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

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The speaker discusses the duty of men and women to enforce laws and use force when necessary. He uses the term force to describe what is allowed within limits, and gives examples of how men can enforce laws by force, pressure, and tactics. He emphasizes the importance of following the Bible and following the rules of the Bible for optimal implementation.

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			Asked a question that can a father, a
		
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			husband,
		
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			or a brother
		
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			force
		
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			a woman,
		
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			the sister, the daughter,
		
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			etcetera to
		
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			practice parda if they don't wish to follow
		
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			hijab. Can he force?
		
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			But naturally, the duty of every Muslim to
		
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			Islam, and especially among the close relatives,
		
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			he should try his very best to convince
		
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			first with hikma,
		
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			quotation of the Quran, with reason, logic that
		
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			you should do hijab.
		
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			Regarding forcing,
		
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			what is permitted within limits?
		
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			What is permitted?
		
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			I'm not using the word force. I'm using
		
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			the word enforce. Can he enforce it through
		
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			other means?
		
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			That's right. The said, he's not using the
		
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			word force. He's using the word enforce. I'm
		
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			giving a broader answer so that the next
		
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			question should not ask. What about
		
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			force? Even if force is concerned within limits,
		
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			enforce
		
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			by other means, he should do it.
		
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			By other means, like economic means, you know,
		
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			say I'm your father. I'm giving you pocket
		
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			money. When you go to college,
		
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			you don't do your hijab. I will stop
		
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			giving you pocket money. Putting
		
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			putting economic pressure.
		
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			How long you should do it? Why not?
		
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			You should. So and for by the means,
		
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			he should do it.
		
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			And if there are certain things, the Quran
		
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			gives permission
		
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			at certain times to even put little force
		
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			with the limits. The limits are prescribed in
		
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			the Quran say hadith that if you know
		
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			using little force can and force the first
		
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			moving
		
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			like offering salah.
		
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			A parent is allowed to use a little
		
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			bit force on the children
		
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			for offering salah, it's a fard. You know,
		
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			we're required within limits.
		
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			So similarly for enforcing hijab, husband can say,
		
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			okay.
		
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			I will stop giving you so and so
		
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			things because we don't do hijab. He can
		
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			and he should. The enforcement is concerned first
		
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			with hikmah in good
		
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			ways.
		
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			With wisdom and beautiful preaching. If that doesn't
		
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			work, you can use enforcement, like using pressure.
		
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			I will not talk to you. I will
		
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			not like it. And whatever you feel
		
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			within limits
		
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			is best.
		
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			You should and every Muslim or every Muslim.
		
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			If, for example, the husband is not offering
		
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			salah,
		
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			the wife can say that's the offering salah
		
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			is a fard.
		
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			She can
		
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			use tactics like certain pressurization.
		
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			So these can be used by both, man
		
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			as well as woman, on the spouse, on
		
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			the relatives, so that a person becomes a
		
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			good Muslim. If it's a fard, which a
		
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			person is not doing, they can very well
		
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			pressurize. Even a woman can pressurize the husband
		
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			for keeping a beard.
		
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			Normal people only
		
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			people normally pose only. The husband can fresh
		
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			as a woman. Why can't the woman do
		
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			that to the husband?
		
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			Sometimes the wife may say, oh, don't keep
		
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			a beard. It pokes.
		
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			So
		
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			you'll
		
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			tell them, maybe it pokes.
		
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			Insha'Allah,
		
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			if you're finding discomfort here, in the akhla,
		
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			you'll get more comfort. You know, that's very
		
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			than satisfying. So whoever is on the wrong
		
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			track, it is a duty because the Quran
		
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			says in Suri Baqarah chapter 2 verse number
		
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			187.
		
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			That you are the garments, and they are
		
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			your garments. The husband and wife, they're garments
		
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			under one another, and that you see to
		
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			it that both of them hope
		
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			that answers the question.