Islam turns our attention to the fact that beauty lies in the grace of values and ethics, and the grace of ethics is the most significant part of all religious legislations and human values.
Islam ordains that men should not evaluate woman’s beauty solely on the basis of her body’s beauty. No one has the exclusive right to cherish her body save her ‘husband’.
Islam reveals to all of us (men and women) that the beauty of a woman lies in the ‘beauty’ and grace of her feelings and moral excellences and not in the shape or form of her body. No one has the right to enjoy a woman’s beauty except her husband, which in that case will serve the good of the community. If Islam were a religion of men, it would have placed legislations that allowed a woman’s beauty to be cheap and easily accessible to them. Islam, on the contrary to that, made the beauty of women of a higher value in men’s eyes by providing protection to that beauty from uncontrolled lusts and desires, and instead ordering men to respect greater the inner beauty of her soul. Thus, the real value of women is associated with the degree of her bashfulness and her abidance by it.
This brings us to another question. What has, (we wonder), elevated and promoted the dignity of women? It is the Islamic manner of dressing enjoined upon women. Many women wonder, “What is the evidence that al-hijab is an obligatory duty enjoined upon women?”
As for the verses that enjoin al-hijab on women, Allah says what can be translated as, “O you Prophet, say to your spouses and your daughters and the women of believers, that they draw their outer garments (jalabibhun (plural of the Arabic word: jilbab) closer to them; that will (make) it likelier that they will be recognized and so will not be hurt. And Allah has been Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.” (TMQ, 33:59).
What is jilbab?
A jilbab is an outer garment that covers the whole body.
According to the afore-mentioned ayah (verse) Allah says what can be translated as, “…and women of believers” (TMQ, 59:33). This makes us convinced that the order was not restricted to the Prophet's wives.
Let’s contemplate the previous ayah, “that will (make) it likelier that they will be recognized and so will not be hurt,” (TMQ, 33:59). This means that putting on the VEIL is better for women. When any man sees a veiled woman he will realize on the spot that she is religious and pious, so he will not molest her. Everyone will respect her and her choice of morality.
How can people know that you are virtuous and pious?
It is by virtue of your abidance by al-hijab. Allah says what can be translated as, “that will make it likelier that they will be recognized and so will not be hurt.” (TMQ, 33:59).
In another verse, Allah (SWT) also says what can be translated as, “And say to the female believers to cast down their be holdings, and preserve their private parts, and not display their adornment except such as is outward,” (TMQ, 24:31). Scholars agreed that a woman should not display but her face and hands.
موضوع: second part Al hijab Amrkhaled 
الخميس سبتمبر 18, 2008 12:02 pm
