Don’t Shun the Hijab or Else

u said it right, parents must focus on their communication skills. If kids are doing something that parents consider as wrong it reflects that parents didnt raise their kids well. it means they didnt pass their values. now this is the time when parents must try to learn from their mistakes n take responsibility. Killing someone is like burying the responsibility. Its like making mistake then not even accepting its consequences. Parents must accept kids’ point of view or otherwise convince the kid.

okay… it was never established that the motto for killing Aqsa was actually the Hijab issue… so i would rather not read ur article because its false….

Emaad, get out of your bubble and search for Aqsa online and read the newspaper articles… everyone is talking about it, everyone is reporting on it but unfortunately you sound like you will not accept the fact that she was killed because of Hijab so there is no point convincing you… you believe in what you think… its okie, you have a right to your opinion…

SOME SAY HIJAB IS NOT OPPRESSIVE BUT EXPRESSIVE. SOME SAY HIJAB LIBERATES WOMEN AND SOME SAY IT OBSTRUCTS FREEDOM. SO LET US LEAVE IT TO THE CHOICE OF INDIVIDUAL TO WEAR OR NOT TO WEAR. IF A GIRL DOESNT WANT TO WEAR IT, WHY FORCE IT ON HER SAYING IT LIBERATES HER?

I think the last poster raises a good point. To force someone to wear hijab is hardly going to “liberate” them.

The problem is of environment. If a child is raised in the west surrounded by western influences (even if a family is private and home schooled doesn’t mean they don’t experience the outside world) how can he/she not be molded by that.

If parents want their kids to grow up with certain values then they should surround themselves with people with those values. Not set up camp in a liberal western democracy! I just can’t understand why anyone would want to do that? What do these people do as jobs? What is their motivation to be here

Have to agree with the above. I mean if people do not enjoy the west, then why move here? Asqa’s death just seems so unnecessary. Mississauga is my old town, so I’m really shocked.

i think that it’s horrible what the father did, first of all. forcing people to do something shouldn’t be the way to get anything done at all. although religion is a very serious topic, i think that living is a much more serious one

Well, not wearing hijab or not wearing it properly IS indeed a sin and it goes against the teachings of our religion which says that it is an obligatory thing. Moreover, it as merely an act of worship for God to wear it in obedience to His commandment. An act for which we are rewarded in the hereafter, but punished for not abiding by it. Yet, I do not know of any worldly punishment prescribed by Shariah for not wearing a hijab. Not wearing it is a sin which can only be judged by God Himself in the hereafter and the religious law – to my best knowledge – does not state any punishments at all for a woman who does not cover up. And a murder…? This is because the parents don’t teach their daughters about the importance and the true meaning of hijab, instead giving them false ideas about it because they don’t know themselves or they are aware of their views on hijab and they might for example, tell the girl that hijab is a symbol of submission and obedience to certain human beings while it is NOT – so obviously, the girl is going to hate it because she doesn’t understand that hijab is not a symbol and it is not worn to honour humans (husbands or fathers for example), but to honour the Only One God Himself – she doesn’t know why she should wear it. This attitude towards certain parts of our religion represented by the parents actually are responsable for the children’s neglection of religious practices.

But this is not the only thing I wanted to discuss here. Well, since the Shariah doesn’t state any worldly punishment for not wearing hijab, nobody had the right to punish the girl in any way, particularly by killing her which was simply an evil act, a crime and nothing more or less than than, based on that the religious law does not say that a woman must be killed for refusing to wear hijab. She wouldn’t do that if she knew what really is hijab and why she should wear it. And even if she choose not to wear it, still, there is no punishment of this world for her, to my knowledge, and God knows best. For not praying or not fasting Shariah has got some instructions – but for not wearing hijab…? Not really. It is not the sixt pillar of Islam. Moreover, how could a father actually kill his own daughter…? Even in the story of Ibrahim, peace be upon him, it was not to happen because it was but a trial of faith and God did not actually let Ibrahim kill Ismail, peace be upon them all… Instead, a sheep was sacrificed. Killing one’s own children is even more evil than killing a stranger. It just cannot be explained, how can a human being be able of such a thing… It horrifies me that there are men like that in this world.

So, basically, we are to acept that the hijab is an obligatory act of worship for Allah and there is a wisdom behind it, even if we are not truly able to see that wisdom, as it can be something we don’t know, but God knows – if we acept that our Creator knows what is good for us because He has created us, thus He knows best – then we acept the hijab without looking for any reason to wear it other than that. But even if we want to have a reason, we can find thousands of reasons to convince ourselves that it is rather a blessing than a curse and we will love it, indeed, if we only spend some time thinking about it without any prejudice, with open and clear mind. If we then acept Islam as our religion, it is logic to follow its most basic principles, such as the hijab, for example. We will then naturally acept that not wearing hijab but believing it is fard, a duty, will be a sin, while not wearing it because of believing it an optional thing, will be rejecting the obviously known part of Islam, and therefore, rejecting the religion as a whole – which means clearly, an apostasy by wrong belief, called ar-ridda in theological terminology based on Shariah. We must be aware of that when we become Muslims and our obligation is to protect ourselves from even unintentional apostasy, because such may occur when we don’t have the necessary basic knowledge and we don’t need to be scholars to know these things because they are obvious and confirmed by many theologians and Sharia specialists in the world, of modern times and of the classical school many centuries ago. I say, when we become Muslims, because even someone who is born into a Muslim family and has got his fitrah, or monotheistic nature, will truly be a Muslim by declaring it in the shahadah which is the basic condition for everyone to be in fact a Muslim – and that can be done when the person reaches the age of understanding a simple question about religion which is called ‘mumayyaz’ in Arabic, if I remember well – with this term is described a child who understands and can answer when asked about their religion. So, this is the teaching of Islam. There are no consequences in this world for not wearing hijab of which I personally know, God knows best – the punishment for this sin is in the hereafter, moreover, father doesn’t have the right over the life of his daughter because only Allah has that right – it is He Who gives us life and to Him it belongs, unically to Him, thus no-one can take life of someone else without a religiously valid reason, based on the Shariah, and no-one can take their own life, either, because it belongs to Allah and no-one else. ;* This is Islam and my point of view, God knows best. ;*

Aisha B., Poland ;*