Taleem al Quran 2012 – P22 224C Tafsir Al-Ahzab 59

Now regardless of what opinion a person follows, what understanding they follow that you Dineen, rla hindlimb and July BB when it shows that they must wear the jilbab or that they must take a portion of the jilbab and cover the face with it. Regardless of which opinion a woman follows, what is clear is that the barrage is not allowed. All right? The Baldrige what is the Baldrige we learned earlier about it, while at the Virgina, the Barbuda helliya Talulah. Do not do tuber Raj. Like that the Baldrige of the earlier times. And what is the Baldrige display displaying adornment. So even if a woman argues that okay, covering the face is not wajib, I respect your opinion, that's fine. It's

acceptable, it has a place in our religion, but at the same time, this does not mean that we can do the rich. Right? That for example, we cover our faces with makeup, and we wear our jewelry and everything and wear extremely fancy hijab, that the hijab doesn't become concealing, rather it becomes attractive. Right? Because when it comes to the barrage, this is something that's clearly forbidden in the Quran, Allah has clearly forbidden it. And in Hadith also, we don't know Hadith and Muslim Dharma that wants a companion that would have been asked for the law and who wants he was traveling. And with him were a group of people, all right, and as they were traveling, all of a

sudden, had been asked to deliver and who he changed his route. Right? He changed his path. And when they look this out, there was a woman sitting on her camel. And they were wondering what happened over here. So I'm not going to ask for the lower and when he explained that something similar happened when he was with the Prophet salallahu Salam once that they were going and the Prophet sallallahu Sallam changed his path. And he said at that time, that over there, there was a flock of birds. All right, and there was one bird amongst them. That was very different

curls, and amongst them was a bird that was all white, with red feet and a red beak.

Very rare. All right, unique, alone, different. And you don't generally see this kind of a bird. All right. So the prophets Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam said that in Jannah,

only such women will enter such meaning those who are very few. Because the majority of women, they fall into what into the Bhardwaj. They fall into displaying their adornments and the narrator, he said that I saw that on the camel was a woman, and on her hands were a lot of rings and a lot of Xena. And she had you know, both her hands were basically out of the whole edge. All right. So basically, she was doing coverage. So the Prophet sallallahu wasallam gave a clear warning over here, that majority of the women, what happens to them, they fall into the trap of the beverage. Right. And those who don't do the beverage are as rare as that all white bird with a red beak and

red feet.

This is how rare they are. And this is what I say that, you know, for example, even when it comes to women who were in a club, it's as if they are you know, an endangered species literally endangered species. This is what's happening. So few, you know, call me conservative or extremist or whatnot. Say whatever you want, or think whatever you want. But if this isn't the Quran, I can't ignore it. I spent so much time reading different opinions on this, but I can't help but ignore this I have the Quran. Can you?

Seriously if this is in the Quran, can we ignore it?

You know, it's one thing to understand that I can't do it, given the situation that I'm in. And I am careful about the railroad. Right? I am careful about you know, my interaction with men. Beautiful. Excellent. But it's another thing to you know, say that no, this is not a part of our religion. It is a part of our religion. It's not a bad thing. It's not something that should be looked down upon. It's something that we should strive towards, ask Allah to help us. And yes, it's a very, very difficult decision. I remember the first time I put it on, I told you the story, right. I was scared, which is why the moment I could take it home, I took it off. And then later on eventually

when I decided when I studied these verses, and I decided to put it on, I was scared. I was scared of stepping out of the house. And I wasn't living in Canada at that time. I was living in Pakistan where everybody is supposed to be Muslim. It's supposed to be easy, but it wasn't easy. But Allah subhanaw taala does make it easy for you. I should show you my my university card my wildcard I went to University of Waterloo

When I got my card made, you know, you have to take your picture, right? So I went to get my picture taken and get my card made. And I was wearing mine a club and the lady. I was like, Okay, should I take it off? She's like, No, no, you can keep it on if you want. I'm like, seriously, that's supposed to be an ID. But she said, You can you can keep it on. So I kept it on and she took my picture and my card actually has my picture with the niqab. It's expired. It's extremely old, but I have kept it. I have kept it, you know, to remind myself

that it's NOT Impossible.

it's NOT Impossible. It's difficult. You have to fight yourself every day. But it's not impossible. There will be times when it's extremely difficult, and there will be times when it's easy.

But

the intention has to be right for the sake of Allah subhanahu incarna. Right. Let's look at the IR again. Yeah, are you gonna be you only as well jika webinar tikka, one isa il MOOC, meaning, all Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you tell your wives, you tell your daughters, you tell the women of the believers that you Dineen RLA henna, Minh, JELA Bebe, when they should take their jilbab a portion of it and cover what is still exposed, or they should wear their jewel Bab and ensure that it is covering their body, their Lika that is a dinner, it is closer a year off now that they will be recognized as who as dignified women, as women who are modest as women who are not free

for essential consumption and as a result follow you then they will not be annoyed. Notice over here, it has said valleca Adena

when they will observe a job like this, it is more likely that they will be protected. Notice, protection is not guaranteed over here. Because this is what people say that if you're wearing niqab or hijab or jilbab it's possible that you still get harassed. And you do because there are people who will find any reason to harass a woman. Right? So then you can edit that and you're off nephila, useme. Right, we have to do our part of protecting ourselves. What can Allah hula for Rahima And Allah is Ever forgiving, and merciful. Alright.

Any question?

Any confusion? Go ahead.

Okay, good question. That in the case where a woman is being harassed because of her hijab, wouldn't it be better to take it off her hijab or niqab if she's being harassed because of it? I mean, yes, in the sense that you could argue that if niqab is not mandatory than in a case where you are being harassed because of it, then take the niqab off, right. Okay. But remember, if someone's harassing you, because of your hijab, they have a problem with your Islam.

Really, they do? What are you going to do then? What length are we going to go to in order to please other people, we have to take a stand somewhere, we have to be bold somewhere. Right? So the only objective, remember the only objective of hijab of niqab of whatever is not for you, then it's not the only objective, it's more than just that. It's also you know, a guard for yourself. It's a reminder to yourself, I have to be careful, I am representing my religion, right? If I am covering my body, I must also be careful about my thoughts. I must also be careful about my speech, right? It's a reminder to yourself so there are many objectives of the hijab, the only objective is not

just for Allah using. All right, go ahead.

What's the difference between a jilbab and a female, female is headscarf alright, and jilbab is the clock that is worn on top of your clothes, all right, in order to cover your clothes in order to cover your finger. Now, like I mentioned earlier, ideally, it would be that a portion of the jilbab is taken to cover completely meaning jilbab should be worn on top of the femur. But for the sake of convenience, if jilbab is separated and came out is separated and the objective is achieved which objective of covering of concealing than that is perfectly fine. Yes.

An Obeah yes could be jilbab but remember, proper would be not like tight fitted sleeves and so faded that it's more like a dress. You understand? Go ahead.

Just two things I would like to add on like most women, they are scared that it's happening. So what's happening now

They are in the government level. So it's hard to take it on. So I just want to give two examples. One is like when you're crossing the border, and if you're wearing niqab, you can ask them to call a female inspector to check your ID if they force us to drop your niqab. And no matter how big the line is, how long you have been waiting, and how long people behind you're waiting, they do arrange a lady to come and check your ID. So like, they don't say, No, you don't have to, like it's non mandatory or something. And also, most of you must have heard about that, ruling that whenever you have to go for your citizenship, or you have to get in a car, that ruling is also got cancelled out.

People took this case up to the High Court and High Court did give the decision in favor of Muslims. So even at higher level, there is no problem at all. It's just our own decision. Yeah. And the thing is that even if a woman does not wear niqab, she must still respect it, and accept it as part of the religion and fight for it, defending it. Why? Because defending the niqab is defending the hijab is defending your right to pray and defending your right to observe your religion, because this is also a part of our religion today, it's the niqab tomorrow, it will be something else. And I would appreciate if you would also explain about the colors and

the colors. Many of us think that black is like the best. All right, and perhaps this understanding has been derived from some a hadith that describe when the Sahaba would leave the Masjid. Right. Like, for example, the word curls was mentioned. All right. And that is and there are some other Hadees also that showed that they looked really dark as if giving a sense that they were wearing all black. But the objective of those hadith is to show that when the Sahaba left the masjid after slatted budget, it was still so dark that you couldn't tell the color of their jilbab. All right. In a hadith we learned, for example, a woman who came wearing a green jilbab, a green shawl, the word

green is mentioned. All right. So it doesn't mean that black is a holy color and black is something that must be worn. No. What's the objective? It should not be

attractive in and of itself. All right. And personally, personally, if you were to ask me, I actually discourage black. Because when I was coming to Canada for the first time ever, I always wore black niqab. Okay. And my mother said, change that. You don't need to frighten people for no reason.

This is what she told me. She didn't say take it off.

She said, change it. Wear a lighter color wear a different color. Right? Because, you know, it happens the other day, I was somewhere and I was wearing dark blue. And somebody saw me and they got scared Muslim, okay. And I'm like, wow, this is a Muslim. They got scared because of navy blue.

Imagine what happens to people who don't even see a hijab, you know, in daily life. So we have to be considered of that. Right? I mean, if it was that, yes, black is legislated, then we stick to black, we stick to it. Right? And we will be firm upon it. Even if the haters hate and whatever, we will stick to it. But if Black is not legislated, then why should we make it difficult?

Exactly. So no harm in wearing color is 100. Allah, you've studied the ayat in Surah to noon, and you know, what is Xena and what is not? Right.

So Right.

When I first like thought about the whole idea of Nepal, I thought it's gonna be an awesome way of representing Assam, also interests based on the idea that a las pantallas site, it's going to be a way of protecting

Muslim Muslim woman as well. So then when I when I put it on my, my intention objective was I'm going to be representing assignment. This is something that this hobby asked us to do. But then what I didn't realize is that, like you said, Bob has so many other objectives that it accomplishes without you even realizing, because you start and it always reminds me of the parable where Allah subhana wa says, prescribed on you as fasting so that you may attain righteousness sisters who start wearing the hijab might realize this as well. But when you start wearing the book, now you're representing Islam now, like there's so many things that stop you stop yourself from doing because

you were and not only stop yourself, but it's also very introspective. You start thinking about your thoughts, you start thinking about so many other things and I never knew that

Simply covering your face of the cloth could even accomplish that much so many goals, it could bring you so many benefits. I remember when I started wearing it, I went back to school, I was extremely careful, careful, like I never was before seriously about what I said. And I also felt that expectations also changed. You know, for example, my teachers always expected more from me, because I am a very good girl, you know, because I cover myself, you understand, I don't think it's fair, that just because a woman covered more should be expected out of her. But it kind of pushed me to work harder, it kind of pushed me to be even better. Because, you know, especially being careful

about my speech, because nobody can see your smile, nobody can see the expressions of your face, all they can hear is your words and the tone in which you speak. Right? So you know, it kind of forced me to talk more because I'm generally a very quiet person. When it comes to social gatherings here I talk a lot. But if ever you sit with me at a dinner table, I'll probably the person who speaks the least. But it kind of forced me to, to speak, to get out of my comfort zone to get out of my shell, and to communicate my thoughts to express what I think also, to really get involved. Go ahead. I just wanted to remind everyone when the man was in stone age, he was naked, he learned to make the

clothes and adorn themselves now, the civilized man, they want to go back to the Stone Age and get naked, slowly. But alhamdulillah when Allah created Adam, Rene Sana, Allah did dress him with the clothing of Jana, and in the world, also he made clothes. But this is, you know, something that we we do need to think about that. It's not being very progressive to take your clothes off. Right? It's actually regressive. Yes. I just wanted to think that the point of view two, and two, mashallah, everybody's wearing hijab here, and people do interact in the same group. And many times, we don't realize that.

I mean, I'm not trying to judge anybody, but just because we dress up certain way, we don't realize it, sometimes. Sometimes people who are wearing makeup or a bias, without knowing they kind of put themselves in an exclusive group. And many times other people who might be Muslims or non Muslims, they feel that they are not welcome to be part of that group. Sometimes the body language comes that way, I'm sure without even realizing it, that the other people get the idea that you're unapproachable, even for the regular conversation. And I mean, I personally have felt in different settings. While I'm almost living my this is something very natural, you generally stick to people

who are like you, right? It's something natural, who are similar to you who are dressed in the same way or who do some things that you do. It's very natural. But yes, you are right, that, you know, it's an added responsibility that we should try even harder to be more approachable, to engage even more with people to be extra nice, right? Because now, you know, it's not that only our words are calling people. It's also our clothing. So there is no way we can hide Islam. And I think I even shared that incident once and my mother used to wear a burqa, and a lot of and I came from Pakistan, that's where I grew up. But there was a gathering in our own school, I was a teacher there. And I

was even wearing Pakistani outfit. And the boys in MSA were so much selective, that they were able to get the whole group of Gujarati women there. And it was a messy and we never had that many Muslim women in one place. And school even organized that to keep men and women separate. The boys were part of it, when we shall arrange the whole thing. And one of their mother was the one who did the cooking. And I was one of the teacher and there were a couple of other teachers but I found it so interesting, that even I found it difficult. I was wearing a baton my head that I didn't know how to go and who to talk to like they were all women. None of them approach any teachers just to say hello

or hi. And I even found it difficult and at the boy who I admire a lot that mashallah he did all that he was so reluctant even to introduce his mother to the female teachers. I think this is also cultural. Because in certain cultures, you know, if you don't know somebody, you don't even look at them, but have hunted Allah living in the West, even a random passerby, you can talk to him about the weather. You can talk to him about the snow that's falling in New York. You know, you can talk to them about any random thing, even a person that you meet in the elevator Alhamdulillah Allah, but this is a good reminder that we have to be you know, more careful because of what we wear.

Because we cannot hide our

Islam, you know, if Allah wanted, he would not have given this command, he gave this command knowing that Islam would become very visible. And because of that reason, we have to be extra careful. Right? Yes.

Salaam Alaikum. Thank you so much for discussing this a bit more at length, I just wanted to address the sister who's talking about being harassed with hijab, which is actually a real issue, even, especially for sisters who made the decision or Hamdulillah 20. Cap, I just want to point on this for me as a martial arts background. I've been doing martial arts for a long time Alhamdulillah I did it before I was a Muslim. So I can see how that would happen if I was a Muslim initially Alhamdulillah. But what I can say is sisters, and you mentioned it was that and I think it's so important sisters, you really need to take a self defense class. And I'm not saying necessarily

because you will have to fight somebody. And subhanAllah I'll just be really frank, I've done martial arts for many years, over a decade, I have never been physically in a confrontation. And I think I'll tell you why. Martial Art teaches you how to walk Subhanallah it's not about arrogance and pride. It's about self awareness, such that you are actually aware of what is happening around you, and who is around you. And in that you can actually avoid a lot of confrontation. And it's about the physicality of somebody, a person who will physically attack you manifests in many ways. And I don't know whether you realize that sisters, they will have a certain body language. And in

that, in fact, the first thing we were taught in martial arts is to run Subhanallah we were taught how to run, and the martial arts instructor told us, the first thing you do is run, you only fight when it is your life is in danger. Because you have no awareness of what that person has. They could have a gun, they could have a knife, and they said, I can teach you all the fancy kicks in the world. But there's no kick that can fight a gun. So Subhan Allah Get away, get away. So the lesson here is you need martial arts, not just to fight somebody, but to be aware of your environment in sha Allah. And please don't put your hijab down, because at the end of sister said, what will happen

is the next thing is remove everything else. So Pantalon hunting

over there. I just had a quick question. So some people say that, you know, if you're lacking in other parts of your, you know, Islam or of your practice, should more focus be placed on that or should you know, because then people say you should focus on that improve that more. When we kind of weak claim. My Salah is perfect. Can we ever claim that? I mean, I'm sure you've experienced it, that you perform a prayer and you're like, I think that was pretty good in terms of for sure. And then what happens in the next holla where was my brain?

Right? You one day goes really well. You recited your Quran you did your morning of call, evening of call you mentioned this a Panelo behind the underline in the morning undertone to the evening, all your earth god and you're feeling so good and humbled Allah, you even got to read so little Mulk and sort of such that before you went to sleep, and the next day is different,

isn't it? Because we're human beings? We have to start somewhere, isn't it? We have to start somewhere. And this is all something that we need to understand. Just because someone is wearing an AR via a niqab or hijab doesn't mean they're perfect. So let's stop expecting perfection from people who do observe a job. This is unfair than we expect them to be always polite and always engaging and always, you know, very courteous, they're human beings, they will slip. They will be shy, they will be quiet, they will feel like antisocial. They will have social issues. They will have problems in school. They will have problems with their families. This will happen because you're human beings.

Yes, a curvy woman might also fight with her husband. It happens because she's a human being.

So let's not think in our minds that wearing you know hijab jilbab niqab is like the height of spiritual perfection. Wow. You know, this is a woman who's already dressed in the clothes of Jana. No.

She is a human being.

And at the same time, we need to think that okay, I have to start somewhere. Right, I have to start somewhere. So let me start here. In fact, I think doing something physical like wearing the hijab, it actually helps you be more hard on herself.

Because you question yourself here I am sitting with the hijab and niqab it's time to pray, get up and pray. You know, you become a little bit more hard with yourself.

If somebody is for example,

have family members like husband, father, etc are not very supportive of, you know, the niqab something that, you know, it's not wedges by some scholars, is that like worth the fight or?

Okay? Don't make a big issue out of it. First of all, okay. My advice is that, you know, firstly, if you want to do it, you really want to do it, you ask Allah to help you overcome yourself. And you ask Allah to make it easier for you. And you take small steps at a time. Right? So for example, don't go on wearing, you know, a separate piece of cloth as a niqab on your head. Start with, for example, a little bit of, you know, covering the face a little bit, right, and then cover a little bit more a little bit more. I know of a sister who lives in Texas and you know how many Muslims are in Texas? Not that many, right? But she lives their husbands a doctor, mashallah they have a lot of,

you know, meeting many different people, not just Muslims, even non Muslims, and she likes to cover her face. And you could argue that this is part time niqab and I think part time niqab is better than no niqab if that is what you choose to do. Because for toquilla, Hamas Darth And fear Allah as much as you are able to write, so she will keep it on and she'll take it off, put it back on, depending on how the situation is. All right. And that's fine, because that is what her situation allows her to do. And at the same time, she really wants to do it. That's just her she really wants to do it. And if at the same time a woman decides not to do it, you see the difference of opinion,

and the different narrations that we see. What do they teach us? There is room for people who choose not to wear it. Don't ostracize them. Don't think of them as sinful, as those who are falling behind as those who are religiously backward? No, don't look down on them. Excellent for those who do it. And for those who don't do it when hamdulillah

Does that answer your question? So start small, right? And have you know, if you want to do it, have the intention to do it. Ask Allah to make it easier for you start part time, maybe in the next five years, maybe in the next 10 years? You never know. Right? So I'm already compliant. Because I'm asking you this question as someone who's wearing the niqab. I've seen people who wear the app in different ways. I've seen some people who have their eyes

seen that like you can see it and some people will cover the complete face. Someone who do practice that. And someone who read the heartbeats and the two books that you've spent the entire day yesterday I was wondering if you can just tell us which one you think is the as a person is the right way to to, I think each person needs to decide for themselves. I am no person to tell you how you should wear it how you should not wear it. You know if we have not been taught a specific way of covering, right we haven't been taught to take a portion of it and cover then whatever you understand whatever is feasible for you easy for you go ahead and do it. Some people if they put

anything on their forehead, their head hurts. Right some people if they have anything on their nose they cannot breathe and women when they're pregnant, for example are carrying a baby in a bag. How is she supposed to walk and have an a carbonyl to do grocery shopping? You understand? This friend of mine she used to joke she used to say that because we'd be at school for morning until evening during exam season. And we would both of us would have our niqab on and she would say that if ever we were locked up somewhere to die, we would probably both of us would be the last ones to die because we're so used to breathing less oxygen.

To a joke about that one, you know May Allah keep us safe and protected but this is what you would say. You get used to it. You do get used to it. But honestly it's up to you. You see what's best for you. Go ahead. So long Raluca we talking about niqab or a scarf or jewelry or everything but when most of us including me, we forget sometimes that this ability God gave us to you and it's not easy everybody and everybody starts somewhere. Instead of being happy that this person is wearing a scarf or Kumar and coming to the masjid. We judge them we utilize the July visa. This is you know how many people tell me you have to arrive icop I'm wearing

a jacket I'm still covering jewelry with jewelry. But the idea is you have to cover yourself, no matter what you cover and wherever you are. So as a woman, including me as I say

ask yourself when somebody's wearing a scarf, give them

advice but not judge them and let make them like afraid or if you're not wearing jewelry or this this you cannot do this and so this is our ability the end of the day Allah gives and just make dua for everybody. Yes. And each one of us needs to be you know, needs

To think about our own selves, right? With respect to the length of the Jitterbug, this is also a question that is asked a lot. How long does it have to be, it has to be long enough to cover your clothing, and long enough to hide your or to conceal your finger. Okay, and because generally your clothing, the clothes that you're wearing, are, you know, colorful, right, or if they're not colorful, they're tight, they could reveal your, you know, the shape of your legs, for example. So depending on what you're wearing, the minimum length of the jilbab has been said to be right below the knees, minimum length, okay. When we think of Jabba, we think of our bio, or we think of this

long hijab on top of an Obeah. Okay, I want you to think of the time and also the places that still exists today, where fabric is not imported from China. Okay, black material is not imported from, you know, different parts of the world where everyone does not have access to stitch or bias. All right, it's just not accessible. For us, it's accessible, all we have to do is just go to some fancy hijab store and get whatever we want. But many parts of the world people don't have access to that.

Right. So I remember growing up seeing relatives in my family, women in my family, wearing a huge other, you know, a child that has like a huge shawl. Okay, so wearing that on their heads, making sure that their head is completely covered, and taking it and wrapping it on themselves. And with that part of their face also, and it will be long enough to go right beneath their knees. But you could see their shallow, shallow water is like, bent, okay, but shallow, remember is loose. Okay, so you could see part of their shallot and as they walked, sometimes you could even see part of their shirt, a long shirt. Okay? But because it's long and loose, wearing a shawl on top is fine because

it's covering its concealing. All right. So if for example, a woman is wearing a long jacket in winter, it's below her knees, and she's wearing pants, loose pants, and on top of that she's wearing her winter boots anyway. There isn't anything wrong with that.

As you said that me gabion hijab is they're also human beings. There was a young girl, she told me that she was very pious girl on the garbage I've been on pins. He said, Because of my dress. One day, saved me from a sin because it took times to removing a lot of stuff. And I said that what I'm doing

and I couldn't, you know, I saved myself from the sin. She couldn't go to Zina up to Zillow because of this, so it protected her from Xena on Hamlin.

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