Hijab in Islam-Part II

Hijab in Islam-Part I

Other hadith apropos to dress

A ban on cottony clothes

Narrated Al-Bara: The Prophet ordered us to beam seven things: To appointment the sick; chase burial processions; say 'May Allah accord His Mercy on you', to the adenoids if he says, 'Praise be to Allah!'; He forbade us to abrasion silk, Dibaj, Qassiy and Istibarq (various kinds of bright clothes); or to use red Mayathir (silk-cushions).

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 72, Number 740

The banning of cottony is a aphorism that relates to men only, as it is apparent as effeminate. Muslim men are additionally banned from cutting gold jewellery for the aforementioned reason. 

Some banned practices apropos to accouterment

Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: Allah's Apostle forbade Ishtimal-As-Samma' (wrapping one's anatomy with a apparel so that one cannot accession its end or booty one's duke out of it). He additionally forbade Al-Ihtiba' (sitting on buttocks with knees abutting to belly and anxiety afar with the easily ambit the knees) while wrapping oneself with a distinct garment, after accepting a allotment of it over the clandestine parts.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 8, Number 363

Garments that annoyance or adhere low

Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar: The Prophet said Allah will not look, on the Day of Resurrection at the being who drags his apparel (behind him) out of conceit. On that Abu Bakr said, "O Allah's Apostle! One ancillary of my Izar hangs low if I do not booty affliction of it." The Prophet said, 'You are not one of those who do that out of conceit."

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 72, Number 675

Some advisers say that this was said in the ambience of the time, area bolt was expensive. People would abrasion clothes that trailed to the arena to authenticate their wealth, and it was a attribute of abundance and accordingly pride. Some Muslim men adopt to abrasion clothes that end aloof aloft their ankles due to this hadith. 

Hijab and adoration

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The Prophet (peace be aloft him) said: Allah does not acquire the adoration of a woman who has accomplished adolescence unless she wears a veil.

Abu Dawud, Book 2, Number 0641

It is able-bodied accustomed by best advisers that while praying, women charge awning aggregate except the easily and face. It is banned to awning the face while praying.

Men charge awning from the axis to the knee. 

Cross bathrobe

Men are banned from bathrobe or acting like women, and carnality versa, in hadith such as this one:

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: Allah's Apostle accursed those men who are in the alikeness (assume the manners) of women and those women who are in the alikeness of men.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 72, Number 773

Veiling while on Hajj 

There is an Islamic attitude that women - and men - should not blind their faces while on the Hajj pilgrimage. Some hadith are acclimated to abutment this view:

Yahya accompanying to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar acclimated to say that a man in ihram should not blind annihilation aloft his chin.

Malik's Muwatta, Book 20, Number 20.5.13b

Yahya accompanying to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar acclimated to say that a woman in ihram should abrasion neither a blind nor gloves.

Malik's Muwatta, Book 20, Number 20.5.15

(Ihram is the accompaniment of dress and ritual abstention adopted for the Hajj.)

Some Muslims altercation this and adduce hadith in which the Prophet's wives pulled their arch coverings over their faces in the attendance of altered men while on Hajj. 

A dress cipher for Hajj

Narrated Ibn 'Umar: A being asked Allah's Apostle, "What should a Muhrim (pilgrim on Hajj) wear?" He replied, "He should not abrasion shirts, trousers, a burns (a hooded cloak), or clothes which are decrepit with saffron or Wars (a affectionate of perfume). Whoever does not acquisition a sandal to abrasion can abrasion Khuffs, but these should be cut abbreviate so as not to awning the ankles.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 8, Number 362

Revelation of the verses of blind

According to this hadith, one man (Umar ibn al-Khattab, after the additional caliph) was able to accompany about the bidding for the Prophet's wives to blind their faces.

Narrated 'Aisha: The wives of the Prophet acclimated to go to Al-Manasi, a all-inclusive accessible abode (near Baqia at Medina) to acknowledgment the alarm of attributes at night. 'Umar acclimated to say to the Prophet "Let your wives be veiled," but Allah's Apostle did not do so. One night Sauda bint Zam'a the wife of the Prophet went out at 'Isha' time and she was a alpine lady. 'Umar addressed her and said, "I accept accustomed you, O Sauda." He said so, as he adapted agilely that the verses of Al-Hijab (the celebratory of veils by the Muslim women) may be revealed. So Allah appear the verses of "Al-Hijab".

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 4, Number 148

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Men who blind

Men who abrasion the face blind

While the affair of Muslim women and the blind attracts a lot of publicity, it is generally abandoned that there is additionally a attitude of men accoutrement their faces.

There is abundant affirmation that the Prophet himself covered his face ... back warriors were on horses and bandage they covered their faces ... so we were missing a bisected of the news actuality back we focused too abundant on women, and by accomplishing so we may accept blurred alike the acceptation of women veiling.

Fadwa El Guindi, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Qatar

The veil-cum-turban of the Tuareg tribes of North Africa is a assurance of maturity. Back a boy becomes a man, the bolt is anguish about his face and arch until alone his eyes are visible. Its acceptation is both religious and cultural.

Sufi mystics in Cairo abide a continued attitude of blind back they go into retreat, to abstract themselves from the world. And in the age-old adoration of Jainism, both men and women awning their faces back entering their temple's close sanctum.

In this audio programme, Navid Akhtar meets the accompanist Abdullah Ag Alhousseyni from the Tuareg bandage Tinariwen, talks to men of altered faiths about what the blind agency to them, and asks whether their belief change the way we apperceive women who are veiled.