Many of the resurgent pre-Islamic cultural practices that have tragically come to be associated with Islam, such as forced marriages, female genital mutilation, bridal (as opposed to groom-paid) dowries, honor killings and the criminalization of rape victims, only resurfaced following the disruption caused by colonialism and the resulting disconnect between the common Muslims and their sources of knowledge. It is always the learned scholars of Islam, men and women, who are the first victim...
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Praise be to Allah.Shaykh al-Albaani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The conditions of hijaab:
Firstly:
(It should cover all the body apart from whatever has been exempted).
Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the
women of the
believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e.
screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the
way). That will be better, that they sh...
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