chastity. We can also see that there are references to the practice of wearing the veil in both the Old and New Testaments, “…if a woman does not have her head veiled, she may as well have her hair cut off. But if it is too shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or head shaved, then she should wear a veil” (I Corinthians 11:6). As you can see, the Bible gives the woman the choice of wearing the veil or have her hair cut off.
One may ask why a Muslim woman should wear the Hijab. The answer to this question can be summed up in one brief sentence: God wants Muslim women to wear Hijab because it is better for them and society as a whole. In the Holy Quran, God commands the women to cover their whole body except face and hands:
And say to the faithful women to lower their gazes, and to guard their private parts, and not to display their beauty except what is apparent of it, and to extend their head coverings (khimars) to cover their bosoms (jaybs), and not to display their beauty except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husband's fathers, or their sons, or their husband's sons, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their womenfolk, or what their right hands rule (slaves), or the followers from the men who do not feel sexual desi...
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...the Hijab is used in culture is wrong in Islam. Before society criticizes the wearing of the Hijab, they should know the real reason and meaning behind it.
In conclusion, all in all, religion, culture, oppression, and commitment to God sum up to be misunderstood by many. Muslim women who wear the Hijab will love to be seen as pious, just as Nuns do, rather than oppressed. Muslim women who choose to cover themselves as a sign of chastity is not oppression. The culture of some Middle Eastern countries gives the wrong impression of the Hijab. Not only can culture have people misunderstand Hijab, but it can also send the wrong massage. Hijab and veils should always be looked at as a sign of piousness and their commitment to God, not oppression. Don’t be the one to judge but rather the one who seeks knowledge and the truth.
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Fatemeh Fakhraie’s essay “Scarfing it Down,” explains how Muslim women suffer because of what they wear. Fakhraie blogs about Muslim women in her website she explains; “Seeing ourselves portrayed in the media in ways that are one-dimensional and misleading." Several people judge Muslim's by their appearance because they assume they're a bad person. The author of this essay wants the reader to know that Muslim women wearing a hijab are not a threat to the world.
On the other hand Muslims relate to a person who follows or practices the religion of Islam. According to Muslims, God sent a number of prophets to mankind to teach them how to live according to his law. Jesus, Moses, and Abraham are respected as prophets of God. To Muslims, humans are the greatest of all creatures created with free will for the purpose of obeying and serving God. They also believe that Allah is invisible to the human eye. Women who were raised into the Muslim life have to wear a hijab in the presence of males outside of their immediate family or females who do not practice this religion. This serves to cover-up to hide their whole body except for their eyes. By covering up it is a symbol of modesty and privacy according to the Muslim world, while most men wear
By wearing a hijab women do not have to worry about “gray hairs, and can focus on other parts of their lives. Although this seems like a trivial improvement, women in the West spend inestimable amounts of money on beauty products and a surfeit amount of time on their daily regimen. Even though the burqa is therapeutic in helping women with their appearance, it can be physically restricting, “Mariam had never before worn a burqa. The padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her skull. The loss of peripheral vision was unnerving, and she did not like the suffocating way the pleated cloth kept pressing against her mouth” (72).
Woman has to struggle to survive in this world. Woman faces variety of challenges everyday starting from cultural to economics. It is even harder to live for a Muslim woman when she is hijaabi. Wearing Hijab is a very popular thing among Muslim woman just as wearing Turban for shikh man. Hijab may seem like a simple head cover, worn by Muslim women for many years, but it is very meaningful to a muslim women. The word hijab comes from the Arabic word “hajaba” meaning to hide, to conceal the body, beauty from strangers gaze, and act as a barrier, like a curtain . Wearing hijab started many years ago with scholars’ argument does it refer to the outer surface of a woman's garments, that she covers every part of her body? Or does it give an exception to face and hands, and female ornaments such as rings, bracelets, and make-up? There are additional ambiguous Koranic for women to draw the "khimar" (or scarf) to cover the "jayb" (or bosom/upper chest), and for "the wives and daughters of the Prophet and the women of the believers to draw their "jalabib" (or cloaks) close round them. ” The latter interpretation has been adopted from Abu Jafar al-Tabari, who favour the hijab option7. Some scholars says it may also be left to the Muslim woman to decide for herself, whether she wants to cover up fully with the niqab, as an expression of her faith and Islamic identity, or not.
While people in the west think that women in Islam are oppressed, they do not know that Islam liberated women from oppression. There are many people who have opinions about the religion of Islam, but mostly about the women who follow it. Westerners have this idea that women in Islam are disrespected, mistreated and oppressed. In actuality, these allegations are incorrect. Women in Islam have rights and are not oppressed. The veil is widely misunderstood and many do not know what it represents. In many ways, men and women are equal as much as they are not; and this is in every religion.
Journalist and author of Veiled Threat, Nadeine Asbali, once said: "To take off my hijab would be to dilute who I am" (Shah 2024). The hijab is a headscarf adorned by Muslim women all over the globe to symbolize their faith, intelligence, resistance, and strength. The hijab is often mischaracterized as a symbol of oppression and a cry for help by the West. Western countries like the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, etc. have all demonized the freedom of Muslim women who choose to veil in their own respective ways, highlighting the disparity between religious freedom and Islam. Muslim women are forced to choose between their home country and their religion in order to be seen as Western women in the eyes of others.
the niqab is not needed to be worn due to religion as it does not say so in the Koran. Even in Saudi Arabia, the niqab is removed by women taking part in the hajj. Also religion shows the niqab is not necessary woman are still forced to wear it by they 're male friends and relatives. A study shows that 77% of woman who wear the niqab is due to horrible threats such as acid being thrown on there faces.
There are many different views towards Muslim choice of clothing especially wearing the veil. “I wear it believing it is necessary, but someone else can be wearing it believing that she is doing something extra” said Hamna Ahmed. One of the many reasons a Muslim can be wearing the veil are their own personal decisions too. Hamna has been wearing it for seven years now, despite her mother and three of her four sisters staying uncovered. Socially this causes an issue with the meaning of the veil and conflict with other groups. With many different consumptions of religion, what it means, what is considered to be practicing and what is not can lead to negative misunderstandings. Ultimately the decisions are up to the individuals although; there is likely to be misinterpretation between the meaningfulness of religion to family and society. On an even bigger scale of things this could also impact society and it...
Hijab is a choice that some women or girls make for their own security, for more privacy, or because it makes them feel comfortable and confident about themselves. It should be a choice though, and as it is not proven to us that it is obligatory, countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan should remove their laws that insist every girl puts the veil on. Freedom of choice should be given in these countries. It is not required in Islam so it shouldn’t be forced on anyone anywhere. In addition to this, Islam’s beauty is it’s freedom, the choice it provides you with, let it not be ruined.
Some people who don’t follow the Islamic faith feel sympathy for those who wear hijab, unknowingly thinking women are forced to wear it and that it is a sign of oppression. Instead, it is a symbol of devotion and doesn't have to be something that women are shamed
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Although, the terms scarf and hijab have become interchangeable it is worth noting that the term hijab encompasses much more than a scarf or dress code. The hijab denotes modesty as a lifestyle, which can be conveyed through ones actions, thoughts and speech. However, many different cultures have their own definition of wearing a hijab there is a common consensus of covering the head, chest and wearing loose fitted modest clothing. Similarly, Kate Fox states that she expects “to find much variation and diversity within English culture, but hope to discover some sort of common core, a set of underlying basic patterns that might help us to define Englishness. ”(Fox, 2014).
It is worn on the head, it also covers the neck and chest. Mostly seen in the Middle East, they are traditionally worn by Muslim woman in the presence of adult males outside of their immediate family. Worn for modesty and privacy. Hijabs can be used to refer to the seclusion of women from men
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