Question

In an Islamic governance based on Koran and Hadith do women have the freedom of wearing a hijab or not wearing one?

Answer 1

**I am not asking whether the Qur'an and Hadith tells women to wear the hijab. (I understand that it does.)** I however am asking in sharia law, can an Islamic governance have the ability to punish women for not wearing the hijab, if so what is the punishment? Please give list your sources.

Answer 2

nope they can't punish a woman ever , its her personal choice to do it

Answer 3

@ikram002p can you give resources support your answer? Like verses from the Koran, etc. I know that Saudi Arabia does actually punish women for not wearing the hijab, why is that?

Answer 4

idk SA goverment is sort of crazy
waring a hijab is something u do by ur choise
like to pray no one punish u for not praying

Answer 5

how ever , i can tell no verses says that a woman should be punish for not wearing hijab

Answer 6

Saudi Arabia is basically a place where Mekka is
thats why this country is very religious

about Hijab
for a muslim woman- she 'should' wear hijab
covering herself and all
but nothing is FORCED here
even believing is not forced

Allah gave a choice
to follow Him and HIs rules
or Not to

is Our choice.

But of course - everything has an end
so the one to answer for our deeds and choices - is We OURSELVES
all He will say is
Didn't I tell you? (through prophets and all)
thats it.

Answer 7

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1qjvyF59c8

Answer 8

Allah clearly says in Quran women should be in the hijab because woman is like the diamond when u show it in the market fully then u will have no value but when u keep it in the hijab then people will want to see it ... because when Hazrat Muhammad ( SAW) went on (meerage) then he saw the hell is fully fill with the woman because they were those women who dont wear the hijab and the hijab keep the mind's thinking of man in the limits he can never think bad about the woman who wears hijab because he know that she is the most respectful and the more pious woman of ALLAH ...

May ALLAH protect us ....
ameen

Answer 9

My personal opinion is all people should be respected, the position that there are more precious people than others is what wrong with the world today. Its true that some have a more natural ability than others but with that comes greater responsibility. Its those who refuse to live up to their responsibilities that create evil in the world and are willing to live in it. It say's in the wisdom literature the no one should take pleasure when evil falls upon anyone, and I suspect even the most evil. Modesty has it extremes from public nudity to hijab and I believe there should be a happy medium. Personally I see the West going far toward public nudity which is propagated though the audio visual medium, while the east may use the hijab to continue to enslave woman. I don't believe any person should be own by another and mutual respect is required. Religious devotion can't be enforce with a gun to one's head, and I believe God prefers those who choose a particular way of life and not because of circumstance.

Answer 10

@Sony has it right, in Islam everything is by \(\textbf{choice}\), you choose to sin, you choose to repent. If you are looking for a ideal Islam country (currently there are none) Saudi Arabia would be far from that. Amusingly enough, in Saudi Arabia there are laws in which could be considered from sharia law to be unIslamic.

Saudi Arabia has a law forcing women to wear the niqab not the hijab.
Hijab does not cover the face.
Niqab covers the face.

Simple enough, Islam wants people to do things from their \(own~neeyat\) (intention).

BTW, Saudi Arabia enforces the niqab even on non-Muslim women... Do I even have to explain how wrong that is under sharia law? Sharia law is only for Muslims, not for non-Muslims. Non-Muslim get their own court, normally secular.

Saudi Arabia's government is patriarchy centered nothing truly Islamic about it if it was Islamic it would let the women speak for themselves.

So to sum it up:
Sharia law has many interpretations, but from the majority of scholars of Islam I would say most agree that Islam wants the women to wear the hijab not by force but through their own neeyat.

P.S. This is coming from a Orthodox Traditional Muslim. (Not a progressive one, if anyone thinks that matters.)

Answer 11

@Opcode its Somy :3 and good job!!

Answer 12

@Somy my apologies, I should have worn my glasses.

Thank you, good job yourself though. :-)

Answer 13

haha missed ur comments xD