in the name of Allah the beneficent the
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on with that long list of questions from
the Oxford
school these are from questions from the
girls concerning hijab and covering they
mentioned three questions basically
there are many girls and women who don't
cover themselves properly according to
the Islamic way if they're doing this
knowingly what would their punishment be
that was one question the other question
students should be encouraged to wear
hijab how can the teachers help them
when they themselves do not cover
properly H third
question can parents force a girl to
wear hijab if she doesn't want to or
authorities in the school
okay these questions concerning hijab of
course we recognize that this is an
obligation specifically when a girl
reaches the age of puberty she is
obliged to cover
herself correctly everything should be
covered except for her face and hands
this is a basic Islamic requirement of
dress and puberty is the
cut off point where it becomes
obligatory she is in sin if she doesn't
do so she will be punished in the next
life as the prophet wasam describing
some of the people in Hell described you
know women who were dressed yet
undressed they did not cover themselves
properly in this life there is
punishment for
them what we are saying here is that the
obligation of covering is something
which every Muslim should know if they
don't know then they need to know about
their religion and realize that it is
something which is obligatory on
them to not do so is sinful now the
question which comes and we talked about
in the previous program about the reason
for the covering of women this is for
their protection for them to be known in
the society as virtuous women Etc this
is you know among the reasons but mainly
it is for their protection prote in them
from harm now as I said the cut off
point is
puberty however the child should be
taught that from the time they are quite
young Prophet mallam had said teach your
children Salah when they're
seven teach your children Salah when the
time they reach
seven and spank them for it by the time
they reach 10 and separate them in their
beds
now when we say that there should be
taught Salah at 7 this doesn't mean that
you merely teach them the movements like
you train a monkey or a dog some animal
you know to just go through certain
movements no this means that yes you
teach them the movement but you also
teach them what is said what it means
that they understand it that it has
meaning to
them what they're doing they know what
they're saying they know what they're
doing and you also teach them the
conditions around it that they should
have wo they should cover their a all
these different things so they should be
taught all the things necessary for them
to be able to Pray by the time they're
seven by the time they're seven doesn't
mean you don't start earlier you can
start earlier with the child from the
time they're five Etc four five they can
grasp these things and they will want to
join you in the prayers and these kind
of things anyway so when we're dealing
with girls the point is that
the idea of covering up should be taught
to them from the time they're
young it is very sad to see in different
parts of the Muslim World parents
allowing their
daughters yes the daughter may only be
seven or only 10 or six or whatever
wearing clothing which is forbidden in
Islam for women forbidden for women but
this these are only children so you have
the little girls wearing skin tight
leotards exposing all of their private
parts and they're going outside but
they're only kids it's
only this is
wrong if we raise our
children without a
consciousness of hijab of AA of covering
the private parts then when the time
comes for you to have the cover when
they're older it's going to be very
difficult and they're the ones who going
to be asking these questions can people
Force us why do we have to wear it what
is this what is that you know because
they were not taught from their young
but if the child is raised from the time
they're three four five they're raised
giving a sense of their body being
covered not exposing it to others etc
etc then they will have a shyness and it
will be very easy for them to maintain
their hijab it will be something with
them for life we have to know and
realize that Western culture seeks to
destroy this sh shyness
unfortunately because
nakedness is considered a virtue in that
culture where people go to the beaches
they appear on television you know
models Etc wearing the skimpiest of
close virtually naked you have topless
bars topless and bottomless bars place
where people women dance Stark naked Etc
in front of people Etc and Men
also this is considered a
virtue something admirable entertainment
or whatever name has been put on it so
there's a different
Outlook that culture pays praise
is and ures
nakedness Islam dislikes it because of
the harm that comes from it now there's
a place within a man a man in his wife
in their home in their privacy whatever
that's another
situation you have to take a shower you
know there are places and
circumstances but in public
no so the child should be taught an
awareness of her body from the time she
is very young covering herself making
sure she covers the different parts of
her body Etc and where the society is
careful about this then the incidences
of pedophilia where adults
May uh abuse young children will be less
no doubt because where you have little
children you know uh who though they're
little they're still bodies and their
bodies are EXP exposed than people who
have you know weaknesses things come in
their hearts whatever Shan whatever you
know different forces come to them and
and in their time of weakness they end
up you know abusing children because of
this so we must be careful it's very
very
important
so a child then who is raised in this
way from the time they're quite Young
from the time they seven it's already
established they know hijab they're
covering then there's no problem these
don't become issues in school you don't
have teachers who are not wearing
hijab properly or wearing it at all and
at the same time students are required
to make wear hijab you see this is a
contradiction of course how do you obl
oblige the children the students to wear
hijab when the teachers are not doing it
or they're not doing it properly of
course administrations of schools that
have Islamic
ethos that have committed themselves to
following Islamic principles should
ensure that all of the teachers comply
with Islamic rules of dress that's very
important because really children do
learn by example when you say do as I
say not as I do this doesn't work yes
you may force a person to do what you
say on the spot but they're still
watching what you do and that will
affect them much more than what you say
so where the school or or or parents
insist that the children cover
themselves and then they come to school
and teachers are exposed they're going
to observe that that's going to go into
their heads they're going to feel that
this is not really something obligatory
why are my parents insisting why is the
school
insisting well can others force a girl
to wear hijab can the parents can the
school force a girl to wear hijab
yes Prophet wasallam
said
whoever among you sees an evil should
change it with his hand if you're in a
position of
authority then it is obligatory on you
to correct
evil obligatory on you to insist that
the laws of Islam be implemented so the
administration of the school it is an
obligation on them if they have
committed themselves to the principles
of Islam to insist that all of the girls
cover themselves properly wear hijab and
yes it's the obligation of parents to
ensure that their children wear it force
them to spank them for it if necessary
make sure they wear it but as I said if
they're taught it from their very young
they're raised with that consciousness
of their bodies Etc then it will be very
easy but where we become LAX and
negligent and fooled by the the idea
that they're only kids they can wear
anything all these things that we know
we would never dare wear ourselves as
adults we're letting the children wear
these things then it is no surprise when
they grow up that they don't want to
wear this they may wear it for a while
because you o oblige them as soon as
they reach a point where they can Rebel
then you find them rebelling taking it
off when they go leave the house or
whatever that is the
consequence but yes parents can oblige
their children they should it's it's
their duty to oblige them and they will
be asked by Allah if they
don't yes the children carry the sin of
not doing so if they have reached
puberty Etc but the parents carry the
sin for having not trained them in such
a way and in not obliging them to do
so so
uh we can say that these questions I
think concerning
hijab have been covered there's another
question here from the girls which they
asked about cutting hair can women cut
their hair
short yes women can cut their hair short
as long as they do not cut it looking
like
men this is the
principle the idea I know it's a part of
um Indo Pakistani
culture uh that women cannot cut their
hair period they must let their hair
grow it's considered to be something
taboo you cannot cut women don't cut
their hair no this is not true Islam
does not say woman cannot cut her
hair
however it does forbid her from shaving
her head I mean unless there's a medical
necessity and for her to cut her hair in
such a way that she looks like a man
then this is also forbidden because
Prophet wasallam had said that Allah
curses the Manish
women and the womanish men a man
who carries on like a woman in his
attitude his habits his speech his dress
Etc is cursed by Allah and a woman who
is Manish who wears men's clothing has
Manish kind of attitudes and these kind
of things you know where that that is
where she displays things which are
typically that of
men she's doing it deliberately then she
is cursed by Allah so
it's not permissible for a woman or a
man to wear their hair in such a way
that they look like the opposite
sex
now cutting short as I said should also
not
include the blind following of Western
fashions that is we cut it and we put it
in these the latest hairstyles that come
out of the West movie star are you know
she is movie actress she's the most
popular actress in and she does her hair
this way so we find we're doing our hair
that way you know Princess Diana
everybody was looking like Princess
Diana when she was in her Heyday you
know so on and so forth that way of
dressing and doing ones here in this way
like this this is of course something
despised by Islam that a person becomes
a slave to
fashion and especially fashion of the
western culture the UN Islamic culture
culture which has a whole different set
of values and calls to a whole different
set of principles and morals etc etc you
know as a Muslim we should not identify
with that culture in in its external
Expressions the good that is in the
culture it's technology it's uh you know
uh whatever good there is there yes one
may identify and take it benefit but the
external expressions of that culture in
terms of the way they dress the way they
eat the way they you know carry
themselves and then we should avoid
those things because you'll find in many
cases if not all cases that there are
excesses there where they don't have the
guidelines of Revelation then people go
to
excess so we must
beware another
question is it haram for a woman to
beautify herself when Allah said that he
has uh he's given
us a nice
face and uh shouldn't we beautify
it
h
uh beautifying oneself yes Islam permits
beautification a woman beautifies
herself you know for her husband Etc of
course she is careful where she goes out
in public she's going to be in the
presence of men who are marriageable you
know that she does not you know uh cover
beautify herself in such a way that
she's drawing attention to herself you
know putting on lipstick and eyeliner
and eye coloring and all these other
kind of things you know to attract draw
attention to herself she's saying look
at me no she shouldn't do that she
covers herself from head to toe
to decrease the desire for people to
want to look at her and that sense look
at her in a sense of attraction to her
physical attraction which can bring with
it negative
consequences but seeing her dealing with
her as a another fellow member of the
society no harm that's fine so this
beautification type acts Etc should be
done you know in privacy in
circumstances where a woman is not going
to suffer harm for it so she does it for
her husband she's staying at home she's
looking after the home her husband comes
home she beautifies herself for him this
is something recommended she's in front
of her parents she goes to visit her you
know immediate relatives who she cannot
marry she beautifies herself in this way
it is perfectly
okay
but we must
maintain the guidelines which Allah has
set because if a person is going to
beautify themselves by plucking their
eyebrows because this is beautification
we know we eyebrows too thick we want it
very thin Pencil Thin so we pluck out
all the hairs we say no this is
Prophet M wasallam said that Allah
curses the woman who plucks the hairs
from the eyes and the one who has it
plucked similarly spacing of teeth
people go to orthodontist Etc and have
braces put on to close spaces increase
spaces and you know make themselves have
perfect sets of teeth this is forbidden
in Islam also if one has a overbite
where one is not chewing properly you
need to correct that they do it for that
purpose fine but for cosmetic purposes
is cuz you just want a particular look
you shift around your teeth this is
forbidden in Islam so beautification
does have its limits it's not just an
open door you can do anything tattooing
also
forbidden to put tattoo marks some
people in some cultures in North Africa
the women put these dots on their chins
you know from their lips or some of them
dot you know do tattooing on their lips
Etc this is not permissible in Islam
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