Shady Alsuleiman – Muslim Women dress code
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The shaping of Islam during the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted men and women, including the use of " wa'rows" to describe individuals as striving towards happiness and contentment, the importance of shaping one's appearance to fit in the image of the person they are speaking to, the importance of shaping one's appearance to fit in the image of the person they are speaking to, and the importance of modesty in shyness and respectfulness in relationships with Allah. The sharia is not required to cover a woman until puberty, but it is recommended for women to wear when they reach the age of puberty. The sharia is about protecting and contributing to happiness, and it is a balance between men and women. The sharia is not required to cover a woman until puberty, but it is recommended for women to wear when they reach the age of puberty. The sharia is about protecting and contributing to happiness, and it is a balance between men and women.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen,
wa salatu wa salamu ala Sayyidina wa Habibina
Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een.
Rabb ishraq li sadri wa yasid li amri
wa ahlul akhdatan min lisani yufqa wa qawli
amma ba'd.
All praise is due to Allah subhana wa
ta'ala and peace be upon Muhammad allahu
alayhi wa salam.
I testify that there is no God except
Allah and I testify that Muhammad is the
Prophet and the Messenger of Allah.
My sisters in Islam, I greet you all
with the greetings of Islam and I say
to every single one of you, As-salamu
alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu and I ask
Allah subhana wa ta'ala, the One that
had gathered us here today to make us
from amongst those who get together for the
sake of Allah, to please Allah, to uphold
the Deen of Allah subhana wa ta'ala
and to defend the honour of the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in particular during
a time where you have some people under
the name of freedom of speech and expression
that want to come and dishonour the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam but you can't
dishonour someone that Allah subhana wa ta'ala
had honoured and Allah subhana wa ta'ala
had honoured the Prophet alayhi salatu wa salam
and the followers of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and Allah subhana wa ta
'ala had honoured you as a Muslim woman
with your hijab, with your modesty, with your
dress code and today's topic inshaAllah will be
about Muslim women dress code and what the
Shari'ah, what Islam had told us regarding
this matter and how can we implement and
uphold this in our lives.
Now obviously I'm saying this as a man
but I have a responsibility and you have
a responsibility and sometimes we do have common
responsibilities or not sometimes, most of the times
we have common responsibilities towards our deen and
common responsibilities towards our faith but from time
to time in different areas and domains our
responsibilities sometimes do differ given to the different
gender and different responsibility that Allah subhana wa
ta'ala had made upon a man and
had made upon a woman and one of
those responsibilities that we might differ in some
areas is that dress code.
That doesn't mean that a man doesn't have
a dress code.
Yes there's a dress code for the man
and there's a dress code for a woman,
there's a dress code for a Muslim man
and there's a dress code for a Muslim
woman but those dress codes might differ in
some areas in the salah, outside the salah
and inshaAllah this is one of the things
that we want to cover today and cover
inshaAllah briefly about the Muslim woman dress code
and why Allah subhana wa ta'ala had
commanded to wear and not to wear and
what Allah subhana wa ta'ala had made
mentioned.
Keep in mind that Allah subhana wa ta
'ala had created you as a human being,
Allah subhana wa ta'ala had created us
and Allah subhana wa ta'ala is the
one that made us exist and coexist on
the face of this earth and Allah subhana
wa ta'ala is the one that set
the rules and laws of this world And
the rules and the laws of this world
are the rules and the laws of Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala in which as human beings
as Muslims must abide by.
And when I say the laws of Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala Yes, I understand that there
are laws of the country and there are
laws of states and there are laws that
you have to follow And Sharia Alhamdulillah does
not clash or conflict with those laws.
On the contrary Alhamdulillah Islam and the Sharia
is there to contribute towards Every single land
and every single country including the country that
we live in here, Australia But we as
Muslims we have a faith to uphold and
we have a code of conduct That we
must abide by and that code of conduct
is what the Sharia had outlined What the
Quranic Kareem had made mentioned what the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had highlighted And
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala commands the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's wives To be modest
in their clothing and then Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala commands the female believers to be modest
in their actions Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says all the Prophet
and the Messenger of Allah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam say to your wives Say to
your daughters and say to the Muslim women
and female believers For them to lower their
garment which means cover their themselves and inshallah
we'll be talking about that in detail and
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala also says and Say
to the believing men for them to lower
their gaze and then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
says and say to the Believing women for
them to lower their gaze And then Allah
continues to say And for them not
to expose what Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Or
for them not to expose their zina and
the zina he means as the scholars had
mentioned their body for them Not to expose
their body to strangers and to the public
and obviously these sort of things that we'll
be talking about in details What does Islam
Mean from behind or imply when it comes
to these verses that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
has made mention But before we get in
the details of the clothing We need to
remind ourselves that the shariah came to perfect
you as a human being Islam came to
perfect you as a man and a woman
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Came to perfect you
as a human being living on the face
of this earth for you to live the
best and the most beautiful Happiest life so
Islam here Islam did not come to Deprive
you from living a beautiful life on the
contrary It's not wants you to live a
beautiful happy life for what Islam contributes to
Islam contributes to your happiness Islam contributes to
your happiness Islam contributes to your happiness whether
it's through your salah through your Siyam Through
your zakat through your attending these lessons through
going to the masjid through your hijab through
your garment through your modesty Islam is there
to contribute to your comfort To your happiness
to your contentment Islam is not here to
deprive you from happiness So don't look at
any of the orders of Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala as a deprivation Don't look at any
of the orders of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
as a form of unhappiness Don't look at
it as sadness and and Discomfort no no
no the sharia is not there to discomfort
you the sharia is not there to make
you unhappy the sharia Is not there to
make you Sad the sharia is there to
contribute towards your happiness and your comfort Even
though from the outside it might be perceived
It might be saying that this is uncomfortable
or this is sometimes boring or this is
sometimes Sad or this is sometimes Uncomfortable this
is what you see from the outside But
the reality is everything that Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala has ordained and everything that Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala has ordered is there to contribute
to your happiness Is there to contribute to
your comfort is there to contribute to your
contentment because that's one Objective that every single
human being on the face of this earth
is striving towards and the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam makes mention of that Kullu
nasiha do the better on Nafsa But more
people are more people are every single human
being is striving and every single human being
is working towards an objective Every human being
we're not talking about Muslims here We're talking
about Muslims and non-muslims people of faith
and people of their faith people that believe
In God and people that don't believe in
God The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is saying that every single human being is
striving towards Striving towards what?
Striving towards happiness.
That's what every single human being wants You
wake up you wake up in the morning
and every person had woken up today in
the morning and they've got one goal Objective
in their mind.
I want to be happy today And that's
where people start taking different paths and different
roads for them to acquire happiness People will
take the path of the haram and other
people will take the path of the halal
And you take the path that pleases Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala But at the end every
single person is striving towards one goal and
that goal is I want to be happy
at the end of the day I Want
to be happy at the end of the
day.
I want to be content at the end
of the day I want to be satisfied
at the end of the day.
I want to feel comfortable at the end
of the day That's why the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says كل الناس يغضوا
Every single human being is striving towards what
is striving towards happiness But there are not
some people sell themselves to Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala and Enslave themselves to Allah azza wa
jal other people will sell themselves to the
creation and enslave themselves to the creation And
when I say the creation some people enslave
themselves to the money other people enslave themselves
to mankind Other people enslave themselves to the
haram other people enslave themselves to the opposite
gender other people enslave themselves to this and
enslave themselves to that.
So the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is saying that every single person is striving
towards happiness.
Every single human being.
Today the 7 billion human beings that we
have on the face of this earth, every
single one of them is striving towards one
goal and that's happiness.
But unfortunately most people don't acquire that goal
at the end of the day.
Why?
Because a lot of those people do take
the wrong path in achieving that goal.
And the way that we can achieve that
goal is through the pleasure of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says man
amila saliha min lakin anaw umta wa mu'minun
fal yunhyayna hayatan tayyiba Whoever does a righteous
deed from a male believer or a female
believer will make them and grant them happiness.
You want happiness?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you
happiness through righteous action.
You want happiness?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you
happiness through Islam.
You want happiness?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you
happiness through the salah.
You want happiness?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you
through the Quran.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you
happiness through the worship of Allah azzawajal.
You want happiness?
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will also
give you happiness through your modest clothing, through
your modest clothing, through your hijab, through your
abaya, through your modest clothing.
That you do that solely for the sake
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and sincerely
for the sake of Allah azzawajal.
So my sisters in Islam, Islam is there
to contribute towards your happiness.
Islam is there to take you to happiness.
Islam wants you to be happy.
Islam wants you to be satisfied.
Islam wants you to be content.
And every single ritual and every single worship
that we worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and implement is there to contribute to your
happiness.
Even though from the outside it might be
looked at as boring or perceived as boring.
Praying five times a day, making standing towards
the Kaaba and you know taking away five
or ten minutes out of my valuable time.
You might look at it as boring.
Coming to the masjid you might look at
it as boring.
Going to a class of knowledge you might
look at it as boring.
Coming to the masjid, doing a lot of
other rituals, a lot of the times we
perceive it and I'm talking about as Muslims
here, a lot of the times we might
perceive it as boring.
But the reality is it's not boring.
It depends how you perceive it.
And how your heart is connected to it.
Wearing the hijab and having a long abaya
and having a long garment as Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, as the shari'ah commanded.
You might look at it as boring, outdated,
lagging behind.
But that's not the reality.
The shari'ah is there to contribute towards
your happiness.
The shari'ah is there to contribute towards
your satisfaction.
The shari'ah is there to contribute towards
your contentment.
And that also includes your modesty and your
clothing.
That's what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commands.
The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Ya
ayyuhan nabiyu, kulli azwajika wa banatika wa nisa
'il mu'mineena yudhina alayhina min jalabihi.
O Prophet of Allah, O the Prophet of
Allah, tell your wives, your daughters and the
female believers, for them to lower their garments,
for them to cover up.
wa la yudhina zinatahunna illa ma zahra minh.
And for them not to show their body
except what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala had
allowed.
And that's something that we'll be touching on
with Ibn Allahi ta'ala.
Another factor that will contribute towards your happiness
and success, my sister, in Islam is your
modesty.
As the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
had mentioned in the hadith, and many different
hadiths that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam speaks about, modesty, haya, where the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says haya, modesty
is part of imam.
It's part of your deen, part of your
faith.
When you are modest, try in doing something
wrong, saying something wrong, exposing where you should
not be exposing.
That's part of imam.
It's part of imam, it's part of faith.
When it's time for salah, when it's time
for salah, you've got ten people, you are
one of those people that gets up and
prays.
And others who are Muslims, their names could
be Fatima, Aisha, Khadija, Ahmed, Muhammad, Mahmood, they
didn't get up.
Ten Muslims are sitting down, you've got one
or two people get up for the salah,
and then the rest are not getting up
for salah.
What's the difference here?
The difference is, you've got imam, there's something
called imam, a spiritual uplifting, faith, conviction, that
ignited you to get up and pray, motivated
you to get up and pray.
So imam pushes you forward, imam helps you
to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, imam
encourages you to do the right action.
Alhamdulillah imam, as Prophet Muhammad ï·º says, shyness
is part of imam.
When you encounter something wrong and then you
walk away from it, what helped you to
walk away from something wrong, or what helped
you to stop yourself from doing something wrong,
or what helped you not to be wearing
something that the sharia doesn't want you to
be wearing, is imam.
That haya, that modesty.
Modesty helps you to please Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Modesty helps you to do what's right.
Modesty helps you to do the right thing.
That doesn't mean someone that's not wearing the
hijab doesn't have modesty.
No, no, no.
That doesn't mean that at all.
But what helps you to do right, what
helps you to move forward, what helps you
to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, is
modesty.
And that's why the Prophet Muhammad ï·º describes
modesty as part of your iman, as part
of your faith.
What makes you keep away from the haram,
while everyone else is doing it in the
open, is modesty, haya.
And that's why Nabi ï·º says, the moment
you lose modesty, go and do whatever you
want.
What makes people do whatever they want, whether
it's right or wrong, whether it's a taboo
or extremely a bad thing.
Then you see that in the open, how
many people do things that you look and
say, but you know, doesn't this person, isn't
this person embarrassed or shy?
Aren't they ashamed of themselves?
There's no embarrassment.
Yes, there's no embarrassment.
As the Prophet Muhammad ï·º said, if you
are not shy, and you don't have modesty,
and you don't have an embarrassment in your
life, then go and do whatever you want,
nothing will stop you from doing what you
want.
What's making people do whatever they want, even
if it's wrong, even if it's wrong in
society, even if it's unacceptable, even if it's
rejected, what's making people do that?
No modesty.
That's why Nabi ï·º says, if you are
not modest, you do whatever you want.
But when you have modesty, then you hold
yourself back.
You contain yourself, you control yourself.
And that's why Nabi ï·º considers modesty as
iman, part of iman, part of piety, part
of righteousness.
And when the Prophet Muhammad ï·º used to
see Sahaba ï·º, he used to be modest,
shy in their dealings, and Nabi ï·º used
to commend them.
But obviously there's a balance when it comes
to shyness here.
Like you shouldn't be shy in an area
where you shouldn't be shy in.
You shouldn't be, wallahi, embarrassed in an area.
I shouldn't be embarrassed in my deen, for
example, or shy to say I'm a Muslim,
or look like a Muslim.
This is the unfortunate thing that some people
are becoming even embarrassed in areas that they
shouldn't be embarrassed in.
This is not an area of shyness.
This is not an area of embarrassment.
There are areas where you need to take
pride in.
You need to have a strong stance.
But there are areas also where you need
to be shy and modest.
That's why Nabi ï·º describes shyness and modesty
as part of iman, part of faith, part
of taqwa, part of getting closer to Allah
ï·» because what's going to help you to
keep away from the haram is your modesty.
What's going to entice you to commit the
haram is now modesty.
What's going to motivate you to keep away
from the haram is modesty.
What's going to keep you away from the
haram is your shyness.
What's going to encourage you to commit the
haram is no shyness or modesty.
And that's why modesty plays a huge role
and a big part in your life as
a believer.
Modesty, haya, plays a huge role in your
life as a believer.
It plays a big part in your life
as a believer.
And it plays a big part in your
relationship with Allah ï·».
You need to be modest, of course, when
it comes to Allah ï·».
You need to be shy of Allah ï·».
And Allah ï·» even speaks to the Prophet
Muhammad ï·º.
Don't be shy from the creation of Allah
before you are shy from Allah ï·».
As Allah ï·» makes mention in the Qur
'an and Kareem.
Allah has more rights over you that you
are shy from Allah ï·» more than anyone
else.
You are embarrassed from Allah ï·» more than
anyone else.
Because sometimes we are embarrassed from the creation
of Allah.
We are shy from the human beings.
I'm embarrassed, I'm shy, and I've got modesty
in front of this person or that person,
which is a good thing.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
But at the same time, I should also
be shy from Allah ï·».
If I'm embarrassed to do something wrong in
front of the creation of Allah, then I
should be more embarrassed in committing or doing
something wrong in front of Allah ï·».
How many times we stop ourselves in committing
the haram or committing something wrong because people
are watching us.
But then when it comes between us and
Allah ï·», and we know that Allah ï·»
is watching us, we commit it.
And that's why Allah ï·» says, Allah has
more rights over you for you to be
embarrassed from Him than the rest of the
creation of Allah ï·».
You are shy from him and her, you
should be shy from Allah ï·».
You are embarrassed from him and her, you
should be embarrassed from Allah ï·».
So shyness and modesty is a good trait,
it's a good quality that the Prophet Muhammad
ï·º had commended and the Prophet Muhammad ï·º
had encouraged for us to increase our shyness.
And to the extent that once the Prophet
Muhammad ï·º was sitting in his house and
Aisha was there, she was observant.
And the Prophet Muhammad ï·º had a number
of guests walking in and he had part
of his thigh uncovered.
Abu Bakr walked in and the Prophet Muhammad
ï·º did not cover it.
Umar ibn Khattab walked in and the Prophet
Muhammad ï·º didn't cover it.
When Uthman ibn Affab, he's the son-in
-law of the Prophet Muhammad ï·º and got
married to two daughters of the Prophet ï·º
in two separate times, when he walked in
the Prophet Muhammad ï·º covered his thigh.
So Aisha says, I'm a messenger of Allah,
I was watchful and observant of what just
happened.
Abu Bakr walked in, he did not cover
his thigh.
Umar walked in, he did not cover his
thigh.
When Uthman walked in, he covered his thigh.
So the Prophet Muhammad ï·º says, shouldn't I
be shy of someone in which the angels
are shy from?
That's Uthman ibn Affab.
A modest man, but he was brave at
the same time.
A modest man, but he was courageous at
the same time.
And the Prophet Muhammad ï·º was very modest
too.
The Prophet ï·º was described as one of
the most modest and respectful people you could
ever come across.
That's Muhammad ï·º.
So modesty is part of my faith.
When modesty starts to decline, decrease or diminish,
then you pave your way to start committing
what's wrong.
You start committing the haram, you start paving
the way for the haram.
That's why I need to preserve my modesty.
For that, for that, the Islamic dress code
for both men and women contributes towards enhancing
your modesty.
I'm going to repeat this.
The Islamic dress code contributes towards strengthening, enhancing,
empowering your modesty.
Because when you strengthen the engine called modesty,
then you strengthen your relationship with Allah subhana
wa ta'ala and the rest of the
actions become stronger.
When your engine, when your engine or the
power of modesty is awake, then that will
pave the way for you to start committing
the wrong things and do the wrong things.
That's why the sharia emphasizes a lot on
modesty.
Be modest.
Be respectful.
And modesty and respectfulness to yourself, to your
family, to the people around you, to every
person.
That's what Islam talks about.
And that's why modesty contributes to your relationship
with Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
And your dress code contributes to your modesty.
Your dress code contributes to your modesty.
So the dress code is not that, okay,
you have to be wearing this because Allah
subhana wa ta'ala wants you to be
wearing this.
Just that's it.
Or you have to be covering because Allah
subhana wa ta'ala just wants you to
do that.
Yes, we adhere to Allah subhana wa ta
'ala's command whether we understand it or not.
We're still gonna adhere to Allah subhana wa
ta'ala's command and we're still gonna surrender
to Allah subhana wa ta'ala's orders.
But at the end of the day, Allah
subhana wa ta'ala had commanded, Allah subhana
wa ta'ala had commanded and Allah azza
wa jalla had ordered commands and ordained orders
upon us for the best interest of us
as human beings.
And your dress code will contribute towards your
modesty because when you are modest in your
dress code, then your modesty becomes stronger and
then your modesty becomes stronger in your iman
and faith.
For that Allah subhana wa ta'ala mentioned
that in the Quran Allah subhana wa ta
'ala has set boundaries.
Allah had set boundaries.
These are the boundaries that you need to
live by.
These are the boundaries that you need to
surround yourself.
Do not transgress or surpass those boundaries because
the moment you do, you start breaking down
your modesty and then you start having the
way for you to disobey Allah subhana wa
ta'ala.
And the Prophet Muhammad ï·º describes these boundaries
like a fence of your farm.
Imagine you've got a herd of sheep and
you've got a fence.
The fence that you've got on your farm
stops the herd, stops the sheep from going
to the next door neighbor's land.
If there's no fence, has this sheep you
know, know that this is the boundary.
And Nabi ï·º gives that analogy or gives
that parable of preserving Allah's command in your
life by having that boundary that you prevent
your herd from going to your neighbor's next
door or your next door neighbor's farm.
But if there's no fence, then everything is
open.
You need to start building up those barriers
that prevent you from disobeying Allah subhana wa
ta'ala, that blocks the haram away from
your life.
And one of those barriers, one of those
fences is your garment, your dress code.
And when I say that, yes, I know
that Islamically the dress code of a woman
is more stricter.
It's stricter than a man.
It's understandable.
I know where you're coming from.
But this is part of the fence that
Allah subhana wa ta'ala wants to preserve
you.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala wants to safeguard
you.
Allah wants to safeguard me as a man.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala wants to safeguard
you as a woman.
And Allah subhana wa ta'ala wants to
safeguard us as a society.
And it comes down to modest clothing.
Modest clothing which men and women have in
common.
Men and women have in common.
And the modest clothing that men and women
have in common is that both men and
women must be covered and cover their awrah.
Cover their awrah.
And we all know the word awrah, which
is what Islam constitutes to be the Islamic
definition and understanding of a private heart.
I know when we say that, and I'm
sorry to say it, we're understanding in a
general connotation.
But Islamically the word awrah is different to
our general understanding.
The awrah of a man is from the
belly button to the knees.
The awrah of a woman in front of
strangers is all of her except the face
and the hands up to the wrist.
The awrah of a man in front of
strangers is from the belly button, from the
navel to the knees.
The awrah of a woman in front of
strangers is all of her except the face
and the hands up to the wrist.
When the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
saw Isma' and the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam wasn't too happy with the material
of clothing that she was wearing, so the
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told her,
O Isma' that moment that a woman reaches
the age of puberty, she must be covered
except, and then the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam would point at his face, except
the face and the hands up to the
wrist.
So the awrah of a woman is all
of her, when we say awrah of a
woman in front of strangers.
And when we say strangers specifically in front
of men that she can get married to,
that we call them non-mahram men.
Non-mahram men, which does not include her
husband.
In front of women is different, her awrah
becomes less strict, women in front of women.
But that's not the primary topic that we'll
be talking about today, we'll be talking about
headdress coat.
So awrah of a woman as the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, all of
her except the face and the hands up
to the wrist.
Maybe some will ask, okay what about the
niqab?
Yes, the niqab means covering the face, the
veil, which is part of the deen.
But it's a debatable topic amongst the scholars,
is it hafidh or is it sunnah?
You have to be covering your face or
you don't have to be covering your face.
I believe that the majority of the scholars
say it's sunnah to cover the face, which
means it's not obligatory to cover it, it's
recommended that you cover it.
If you don't cover it, you're not sinful,
you're not a sinner.
However, covering the head for example, it's fard
and there's no doubt, there's no debate on
that one.
It is fard for a Muslim woman once
she reaches the age of puberty and obviously
the sharia encourages before she even reaches the
age of puberty for her to be trained
on wearing the hijab.
So once she reaches the age of puberty,
she must be covering the head.
And there's no debate on this one.
Niqab, yes, there is a debate on the
niqab, whether it's fard or sunnah.
It's part of the deen, but is it
fard or is it sunnah?
But when it comes to hijab, there's no
debate here.
There's no debate.
And unfortunately in this day and age, and
in particular in the last few years, you've
got Muslims who are trying to ignore that
debate.
Ignore the debate, not on the niqab.
Niqab we understand it's debatable, whether it's fard
or sunnah.
But now you've got the debate on the
hijab, is it fard or sunnah?
No, no, no, there's no debate when it
comes to the hijab.
There's no debate.
The sharia is very explicit and clear over
the hijab.
The hijab which is covering the head, not
covering the face, as I mentioned, that's debatable
and understandable.
But covering the head is no debate.
The sharia made it very clear that a
Muslim woman must cover her head, which what
we call as the hijab.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
makes that very clear also in the Qur
'an al-Kareem.
Let them cover their headscarf and cover their
necks.
It's very clear in the Qur'an al
-Kareem and it's very clear through the hadith
of the Prophet Muhammad ï·º.
And none of the scholars in the past
have ever debated the topic of the hijab,
whether it's fard or sunnah.
It's always been fard.
Now you are wearing it or not, that's
a different topic.
But you believe it's fard, you are wearing
it, you get rewards.
You believe it's fard, you're not wearing it,
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la insha
'Allah will give you the ability for you
to wear it.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will
give you the ability.
But to deny it is an issue.
To deny that wearing the hijab is fard,
no, it's a major issue.
So going back to the point that we
were talking about, that both men and women
have something in common when it comes to
their dress code.
Both must be wearing modest clothing that covers
their awrah, that's one.
Both must be wearing garments that do not
expose the body parts.
And I'm sorry to be explicit, you can't
be wearing something tight, and this also applies
for men.
You can't be wearing, wallahi some of our
brothers and sisters are wearing jeans that you
can see the figure of their thighs or
you can see the figure of their legs.
You have to be wearing baggy clothes, loose
clothes that does not make or show the
body of a man or a woman.
Both men and women must be wearing clothes
which are non-transparent, non-see-through.
You can't be wearing insha'Allah abaya and
you can see the skin.
And this applies for both men and women.
So the clothes and the type of clothes
that we are wearing, it must be modest,
covering the awrah, it must be loose, not
tight, and it must be non-transparent that
you can't see through the garment, the color
of the skin, or you can see the
feature of the skin.
These are common things that both men and
women share.
Now as I mentioned, when it comes to
covering the awrah, the awrah of a man
is different to the awrah of a woman
from strangers.
When it comes to our sisters, when it
comes to a Muslim woman, her awrah is
all of her except the face and the
hands of the person.
Which means that her dress code must be
covering from top to bottom, except the face
and the hands.
Now how she covers that, as long as
she covers that with a garment that's non
-tight, which means it's loose, non-transparent, which
means you can't see through it, and respectable,
modest garment.
What you wear, it's up to you.
There's no specific colors.
We don't have this thing in the shariah,
a woman must be wearing black, or when
they go to be wearing white, or in
Sydney they have to have, you know, dark
color from the top and light color from
the bottom.
It's up to you what you wear.
There's no specification in the shariah what color
garment you're wearing, as long as it's modest,
it's loose, it's non-transparent, and it's respectful.
When I say modest and respectful, you could
be wearing abaya from top to bottom, but
the abaya has got so many colors and
so much confusion in it, that when sister
walks, the entire world's just watching.
Yes, we're human beings, and Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala wants you to look good, it
doesn't mean you don't look good, you have
to be very, no it's up to you.
But there's a balance, there's always a balance,
and this applies for both men and women.
There's got to be a balance, you can't
get too dressy with the colors we apply
to the extent that it becomes too, too
noticeable, that you force everyone to look.
No, no, you have to always strike a
balance, and subhanallah, balance not only in clothing,
everything that we do in life subhanallah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala even says when
you spend, don't be too much in your
spending, strike a balance.
Everything comes into balance, and you know what
the sharia also refers to balance?
Modesty.
Modesty, the sharia refers to modesty as balance.
Balance in your dealings, balance in your expenditure,
in your spending, balance in your interaction, balance
in your clothing, even to the extent the
sharia even wants you to have balance in
your ibadah, that's that way for the entire
night reading the quran and praying to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, that's not a balance.
Or fast every single day, we're talking about
this ibadah, that's not a balance.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants moderation, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala wants balance.
Balance in everything that you do, in your
salah, in your siyam, in your zakah, in
your wealth, in spending your wealth, in your
manners, in your morals, in your clothing, just
have to strike balance.
And the nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says
wherever you find moderation and balance in anything
will be successful, will be good, beneficial.
You need to strike balance, have a balanced
way of life and everything that you do
in life, that also includes your clothing.
So in a general sense the sharia commands
a muslim woman to be covered from top
to bottom, except the face and the hands
up to the wrist, given that it's covering
the awrah, and that's what we spoke about,
it's non-tight, so it's loose, it's non
-transparent, which means you can't see what's behind
the garment, and it's modest, it's balanced, it's
respectful, it's something that not too excessive to
the extent that, as I mentioned, too attractive
to the extent that it forces people to
look and gaze and focus too much on
who's walking and who's coming.
We need to have a modest society where
people respect, she walks and people respect that
there's a woman walking.
He walks and people also respect him but
he's walking.
There's got to be that respect between everyone,
between men, women, and everyone.
That's what the sharia is about, making sure
that there's a society where people have modesty
and respect amongst each other in every single
interaction.
Islam is not saying we want this woman
to be in a box or to be
locked up at home.
No, no, no.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving you
freedom.
Allah has given my freedom and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala wants you to be happy.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants me to
be happy, but there's got to be a
balance.
There's got to be a balance, and the
Islamic dress code is part of that balance
in life.
Part of that balance in life is for
you to be respectfully modest in your garment,
in your clothing, in a way that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is pleased from.
And I know, subhanAllah, I'm saying that as
a man and I know it's a lot
more difficult and challenging for our sisters to
be wearing the hijab as opposed to a
man.
I'm not wearing the hijab, I could be
wearing like everyone else and I blend with
everyone else.
Yes, I know it's more challenging for you,
but because it's more challenging for you, it
means it's more rewarding for you too.
Because it's more challenging for you, it means
it's more rewarding for you, and that's why
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made it very
clear in the Quran al-Kareem, inna akramakum
inda Allahi afqakum.
The most honorable one to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is the one that pleases Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala most.
Not because you're a man or a woman,
or because you have black or white, or
because you're an Arab or non-Arab.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has set the
record straight from the very beginning that the
most honorable one to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala is the one that pleases Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala most.
So you could be a woman and you
are the most honorable one to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala more than any other man.
You could be from any background, you could
be white or black, you could be Asian
or African, you could be poor, you could
be whoever it is.
What's going to get you closer to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is your piety, righteousness,
and modesty.
And that's why the sharia came again to
contribute towards your happiness.
And I say it one more time, my
sister in Islam, the hijab, the garment that
you are wearing, that sometimes makes you look
different than everyone else, it's there to contribute
to your happiness.
It's there to contribute to your safety.
It's there to contribute to your contentment.
It's there to contribute to your comfort.
Even though from the outside it might be
perceived as uncomfortable, unsafe, not the content in
wearing it, but at the end of the
day Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has ordered
you to do that because Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala knows what best for you.
Like exactly when you saw your son sometimes
or your daughter, this is what's best for
you.
Going to school is best for you.
Every single one of us growing up, every
single one of us had one wish when
we were growing up.
I can't wait for that moment that my
parents take me out of school.
I'm going to drop out.
We think that's best for us.
Going to school, I still remember when my
mum told me go to school, I wish
I could be young and go to school.
I used to say what's going on with
that.
Now I'm saying the same thing to my
kids.
A lot of things when you're young, your
parents might tell you to do something, or
not to do something, you turn around and
say, why are they depriving me from something
that I want to do?
But then later on you realise what's best
for you.
Sometimes in life we do things or we
might see things or we look into Islam
or understand Islam in a way that, you
know, why is Islam imposing this on me?
I feel uncomfortable with it, but the reality
is that's where your comfort is.
I'm unhappy with it, but the reality is
that's where your happiness is.
I'm discontent with it, but the reality is
that's where your contentment is.
I feel uncomfortable with it, but the reality
is that's where your comfort is.
So the Sharia came to contribute towards your
happiness, comfort, contentment, and safety.
And part of that is your modest clothing.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, when he
descended Adam and Hawa to earth, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says, And Allah commanded them
to cover up.
And one of the things that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, and the famous story in
the Qur'an al-Kareem that when Adam
and Hawa came from the tree, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala punished them.
What was the punishment?
Allah exposed their awrah.
Allah exposed their awrah.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the Qur'an al-Kareem, Adam and Hawa
start to grip the leaves of the tree
and cover their awrah.
Which means what?
That's how Allah created you, to be modest
from the very beginning.
For you not to expose your awrah.
Unfortunately we live in a day and age
where some people, some people boast about exposing
their awrah.
And they want to normalise this.
But the reality is, what's normal is what
Adam and Hawa had started off.
It's for you to be covered, not to
be uncovered.
We live in a day and age which
is very challenging.
What we see, or what we believe is
wrong, is trying to become, or it's being
pushed to be normal.
Normalising what's not normal.
Normalising what we believe is haram.
Normalising what we believe is unacceptable.
And subhanAllah what's acceptable is becoming abnormal.
What's unacceptable is becoming the normal.
And the Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam
speaks of this 1400 years ago, in which
alayhi salatu wa salam makes mention, that there
will come a time where the honest will
be dishonest, and the dishonest will be honest.
Truth will be falsehood.
Falsehood will be truth.
And people will be confused.
What's the norm here?
And subhanAllah we could see that.
People are becoming, what's the norm?
What's the norm?
Is the norm to be modest covered or
uncovered?
What's the norm?
Hijab or not hijab?
What's the norm?
Is this right or this wrong?
People are becoming confused.
People are becoming confused in their sexuality.
People these days are confused.
People are becoming confused in their clothing.
People are becoming confused in their customs, in
their dealings, in their interactions.
But at the end of the day, alhamdulillah,
we have something called Islam for us to
resort to.
In which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has
already said, and highlighted what's right and wrong.
What's normal and what's not normal.
Even if society is pushing for something to
be normal when it's not normal, other than
shariah, the total is haram.
It's not acceptable.
And that's why alhamdulillah we proud ourselves to
be Muslim.
And you should be proud that you are
a Muslim, alhamdulillah.
And you should take pride in being a
Muslim that practices their religion.
In your hijab, in your garment, in covering
up for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
In your modesty.
Even if society or other people might look
at you in a way and say, oh
that's not normal.
Well at the end of the day if
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is pleased from
me, I'm 100% comfortable to say that
it's normal.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not going
to be pleased from something that's not normal.
And therefore my sisters in Islam, alhamdulillah we
thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for Islam,
practicing Islam, following Islam, and act upon Islam.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala safeguard us
all, protect us, and make us one among
His servants.
We listen to Him, act upon what we
listen to Him.
Subhanakallahul muhammadin wa shahadu an la ilaha illa
Allah wa astaghfirullah wa atubu ilayk.
I'm supposed to be saying it.
Okay.
Now we're away from life.