El Hijab y la mujer musulmana


17 de julio de 2007

Mazuin Osman @ SJ Clarke

El renacimiento islámico simbolizado por el resurgimiento actual del hijab se considera a menudo mientras que una tentativa de musulmanes árabes de restaurar su orgullo y la identidad que han sido minadas en varias ocasiones por la colonización y el retraso económico. El hombre ha tenido una tendencia conservadora y reacciona siempre contra cuál es nuevo y desconocedor sin realizar si es bueno o malo para él. Alguna gente todavía piensa que las mujeres musulmanas insisten en usar hijab cuál es “mismo el símbolo de la situación opresa porque él es esclavizada por la tradición y no está suficientemente enterado de su situación lamentable. “Si solamente”, piensan probablemente, “el movimiento de la liberación y de la independencia de las mujeres despierta la mente de esas mujeres, ellos quitará hijab.”

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Un punto de vista tan ingenuo es compartido por la gente que tiene poco conocimiento del Islam. , Que están acostumbrados tan al secularism y al eclecticism religioso, no pueden simplemente entender que la enseñanza del Islam es universal y eterna. De todas formas, hay cada vez más mujeres, más allá de la nacionalidad árabe, por todo el mundo abrazando Islam como la religión verdadera y cubriendo el pelo. hijab está seguramente un objeto extraño para la gente de los no-Musulmanes. Para ellos, hijab no cubre el pelo de la mujer sino también oculta algo a el cual no tienen ningún acceso, y ésa es la razón verdadera en cuanto a porqué se sienten inquietos. Del exterior, con eficacia, pueden nunca ver cuál está detrás de hijab. Cada musulmán dedica su vida al dios. Es una maravilla en cuanto a porqué porqué la gente que no dice nada sobre el “velo” de las monjas católicas critica el velo del muslima, considerándolo un símbolo del “terrorismo” o de la “opresión”.

¿“Por qué piel el cuerpo en su estado natural? ”, usted puede pedir. Pero piense que era considerado hace cincuenta años vulgares en Japón a nadar en un juego de la natación. Uno podría ahora ver la nadada japonesa en un bikiní sin vergüenza. Si usted nada, sin embargo, con un topless, la gente diría que usted es desvergonzado, sino ir a una playa del sur de Francia, donde muchas mujeres, jóvenes y viejos, toman un sol-baño en un topless. If you go to a certain beach on the west coast in America, the nudists take a sun-bath as naked as when they are born. On the other side, at the medieval times, a knight trembled at a brief sight of a shoe of his adoring lady. It shows the definition of women’s “secret part” can be changed. How you can answer to a nudist if she asks you why you hide yours busts and hips although they are as natural as your hands and face? It is the same for the hijab of a muslima. We consider all our body except hands and face as private parts because Allah defined it like this. Its why we hide them from male strangers. If you keep something secret, it increases in value. Keeping a woman’s body secret increases its charm.

Even for the eye of the same sex, the nape of a sister’s neck is surprisingly beautiful because it is normally covered. If a man loses the feeling of shame and starts to walk naked and excrete and “make love” in the presence of other people, he would then become no different than an animal. The problem of sexual harassment which is discussed very frequently proves how men are weak to resist to this kind of attraction. We could not expect prevention of sex harassment only by appealing men’s high morality and self-control. A short skirt might be interpreted by men to say: “if you want me, you may take me”, a hijab means clearly, “I am forbidden for you.”

The Muslim woman covers herself for her own dignity. She refuses to be possessed by the eyes of a stranger and to be his object. She feels nothing but a sense of pity for the Western women who display their private parts as sexual objects for male strangers. If one observes the hijab from outside, one will never see what is hidden in it. Observing the hijab from the outside and living it from inside are two completely different things. We see different things.

This gap explains the chasm separating those from the understanding of Islam. From the outside, Islam looks like a “prison” without any liberty. But living inside of it, we feel at peace and experience freedom and joy that we have never known before. We choose Islam against the so-called freedom and pleasure. If it is true that Islam is a religion that oppresses the women, why are there so many young women in Europe, in America, and in Japan who abandon their liberty and independence to embrace Islam? A person blinded because of his prejudice may not see it, but a woman with the hijab is so brightly beautiful as an angel or a saint with self-confidence, calmness, and dignity. Not a slight touch of shade nor any trace of oppression is visible on her face.

“They are blind and cannot see”, says the Qur’an about those who deny the sign of Allah, but by what else can we explain this gap on the understanding of Islam between us and those people?

The author is a college lecturer and she blogs at www.awinsjclarke.com

2 Responses to “The Hijab and The Muslim Woman”

  1. hijab said on 16 August 2007:

    Everyone has a right to dress the way they want so if a Muslim woman wants to wear a hijab she should be able to

  2. afzal said on 18 August 2007:

    hello,

    the so-called ‘injunction’ is of course the fuqaha’s construct of the texts. the same fuqaha who say that the non-free muslims girl’s hair is NOT subject to being covered.

    the supporters of the hijab (surely you wouldn’t want women to wear it compulsorily) are on to a loser right from the start: the word ‘hijab’ means a ‘curtain.’ this is specifically used for the wives of the prophet speaking etc behind it. it doesn’t mean headcover. the word for headcover is ‘khimar’ that u use the word ‘hijab’ to mean headcover ought to send alarms ringing -, yes khimar something which the men wore too. that the muslim women should cover using THEIR khimars - means that it was something already in vogue -it’s not a new ‘injunction’. the point is being free from molestation. that’s is the maqsid of the shar’. why not apply islam for today?

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