Is Wearing Hijab An Obligation What Makes Ghamidi Sahab's View Valid?
Whatever is considered Zeenat is Zeenat. Zeenat is something external beautification applied to the body or hair. So styling your hair is not its beautification; however, if you dye it, it is beautification or zeenat, just like Mehndi on hands. The women would cover their heads as a cultural norm, not as a religious command. We need to differentiate between cultural norms and religious commands. The wives of the Prophet were given special protocols to keep them aloof from other people. Therefore, the verse that addresses them excludes other women: يَا نِسَاءَ النَّبِيِّ لَسْتُنَّ كَأَحَدٍ مِّنَ النِّسَاءِ ۚ إِنِ اتَّقَيْتُنَّ فَلَا تَخْضَعْنَ بِالْقَوْلِ فَيَطْمَعَ الَّذِي فِي قَلْبِهِ مَرَضٌ وَقُلْنَ قَوْلًا مَّعْرُوفًا ‎﴿٣٢﴾‏ وَقَرْنَ فِي بُيُوتِكُنَّ وَلَا تَبَرَّجْنَ تَبَرُّجَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ الْأُولَىٰ Wives of the Prophet! You are not like common women . If you fear God, do not adopt a soft tone [with these people] so that he who has an ailment in his heart should have any false hope and speak to them in the conventional way. Not only the prophet but all the pepole, whether they were believers or disbelievers, had a beard. This is again a cultural thing. The prophet did not include it in the content of religion. As Muslims, we are bound to follow the Prophet. If we do not accept anything binding upon us, we are no longer Muslims. But we do not follow blindly; we try our best to understand what religion is and what it is not.
Brother, I get it external beautifications are zeenat, I asked what zeenat are asked to kept hidden, as per religion doesn’t obligate it on us to wear hijab according to what you said, then if I do not wear hijab then my zeenat (could be ear rings, or any kind of jewellery or some head accessories or scarf or even make up ) will be left open, now does it make me sinful,? It is complicated, since what I’ve understood after listening to ghamidi sahab’s series on pardah, was that you can leave open the accessories unless it is a necklace and there r 3 stages of pardah and anyone on the first stage or the after is not doing anything wrong everybody has their own journey practicing Islam, now I’m wondering, anyone who is not doing complete pardah, maybe for women, who are not covering up as much as women who are hijabis, but they are mindful of covering up properly enough where their private parts are not exposed, and the parts close to their private parts, are they sinful, kindly elaborate it properly on this part aswell,
In the verse, the expression “illā mā ẓahara minhā” is often interpreted to mean those parts of the body that are customarily visible, such as the hands, face, and feet. However, some people argue that in contemporary practice, women also leave their hair uncovered, while ensuring that the chest area remains properly covered. From this perspective, the phrase may be understood to mean that if a garment is placed over the jewelry worn on the chest, yet some part of it remains visible through the clothing, then this is not something over which a woman has control. I think it is still so complicated.
Salam English translation of Al Bayan is available in pakistan?