Recently I received a SMS related to Hijab. The SMS which I received is also received and forwarded by thousands of people in Pakistan. A friend of mine told me that the message is also spread largely on social networking websites.
The message which I received on my mobile is as follows:
As Salam-o-Alykum ,?The government of new Zealand is running an online Poll on yahoo to know your opinion about banning NIKAAB in their country please help sister in New Zealand by voting , We are losing by about 6000 votes at the moment ?. please do not ingnore it , it only take 5 seconds just open the link n click “NO” please forward to all muslims..???http://nz.news.yahoo.com/polls/popup/-/poll_id/55492
By Shiza Hassan
Saba
Good effort Shiza. We all need to save Hijab. Is it necessary for a woman to cover her face in the presence of strangers (who are not her designated Mahaarim) according to ShariƔh.
Surah An-Nur, Verses 30 and 31
‘And Say to the believing women to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts) and not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent (like both eyes for necessity to see the way, or outer palms of hands or one eye or dress like veil, gloves, head-cover, apron), and to draw their veils all over Juyubihinna (i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bossoms) 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. 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’
Mohammad
Hijab ? Our Islamic cultural uniform