Hijabおよびイスラム教の女性


2007年7月17日

Mazuin Osman @ SJ Clarke

の現在の再生によって象徴されるイスラム教の復活 hijab 頻繁に彼らの自尊心をおよびアイデンティティを元通りにする植民地化および経済的な遅滞によって繰り返し下を掘られたアラビアのイスラム教の試みとして考慮される。 それは彼のためのよいまたは悪い状態であるかどうか意識しないでか新しく、不慣れであるかどれがに対して人に保守的な傾向が常にあり、反応する。 何人かの人々はまだイスラム教の女性が身に着けていることを主張することを考える hijab 伝統によって奴隷になり、嘆かわしい状態十分にに気づいていないので「圧迫された状態の非常に記号はであるかどれ。 「ただ」、彼らがおそらく考えれば、「女性の解放および独立の動きはそれらの女性の心に、彼ら取り除く気づかせる hijab.”

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非常に純真な視点はイスラム教の少し知識がある人々によって共有される。 secularismおよび宗教eclecticismにそう慣らされるそれらはイスラム教の教授が普遍的、永遠であることを理解して単にない。 とにかく、ますます女性が、イスラム教を本当の宗教として包含し、毛をカバーするアラビアの国籍を越えて、世界中ある。 hijab 非イスラム教の人々のための奇妙な目的は確かにある。 それらのため、 hijab 女性の毛を覆わなかったりしかしまた不安になぜに関して感じるかそれらがアクセスを有しない、それは実質理由である何かを隠し。 外側から、効果的に、彼らは決してあるものがの後ろに見ることができない hijab. あらゆるイスラム教は神に彼/彼女の生命を捧げる。 それはカトリック教の尼僧の「ベール」についての何も言わない人々がのベールをなぜ批判するか驚異なぜに関してである muslima、それを「テロリズム」または「圧迫」の記号と考慮する。

「なぜ未開地にボディを隠しなさいか。」、頼むことができる。 しかし一般の50年水着で泳ぐ日本の前に考慮されたことを考えなさい。 今度は1つはビキニの日本の水泳を恥じることなく見られた。 しかしトップレスと泳げば、人々は恥知らずであるが、多くの女性フランス南浜に行くために、若くおよび古い、トップレスの太陽浴室を取ることを言う。 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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