You said: " When I put on my hijab (veil), I was really happy to do it. In fact, I really want to do it. When I put on the hijab, I felt a great sense of satisfaction and happiness: satisfied that I had obeyed God's command, and happy with the good and blessings that come with it. I have felt secure and protected. In fact people respect me more for it. "
Sister, this gives me great pleasure. I have just experienced a wedding at which my muslim sisters without hijaab - head completely uncovered, very boisterous, exposing their fashionable dresses, mixing up freely with all. !
They are beyond correction, dislikes them, and hence the only alternative now is to write to them individually (anonymous).
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> *There is no compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become clearly
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> to) and believes in Allah, he indeed has laid hold on the firmest handhold,
> which shall not break off, and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.*
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> *Description:* Pondering the status of women in today's society leads Noor
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> I came from a purely Hindu family where we were always taught to regard
> ourselves (i.e. women) as beings who were eventually to be married off and
> have children and serve the husband - whether he was kind or not. Other
> than this, I found that there were a lot of things which really oppressed
> women, such as:****
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> If a woman was widowed, she would always have to wear a white sari
> (costume), eat vegetarian meals, cut her hair short, and never re-marry.
> The bride always had to pay the dowry (bridal money) to the husband's
> family. And the husband could ask for anything, irrespective of whether
> the bride would have difficulty giving it.****
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> Not only that, if, after marriage, she was not able to pay the full dowry,
> she would be both emotionally and physically tortured, and could end up
> being a victim of "kitchen death" where the husband, or both the
> mother-in-law and the husband, try to set fire to the wife while she is
> cooking or is in the kitchen and try to make it look like an accidental
> death. More and more of these instances are taking place. The daughter of
> a friend of my own father's had the same fate last year!****
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> In addition to all this, men in Hinduism are treated literally as among the
> gods. In one of the religious Hindu celebrations, unmarried girls pray for
> and worship an idol representing a particular god (Shira) so that they may
> have husbands like him. Even my own mother had asked me to do this. This
> made me see that the Hindu religion, which is based on superstitions and
> things that have no manifest proof but were merely traditions which
> oppressed women, could not be right.****
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> Subsequently, when I came to England to study, I thought that at least this
> is a country which gives equal rights to men and women and does not oppress
> them. We all have the freedom to do as we like, I thought. Well, as I
> started to meet people and make new friends, learn about this new society,
> and go to all the places my friends went to in order to "socialize" (bars,
> dance halls, etc.), I realized that this "equality" was not so true in
> practice as it was in theory.****
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> Outwardly, women were seen to be given equal rights in education, work, and
> so forth, but in reality women were still oppressed in a different, more
> subtle way. When I went with my friends to those places they hung out at,
> I found everybody interested to talk to me, and I thought that was normal.
> But it was only later that I realized how naïve I was and recognized what
> these people were really looking for. I soon began to feel uncomfortable,
> as if I was not myself: I had to dress in a certain way so that people
> would like me, and had to talk in a certain way to please them. I soon
> found that I was feeling more and more uncomfortable, less and less myself,
> yet I could not get out. Everybody was saying they were enjoying
> themselves, but I don't call this enjoying.****
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> I think women in this way of life are oppressed: they have to dress in a
> certain way in order to please and appear more appealing and also talk in a
> certain way so people like them. During this time, I had not thought about
> Islam, even though I had some Muslim acquaintances. But I felt I really
> had to do something to find something that I would be happy and secure with
> and would feel respected with. Something to believe in that is the right
> belief, because everybody has a belief that they live according to. If
> having fun by getting off with other people is someone's belief, they do
> this. If making money is someone's belief, they do everything to achieve
> this. If they believe drinking is one way to enjoy life then they do it.
> But I feel all this leads to nowhere; no one is truly satisfied, and the
> respect women are looking for is diminishing in this way.****
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> In these days of so called "society of equal rights", you are expected to
> have a boyfriend (or you're weird!) and to not be a virgin. So this is a
> form of oppression even though some women do not realize it. When I came
> to Islam, it was obvious that I had finally found permanent security. A
> religion, a belief that was so complete and clear in every aspect of life.
> Many people have a misconception that Islam is an oppressive religion,
> where women are covered from head to toe and are not allowed any freedom or
> rights. In fact, women in Islam are given more rights, and have been for
> the past 1400 years compared to the only-recently rights given to
> non-Muslim women in some western and some other societies. But there are,
> even now, societies where women are still oppressed, as I mentioned earlier
> in relation to Hindu women.****
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> Muslim women have the right to inheritance. They have the right to run
> their own trade and business. They have the full right to ownership,
> property, disposal over their wealth to which the husband has no right.
> They have the right to education, a right to refuse marriage as long as
> this refusal is according to reasonable and justifiable grounds. The Quran
> itself, which is the Word of God, contains many verses commanding men to be
> kind to their wives and stressing the rights of women. Islam gives the
> right set of rules, because they are NOT made by men, but made by God;
> hence it is a perfect religion.****
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> Quite often Muslim women are asked why they are covered from head to toe
> and are told that this is oppression - it is not. In Islam, marriage is an
> important part of life, the making of the society. Therefore, a woman
> should not go around showing herself to everybody, only for her husband.
> Even the man is not allowed to show certain parts of his body to none but
> his wife. In addition, God has commanded Muslim women to cover themselves
> for their modesty:****
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> "O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the
> believers to draw their cloaks (veils) over their bodies (when outdoors).
> That is most convenient that they could be known as such (i.e. decent and
> chaste) and not molested." (Quran 33:59)****
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> If we look around at any other society, we find that in the majority of
> cases, women are attacked and molested because of how they are dressed.
> Another point I'd like to comment on is that the rules and regulation laid
> down in Islam by God do not apply just to women but to men also. There is
> no intermingling and free-running between men and women for the benefit of
> both. Whatever God commands is right, wholesome, pure and beneficial to
> mankind; there is no doubt about that. A verse in the Quran explains this
> concept clearly:****
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> "Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and protect
> their private parts (i.e. from indecency, illegal sexual acts, etc.); that
> will make for greater purity for them. And God is well aware of what they
> do. And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and
> protect their private parts (from indecency, illegal sexual intercourse,
> etc.); and that they should not display their beauty and ornaments…" (Quran
> 24:31)****
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> When I put on my hijab (veil), I was really happy to do it. In fact, I
> really want to do it. When I put on the hijab, I felt a great sense of
> satisfaction and happiness: satisfied that I had obeyed God's command, and
> happy with the good and blessings that come with it. I have felt secure and
> protected. In fact people respect me more for it. I could really see the
> difference in behavior towards me.****
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> Finally, I'd like to say that I had accepted Islam not blindly, or under
> any compulsion. In the Quran itself there is a verse which says****
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> "…Let there be no compulsion in religion…" (Quran 2:256)****
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> I accepted Islam with conviction. I have seen, been there, done that, and
> seen both sides of the story. I know and have experienced what the other
> side is like, and I know that I have done the right thing. Islam does not
> oppress women, but rather Islam liberates them and gives them the respect
> they deserve. Islam is the religion God has chosen for the whole of
> mankind. Those who accept it are truly liberated from the chains and
> shackles of mankind, whose ruling and legislating necessitates nothing but
> the oppression of one group by another and the exploitation and oppression
> of one sex by the other. This is not the case of Islam which truly
> liberated women and gave them an individuality not given by any other
> authority.****
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