Yes! This is the same "Veil/Purdah" which Europe loathes and detests, and the
very vision of which weighs heavily on the Western conscience, and which is
regarded as a mark of oppression, narrow mindedness and barbarism. Yes, this is
the same thing that is mentioned first of all in pointing out the ignorance and
backwardness of an Eastern nation. So much so that when a person has to
describe the cultural and social advancement of an Eastern nation, the first
thing that he mentions with great satisfaction is that it has discarded the
"Purdah/Veil". Now if the Muslim so feels, let him hang his head with shame.
For it is not something that was devised and adopted later it was indeed
devised by the Qur'an itself and established by the Holy Prophet himself as a
social custom...
Indeed, all the disputes about the veil spring from this hypocrisy. People
have tried their very best to prove that the present form of Purdah/Veil was a
custom of the pre-Islamic communities, and that Muslims adopted this custom of
ignorance long after the time of the Holy Prophet.
If one carefully considers these injunctions for Purdah/Veil, one will find
that the Islamic Purdah/Veil is not a custom of ignorance, but it is a rational
law. A custom of ignorance is something rigid: it does not permit modification
or change under any circumstances. If it covers a thing, it covers it forever,
and it cannot be uncovered whatever may happen. In contrast to this, a rational
law is flexible. It permits strictness and laxity according to the
circumstances'; it permits exceptions in its rules according to the time and
occasion.
"O Prophet, enjoin your wives and daughters and the women of the Muslims to
draw their outer-garments close round them; it is expected that they will be
recognized, and thus not molested..." (33:59)
"Every religion has a morality, and the morality of Islam is Haya (Shyness)".
The word "Purdah/Veil" is used as a title for the set of injunctions, which
constitute the most important part of the Islamic system of community life. If
these injunctions are viewed in their right perspective against the structure
of this system, every person who has not wholly lost his powers of discernment
will readily admit this to be the only balanced and just view in regard to
man's social life.
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