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What Does The Quran Say About Hijab and Khimar? | Q&A with Nouman Ali Khan

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Sometimes the hardest place to wear hijab is your own home. That is the tension this question sits in: a young Muslim woman wanting to cover the way the Quran describes, only to be told by her own mother that people will see her as a terrorist, and by her mother-in-law that her hijab makes everyone else feel sinful. In this recent live Q&A session during Ramadan, with questions taken from our new Revealed app, Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan refuses to begin with fiqh. He begins with the bigger issue: control. The same modern worldview that celebrates freedom of choice grows strangely insecure the moment a Muslim woman expresses her faith. He then returns to what the Quran actually settles in the 31st ayah of Surah An-Nur: وَلْيَضْرِبْنَ بِخُمُرِهِنَّ عَلَىٰ جُيُوبِهِنَّ (let them draw their khimars over their chests). The Ayah specifies what should be covered, not the exact style. How a woman expresses that modesty has always been hers to shape. Let this conversation sit with you, not as a debate but as a reminder of what Allah has already made clear. Have a question about an ayah of the Quran? Download ‘Revealed’ - our new mus’haf style Quran reading experience with Ustadh Nouman’s commentary built-in, and an option to ask your very own questions in just a few clicks: https://byna.tv/revealed2 ------------------------------ 📚 Start your Quran journey at https://www.bayyinahtv.com 🎁 Sponsor a soul who seeks the Quran with a Bayyinah TV membership at https://bayyinah.com/gift

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So I I mean I don't even when this kind of thing comes up I don't even talk about the religious side of it first. I talk about just the idea of a person having a right to express themselves and live how they want

to live and how they believe they should live. Um and why that's so you know detrimental for somebody else. And the thing is we believe in our obed in obedience to Allah and surrender to Allah.

But the the flip side, the supposedly liberal person, the supposedly progressive modernized person, the supposedly not that religious person, they actually believe far more in freedom of choice and freedom of making your own decisions. This video was taken from one of our recent Ramadan

live Q&A sessions exclusively on Bayv. And during these sessions, Aman was answering questions submitted on our new revealed app, a Quran reading experience just like a must have except you can click on any ayah. Get detailed commentary of the ayah from mustadman and ask

them your questions right there. Visit revealed.beatv.com or find it on the app store or Google Play. and tell believing women to lower part of their gaze and guard their privates and don't show their beauty except

for what becomes apparent and that they should take their head scarves and throw them over your chest their chest and not expose their beauty. Uh I have a question related to hijab and wearing. You see hijab people in Khan don't wear this the

correct that is put on their head and goes till their stomachs. It's just like you explained in the series of lecture about hijab. Therefore my mom is against me wearing a correct form

of him because she thinks it's abnormal and is afraid that people or local politicians even may consider me as a terrorist. So she said she won't be pleased with me if I ever again try to wear him instead of a

normal hijab just like the other women girls do in the city. Being afraid to make Allah became make Allah became angry with me if I can't please my mother. Again nowadays I'm forced to wear an outfit that completely

covers my body and with clothes that are long and wide but my head is covered not with a it goes down to but instead it just covers until beneath my neck in the absence of the itself. both uh that bothers me these days.

It is acceptable to cover the whole but according to local style or at least in order to not scare my mom and other people who surround me. After marriage about 3 to 6 months passed and my worldview became completely changed.

Alhamdulillah. So I really wanted to wear hijab. It took me three years and fortunately absolutely everyone around me was completely against it. My parents-in-law didn't allow me to wear hijab at home.

My 15year-old brother-in-law lives with us. For now, I couldn't yet convince them to wear my hijab at home. My mother-in-law cried when she saw me wearing it, saying I was sending the them signals that they are all

so sinful. While I am such an angel, I just didn't want to talk in front of a 15year-old brother-in-law without a hijab. Since then I feel afraid that I am not considered

to be a person on from the list of people mentioned in fat because clearly I'm not wearing hijab in front of a brother-in-law despite knowing that it's prohibited by Allah. Okay.

All right. A few things here. Um I see I see those two different things. All right. Uh so the larger issue isn't a fatwa on whether

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