The Niqab Is Obligatory

Time for Rebuttals:I will be organizing my rebuttals in points :1- is the woman truly all Awrah including her face ?The "Hadeeth" mentioned by my opponent is not even a hadeeth but some scholar opinion and he acknowledged it honestly in the comment section.By the consensus of the Muslim Ummah the male and female Muslim Have to hide their Awrah in the prayer, and By the Consensus of the Muslim scholars again , the Awrah of the female is All her body except for her face and hands. if the face of the woman was Awrah the prayer wouldn't be valid without niqab , and no scholar of Islam can say this ! Aishah narrated that: Allah's Messenger said: "The Salat of a women who has reached the age of menstruation is not accepted without a Khimar" (Sahih) And Shawl was unanimously interpreted as shawl or hair cover not face cover ! Conclusion 1 : women face is not Awrah in Islam2- Does the fact that Aisha and a lot of other women understood the Al-Ahzab as covering the body including the face necessitate it being Compulsory to cover the face? No. if the majority of the companions do something or believe something it doesn't make it compulsory , but makes it Allowed at minimum and liked at maximum. for something to be compulsory they need to be unanimous, and for Niqab they were not as I have shown by hadeeths and Quran Arabic tafseer that pointed out the companions differing. 3-My opponent accuse me to misinterpret the 59th verse of chapter Al-Ahzab,Here is the part of the verse that interests us, in Arabic: { يَا أَيّهَا النَّبِيّ قُلْ لِأَزْوَاجِك وَبَنَاتك وَنِسَاء الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يُدْنِينَ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِنْ جَلَابِيبهنَّ }And the problematic word is يُدْنِينَ عَلَيْهِنَّ : Yod-neena aleyhinna, that is literally :They bring close on themselves . Ask any Arabic speaker about this sentence. but unfortunately the translators don't translate the quran words , but translate one of the interpreters opinion which is obviously a biased translation, and the only way to make sure the translation is accurate is to bring the Arabic verse and take the old Arabic dictionaries like "lissan al Arab", and praise be to Allah nothing is lost from the quran and we don't depend on translators opinions.4- My opponent suggest that the women who covered their face actually covered it with the Djilbab itself! which would eventually match the command in the Al ahzab verse, but unfortunately for him the women who covered their face took a new piece of cloth independent from the djilbab and fixed it on their Had so that they can bring it down or take it back up.Here is a drawing to illustrate the idea that the verse command does not necessitate to cover the face. click="document.location='/Fruitytree/photos/album/2463/17203/'" src="../../../photos/albums/1/3/2463/74776-2463-r93wz-a.jpg" alt="" /> so if a woman wanted to cover her face she would have had to add a new piece of cloth for that purpose, and that exactly what the wives of Al Ansar did as reported aisha: "When (the Verse): "that they bring their Djilbab close on them" was revealed, (the ladies) cut their waist sheets at the edges and covered their faces with the cut pieces." but the verse speaks about Djilbab that already exists , so obviously the wives of ansar did something additional to what they ware asked. not saying this was bad, but not compulsory.4- Finally about Islamic scholars opinions,The three great scholars: Malik, Abu Hanifah, Eshafii, agree that it is not forbidden for the woman to discover her face in the presens of stranger men.And Ahmad ibn hanbal did not clearly speak about the face but was speaking about the feet including the nail, but people misinterpreted his statement and generalised and his own student did differ! Here his statement in Arabic: ( نقل أبو طالب : ظفر المرأة عورة , فإذا خرجت فلا يبين منها شيء و لا خفها , فإن الخف يصف القدم , وأحب إلى أن تجعل لكمها زرا عند يدها لا يبين منها شيء ) Which is literally : The nail of the woman is awrah, so if she goes out nothing should be displayed, not even her Khuff (sandals) as the sandals describe the feet,, and I like that she takes buttons for her sleeves to her hands so nothing is visible from her.So the position of Ibn hanbal was this statement that doesn't speak about the face at all, doesn't even ask to hide the hands, but some people interpreted it according to their own logic.http://majles.alukah.net... Now dear readers , with all the above I think you will be able to make your own opinion.We have one more round for eventually more rebuttals or arguments if my opponent has more to say.