Abdurraheem Green – Are you a bad Muslim if you dont wear hijab Q and A

			Okay, if you are a Muslim girl, you pray five times a day fast and so on. Are you then a bad Muslim?
If you don't wear the headscarf hijab, how important is the headscarf? Okay. That's a big question.
Okay.
		

			You know, sometimes a question like this is very difficult to answer.
		

			You know, because everyone has different circumstances, everyone has different, you know,
conditions. It's not always easy to answer a question like that, because I don't know this person's
particular circumstances, right. But you know what, there's a way I like you to think about this
brothers and sisters, you know, don't just think about how bad is the sin?
		

			Yeah, how bad is it that I don't wear hijab? No. Think about how great is the one who you are
disobey?
		

			That's what you need to think about. Don't think about how bad is the thing sin? Think about? How
great is the one you are disobey? You know, Allah is telling you to do something, because it is good
for you. You don't always know why that thing is good for you. But if Allah subhanaw taala ordered
you with that, then that's something because it's good. And in a sense, whenever we disobey Allah,
it's almost as if we are saying, you know, I don't really believe what you're saying, Allah. I don't
really agree with that. That in a sense, that's, I mean, I know it's because of our desires and our
weakness, and, you know, whatever. But in reality, think about the reasons why you don't wear hijab,
		

			or you don't do whatever it is you're supposed to do in Islam, even pray, how many people I wonder,
okay, they don't even pray in the office, or they don't pray work. And they wait, and they go back
home, and they think they can join all their prayers together at the end of the day, right? Why
don't they pray in the office? Really, most of the time, brothers and sisters, the reason you don't
pray, is because you haven't got the guts to do it, is what it is. It's not because oh, they won't
let me pray. Okay.
		

			They won't stop you going to the toilet, or they won't stop you doing this and that. The reality is,
have you got the guts to bring a pad prayer mat, right out next to your desk and just pray? What are
they going to do? Really? Okay, so a lot of these issues, brothers and sisters, really come down to
our Eman that we are sometimes more concerned with what people think, then what Allah subhanaw taala
wants us to do. So I think that, you know, I don't really want to go into how bad it is, and this
and that, whatever Allah told us to do, do as much as you can.
		

			Right? As much as you can, you know, you know, you stand in front of Allah in your hearts, whether
you have an excuse or not. I don't want on the other hand brothers and other sisters. You shouldn't
be judgmental. Right? You shouldn't be judgmental, and think, oh, this sister, she is no good. You
know, because she doesn't wear hijab, you don't know that. Okay, you don't know that. You don't know
what her circumstances are. Maybe she just needs the support and love and whatever. You don't know
what it is. Okay? So I'm not making you know something. But I would really encourage everyone to
obey Allah as much as you possibly can. You know, and whatever Allah has told you leave it well then
		

			leave it hamdulillah
		

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