Thursday, March 24, 2011

Are Jilbabs the Ideal Islamic Outfit For Muslim Female?

By George Priestley


O Prophet! Inform your wives and your daughters plus the girl of the believers to draw their cloaks (Jilbabs) all over their bodies (i. e. screen themselves completely besides the eyes or one eye in order to see the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) for this reason as not to be annoyed. And Allah is ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surah Al Ahzaab verse 33: 59).

jilbab have been in use for a very long time. They have been the foremost choice of costume for female close to the Muslim Arab world ever since the advent of Islam. While Hijabs are considered the leading dress for Muslim lady, there are several controversies about various patterns from the early Islamic time. This is because that there are no pictures or dress available from the early Islamic era. Thus it cannot be conclusively stated whether the early Jilbabs were indeed the same as the modern day versions. Separately from these meaning related issues, no Islamic scholar has stated to date that the Jilbabs are not the stated form of outfit for women in the Holy Quran.

Most modern day Muslims are adamant about the Jilbabs being the same as those that were worn by Muslim female during the Prophet's (p. b. u. h) time. On close scrutiny, there's many information available in the history of Jilbabs. According in order to certain research, the current day Jilbabs date originally back in order to the 1970's when the Egyptian Muslim girl adopted them as the shape of dressing. According in order to this research, the Egyptian woman wore these Hijabs to show their obedience to a specific sect of Islam. Thereby they are considered a modern invention which is in to complete adherence to the laws strictly stated during the Quran. After the Egyptian women, these slowly filtered out to the Indonesian female too. Gently and steadily, these robes became a component of Muslim women's wardrobe into a vast majority of previously unaccustomed elements of the Muslim world.

The ever increasing Muslim strength plus the more religiously involved people on the 1970's and 1980's, led to the globalization of these Jilbabs. Today, regardless of ethnic or social background, they have become a trademark for Muslim women near to the world. Woman who initially wore only loose fitting culturally classic clothing have converted to wearing Hijabs as they believe that this is what Allah (SWT) stated while in the Quran. The Muslim woman specifically living into Non-Muslim countries have adopted the long and loose robes that hide the contours of their bodies along having a scarf or head wrap that completely hides their hair from all others.

There are numerous references in order to Quran and Sunnah about the obligatory veiling of woman. But, as there are always two sides of any argument, for certain the term Jilbabs stated during the Quran does not necessarily relate in order to the long, loose flowing robe. In actual fact, for them the term is used of the process of veiling instead. They do not believe that the term only refers to the robes instead could be consolidated for all types of Muslim attire that is decent and modest.




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