Zakir Naik – Can a Man Force a Woman of his Family to Wear the Hijab

Asked a question that can a father, a

husband,

or a brother

force

a woman,

the sister, the daughter,

etcetera to

practice parda if they don't wish to follow

hijab. Can he force?

But naturally, the duty of every Muslim to

Islam, and especially among the close relatives,

he should try his very best to convince

first with hikma,

quotation of the Quran, with reason, logic that

you should do hijab.

Regarding forcing,

what is permitted within limits?

What is permitted?

I'm not using the word force. I'm using

the word enforce. Can he enforce it through

other means?

That's right. The said, he's not using the

word force. He's using the word enforce. I'm

giving a broader answer so that the next

question should not ask. What about

force? Even if force is concerned within limits,

enforce

by other means, he should do it.

By other means, like economic means, you know,

say I'm your father. I'm giving you pocket

money. When you go to college,

you don't do your hijab. I will stop

giving you pocket money. Putting

putting economic pressure.

How long you should do it? Why not?

You should. So and for by the means,

he should do it.

And if there are certain things, the Quran

gives permission

at certain times to even put little force

with the limits. The limits are prescribed in

the Quran say hadith that if you know

using little force can and force the first

moving

like offering salah.

A parent is allowed to use a little

bit force on the children

for offering salah, it's a fard. You know,

we're required within limits.

So similarly for enforcing hijab, husband can say,

okay.

I will stop giving you so and so

things because we don't do hijab. He can

and he should. The enforcement is concerned first

with hikmah in good

ways.

With wisdom and beautiful preaching. If that doesn't

work, you can use enforcement, like using pressure.

I will not talk to you. I will

not like it. And whatever you feel

within limits

is best.

You should and every Muslim or every Muslim.

If, for example, the husband is not offering

salah,

the wife can say that's the offering salah

is a fard.

She can

use tactics like certain pressurization.

So these can be used by both, man

as well as woman, on the spouse, on

the relatives, so that a person becomes a

good Muslim. If it's a fard, which a

person is not doing, they can very well

pressurize. Even a woman can pressurize the husband

for keeping a beard.

Normal people only

people normally pose only. The husband can fresh

as a woman. Why can't the woman do

that to the husband?

Sometimes the wife may say, oh, don't keep

a beard. It pokes.

So

you'll

tell them, maybe it pokes.

Insha'Allah,

if you're finding discomfort here, in the akhla,

you'll get more comfort. You know, that's very

than satisfying. So whoever is on the wrong

track, it is a duty because the Quran

says in Suri Baqarah chapter 2 verse number

187.

That you are the garments, and they are

your garments. The husband and wife, they're garments

under one another, and that you see to

it that both of them hope

that answers the question.