Quote of the Week!

 Quote of the Week!

Background of the Quote!

Hijab in the Quran:

The term “Hijab” is reiterated seven times in the Qur'an referring each time exactly to the same meaning. “Hijab” means curtain, separation, wall and, in other words, anything that hides, masks and protects something.

Allah says,

“And tell the believing women to lower their gaze, and protect their private parts and not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent (like both eyes for necessity to see the way)and to draw their veils all over Juyubihinna (i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bosoms) and not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husband’s fathers, or their sons, or their husband’s sons, or their brothers or their brother’s sons, or their sister’s sons, or their (Muslim) women (i.e. their sisters in Islam), or the (female) slaves whom their right hands possess, or old male servants who lack vigour, or small children who have no sense of feminine sex. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And all of you beg Allah to forgive you all, O believers, that you may be successful.”

[al-Nur 24:31]

Hadiths about -Background of Verse of Hijab

‘Aishah narrated that the wives of the Prophet used to go out at night to al-Manasi’ (well known places in the direction of al-Baqi’) to relieve themselves and ‘Umar used to say to the Prophet , “Let your wives be veiled.” But the Messenger of Allah  did not do that. Then one night Sawdah bint Zam’ah, the wife of the Prophet,went out at ‘Isha time and she was a tall woman. ‘Umar called out to her: “We have recognized you, O Sawdah!” hoping that hijab would be revealed, then Allah revealed the verse of hijab.

(Narrated by al-Bukhari, 146; Muslim, 2170)

Hijab According to Quran

Hijab -As practiced in  Islam & by Taliban

From the age of eight onward, girls in Afghanistan are not allowed to be in direct contact with males other than a close "blood relative", husband, or in-law Other restrictions for women were:

• Women should not appear in the streets without a blood relative or without wearing a burqa.
• Women should not wear high-heeled shoes as no man should hear a woman's footsteps lest it excite him.
• Women must not speak loudly in public as no stranger should hear a woman's voice.
• All ground and first-floor residential windows should be painted over or screened to prevent women from being visible from the street.
• Photographing, filming and displaying pictures of females in newspapers, books, shops or the home was banned.
• The modification of any place names that included the word "women". For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden".
• Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses.
• Ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind.
• And the last straw on camel's back:-
• Kabul, March 17,2022 ;The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in a letter to the Health Ministry earlier this month, warned that healthcare services should be denied to women who do not observe the Islamic hijab.

 

So says Guru Nanak,

"भंडि जमीऐ भंडि निमीऐ भंडि मंगणु वीआहु ॥

 Bẖand jammīai bẖand nimmī bẖand mangaṇ vīāhu. 

From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. 
भंडहु होवै दोसती भंडहु चलै राहु ॥

 Bẖandahu hovai ḏosṯī bẖandahu cẖalai rāhu.

Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come

 सो किउ मंदा आखीऐ जितु जमहि राजान ॥ 

So kio manḏā ākẖīai jiṯ jamėh rājān.

 So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. 
  भंडहु ही भंडु ऊपजै भंडै बाझु न कोइ ॥"

 Bẖandahu hī bẖand ūpjai bẖandai bājẖ na ko

From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all.

The Quote:

"Organized religions were created in a way for man to gain control the woman making her victim of notion of fabricated concepts like chastity and low in strength relegating her to a secondary level of being (exception being  Sikhism where there is concept of equality of sexes). Thank you God,firstly for not having made me a woman and secondly giving  birth to our women folk to parents following Hindu saint Nanak-founded Sikh faith not practicing Islamic slavery and not to  fundamentalist Islamist or Taliban who do not consider woman personal property a sex object."

-Tejinder Kamboj

                (1940-20??)