In modern usage, hijab (Arabic: حجاب, romanized: ḥijāb,
pronounced [ħɪˈdʒaːb]) refers to head coverings worn by Muslim women. While
such headcoverings can come in many forms, hijab often specifically refers to a cloth wrapped around the head, neck and chest, covering the hair but
leaving the face visible.
A hijab is a head covering scarf that some Muslim women wear in public. For many such women, the hijab signifies both modesty and
privacy. In some cases, the hijab is worn by a woman when she's with men who
aren't in her own family
Why is a hijab so important ?
After verifying many a facts and after reading
many an article on Hizaab, the conclusion that comes is , that are written in
the books about Hizaab, that - :
In Islamic teachings, it has been said that God has asked
women to wear hijab in order to achieve modesty and to redirect
the focus of both women and men from the materialistic world towards the more
spiritual world of God .
So whatever one could assess and one could learn, Hizaab actually is a veil, to protect the face.
History of Hizaab -::
There are many words written about HIZAAB,
and there are many factuals that are written about the same.
However the HISTORY of Hizaab dates back to the golden era of the Egypt when this dress was first stitched and wore by both the men and the women of that country.
From the readings that I could collect, and that I could find, the mens’ in Egypt would wear the WHITE colour Hizaab then. The reason advocated was then, during those days, while and when the mens’ would travel from one place to another with their camels to do their business, the white colures hizaab, would take care of the deadly heat produced by the sun or the sun rays to help keep their body cool and perfect to carry on their work.
The ladies would wear the black colored Hizaab, and the reason advocated then and that I could get out from the readings that I did was the fact that if during the night, when say one had to move from one place to another which also would involve the ladies to move with the caravan, then during the dark pitch night , the black color of hijab worn by the ladies would make the others very hard to pick up the ladies .In that case the ladies were safe from undergoing the atrocities. That was the reason why the ladies were made to wear the hizaab which was coloured black. This is what the readings and the findings says all about the hizaab which was worn by the ladies of Egypt during those days.
Basically as the readings that says, the hizaab was used and it served as a tremendous source of means to save one from the sandstorm, heat wave, DESERT STORM and may be some other vagaries that could hit the human life then.
Hizaab :: A Great Tool To save The Women ::
As explained here in the text and the chapter, or the article that I’m writing here, it is obvious and from the facts that I could collect after reading throughly, , hizaab , actually originated in the countries, that were famous for owing the deserts.
It was basically for completely safeguarding the women folks from a total exploitation from those who would target the women to exploit them, especially when the caravans would move during the night.
The reading says that during those era , the movement that required the women to move from one place to the another, was never done during the day time. It was all done during the time when it was dark at night, and to completely save the woman being parried away by the anti-social elements, the black coloured hizaab, was used by the women so that during the night when they moved in an manner where they were put in between the camels that also moved with the caravan, the womens and the dark pitched night helped them to escape from the eye of the ones who would assemble for the loots.In that manner the women were safe to wear those black coloured hizaab as the eye would find very hard to pick them straight.
This black coloured hizaab was such that the women folks could not be identified very easily by the looters and the ones who where there to sieze and loot as that was the most important anti social activity that was carried out at egypt then.
Spread of Hizab and its traditions - ::
As
Islam propagated through the Middle East to parts of Africa and Central Asia,
and different societies around the Arabian Sea, it incorporated local veiling customs and influenced
others.
However,
the veil was neither compulsory nor
widely accepted by many generations after Mohammad but gained momentum
after male scriptural and legal scholars began using their religious and political authority to regain the dominance they lost
in society .
It
is well apparent that for the sake of self-interest and for the sake of using
it as a political tool, the ones who were actually working for their self-interest
made the people to fall in for hizab, to wear it . This basically is the
political influence that used as a weapon brought in the people to accept
wearing it- some might have worn it compulsorily without any fuss and the oters
could be wearing it as they are forced to wear it, though they might not like
it.
Anyway
what ever could be the reason, I would not like to dig into it much as that is
not what I’m interested for and interested to do it.
Westernization of Muslim
Countries ::
The affluenet Muslim
nation slowly started wstrnising themselves. Many of them, from those affluenet
Muslim nation, moved to the US and other famed European countries to study.
Aligning themselves with the western world , they slowly brought about a change
in the mindset amongst themselves and slowly many familes, very rich, socially
very strong and affluent, started denouncing themselves from wearing hizab, and
this slowly started spreading to the other countries which were the Muslim
nation, but affluent in many a ways.
Iran :: First Of The Muslim Nation To Protest Against Hizab ::
Westernization started dominating
Muslim countries between the 1960s and 1970s. However, in 1979, widespread demonstrations were
carried out in Iran after the hijab law was brought in. The law decreed that
the women in the country would have to wear scarves to leave their houses.
While the law over hijab was passed in Iran, it was not the same for all Muslim countries.
The
resurgence of hijab began in
Egypt in the late-twentieth century as a means to reunite and rededicate
to the Islamic faith. The movement was known as “ Sahwah ” and the female pioneers of the movement adopted
the Islamic dress which was made up of an unfitted, full-sleeved, ankle length
gown with a head cover that covers the chest and back.
The
movement gained impetus and the practice became more widespread among Muslim
women. They wore it publicy to announce their religious beliefs as well as
reject western influences of dress and culture that were prevalent at the
time.
Despite
many criticisms of the practice of hijab being oppressive and detrimental to
women's equality, many Muslim women view the way of dress to be a positive
thing.
The
dress code was seen as a way to avoid harassment and unwanted sexual advances
in public and works to desexualize women in the public sphere to allow them to
enjoy equal rights of completely legal, economic, and political status.
However,
controversy erupted over the dress code and people from all backgrounds
questioned the donning of hijab and what it stood in terms of women and their
rights. People questioned whether in practice the hijab was truly a female
choice or if women were being coerced or pressured into wearing it.
Ever
since the discussion and discourse on the hijab intensified, some nations have
attempted to put a ban on hijab while others have made it compulsory for women
to wear hijab.
Problem With Hizaab In
India ::
Wearing
any cloth, or wearing anything, or eating anything is an individual’s choice.
That cannot be questioned in any manner.
The
differences of the belief, faith, and the chasm of difference of wearing the
clotes, habits, attitude, belief, and the behavior of the Muslims and Hindus
are very different.
Never
can the oil mix with awter and never can the Hindus accept to mix with Muslims
in any manner and in any mode. It is because the nomenclature and the modeling structures
of the Hindus and the Muslims are very different and are anti podes in an manner to each other.One cannot accept the
other as a whole, and that is a fact.
The Rules Of The
Organisation ::
Every
organization that rules here at India in terms of either a business entity, or
an educational entity, or a production unit has its own nomenclature.
They,
ie, these organizational entities have their rules of their dress code, their
acceptance of the and the set of rules of rejections of the behavior which we
carry out while we are there performing our acts in terms of the duty. This has
to be accepted by one and sundry as and as that it the rule.
Once
we enter an organization to carry out our acts and duties we are bounded by
those rules and we have to abide by them. This is the UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE of
the rules. As such if the dress code retells something to follow them, we have
to follow them.There cannot be UNCONSTITUTIONAL
rules that could be implied upon in any organization that carries out a
business.
Hizaab or Bhagwa are never the dress of any business carrying organization.
THAT NEVER CAN BE.
If
the Muslim are too inclined to wear the Hizaab
, let them be associated with some Muslim organization to carry out their
business where nobody could object them to wearing those. Similarly the same
applies for the Hindus about not to wear those Bhagwas at the place where it is not needed.
Political Entities Ought
To Be severly Punished For fanning These Souls-::
To gain some useless inclination and to form a strong association of theirown to have a strong say in Indian politics, some useless and non required entities are brainwashing and fanning their community and the people falling in that community to wear those not required attires and these so called the anti-socials ought to be rounded and put under heavy punishment that the law could enforce it on them.
It
is HIGH TIME that PFI, SIMI and the ones from the Muslim political parties
which rants uselessly on these lines as well as those political parties from
the Hindus that carry out to destabilize the society and create a furoe in the
society, may be taken to the task by the union Government before the
eventualities snowballs into a non ending civil war.
We
have lost too much of a time on it and any further delay will be the end of the
peace that would and that should rein here .
It is high time that the anti social elements that are ENEMY to the nation and are financially supported by the elements that reins outside the nation, ought to be CRUSHED and FINISHED for ever.
Yugoslavia did it in the mid fifties and Russia did it in the end of the twenties and we have to do it NOW .
OUR TIME STARTS NOW
That is it
Regards and Thanks
Pics
Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .
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