Re: “No to Ninja Nuisance” ?
Well sister, problem is not just mental, but it is to do with believing on Allah and Quran. Just imagine; Quran is message of Allah to human. But surprisingly, you will find many who call themselves Muslim believe that Allah cannot even communicate properly and effectively. They believe that Allah have no ability to give message to human, hence they would never think themselves over an ayah, but would look towards other humans for understanding. According to these people (from their actions and beliefs), Allah depends on other humans to make his message understandable.
Most troublesome are deviant people that would twist the message of Allah according to their personal belief, and would not like anyone to look at messages in Quran logically (actually, these deviant people do all to discourage Muslims to look at message of Allah and think over that logically). Anyhow, I do not care or would like to argue with them unnecessarily, as in the end we will all die, and these people will be answerable of their own beliefs. I can do as much as I can and hope that Allah guides me in understand and following Islam correctly, that’s all.
Worse problem is that some believe Allah does not even know what Allah is talking about in Quran. For instance, please read the ayah 33:59 carefully, and see how these people claim that Allah does not know what Allah is talking about. (Note: Surah Al-Ahzab (33) was revealed around 5 H, and what is there in this ayah is final for all time in Islam).
Ayah 33:59: O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their person, as that is most proper, so that they may get recognised and thus they will not be molested. Allah is ever forgiving and most merciful.
Allah is saying clearly in the ayah (33:59) that: ‘they (believing women) should wear such dress that they may get recognised and thus they will not be molested’. From Ayah, it is clear that Allah tells Muslims that if a woman would get recognised as believing woman, they will not get molested (by people of bad character). [Obviously, people of good character would not molest any women, regardless of dressing]
But these so-called Muslims believe that Allah do not know what Allah is talking about. These people do not believe that once woman is recognised as of good character, no one would molest her. According to them, what Allah is saying in ayah 33:59 is rubbish. Contrary to what Allah says in ayah (33:59), they believe that if people (of bad character) do not recognise a woman because woman has covered her face (wearing burqa with two holes); then these people (of bad character) would not molest her.
From the ayah, it is obvious that Allah linked dress code of women, recognition of women, and chances of women getting molested. Anyhow, let analyse the ayah and ask question.
Q 1: What was the situation before the revelation of the ayah (33:59) and why there was need for the ayah? Think yourself, try to answer the above question and find answer from the ayah (33:59).
Q 2: What Allah recommended in the ayah (33:59) to counter the situation mentioned in Q 1? Again, think yourself, try to answer the above question and find answer from the ayah (33:59).
I am sure that people if they would read ayah 33:59 and understand the ayah carefully, would realise what Allah wants from believing women and what non-believing women would do to disobey Allah. For me, I believe from the ayah that:
Before the ayah, most honourable and believing women that use to go out of their house were wearing dress hiding their face, and thus were not getting recognised, so some men of bad character were molesting them.
[What I believe, dress codes to cover faces were normal amongst all women of substance during the time of Prophet (SAW), included Kuffar women. Muslim women of substance were doing the same, moving around with covered faces. Getting molested was not a problem as long as their identity was unknown. But after Islam, molesting became problem for believing women and thus ayah (33:59) came to safeguard believing women from getting molested. This ayah told believing women that they should move with uncovered face, so that they could get recognised and that would stop people molesting them.]
After the ayah, honourable and believing women start going out in modest dressing (in Hijab), but use to leave their face open, so that people could recognise them. This opening of face made the men of bad character recognise them too, and because they recognized them, these men of bad character stop molesting these believing women.
Hence, according to my understanding, it is obvious that in ayah 33:59, Allah ordered believing women to go out in Hijab but not in Niqab. This is also obvious from women Hajj dressing. If Niqab was allowed by Allah for believing Muslim women, Allah would have allowed Niqab in Hajj too, and Niqab would not have become disallowed during Hajj.