Re: Top 10 excuses by women who don’t wear the Hijab
Interesting that you say that: recall women to observe hijab by way of identifying what makes them not take it, which could also be not ‘all’ the reasons why they don’t take it!
Symbolically and for the reason of attire elegance & having a feminine presence, wearing a hijab is a good thing. Being all insecure, one way or the other (taking on hujab or note taking it on), is only a psychological limitation, not one of the human ability to respect a religious rule and/or adapt oneself to the use of making a piece of cloth your personality’s key component in terms of one’s appearance.
Know that there are men who themselves would like to see women, not in hijab, merely for the sake of being in hijab.
Logically, look at why we cover something even non living: either for the protection from the elements, or so that no one unnecessarily looks over.
When it comes to women, it is part a matter of choice and part what one is feeling comfortable with. If you can ensure that a hijab clad woman can walk the street as fearlessly as any body else (& I am making the comparison with ‘anybody’, for a purpose. Other wise, I could have said, with other women who don’t take on hijab), that will be a marvel.
In Pakistan, a woman totally clad in hijab plus burka, cannot be secure from somo man hitting on her.
And then, there is always this simple fact thathuman nature, both women and men, is this that we are ‘social ‘ in nature, as God’s creatures. How impractical is it for women to keep in on, in a gathering of women and men.
Purdah is a mechanism for avoiding uncalled for glances of men on women.
It would be interesting to see, what would have been the case, if the opposite was true i.e. men were in hijab and burkahs, and women were the people stopped from looking at these men.
That said, remind your self of the issue at hand and its multiple aspects. The dynamics of the simple situation of adorning hjijab for modesty reason or for identity and modesty reasons, is simple, yet the connotations and abstractions, based on the premise of fairness and plain necessity for equality, is where things are complex.
Next time, know that what is hidden is not necessarily, not working your mind. And that what is not hidden, is not necessarily going to be all over you!
Dushi