sweefs
March 10, 2007, 9:01pm
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Re: Hijab and Veil Issue…An article i wrote a while back…
No … you misunderstand … note I said Islam has priority levels. The woman who prays is better than a woman who does not. A woman who wears the khimar as a hijjab but does not pray compared to a woman who prays and doesn’t wear hijjab has fallen in the trap of inappropriate priorities.
If there were two choices that a new Muslima has to make it is one to wear hijjab and two to pray. First she should pray, then afterwards she should try to make hijjab. That is the priority. If what you say about yourself is true and I don’t doubt it. Then your prayer is preventing you from much fitnah. The hijjab has a lower priority than prayer. However, the prayer will lead to the recognition of hijjab eventually if prayer is performed earnestly.
You can start doing hijjab first by lowering the gaze, that is a type of hijjab. Another type of hijjab is to wear unrevealing clothes, another type of hijjab is to speak sternly and fiercly with men, so they can’t find your voice attractive. The khimar is only another form of hijjab, which is the covering of the hairline and over the breasts.
In combination hijjab is an attire and attitude combination so that women won’t look at women in jealously and men won’t look at them in lust. The man has to lower his gaze too. By doing this he is showing other males that he means no harm and he shows the woman that he respects her.
All of this is besides the point. Without prayer a persons Islam is at risk, but without hijjab it is just a persons reputation .
that is so well said
and ur right…lower gaze prevents you from NOTICING other men looking at you…speaking sternly and feircely with men other then ur uncles/father is also a type of hijab.
thanks :k:…made sense
