Thursday, July 14, 2011
If hijab is to annihilate women´s personality why do these women wearing it still wear makeup?
Ok, here’s how this works. Hijab is not meant to be to annihilate any woman’s personality. I agree with you on the fact that some social factors are aimed at that (even in our cultures as I don’t find those magazines that teach women that they are only worth something if they can be as thin as a stick to please men empowering to women). From my study, the main purpose of the Hijab from approximately 1500 years ago, when Islam first immerged, is to protect women in the desert. First of all, even men covered their face from the windy, dusty burning hot weather and second, at the time, there was no such thing as law (that’s what Islam proposed). Any man can just basically kidnap any woman and do whatever he pleases with her. Therefore, it was just the natural thing for society to develop a way to protect the women from such fate. In the modern day however, there are many who argue with or against Hijab proposing that it is tradition and exploring its reasons religiously. Some Muslim women chose to wear it and are proud that their religious belief is one that is aimed to protect women to the greatest extent. Other Muslim women, however choose not to wear it and from my information both groups of women are respected and supported by their religion. Regardless of weather Hijab is required or it is a traditional form of clothing it is worn by personal consent as in Islam anything one is forced to do is not accountable for. Thus, those women who chose to wear the Hijab have the choice to add any accessories they please to it. Basically everyone is entitled to their opinion about what they feel is right and what they find comfort in. Just think of it this way, if Islam was meant to annihilate a woman’s personality then it would keep the old custom of buying and selling women without the attempt to protect them…and you are right, then women wouldn’t have a choice on what to add to their Hijab.
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