true :k:
whatever we follow from our religion is totally judged by Allah and only Allah can question you and you will be answerable to HIM only. People boast about their namaz & roza etc and criticise those who don’t not pray or fast but we don’t know if Allah has accepted the namaz or roza or not. May be the person who does not pray or fast is doing something which is very noble and great in the eyes of Allah . There are so many possibilities and only Allah knows because He is the judge.
ell.
I respect the women who support hijabs or the men who supports beards.
It is part of the deen. And especially hijab has its benefits. One being that people would be judging you more from your personality than your appearance.
On the other hand, Its the extreme get-ups that I find too much. Having shaving your head off, a 3 foot beard, and supporting a izar/tuba is not obligatory. and in a western society where it not the norm does look distasteful. - not to mention the ugliness
it make a man look. ( I know this isnt a nice term to use-but i used it rather than 'less beautiful' to be straight up of the actual physical impression it often creates).
Covering the face is also not obligatory for women. It is extremist, impractical and not to be rude but they do seem like walking tents. I know of a lady supporting the full get-up while driving shes crashed into the car infront- and the driver being naturally worked up turned round and said maybe if you took that mask off your face you could see where your going---and it make sense)
Continuing, The face is often neccesesery to be apparent- especially if you are working, or studying daily and have to interact with people.
Ofcourse again not that a disrespect these people as persons but like everybody creates initial impressions-these peoples getups too do.
1400 years ago, men were the breadwinners, and women did not and were not expected to go out that much. And the occasional times they would go out it would not be neecesery to unveil thier face and some chose to cover it- possibly privacy reasons.
However it certainly is not obligatory by the concensus of majority of scholars.
There are hadiths were h.aisha was out with prophet (pbuh) she did have the face cover and thier are hadiths when she did not.
I mean its the extremist get-ups that is the somewhat absurd- not only the look, but it seems like these people are out to prove something-as if they are better than others-and they purposly do it to remind others (as if we dont know) to think of deen.
Deen is not only about reading 5 times namaz and a beard or heardscarf- and the people that may not be perfect in this may be perfect or better in other aspects.
But i would not like to understate the things that are farz. For women the i think the headscarf is farz.
If it is farz- then not doing it would result in sin, same any other farz neglection.
I know it could be diffuclt supporting it all the time if you are at work or so in public-also as thier is some science that it limits air leaving the head-causing heat to remain in the scalp-hence bad for brain etc. (like the earths atmoshphere.)
but then again:
nabi pak also stated:
'near the end of time holding on to your deen will be like holding on to a piece of red hot coal'
peace.
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