Hijab: Islam's Command Or Humanity's Norm? - Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Qazwini

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[0:01][music] [music] I begin in the name of the almighty God, the

[0:19]compassionate, the merciful, the one who has created everything in utmost perfection.

[0:26]And may the peace and blessings of the Almighty God be upon

[0:30]his pure and beloved messenger, the peak of his creation, the symbol

[0:41]of humanity, the holy prophet Muhammad Sam and his immaculate progeny of

[0:49]the B peace be upon them, especially the leader of our time,

[0:53]the awaited savior May Allah hasten his reappearance and make us all

[1:01]among his sincere and dedicated servants.

[1:04]Respected brothers and sisters, by far one of the biggest challenges today

[1:17]that we Muslims face around the world is the issue of hijab.

[1:28]Society in general today has rejected the hijab especially in the west.

[1:33]While some societies may be tolerant to the hijab that our dear

[1:42]sisters wear.

[1:41]But in reality most western societies specifically don't welcome the hijab.

[1:50]They don't view the hijab positively.

[1:54]They see it as this Islamic tool to oppress women, to take

[2:04]away their freedoms.

[2:05]And so globally today, more than ever, we are facing this challenge.

[2:13]Day after day, the hijab is becoming more and more challenging for

[2:22]us.

[2:20]and more and more non-Muslim societies are rejecting it.

[2:25]This is an Islamic backwards law that you are enforcing on your

[2:34]woman or teaching your woman.

[2:36]And today we're modern.

[2:37]We live in free societies.

[2:40]There is no room for this hijab.

[2:43]And hence you see in some western countries legislation has been passed

[2:49]against the hijab and countries like France it is illegal to wear

[2:57]the hijab in public space like a public school.

[3:00]It's against the law.

[3:01]They will not allow you to do that.

[3:04]The face covering is also another offense, another illegal thing to do

[3:11]in some of these countries.

[3:14]you can get fined.

[3:13]I know someone who was fined €500 because her wife was wearing

[3:23]the veil.

[3:21]So you see more and more societies today are rejecting the hijab

[3:28]under what pretense?

[3:31]What justification?

[3:31]That it is oppressive.

[3:33]It is not compatible with human rights and it's not compatible with

[3:40]western culture.

[3:42]This is the main argument a country like France is making.

[3:48]The hijab is not compatible with French culture, with French ideology, with

[3:53]French beliefs, with French history.

[3:57]And this type of mentality is spreading around the world.

[4:02]Brothers and sisters, don't be surprised if tomorrow in Quebec they will

[4:06]introduce something similar to that.

[4:08]There are attempts.

[4:09]If we don't come up with a plan to protect our rights,

[4:15]tomorrow even here in places close to you, you will find legislation

[4:18]against hijab.

[4:20]It's not that far-fetched.

[4:24]In my discussion tonight, I would like to discuss hijab from a

[4:30]historical perspective.

[4:33]Normally when we talk about hijab, people talk about what is the

[4:40]evidence for it.

[4:38]Can you show me a verse in the holy Quran that says

[4:43]hijab is waj?

[4:43]Usually people discuss that, which is an important discussion, but that's not

[4:49]my point of discussion tonight.

[4:51]I acknowledge this is an important discussion.

[4:53]When we follow something, it has a basis in the Quran and

[4:59]in the very briefly for those who are wondering where the hijab

[5:04]is waj mentioned obligatory in the Quran verse 31 very clear verse

[5:11]I remember I once heard a brother he was trying to argue

[5:14]against hijab he was more passionate than the sisters themselves I don't

[5:17]know how you explain that I mean if anybody wants to be

[5:21]passionate it's the respected sisters but sometimes some guys they you know

[5:26][laughter] they budge themselves into these discussions.

[5:28]He was saying I've read the Quran from cover to cover.

[5:33]There's not a single verse that says women have to wear the

[5:35]hijab.

[5:36]I I read the Quran.

[5:37]There's no such verse.

[5:39]If you're looking for a verse that's talking about the hijab, you

[5:45]shouldn't be looking for the word hijab because hijab in Arabic does

[5:50]not mean headscarf.

[5:52]That's not the meaning of hijab linguistically.

[5:54]Yes, today we use the word hijab to refer to the headscarf,

[5:59]but originally in the Arabic language that's not what it meant.

[6:05]What is the meaning of hijab in Arabic?

[6:08]Anyone?

[6:08]The linguistic meaning barrier.

[6:12]And the Quran uses the word hijab a few times in this

[6:21]meaning between them.

[6:20]There is a barrier hijab or the verse of hijab it's also

[6:27]called.

[6:27]People would come to the prophet's house.

[6:30]They would ask for items let's say you know let me borrow

[6:33]a pot whatever something and sometimes they would encroach on the privacy

[6:38]of the prophet's wife.

[6:39]So the Quran came with a verse telling them if you want

[6:46]to ask them for something let there be a barrier so their

[6:55]privacy is is protected and then you can ask them for something.

[6:57]Don't just go into their house like that storm into their house.

[7:00]Barge into their house.

[7:03]This violates their privacy.

[7:04]So the word hijab means barrier not headscarf.

[7:07]Today it means headscarf but not back then.

[7:10]So at the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi what did what

[7:17]word did people use to refer to the headscarf today was called

[7:24]at the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

[7:28]And interestingly this is the beauty of the Arabic language.

[7:32]In the Arabic language if you look at the word The root

[7:41]word, it has to do with something covering the head.

[7:46]In Arabic, what do we call wine?

[7:51]Why?

[7:53]What does it have to do with the root meaning of covering

[7:59]the head?

[8:01]Why?

[7:59]What does alcohol do?

[8:02]It it like covers your brain, right?

[8:04]It impedes you from thinking straight.

[8:08]It lowers your inhibition.

[8:10]So it's like there's a covering on your head.

[8:14]That's why Arabs call it comes from the same word.

[8:18]It just means literally you cover your head.

[8:22]That one is metaphorical.

[8:23]This one is literal.

[8:24]So the word for hijab in the Quran is that's what the

[8:30]Arabs would use at the time of revelation.

[8:34]And Allah subhana wa ta'ala in verse 31 he does use this

[8:38]word men lower your gaze the previous verse and this verse woman

[8:47]you also lower your gaze don't look at the opposite gender with

[8:52]lust and don't show your zena don't display your adorements and Then

[9:07]the Quran says, "Let them take their their headscarf and cover the

[9:14]upper chest area and the neck area." This is called jab in

[9:17]Arabic.

[9:19]Why does the Quran say that?

[9:23]You know why?

[9:22]Because Arab women in public, they were already covering their hair.

[9:28]It was a common tradition.

[9:30]But they would expose their neck and upper chest area.

[9:35]This part would not be covered.

[9:36]The Quran commands them this that you're already wearing just bring it

[9:41]down and cover the up upper chest area.

[9:43]So this is a command for women to observe the veil.

[9:48]Observe the observe the hijab.

[9:49]Those who argue I don't see a verse in the holy Quran

[9:52]that talks about the hijab.

[9:53]No, we have a verse here.

[9:54]It's very clear.

[9:57]So then let's come to the point of my discussion tonight and

[10:01]this is a very important point brothers and sisters.

[10:04]You will have conversations with your non-Muslim friends in society today.

[10:08]Even some Muslim friends who've rejected the hijab.

[10:11]You will have conversations about the hijab.

[10:14]You will be criticized for the hijab.

[10:16]And one of the best discussions to have when discussing hijab is

[10:21]the history of hijab.

[10:26]Humanity has amnesia.

[10:27]Humanity has forgotten the history of hijab.

[10:33]And today the world sees the hijab as a Muslim problem, Muslim

[10:38]observation, Muslim obligation.

[10:39]When in reality, hijab has been part of our history.

[10:43]Whether you're Muslim or non-Muslim, you're Jewish or Christian, you're Persian or

[10:48]Zoroastrian, it doesn't matter.

[10:49]Hijab is part of our human history.

[10:53]Do you know that we have legal records of the veil of

[11:00]the hijab going back to the era of the ashen the Assyrians?

[11:05]This is north Mesopotamia.

[11:09]So basically north Iraq today you know the Musul area that area

[11:12]and then towards the east towards Iran and then towards Syria.

[11:16]This is north Mesopotamia.

[11:20]We have legal records dating back to a,300 before Christ.

[11:29]How long ago?

[11:32]That's over 3,000 years ago.

[11:34]There are legal documents that have been preserved that stipulate women must

[11:40]cover their heads.

[11:41]And especially if women want to be honored, they need to wear

[11:48]the hijab.

[11:47]This is over 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia.

[11:51]Yes, there are two exceptions.

[11:54]Two women are not to wear the hijab.

[11:57]I'm telling you this is the history of Mesopotamia.

[11:58]One is prostitutes.

[12:00]They're not allowed to wear hijab.

[12:02]Number two, the slaves.

[12:03]In ancient Mesopotamia, they did not wear the hijab.

[12:08]But any other woman, she would wear the hijab.

[12:11]This is our history.

[12:14]Look at the Greek civilization, the Roman civilization.

[12:16]women when they wanted to be respected in public, they would wear

[12:24]a headscarf.

[12:23]This is part of our history.

[12:27]And then come to Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

[12:29]If you want to know whether Jews and Christians practiced the hijab,

[12:34]look at the history of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

[12:38]A few months ago, I did an interesting experiment with ChatGpt.

[12:43]I said to chat GPT, can you draw for me a realistic

[12:49]image of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago in the market?

[12:54]Men and women in the market.

[12:55]That's all I said.

[12:59]Chat GPT generated an image.

[13:00]And I told Chat GPT, I want the image to be historically

[13:02]accurate.

[13:03]Don't just make up an image.

[13:05]Based on historical records, depict for me an image of Jerusalem 2,000

[13:12]years ago.

[13:13]I wish I had brought the photo with me tonight, but you

[13:17]can try it.

[13:19]You know what it generated for me?

[13:21]You would not believe this is Jerusalem.

[13:23]It showed women in the market.

[13:28]All of them wearing hijab.

[13:30]I tried to look maybe maybe there's one, maybe there's two, maybe

[13:34]there's a few women not wearing the hijab.

[13:37]Not even a single one.

[13:37]Chad GPT made in America is telling you 2,000 years ago every

[13:43]single woman pretty much in public if she wanted to respect herself

[13:46]she would wear the hijab.

[13:47]Is this also Islam?

[13:48]Oppressing women these backwards Muslims.

[13:51]This is our history.

[13:56]Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

[13:55]And hence hijab was waj in Judaism.

[14:00]Years ago I met a rabbi in the US.

[14:06]I specifically asked him this question.

[14:06]I told him, "In the law of Moses, in your original Torah,

[14:11]was it waj for women to cover themselves, wear some sort of

[14:16]hijab?" He smiled.

[14:18]He said, "Yes." I told him, "What are the limits of hijab

[14:21]according to the Torah?" He said, "A woman has to cover her

[14:24]entire body except her face and two hands." According to some interpretations,

[14:28]because there are other interpretations that she has to also cover her

[14:33]face.

[14:34]Yes, even that.

[14:35]I told him, "So then the law of Musam was that woman

[14:41]had to wear the hijab, right?" He's like, "Yeah." I'm like, "So

[14:43]why don't your woman wear it today?" He gave me that smirk.

[14:49]He smiled.

[14:51]He's like, "Well, the world has changed." I'm like, "But God doesn't

[14:53]change.

[14:54]The law doesn't change.

[14:54]So what if the world has changed?

[14:56]Just because the world has changed, that means I can step on

[15:00]the law of Musam." He's like, "Well, we are reformed Jews and

[15:03]this is okay." and he gave me his philosophy but he admitted

[15:09]that hijab was waj in Judaism not just the head covering do

[15:13]you know that there were Jewish scholars who believed the face veil

[15:19]was also mandatory or at least recommended and in fact if you

[15:24]go to the book of Genesis there's a passage that speaks about

[15:29]Rebecca meeting Isaac Prophet is Isaac.

[15:37]He married Rebecca, right?

[15:39]So Genesis tells us that when she went to meet him, this

[15:44]is like before she come becomes his wife, she was covering her

[15:49]face.

[15:49]Why?

[15:51]This backwards lady of prophet Isak whom people have a lot of

[15:56]respect for, right?

[15:55]Isaac, he's very respectful.

[15:58]He's very respected.

[16:01]Jews respect him.

[16:02]Christians respect him.

[16:04]Why is his wife wearing the veil?

[16:07]Can someone answer me this question?

[16:09]If someone attacks you and tells you, why do some Muslim women

[16:11]cover their face?

[16:13]The the question you should ask them, why did the wife of

[16:15]Isaac do that?

[16:18]Maybe I'd like to honor her.

[16:20]You don't like to honoring her?

[16:22]Fine, don't.

[16:23]But I'd like to honor her and I'd like to honor that

[16:27]legacy.

[16:26]So you'll find that in Judaism, hijab was actually waj.

[16:31]And there is a verse in numbers 5:18.

[16:35]Jewish scholars have concluded from this verse from the Old Testament that

[16:43]women did have to cover their hair.

[16:45]Why?

[16:46]Because it's interesting what this verse says.

[16:51]Numbers 5:18.

[16:51]It talks about a woman who was either accused of adultery or

[16:57]it's suspected that she committed adultery.

[17:01]In Jewish law, if a woman was suspected of committing adultery, the

[17:08]priest would tell her, "Remove your scarf, show your hair." This was

[17:13]part of their custom.

[17:16]So in numbers 5:18 there's a passage that says the priest would

[17:21]tell the woman remove your head covering which means according to Jewish

[17:25]scholars they had to cover their hair otherwise why is he telling

[17:30]her remove the covering to continue with that process so in early

[17:36]Judaism hijab was waj Christianity someone can argue okay but Christians maybe

[17:43]they don't believe in hijab.

[17:47]The history of Christianity, Christian women wore some type of hijab for

[17:52]1,900 years.

[17:52]Did you know that?

[17:54]Since prophet Isaam, only in the last century did they decide to

[17:57]stop wearing the hijab.

[17:59]For 1,900 years, religious women who were Christians, they would wear the

[18:05]hijab.

[18:04]And I'm sure you're familiar with the depictions of Miam, the Virgin

[18:10]Mary.

[18:09]Have you ever seen a depiction of her without hijab?

[18:13]You know, I would like to tell the French people, if today

[18:17]Mary comes to France, would you take her to jail, fine her?

[18:23]Okay, you could do whatever you want.

[18:26]But if you have no respect for religious figures, you want to

[18:30]condemn the Virgin Mary, that just shows how corrupt you are, how

[18:35]backwards you are.

[18:36]But don't ask me to condemn the Virgin Mary because I, as

[18:41]a Muslim, I'll never do that.

[18:43]Maybe you corrupt Christian in France, you'll do that.

[18:45]But I'm not willing to condemn the Virgin Mary.

[18:48]The Virgin Mary in every depiction, she's in some form of hijab.

[18:54]Not because she was special.

[18:55]That's how women would carry themselves back then 2,000 years ago.

[18:59]And I invite you to read this chapter in the Bible in

[19:04]the New Testament.

[19:04]I gave you a passage from the Old Testament.

[19:07]Now the New Testament 1 Corinthians 11 5 and 6 Paul is

[19:16]speaking here and you know Christians they have a lot of respect

[19:18]for St.

[19:21]Paul.

[19:20]Paul basically says if a woman is praying she's supplicating to her

[19:28]Lord she has to cover her head.

[19:31]She has to cover her hair.

[19:32]If she prays without covering her head, she's disgracing her head.

[19:37]She's doing something shameful.

[19:40]Just like if she were to shave her head, you know, in

[19:44]in in most cultures, if a woman shaves her head, isn't that

[19:47]disgraceful?

[19:48]Yes, most cultures would see that as disgraceful.

[19:53]Paul is saying just like a woman if she were to shave

[19:55]her head, isn't that disgraceful?

[19:58]Well, not wearing the hijab while praying is also disgraceful.

[20:04]Who follows this today?

[20:07]Go to Christian churches.

[20:09]Are they following this?

[20:10]But that's part of their history.

[20:13]So it's important for us my dear brothers and sisters as a

[20:19]first step to recognize to acknowledge that the hijab has been a

[20:24]part and parcel of our human history in Judaism in Christianity and

[20:28]Islam came to continue that Islam did not invent the hijab.

[20:35]This is the false narrative that the media wants us to believe

[20:41]in.

[20:42]Islam was the last of those religions that approved of the hijab

[20:47]and accepted the hijab and promoted the hijab.

[20:50]It wasn't the religion to invent the hijab.

[20:51]And so it's very important when we discuss the hijab in our

[20:57]societies to be aware of this important historical discussion.

[20:59]Today the world when they reject the hijab, you know in reality

[21:04]what they're doing, they're condemning their ancestors.

[21:09]They're saying all of our ancestors throughout history who wore the hijab,

[21:13]they were wrong.

[21:15]They're condemned.

[21:17]They were backwards.

[21:17]They were oppressed.

[21:18]They were not liberated.

[21:20]They want to condemn their ancestors, even the religious ones.

[21:23]Okay?

[21:24]You're free to do whatever you want.

[21:26]But if you want to condemn your ancestors, don't expect me to

[21:30]come and condemn my ancestors.

[21:32]I have respect for my ancestors.

[21:35]And you can't force me to condemn all of that history.

[21:38]You have no respect for your ancestors.

[21:40]Fine.

[21:41]That's your problem.

[21:43]That's your choice.

[21:43]But I have respect for my ancestors.

[21:45]I have respect for 3,000 4,000 years of human history who believed

[21:50]in the hijab, who observed the hijab, who respected the hijab.

[21:55]I have respect for them.

[21:56]So this is not a Muslim problem, a Muslim discussion.

[22:01]It's a human discussion.

[22:04]In the last century, society decided, you know what?

[22:08]We don't want the hijab anymore.

[22:10]Let's become liberal, secular.

[22:14]This hijab is bad.

[22:14]It limits our freedoms.

[22:15]And this happened with the rise of modern western feminism.

[22:21]But until the last century, a century ago, it was very common

[22:26]out there in the street to see women in hijab.

[22:30]I remember years ago I saw a picture of immigrants immigrating to

[22:33]the US.

[22:34]Some of them would come to Canada and they would arrive here

[22:37]in Halifax.

[22:39]Some of them would go to New York, Ellis Island.

[22:43]If you see the ship, you see hundreds of women in hijab.

[22:48]The first time I saw that picture, I'm like, what's going on

[22:51]here?

[22:52]We had so many Muslim women migrating like I don't know over

[22:58]a hundred years ago.

[22:59]And then you come to discover no these are Christian women.

[23:04]Some of them are Jewish women.

[23:06]They were just upholding their religious values.

[23:09]So it's important today for us when we discuss the hijab to

[23:16]focus on the historical aspect of hijab.

[23:19]So they don't corner you as a Muslim and accuse your religion

[23:25]of being oppressive.

[23:26]So the real question is, brothers and sisters, the real question is

[23:33]not why do Muslim women wear the hijab.

[23:37]That's not the most important question here.

[23:40]The real question is why did others stop wearing the hijab?

[23:43]Muslim women just continued this tradition of all these religions.

[23:48]Why did you stop wearing the hijab?

[23:49]Why did you condemn your ancestors and now you believe it's oppressive

[23:54]and backwards?

[23:55]That's how the question should be framed because they put you on

[24:00]the defensive.

[24:00]You Muslims, why do you wear the hijab?

[24:01]Habibu, we've been wearing hijab for 2, three,000 years.

[24:05]Why did you stop suddenly in the name of freedom in the

[24:08]name of whatever you came up with?

[24:11]You're the one who changed, not me.

[24:15]I'm just going with the flow of the scriptures, of the religions

[24:19]of God, of of respected societies around the world.

[24:22]So it's very important for us to frame it that way because

[24:28]as I said today one of our biggest challenges is the issue

[24:33]of hijab and believe me it's going to get worse.

[24:34]More and more people are turning against the hijab and there are

[24:41]some conservative people some extremists in society who want to ban it.

[24:45]They're not comfortable seeing you in hijab.

[24:48]They don't want you to wear the hijab.

[24:50]So we have to be vocal.

[24:51]We have to represent ourselves.

[24:52]And when you go out there with Muslims and you speak about

[24:57]the hijab, I invite you to start with this historical discussion.

[25:00]Let them know because tell them it looks like you've had amnesia

[25:04]or some sort of dementia.

[25:06]Okay?

[25:06]You've forgotten about this history.

[25:09]All of your ancestors were wearing the hijab.

[25:11]You want to condemn them?

[25:13]Go condemn them.

[25:13]Curse them.

[25:14]But I don't want to do that.

[25:16]Don't force me to curse my ancestors.

[25:17]This is not your right.

[25:20]This discussion therefore brothers and sisters is extremely important.

[25:25]The world came to a conclusion where people don't want to truly

[25:32]be practicing and to be burdened by rules.

[25:36]So they said let's liberate ourselves.

[25:38]The hijab is a burden because at the end of the day

[25:40]it's a rule that you have to observe.

[25:42]And modern society has transitioned from structured religion which God revealed to

[25:51]humanity to humanity to this fluid flexible individualistic spirituality where people invent

[26:00]their own rules and spirituality.

[26:01]Today you'll find people saying yeah I'm a spiritual person.

[26:05]Okay how are you spiritual person?

[26:07]Yeah, I sit and I do yoga sessions and I'm very spiritual.

[26:12]We invent our own spirituality.

[26:15]And then in those yoga sessions, mashallah, what they wear, the music

[26:21]they put, the dancing, the tight clothes, Allahbar, mashallah, very spiritual yoga

[26:29]session, extremely spiritual.

[26:31]I'm sure you're going to go near the in three minutes.

[26:34]We're inventing our own spirituality.

[26:38]years ago a brother in the US he was arguing about marijuana

[26:43]he told me say wah when I smoke it I feel very

[26:46]spiritual [laughter] no ideas for anyone but you see what people do

[26:53]when they take spirituality in their own hands spirituality is assigned by

[26:58]your lord the one who created your soul and spirituality he teaches

[27:02]me what's spiritual and what's not what will bring me closer to

[27:05]him and what's not it's not something I invent.

[27:08]It's not something I experiment with.

[27:11]So society says, you know what, we don't want these laws.

[27:14]Let's invent our own rules.

[27:15]And yeah, I can still call myself spiritual in my own way.

[27:21]But that's not true commitment to the path of Allah subhanahu wa

[27:26]ta'ala.

[27:26]And I'll give you an example.

[27:28]Would your government accept this type of attitude from you?

[27:31]If tomorrow you say, you know what, these laws that Nova Scotia

[27:37]has, Halifax, Bedford, I don't need to go by these rules.

[27:39]I'll invent my own rules over here, my own traffic rules, my

[27:46]own family rules, my own business rules, my own tax rules.

[27:49]And when they tell me why, I'm like, well, that's my way

[27:54]of being Canadian.

[27:53]I feel Canadian by not paying tax.

[27:59]Will that fly in court?

[28:01]Good luck.

[28:00]See, we humans know that when there is a law, you have

[28:04]to respect the law.

[28:05]You can't come up with your own rules.

[28:06]There's a law, there's a system you have TO RESPECT.

[28:09]WE RESPECT everyone's law and every law except the law of God.

[28:13]When it comes to his law, we want to play with it.

[28:16]No, it's okay.

[28:18]You're still a good person.

[28:19]You're still very spiritual even though you don't follow the rules of

[28:26]God.

[28:26]You just be a spiritual person your own way.

[28:28]That's very disrespectful to God.

[28:33]We have more respect for our humanmade laws than Allah subhana wa

[28:37]ta'ala.

[28:38]And I'm not talking just about, you know, Allah in the Quran

[28:41]or in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, these scriptures.

[28:44]Why are we inventing our own rules?

[28:48]This is very disrespectful to God.

[28:51]How can I really be spiritual when I have rejected the law

[28:57]that my Lord has given me?

[29:00]That's why iman and respecting the law of Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[29:07]is what makes a good person a good person.

[29:09]Today we just try to invent labels.

[29:12]Yeah, I'm a good person even though I can do whatever I

[29:16]want.

[29:16]Is that the case?

[29:18]Regardless of why what I what I believe, I'm still a good

[29:22]person.

[29:23]Is that the case?

[29:24]Islam tells us that what gives value to your deeds is your

[29:33]faith.

[29:32]Without faith, there's not much value to deeds.

[29:35]I'll give you an example.

[29:38]I know some people struggle with this.

[29:41]Okay?

[29:39]Even if an atheist is an atheist, who cares?

[29:42]If they do a good deed, like an act of charity, it's

[29:46]still good.

[29:47]They're as good as a Muslim who does that good deed or

[29:49]a Christian who does that deed.

[29:51]I'll give you an example and you be the judge.

[29:54]Let's say tomorrow is Mother's Day.

[29:57]Tomorrow is Mother's Day.

[30:00]You take a nice bundle of flowers and you go to your

[30:03]mom and you give this gift to your mom.

[30:09]Now you give your mother this gift.

[30:15]I'm asking you, is this a good deed or not?

[30:16]Is this a good act or not?

[30:19]Does anyone agree?

[30:19]Anyone disagrees?

[30:20]On Mother's Day, you give a nice gift to your mom.

[30:22]Is that good or bad?

[30:26]It's good.

[30:28]Okay, you all agreed the act is good.

[30:30]But now this son or daughter who's giving their mom this bundle

[30:34]of flowers, this is their belief.

[30:36]This is their attitude.

[30:37]They tell their mom, "Look, mom, you have no right over me.

[30:42]You didn't really do much for me.

[30:43]And even if you did, okay, you carried me in your womb.

[30:47]I don't know, sleepless nights.

[30:49]You breastfed me.

[30:49]Here, I'm giving you this bundle of flowers and now we're even.

[30:53]We're fair and square.

[30:56]I've paid you back.

[30:57]Will the mom accept this gift?

[31:02]He's lucky if he doesn't get slapped.

[31:03]Shame on you.

[31:04]All those years I raised you.

[31:06]You want to pay me back with a flower?

[31:08]And you're saying that I don't really have any rights over you?

[31:13]See, the attitude of this son or daughter ruined the gift.

[31:16]Even though you just said the gift is a gift, it's a

[31:20]nice thing to do, but your belief, your attitude can ruin the

[31:25]deed.

[31:23]If an atheist person does a good deed, but the atheist person

[31:30]does not show gratitude to God who created him and who created

[31:33]those resources and gave him access to those resources, and he says,

[31:36]"There's no God.

[31:38]He doesn't have a right over me." That deed, is it valuable?

[31:45]You be the judge.

[31:44]You be the judge here.

[31:46]It's faith and attitude that gives true value to your deeds.

[31:52]This is something that is a no-brainer.

[31:54]It's something we know every day in society.

[31:57]But that's the problem.

[32:00]That's the problem of the 21st century.

[32:04]Every law is accepted except the law of God.

[32:05]When it comes to the law of God, everybody invents their law.

[32:09]You're extreme if you want to follow it.

[32:12]you're backwards if you want to implement it.

[32:12]And the hijab is just no exception.

[32:16]So when you look at the history of humankind, brothers and sisters,

[32:23]it's very important to realize that the hijab has been an integral

[32:29]part of our history.

[32:29]It's only in the last century that societies have tried to move

[32:36]away from the hijab.

[32:36]So when people criticize you for your hijab or misunderstand it, just

[32:40]remind them.

[32:41]Just give them a lesson in our history.

[32:44]Just refresh their memory.

[32:47]That has been the history of humankind.

[32:50]By the way, if you're familiar with Kman, she was awarded the

[32:57]Nobel Peace Prize years ago.

[32:59]Now when she was awarded the prize, she was wearing the hijab.

[33:04]And you know there are some people who don't like the hijab.

[33:07]So she was asked why are you wearing the hijab?

[33:12]Isn't the hijab something backwards?

[33:13]You're such a successful lady who's achieved the Nobel Peace Prize.

[33:17]Why are you wearing the hijab when you're so successful?

[33:22]She gave a very beautiful response.

[33:24]You know what she said?

[33:25]She said in fact the hijab represents the peak of civilization and

[33:34]the peak of evolution.

[33:33]Why?

[33:34]She says look when the human being was developing in the past

[33:39]those cavemen let's say right they were almost naked they really didn't

[33:47]cover themselves except you know a bit.

[33:50]The more the human being advanced, the more the human being started

[33:55]to wear clothes.

[33:57]That's our history, right?

[33:57]Those who advocate for evolution and that's our evolutionary history.

[34:01]The more societies advanced in our history, the more they started to

[34:06]wear clothes.

[34:08]So she says, "My hijab today represents the peak of civilization and

[34:12]the peak of evolution." Very beautiful response from her.

[34:16]So this historical discussion, respected brothers and sisters, is one that we

[34:21]need to bring to our societies today.

[34:25]Remind them how the world looked like up until a century ago.

[34:30]Remind them Jerusalem, which they consider so sacred, how life looked in

[34:37]Jerusalem just 2,000 years ago.

[34:38]Now we come to one final discussion about the hijab.

[34:43]One of the arguments that today you hear people bringing up when

[34:51]they are trying to respond to our vision of modesty and chastity

[35:01]because this is what we say.

[35:03]We say that the hijab protects the honor of a woman.

[35:06]The hijab protects her from unwanted attention.

[35:08]Focus on my character, not on my body.

[35:12]Right?

[35:13]We talk about that.

[35:16]They tell you, look, a woman who has beauty and attraction, that's

[35:19]a source of power for her.

[35:23]It's a type of power.

[35:26]Let's face it.

[35:28]A person can use their beauty and their sexuality to gain access

[35:32]in order to gain more power.

[35:35]This is the reality that we see in society.

[35:37]So, let a woman have access to power.

[35:43]So what?

[35:42]Don't you have money and you have access to power?

[35:46]Don't you have a social position and that gives you power?

[35:50]Well, let your body also give you more attraction and power.

[35:52]What's the problem with that?

[35:56]Why do you Muslims say this is dishonorable?

[35:56]This is commodifying the, you know, woman's body.

[36:02]This is objectifying a woman's body.

[36:04]That's a source of power.

[36:05]Let her have that power and enjoy that power.

[36:08]What's the problem?

[36:10]This is the argument they make.

[36:14]How do we respond to that when they tell you that woman

[36:21]here has power and she generates attention?

[36:23]Let's ask this question.

[36:26]Who really has the power here?

[36:29]Her or those who are seeing her?

[36:35]Who's the one who has the source of power?

[36:39]See, initially you think that she's exercising her power.

[36:45]But in reality, if you examine the dynamics of how it works,

[36:49]it's those people in society who are giving her the attention and

[36:58]seeing her and fixating their gaze on her.

[36:58]They're exercising power over her, not the other way.

[37:04]And the hijab does exactly the opposite.

[37:09]The hijab says, "Look, I control how you see me, not you

[37:13]control how you see me." The hijab gives you power and it

[37:20]limits their power.

[37:21]Whereas the absence of hijab, the absence of modesty is the exact

[37:26]opposite.

[37:27]You're at the mercy of others and how they view you, how

[37:33]they commodify you, how they objectify you, how they just reduce you

[37:37]to a body.

[37:38]You call that power.

[37:38]What kind of power that is?

[37:40]Attention is not power.

[37:42]Positive attention is power, not negative.

[37:44]You can generate negative attention.

[37:47]If you generate negative attention, is that power?

[37:51]That's bad power.

[37:51]If if you want to call that power, a crazy person can

[37:56]stand up right now and and do a crazy move and get

[37:59]all the attention from everyone.

[38:01]Is that power though?

[38:01]That's humiliation.

[38:03]That's not power.

[38:05]positive attention that is respectful based on respect based on putting boundaries.

[38:12]You respect my boundaries.

[38:14]That is actually a source of power.

[38:19]But subhan Allah, look at modern society.

[38:20]They've duped society and spec specifically women into thinking that hijab limits

[38:29]your power.

[38:29]If you don't wear the hijab, then now you are free.

[38:32]You are more powerful.

[38:34]You are more successful.

[38:35]And this is one of the signs of the end of times.

[38:38]But indeed, brothers and sisters, hijab does give honor to women.

[38:43]No one can deny that.

[38:43]You can disagree.

[38:45]You can say, "I don't want to wear the hijab." Okay, that's

[38:47]between you and Allah subhana wa tala if you make that violation.

[38:51]But don't deny the fact that hijab does give honor to women.

[38:57]years ago.

[38:58]I'm sure some of you have seen this clip.

[39:01]A lady, she walked 10 hours in New York City in Manhattan.

[39:06]She released two videos.

[39:09]The first visi video, she's walking in Manhattan without hijab, just like

[39:16]regular clothes, jeans.

[39:19]She's walking and she records using a hidden camera.

[39:23]She records how much harassment she's subjected to, the negative comments that

[39:29]she hears in the street, the inappropriate language, the looks, the lustful

[39:34]looks.

[39:35]She posts that 10 hours of her video recording in New York

[39:42]City.

[39:40]And then she's not Muslim, by the way.

[39:45]The lady who does this is not a Muslim lady.

[39:46]She's an American lady.

[39:49]And then she wears the hijab and she walks 10 hours in

[39:52]New York City and she posts her video.

[39:54]Not a single person harassed her.

[39:57]Not a single person said anything inappropriate about her face, her body,

[40:02]her looks.

[40:04]That in itself is proof the hijab does give you honor.

[40:09]despite what the media says, despite what they'd like to believe, what

[40:13]they'd like us and you to believe about the hijab.

[40:18]So, this is a very important discussion, brothers and sisters, for us

[40:22]to be mindful of next time you are in a conversation with

[40:26]fellow community members who are criticizing the hijab, non-Muslims who don't understand

[40:32]the hijab or they think this is a Muslim tool to oppress

[40:35]women, just remind them of their history.

[40:37]from 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia to the Persian civilization to

[40:42]the Greek civilization to the Roman civilization to the Jewish traditions and

[40:47]the Christian traditions.

[40:48]Up until a century ago, most women around the world would wear

[40:54]the hijab.

[40:53]Today, society has a problem with that.

[40:55]They don't like that.

[40:57]Okay, that's their problem.

[40:57]That's not my problem.

[41:00]I would like to honor that tradition.

[41:01]I would like to honor the faiths of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[41:05]I don't want to condemn the Virgin Mary.

[41:07]All those who attack the hijab and the media, if today the

[41:11]Virgin Mary appears before them, are they going to attack her too

[41:15]with that mentality?

[41:17]If you have no respect for the Virgin Mary and her clothing,

[41:23]I have respect for her.

[41:24]Now I'm a criminal.

[41:25]Subhan Allah.

[41:27]Islam's only crime is, you know what Islam's only crime is?

[41:34]that Islam said, "I respect the Virgin Mary.

[41:34]I respect 3,000 years of human history.

[41:37]I respect the law of God in the Torah, the law of

[41:42]Allah in the Injil.

[41:44]I respect that and I continue that." Islam became a criminal for

[41:49]that.

[41:48]That's the sad reality that we are facing.

[41:51]So as Muslims, brothers and sisters, these are difficult times.

[41:55]Hold on to your values, hold on to your faith, and know

[41:58]your history.

[41:59]We have to be well read in our history with the holy

[42:02]scriptures that I shared with you.

[42:04]Share that with others.

[42:06]Believe me, it brings a level of enlightenment.

[42:08]What I discussed with you today, most people in your society don't

[42:14]know anything about this and never have they heard this anywhere.

[42:16]So, it's our obligation.

[42:20]It's our responsibility to shed light on these discussions.

[42:24]Inshallah.

[42:44]in these final minutes of the brothers and sisters, let's raise our

[42:52]hand in dua.

[42:53]Let's ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to bless us.

[42:56]And let's read this beautiful dua which is to be recited in

[43:01]the month of Ramadan.

[43:16]foric.

[43:19][singing] inch.

[44:12]for for I mean, [music] [music]

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