Jilbab

[NahidSarvy]

id like to know where you got your interpretations of these verses from and how on earth you managed to develop this opinion that pretty much no scholar has? the 4 madhabs all pretty much agree on the matter that hijab is fard and but i think they diff in terms of the extent of the covering up, with the most lenient being the hand and face. what makes you differ? Please provide a reliable source.

The reliable source: THE QUR'AN. I figured, hey, why not read it? Why not get books on learning Arabic and listen to what I was being told to do and then check up on what the Qur'ân actually says? After all, God commands the greater jihad, right?

My dictionaries and book and such have concordances: they list every time that a particular word is used in the Qur'ân. Some secondary sources I got - like el Guindi's Veil: Modesty, Privacy, Resistance - deal with the subject matter in a positive (as in highly respectful of women's use of the veil for political, social and religious reasons) but critical (as in scholarly analysis) manner.

I did this all because I got tired of being lectured by men and women. I did this because I was tired of being shoved into the airless basement with screaming children along with all the other women because we've been "unofficially" but thoroughly banned from the masjid proper. I did this because I was tired of coming to the Sister's Group at the masjid and having men telling me to "put my shoes downstairs because that's where women go". I got tired of watching people in mental ruts, repeating what some online "shaykh" or "imam" told them to do without understanding what they were being told.

I did it because God commands us to accept nothing uncritically, but to accept what we know is right. I want to know the right path, and if I disagree with the four madhâhab, then so be it. There were many madhâhab over time, and some had very different opinions of what it means to be a practicing Muslim.

I can give you a run-down of all the books on Islâm I have in my library, if you'd like, but it's a pretty large list and runs the gamut from Fiqhu s-Sunna, Citadel of the Muslim, as-Sulami's The First Sufi Women and The Epistle of Sâlim ibn Dhakwân and authors like Abou el Fadl, Asma Barlas and Amina Wadud.

As for my teachers, they have been an Ismaili professor of religion at Harvard University, an "Islamiyyin" Egyptian muhajjaba, a female Sunni PhD student from Nigeria, various MSA groups, my Huihui Mandarin tutor at Peking University, my college roomie... they run the gamut from what I would consider "highly conservative" (several munaqqabât) to pretty secular (my college roomie). I have also lived in Aceh Province (before the tsunami - about ten years ago) and, as I mentioned, in Northern China among Uyghurs and Huihui.

So that's my answer.

 

[Ibn Abi Ahmed]

So many scholors on this board, I had no idea.

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