What is your opinion on keeping a dupatta over your head when in the presence of males. I thought women covered their chests, not their heads. What do most women do in this situation?
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seems like girls on GS are alien to the concept of dupatta, covering chest and not head. ohh well... consider me ur dupatta-badal-sister. and my opinion is that if you have a dupatta to cover your chest then wht harm is there in covering your head as well?
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Eh? Yeah I think its a personal choice 
Personally, I do cover my head and stuff when in the presence of males
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I wear hijab - its so much more convenient and easy to manage compared to dupattas .
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You need to cover your hair too so thats why cover your head properly
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I cover both.
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I wear a shuttlecock burqa at all times in the presence of males. Everything is covered. I recommend it to all my fellow sisters in Islam 
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@ shuttlecock. Hahahahaha. 
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come on people im being serious. Maybe its just where i grew up, most of the young ladies only cover their chest with the dupatta not their hair. At home, parties, weddings, etc.
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I dont know why we are aksed to cover out "head/hair" cuz if a man were to check us out he will look straight to the chest not the head...i mean who checks out the girls head/hair, right guys...
to me it makes more sense to cover the chest.
I dont know why we are aksed to cover out "head/hair" cuz if a man were to check us out he will look straight to the chest not the head...i mean who checks out the girls head/hair, right guys... to me it makes more sense to cover the chest.
THANK YOU!
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well i cover ma head with dupatta or scarf in the presence of males, and wear abaya (hijab) when i am out!!! it should be taken, necessarily!
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if you are not covering your hair then why use a dupatta in the first place? Why not just wear some decent clothes? no need to cover your chest then.
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It is important to cover whole part of the body. As men look whole part of the body.
As Allah asked us to cover all body parts along with head because he made men he knows better then us. So we have to follow his order. No matter what our little brain thinks or understand.
sorry you got it all wrong…
**The verse of Surah Noor, says: " And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw VEILS over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O ye believers! Turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss." [Al-Qur’an 24:31] **
According to Qur’an and Sunnah there is a criteria for observing hijab:
(1) Extent..
The first criterion is the extent of the body that should be covered. This is different for men and women. The extent of covering obligatory on the male is to cover the body at least from the navel to the knees. For women, the obligatory level of covering is to cover the whole body except the face and the hands upto the wrist. If they wish to, they can cover even these parts of the body. Some scholars of Islam insist that the face and the hands are part of the obligatory extent of ‘hijab’. All the remaining five criteria are the same for men and women.
(2) Should not reveal figure.
The second criterion is that the clothes they wear should be loose and should not reveal the figure.
(3) Should not be transparent.
The third criterion is that the clothes they wear should not be transparent such that one can see through them.
(4) Not attract opposite sex.
The clothes they wear should be not be so glamorous as to attract the opposite sex.
(5) Should not resemble the clothes of the opposite sex.
The fifth criterion is that the clothes they wear should not resemble that of the opposite sex.
**(6) Should not resemble the clothes of the unbelievers.
**The clothes they wear should not resemble that of the unbelievers i.e. they should not wear clothes that are specifically identities or symbols of the unbelievers’ religions.
(7) Hijab includes conduct and behaviour among other things
Complete ‘hijab’, besides the six criteria of clothing, also includes the moral conduct, behaviour, attitude and intention of the individual. A person only fulfilling the criteria of ‘hijab’ of the clothes is observing ‘hijab’ in a limited sense. ‘Hijab’ of the clothes should be accompanied by ‘hijab’ of the eyes, ‘hijab’ of the heart, ‘hijab’ of thought and ‘hijab’ of intention. It also includes the way a person walks, the way a person talks, the way he behaves etc.
hope it cleared some misconception that some guppies have about pardah!
I dont know why we are aksed to cover out "head/hair" cuz if a man were to check us out he will look straight to the chest not the head...i mean who checks out the girls head/hair, right guys... to me it makes more sense to cover the chest.
gal u don't have a slightest idea what attraction hair have.
Just to give you some basic idea, all of the poets live and die doing poetry for "Zulfeen" of the mahboob. I have yet to hit a poem about the chest of the Mahboob.
Allah has asked women to cover whole body and has asked men to keep their eyes down. If we dont follow it, we should not be in denial at least. (we include me too)
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Thats what I wanted to say many men get attaracted to hair too.
i would like to ask those who believe that covering head is not so importatn then covering chest.
Do you believe that a girl who covers her chest when going in front of a guy cuz she doesnt want to attract him but she puts long hours on her hair to make her look pretty....spends $$$ on hair products and in salons....
and she does go out....she is attracted by her hair...
is she observing pardah.
I think first we need to understand WHY DO WE OBSERVE PARDAH?
If we know why we obser pardah then we wouldnt ask such question (i am not saying its stupid to ask such question)
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Men like murgh e musallam so better to cover all body including your tiny head.
Sorry, my bad, I wasn't thinking when I posted that. Yeah I understand that its obligatory for a woman to do pardah, I myself do. BUT what I meant was that although we are instructed to do so... not everyone does, each person makes that choice, hence it being personal :S If you get me. But yeah I do acknowledge that it should be done :)
Thanks
sorry you got it all wrong.....
*The verse of Surah Noor, says: " And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw VEILS over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O ye believers! Turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss." [Al-Qur’an 24:31] *
According to Qur’an and Sunnah there is a criteria for observing hijab:
(1) Extent.. The first criterion is the extent of the body that should be covered. This is different for men and women. The extent of covering obligatory on the male is to cover the body at least from the navel to the knees. For women, the obligatory level of covering is to cover the whole body except the face and the hands upto the wrist. If they wish to, they can cover even these parts of the body. Some scholars of Islam insist that the face and the hands are part of the obligatory extent of ‘hijab’. All the remaining five criteria are the same for men and women.
(2) Should not reveal figure. The second criterion is that the clothes they wear should be loose and should not reveal the figure.
(3) Should not be transparent. The third criterion is that the clothes they wear should not be transparent such that one can see through them.
(4) Not attract opposite sex. The clothes they wear should be not be so glamorous as to attract the opposite sex.
(5) Should not resemble the clothes of the opposite sex. The fifth criterion is that the clothes they wear should not resemble that of the opposite sex.
**(6) Should not resemble the clothes of the unbelievers. **The clothes they wear should not resemble that of the unbelievers i.e. they should not wear clothes that are specifically identities or symbols of the unbelievers’ religions.
(7) Hijab includes conduct and behaviour among other things Complete ‘hijab’, besides the six criteria of clothing, also includes the moral conduct, behaviour, attitude and intention of the individual. A person only fulfilling the criteria of ‘hijab’ of the clothes is observing ‘hijab’ in a limited sense. ‘Hijab’ of the clothes should be accompanied by ‘hijab’ of the eyes, ‘hijab’ of the heart, ‘hijab’ of thought and ‘hijab’ of intention. It also includes the way a person walks, the way a person talks, the way he behaves etc.
hope it cleared some misconception that some guppies have about pardah!