Veils Identity Card

Veils Identity Card

- Name/ Family Name: The Mark of Dignity

- Father's Name: The Divine Doctrine

- Mother's Name: The Purity of the Morals

- Place of Birth: The Fortress of Chastity

- Date of Birth: Since the Dawn of Humanity

- Sect: The True Divine Religion

- Record Number: The First Priority of the Girl

- Profession: Uprooting the corruption from the society and preventing the devil form misleading people

- Peculiarity: A Crown of Light Worn by the Girl

Did God really order the girl to wear the veil? Of course, He did, and He sent down noble verses in order to announce this duty to women.

The first verse is Verse 59 of Al-Ahzab [The Confederates] Chapter: ﴾O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks all over their bodies. That will be better, that they should be known, so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is Ever Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful﴿. Therefore, God, through His prophet Mohammad (God's prayers bestowed upon him and his Household), calls the women to wear the loose garment from top to bottom i.e. to wear the garment in a way that covers the body, the head, and the breast too.

This order has a very sublime aim: It is that the woman be known as a chaste Muslim. This prevents the corrupted people from trying to hurt her. The woman becomes by this a symbol of the dignity of the Islamic nation.

The second verse is Verse 31 of Al-Nour [The Light] Chapter ﴾And tell the believing women to lower their gaze, protect their private parts, not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent, to draw their veils all over their bodies, and not to reveal their adornment except to…﴿. This verse calls the female believers to:
- lower their eyes from looking at what is forbidden
- preserve their dignity and chastity
- hide their adorning i.e. not to show out the body parts on which the ornaments are put
- arrange the large veil that covers the head in a way that covers the breast too

All these points emphasize the necessity of wearing the veil for the Muslim girl and woman. O pure one! God liked that you wear the veil, so blessed be you for this grant and for this love.

We advise you to read: "My Tale with the Veil".

Standards of Veiling

Dear girl! It is a wonderful thing to see veiled girls everywhere in the street, house, school, and mosque. This reflects that our society is sticking to the veil. Yet is this veil exactly what God wants?

To know the answer, you must know the conditions of true veiling. Veiling must follow the next standards:
1- It must cover the whole body excluding the face and the hands.
2- It must not attract the attention of others neither in its color nor in its form.
3- It must not be transparent showing what is under it.
4- It must be wide.
5- It must not be a garment similar to that of men.
6- It must not be accompanied by shamelessness, showing off ornaments, and bad behavior that harms the believing personality.

Kinds of Veil

O you shining in the garment of light and purity! Your veil reveals the sublime values of your soul. There are two kinds of veil:

The first one is the religious cloth that is made up of a wide long garment and a cover for the head. The second one is the aba [cloak] which is the garment that covers all the parts of the body of the woman from head to toes.

Dear one! The aba meets all the standards of the religious veil in the best possible way. Because of this, it has become a title for the believing girl who refuses to exchange her clothes for all the fashion models that are presented under the title of keeping pace with the current century and being similar to the foreign people.

Limits of the Veil

You have known the standards and kinds of veil. You still need to know its limits in order to separate between what you have to cover and what you can show. As we have already said, the girl has to cover all the parts of her body excluding her face and hands.

The limit of veil in the face: It is what you must wash in ablution i.e. what the thumb and the middle finger, in width, can reach from the origin of the hair, till the point of the chin in length (according to the drawn figure).

The limit of veil in the hands: It is from the fingertips till the wrist from the side of the palm.

N.B: You have to cover some of the parts that you can show. This is so in order to gain the conviction to cover what you have to cover.

Grooming and Adorning

When God created the human being and made the male and the female, He wanted the female to be a symbol of softness and beauty. This softness and beauty are, therefore, a divine blessing for humanity. Then, what changes this blessing into a curse? It is grooming and adorning.

What are grooming and adorning?

Grooming is that the female shows her beauties to the marriageable men.

Adorning includes all kinds of adornments that are stuck to the body (lipstick, nail polish, eyeliner, etc) and those put on the body (jewelles, gold, etc). When the female shows these adornments to marriageable men, she is then grooming.

The kinds of adornments that you must not show to marriageable men are:

1- The apparent adornments which are put on the face and the hands, such as: lipstick, nail polish, ring, etc: ﴾…and not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women [sisters in Islam], the female slaves whom their right hand possesses, old male servants who lack vigor, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex…﴿
2- The hidden adornments which are put on the internal parts of the body, such as: necklace, hair clip, anklet, etc: ﴾…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﴿.

Though the hidden adornments are permitted in themselves and though you can show them to unmarriageable men, you can not show them to marriageable men.

Then, who are the unmarriageable kins?

O you yearning to God's protection! You must know whom your unmarriageable kins are because you must wear the veil in front of the marriageable kins.

The Noble Qur'an determines for you the unmarriageable kins in Verse 31 of Al-Nour [The Light] Chapter and in other verses and chapters.

Verse 31 of Al-Nour Chapter is ﴾And tell the believing women to lower their gaze, protect their private parts, not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent, draw their veils all over their bodies, and not to reveal their adornments except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women [sisters in Islam], the female slaves whom their right hand possesses, old male servants who lack vigor, or small children who have no sense of the shame of 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﴿.

The unmarriageable kins are divided into two parts.

First: The Unmarriageable Men in Kinship

They are:
1- the father and the grandfather
2- the son and the grandson
3- the brother from the mother and the father or from one of them
4- nephews
5- direct uncles or indirect uncles (the uncles of the father and the mother)

You can not marry any of the men mentioned above. You can, therefore, show your adornments to them, shake hands with them, and the like.

Second: The Unmarriageable Kins in Reason

They are those who were originally foreign, but they have become from the unmarriageable kins for a certain reason. Or they are those who are considered unmarriageable for a certain reason too. They are:

1- the husband who is no more a foreign because of marriage
2- the husband's father and his son from another wife
3- the other women: Here you have to pay attention from those who describe women's bodies to marriageable men
4- the children who have not reached maturity yet and who still do not know about the issues of marriage and the relationship between males and females
5- 6- the men who have become in a condition in which they do not need women, and the slaves (This is no more found in our century)

The Jurisprudence of the Veil

O you caring for your religion! "God likes that when anyone of you performs any deed to master it." On this basis, we gathered for you a group of jurisprudence points that will help you to master your veil. You need to read them carefully and to apply them precisely. To be remarked, these points are not difficult at all.

1- If a part of your hair or body appears while you are praying, you can cover it and complete your prayer without the need to stop or repeat it.

2- If the veil you are wearing comes between your forehead and the spot of prostration, you have to drag your forehead to reach it or to pull the veil a little from your forehead. You are not permitted to raise your forehead to make it reach the spot of prostration.

3- You can take photos for yourself without wearing the veil among your unmarriageable kins, but the photographer must be a woman or one of your unmarriageable kins.

4- If you get ill and can not be cured unless the doctor sees and touches you, you are not permitted to consult a male doctor unless it is impossible or very difficult to consult a professional female doctor.

5- There is a difference between the veil during praying and the veil in front of the marriageable men:

- In front of the marriageable men, you must cover the surface of your foot whereas you are not obliged to cover it during praying.
- You can wear tight clothes during praying while you can not do so in front of marriageable men.

The Social Role of the Responsible Girl

After your journey in the wonderful garden of Islam and after picking the flowers of knowledge from it, have you started to recognize the features of your chaste, faithful, and successful future? Have you realized the nature of the role that you have to play in this life as a responsible human being and as an effective member in your society?

You are responsible to answer these questions. Why? It is so because nobody but you can take the decision of being either:

- a committed girl who is aware of the duties that she has to carry out and who is ready to do so.
- or a negligent girl who is not ready to carry out her duties even though she is aware of them.

Why not be ready?

Let us discuss the reasons.

The first reason is that the girl does not really believe in these duties and in this role. This is called weakness of faith. She acknowledges that God and the hereafter exist; that God sent the prophets with divine messages and books; that performing the duties announced in the messages leads her to Heaven; and that the human being has to play an effective role in the society. Although she acknowledges all of this, she is not ready to endure some difficulties on this path.

Islam gives you the solution for this problem: "The eagerness does not get short for what the heart believes in." This means that if you have a true faith, your eagerness will increase and then you will perform your duties.

Therefore, believe in your creed; use your intellect; and understand well what the religion imposes on you.

The second reason is that there are obstacles, which we call "conspiracy". This conspiracy is plotted against the girl, especially the Muslim one, in order to rob her of her human identity, to deviate her from the path of chastity, and to enter her into the mazes of loss and absurdity.

Frankly, this conspiracy is found in every modern cloth, printed material, and story. We can also figure it in the television programs and in films and in songs. We fear that weakness penetrates into your and your peers' hearts. This may throw you into a state of loss and then make you abandon your duties and linger in performing the role appointed to you in this life.

If you do not go up now on the ladder of success, when will you do this?

Beware of messing around, distraction, abandoning the duties, and bad morals.

Conclusion

We do not want to disturb your joy of becoming a responsible girl or to blacken your atmosphere of hope and light. Yet we believe that the danger is serious and that the consequences are unfavorable.

We have a great trust in you, for you have started with a firm foot on the path of salvation under the shadows of the Qur'an and the Household (God's peace bestowed upon them). Also, your parents are taking care of you, and your good peers are accompanying you.

Therefore, all conspiracies will, by God's Help, fail to destroy your flourishing future.

Congratulations for your journey of responsibility

Blessed be the crown of light on your head

May God protect you till you

Reach the perfection He designed you for.