So, there was a bit of controversy around my last post “I am still a Muslim” so allow me to clear some things up:
1) “In Islam, screening most of your body off from the gaze of a stranger, especially of the opposite sex, is actually mandated as a means to avoid falling into conduct that may lead to extra-marital or pre-marital sex.” (Imam Kamil Mufti)
Basically, the whole purpose of covering up is to protect from pre-marital sex which I am completely capable of preventing (as a Muslim woman) from happening even if I am not always fully veiled.
2) There is not a single reference in the Koran that obliges Muslim women to cover their hair or their face. The only verse that comes close to such a dress code (Sura 24, “The Light,” verse 31) directs believing women to let their head coverings obscure their bosoms. (Farzana Hassan & Tarek Fatah)
Many Muslim woman do cover with the hijab as a form of modesty but it is not essential to be considered a Muslim.
3) Surah 24, the Light, verse 31: “And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women.”
Never does the scripture describe the veil as a NECESSARY COMPONENT OF DRESS for Muslim women.
4) I know I will still get hate and judgement but I am at peace knowing that I am still a Muslim and I am flawed but have love and faith and belief in Allah (swt). I believe I am modest, I am honest, I hide nothing from my parents, I give back to the less fortunate and I am thankful for all the privileges Allah has blessed me with in my life. I am a Muslim and no one can tell me otherwise.
5) “O you who have faith! Avoid much suspicion. Indeed some suspicions are sins.” [Surah Hujurat:12]
If you truly believe in Islam, you must realize that it is not okay to judge other Muslims even how they appear on the outside. After all, no one is perfect and you never know: maybe the individual is on their journey to pure modesty (like myself); whatever that means to them.
Disrespectful comments can be kept to yourselves :) thank you!
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