Head Covering For Women
I think first we need to see whether there is any linguistic flaw in his interpretation or he is interpreting the whole structure in a wrong way; incorporating preconceived sense into something from a linguistic standpoint is not a fair way to do it. According to my limited research on the matter, Ghamidi sb. is right in making the claim that “Zeenah” can never be used in the meaning of natural beauty/body parts because for beauty, Arabic has a separate word for it i.e. ‘Husn’. This view further gets solidified when we reach Surah Araf (7: 31-32) يَا بَنـِي آدَمَ خُذُوْا زِيْنَتَكُمْ عِنْدَ كُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ وكُلُوْا وَاشْرَبُوْا وَلَا تُسْرِفُوْا إِنَّهُ لاَ يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِيْنَ. قُلْ مَنْ حَرَّمَ زِينَةَ اللّهِ الَّتِيَ أَخْرَجَ لِعِبَادِهِ وَالْطَّيِّبَاتِ مِنَ الرِّزْقِ قُلْ هِي لِلَّذِيْنَ آمَنُوْا فِي الْـحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا خَالِصَةً يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ كَذَلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُوْنَ There’s no way one can imply body parts or beauty here, it can only be used as embellishment/adornment, something over and above the natural beauty/body parts. Attached here is exegesis of Mufti Taqi Usmani, a highly regarded contemporary scholar of Deo-Bandi school of thought; even he has used the word embellishment in the translation and later on in the explanation, he somehow equated embellishment with body parts which is quite an enigmatic leap for me. Furthermore, if we assume that a lady has already been forbidden to show her body in absolute sense (as can be seen in the attached image) , then why is Quran mentioning covering of chest right after that? Doesn’t this additional qualification seems useless righter after absolute prohibition? This according to my understanding leaves a logical flaw in the structure of sentence.
If you read the whole thing above, it’s categorized as mandatory. “The Almighty requires of a Muslim woman to not display her make-up or other embellishments such as jewellery before unknown men except what she has adorned her hands, feet and face with. The Qur’an has made it mandatory upon Muslim women to follow this directive .”