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I think there are two aspects to these threads:

 

1. Is Hijab a required part of the dress code for Moslem women?

 

2. The affects of society/peer pressure.

 

I cannot answer the first one. I am not scholar.  It seems that often folks are out to �prove a point�.  Assuming hijab is required, then one gets to the question of society and peer pressure.   Clearly that these types of decisions must come from the heart or what is the point?  If I do it to please others or to have people stop �harassing� me about it what good is that doing? I am not ultimately doing it for Allah.  I know what is inside of me. That is not for others to judge. If you are comfortable with it that is great, if another woman is not then so be it. The more people go on and on about it the less likely they will look to you for support.  And in your heart are you trying to help me or make yourself feel better?

 

For some people wearing hijab is a very difficult decision. It seems for many women.  Women need to help each other and leave the �judging� to Allah.  To feel it is our place to judge others is to infer that we are better then any other person. If so, one better pray that Allah agrees.  Humbleness is important.

 

I guess its like when I sometimes see someone I start putting them into a box in my mind.. even unconsciously. I work to stop this as people are not always neatly packaged.

 

True piety is ultimately in the heart.

As Salamu Alaikum

Yes I would be interested with that discussion because like I pointed out before, at one stage of my life I strongly believed Hijab was not an obligation and today I believe the opposite.

Maybe we can get some good points, when we discussion this issue from your research. This is an issue that will go on till eternity.

Thanks

Salams

Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem

Assalamu alaikum

You are corect herjihad Allah does see you for who you are but can you use that as an excuse not to pray 5 times a day or not fast no, so how does it apply to the hijab. Both remain commands of Allah, he only asks us to do something becouse it is for our own benefit.

The Hijab is important becouse it not only is for your benefit but for those of others, you are hiding your beauty from others which promotes the Quality of modesty in you and you dont have to face any tests or whispers from shaytan about vanity, for this Allah rewards you by strengthening your charachter and for following his command, this is on a personnel level. The hijab also stops men from staring at your beauty and you are not accountable for putting desire in a mans heart beyond what he is obliged to control himself with.

so you gain a double reward for your personnel obligation to Allah as well as not spreading fitnah with the power Allah gave you over men and both are done irespective of you noticing it, or effort on your part, since you dont know what is in peoples hearts and at what time you have done good by simply wearing it.

On the other hand if you are the cause of desire in a mans heart beyond what he is obliged to control himself then part of the blame is yours and you will see it on the day sister and this also is done without you noticing it as you do not know what is in a persons heart or what they think.

In reality the Hijab is a personnel obligation as well as a communal one.


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Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem

Jenni as your are not a scholar your opinion means nothing when it comes to what is haram and halal in islam, you are free to follow what you like just dont spread it to other people under the flag of islam, this is nothing but sexist bigotry.

The first generations of muslims endured more than a few stairs yet they kept to there faith and what allah commanded them to do.