Use Of Word Khimar: Compulsion For Muslim Women To Cover Their Hair
How does Javed Sahab define ijma? is there a consensus among scholars about the obligation of covering the hair?
السلام عليكم Ok. Those that take the fact that women culturally (and maybe due to حياء too) covered their heads to mean that it is an obligation need to know that this is not how matters are decreed by God. Men used to wear ازار and God did not stop them from doing so. That doesn’t mean wearing the ازار is a directive of God. They would (in my opinion, of course) be right in saying that the Quran was not stopping them from wearing a headcover but they would be wrong in claiming that wearing one is a directive of God. If God wanted to make a headcover mandatory, He would have said something on the lines of قل للمؤمنات ان… يختمرن ويضرب بخمرهن على جيوبهن (“Tell the believing women to…don a خمار and use it to cover their جيوب”). God did not do this because covering the head was not the purpose of the verse. Look. It isn’t like the Quran just touches upon the أداب of gender interaction and then starts talking about something else. It goes into quite a lot of detail. How dare we say that it just forgot to mention that donning a headcover is mandatory? However, there is something in your way of reasoning that I strongly disagree with and that is understanding someone else’s point of view (in this case, the point of view of the companions) through events that lack any context whatsoever. Reports by their very definition is brought to us by a chain of narrators who use their own words, exclude things from the event on their whim whatever they see fit and have conveyed it however they understood it from the previous person in the chain. Your next point corroborates my statement. That Ghamidi Sahab mentioned a report in which it is not the immigrant women but rather the women of the helpers that are mentioned. This means that we don’t actually know even the few details that the narrators cared to mention 😅. The only thing we can say is that the event pertains to one group of Muslim women exclusively: either the women of the helpers or the immigrant women. Also, regarding how Ghamidi Sahab interpretted this Hadith, can you provide a link to the exact time? 😅 Regarding your last paragraph: we can say that by reading the Quran. We read the Quran, find out it says nothing about covering the head and conclude that headcovering has not been mandated by God. Look, do we agree that a particular group of women changed the cloth they used for their headcover? Nowhere does the report say that that group of women believed what people take them to believe. It is like this: 1) Women were covering their head from eons before the رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسل (this part is agreed upon by most scholars according to what little I know) 2) All women heard these verses 3) A particular group made their headcovers from another cloth How can this be taken to mean that they believed headcovering had been mandated in the Quran? It can be taken to mean that the Quran said something for which a particular group of women needed to change their headcover for. Also, the Prophet did not provide an explanation for these verses to the companions. We can say this because they disagreed about its interpretation between themselves. So, we can disagree with the companions too, but everything we say has to be based on evidence from the Quran itself. Regarding a video of Ghamidi Sahab about Quran-Hadith relation, the moderators can guide you, so you can start another thread for that. I do know, however, that he believes that the injunctions of the Quran are not to be understood through these reports but rather these reports are to be understood in the light of the Quran. For your next response, can you make bullet points out of your reasoning so that I can understand exactly what you mean and how you reason it out and address each point one by one?