she ass hijab isn't that oppression no
it's not oppression it's
covering the women covering their heads
or covering their bodies is not an
oppression their husband didn't tell
them to do
that their fathers didn't tell them to
do
that their sons didn't tell them to do
that the Imam didn't say to do that God
said for the Muslim ladies
draw your clothing across your
bosoms and do not allow your
natural
ornaments to be shown except to those
within your family Circle what are the
natural ornaments of women in case you
don't know what they
are their
breasts their are shapes that happen to
be different than that of men
their hair those adornments should be
covered now just in case Christian
people don't
remember just 40 years
ago just 40 years
ago Christian women never went to church
without covering their heads it wasn't
it isn't that true ask your
grandmothers and just 50 or 60 years ago
20 years before
that a Christian woman woman would never
come outside with a short skirt
even even the nuns themselves today have
succumbed to
modernity because the
nuns who committed themselves to the
church and a religious life how did they
dress they're not Muslims they covered
themselves they covered themselves in an
outer garment and nothing on them was
seen except the face and the hands so if
that was accepted by Christianity it was
accepted by religion that wasn't
something just that Muslim women were
told but Jewish women Christian women
and Muslim women were ordered to do that
in their scriptures now the fact that
the modern civilizations chose to tell
women they don't have to wear that and
they can wear bikinis doesn't mean that
God is wrong and they are
right now for the Muslim lady the
wearing of the
hijab is a protection for her it's a
distinction for her yes it is a uniform
so that she will be known to be a Muslim
she would not be molested she would not
be
insulted and no need for a man to stare
at her and look at her because there is
nothing appearing of her that would
cause any unnatural attraction therefore
it is more than likely she can come and
go with decency and dignity and that her
natural ornaments would not create a
inordinate liability for her like so
happens when you see women wearing jeans
and clothing it seem as if they painted
it on
themselves now all you have to do is
look at these two women and you can see
the problems that
exist now of course it doesn't mean that
every woman that doesn't cover herself
completely it doesn't mean that she's
immoral doesn't mean
that but the Quran gives to the Muslim
women what we consider to be
an ounce of prevention is worth
what what's it what's the what's the you
you know the you know the uh what is it
called an ounce of prevention is worth
what a pound of
cure so just like just like any one of
you if I asked you what's your PIN
number you wouldn't tell
me if I came to visit you in your house
you wouldn't have your certificates of
deposit in front of me you wouldn't have
your jewels in front of me you wouldn't
have your stack of money or your savings
in front of me distributed just because
I'm a friend and everything should be
transparent no you have those valuables
in a place that is
safe might be a bank might be a safety
deposit box well that's just money
that's just tangible things so don't
blame us and don't blame God if he tells
us that our mothers and our wives and
our daughters
that they should be covered and in a
safe place uh uh the the person asked
about segregation why do Muslim women
why are they segregated they're not
segregated they're not
segregated they're separated there's a
difference between segregation and
separation for instance outside here you
have toilets that say male female don't
you don't you
why why shouldn't there just be a
toilet because there are sensitivities
that we as moral decent dignified
educated people accept that there are
sensitivities and privacy that the
female would like to have as opposed to
just walking into an open toilet now
maybe in
Amsterdam or some other places in Europe
where they just have open
toilets it's different but in most cases
in the world World in most places in the
world they select to have a male and a
female toilet why because there's the
inherent inclination of human beings to
provide sensitivity for women and
sensitivity for men now in Islam for us
it's not a matter of being inherent it
is something which is god-given
inspiration to do what to
separate the second Sexes that means the
genders doesn't mean absolute separation
like we can't see each other we can't
talk to each other but generally my wife
just doesn't I don't go to another man's
house and I just sit down with his wife
and dance with his wife and he sit down
and dance with my wife and uh this is
this is just a matter of friendship Bob
just drop over anytime you
like okay we don't do that no I come to
visit Bob or Abdullah abdullah's wife
comes to visit my wife I don't socialize
with his wife he doesn't socialized with
my wife although there may be occasions
where we eat together our family
socialize together but generally after
boys and girls reached the age of seven
the prophet said even if they're
brothers and sisters separate them from
the
bed and when they get to the age of
menstruation and they realize another
level of Consciousness then give them
separate
rooms what to do what to preserve and
protect them from tendencies that human
beings have tendencies that has
manifested itself in civilizations where
they don't do that protection so we are
obeying almighty God that's what we're
doing and sometimes we just have to
believe what God orders us to do and
benefit from the medicine listen
sometimes when we don't follow what God
tells us to do then we see later on the
reasons
why so we don't apologize for that we
say that it brings us dignity it brings
us distinction whether it be the hijab
of the women or the separation of the
men and the women it brings us
distinction it brings us dignity and
protection and morality additional
morality that's why we do it