Use Of Word Khimar: Compulsion For Muslim Women To Cover Their Hair
Sorry bro my choice of words was confusing • Yes I know hijab actually means a barrier. What I meant to say was that in modern terminology, the word hijab just means a headcover, just like khimaar meant a headcover back then. So if today someone tells a woman to ” wrap/place their hijabs over their bosoms” and there would be another hadith ” when they heard it they tore some sheets and wore a hijab made of that cloth” , wouldn’t it mean that covering the head is mandatory? • Yes bro I’m aware about the awrah of slave women as defined by classical scholars. I for one could never understand how they managed to reach that conclusion, despite the fact that the Qur’an clearly instructs ALL Muslim women to cover their bosoms with khimaar and doesn’t make any distinction between free and slave women in this regard. The thing is that I want to reach the truth, from the Qur’an and the Sunnah and the sahih ahadith( Ghamidi Sahab does say that while ahadith do not add anything new, they do explain what’s already mentioned in the Quran , if I’m not mistaken) , and nor what the previous scholars thought about it. • My point is , Ghamidi Sahab says that while akhbaar-e-ahad don’t add anything new to religion but they still provide an explanation of what’s already been mentioned(again, if I’m not mistaken) so why can’t someone argue that the while the Qur’an just says to wear/place their khimaars over their bosoms, but because khimaar meant headcover, a confusion arises(for those who weren’t there in the community at the time of revelation) on whether the ayat is instructing that the just the bosoms be covered by a khimaar ( or any other equivalent) or the instruction was to wear a khimaar like one normally would and then also cover their bosoms with it, so to clear this confusion, we looked at the tradtions for explanation, and we came across this hadith which probably meant that the women also covered their heads with it? Thanks