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00:00Dear sister, you know you should wear the hijab, but you think you have strong reasons not to, right?
00:06Okay, let's clear away the noise.
00:08Top searches in Google are loaded with content which exists solely to create confusion
00:14about the beautiful obligation for believing women to cover ourselves in a specific way.
00:20Who is making all this noise?
00:22And how do we Muslim women cope with something that will affect all our time outside the home?
00:27A little bit of digging shows that a network of academics and organizations committed to secular democracy
00:35are pushing an agenda of confusion relating to hijab and other elements of our faith.
00:41I know it's hard to navigate this online attack.
00:43It really is a minefield out there.
00:45And this makes it easy to be put off wearing the scarf and difficult to know who to ask.
00:50But taking time to understand this way of life and its expectations and parameters is absolutely essential.
00:58And you should not be put off.
01:00Why?
01:01For the benefit of your own soul.
01:04So where do we find sound guidance of the kind which will ultimately lead us to our desired destination, Allah's pleasure?
01:11Well, let me ask you this.
01:12Would you go to a motor salesman to buy a bicycle?
01:16Or a butcher's for vegan ingredients?
01:18Western academia, or social media for that matter, are not the spaces to begin your voyage.
01:25The navigators to the great truths of Islam must be those who have previously or are currently traveling the route of belief.
01:34Here's an easy exercise to give us some clarity.
01:37Go to Google now if you like and type in female scholar of Islam.
01:43Not female lecturers or influencers, please.
01:46Scholars.
01:46Now take a look at the photos.
01:48Here are some of the names that came up on my search from the list offering real advice on all aspects of life as a Muslim woman,
01:57including what Allah expects of us in terms of modesty.
02:00The esteemed learned women on the list include...
02:02So how many of these respected female scholars do not wear hijab?
02:18The answer, unsurprisingly, is zero.
02:22And who do our learned sisters take their teaching from?
02:25Who are their examples?
02:27Are they guided by Harvard professors or Instagram influencers?
02:32Their leaders?
02:33Our leaders as Muslim women are Fatima, daughter of the prophet, peace be upon him.
02:38Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her.
02:39By his beloved wife called mother of the believers and the righteous women who down the generations of 1400 years since then have all, guess what?
02:50Covered themselves for one reason alone.
02:52The pleasure of Allah ta'ala.
02:54Be careful when asking information on the Holy Quran and our prophet Muhammad, peace upon him, from those who are not there to guide you to success in faith.
03:04Islam is in the doing.
03:06The actions, not merely the thinking.
03:08But you know what?
03:09I hear you.
03:11Hijab is a big commitment.
03:14It's a huge external signpost of what we believe.
03:18And it's there for everyone to see and judge.
03:21But know this, being beautiful in the eyes of others will never feel as good as being special in the eyes of our Lord.
03:29Allah ta'ala says,
03:30O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to lower over themselves a portion of their jilbabs.
03:39That is more suitable that they will be known and not be harmed.
03:42And ever is Allah forgiving and merciful.
03:45Focus on learning from authentic sources and scholars of the past and from today.
03:50And my sister on this new past, know this, because shaitan will never whisper this to you.
03:56It is so thrilling to give something up or to take something on for Allah ta'ala.
04:00How empowering it is to subdue the calls of our lower self because we seek his pleasure alone.
04:09Looking around for excuses not to wear hijab is tempting.
04:14Shaitan wants us to go fatwa shopping.
04:17As Muslims, our faith affects our lives far beyond the walls of the mosque or the corners of the prayer mat.
04:24Islam is our daily routine from when we wake up and pray Fajr to the final prayer before sleep.
04:30Its endorsements affect our interactions, choice of food, pastimes, social venues, friendship groups.
04:38Modesty is an important part of this beautiful and complex layering of ethics,
04:45which applies to a way of being very different.
04:48Yes, different from social media culture with its Twitter trolls and TikTok addictions.
04:53Studies show that the less Western women wear, if the flesh they show is considered appealing to men in power, of course,
05:01the more they can get paid.
05:03Allah ta'ala spares us that humiliation.
05:06I want to read you now something by Ansa Tamara Gray from her article,
05:11Lean In, Our Feminist Manifesto, and I link to it below.
05:15She says,
05:16Like a sports team, we recognize each other.
05:19Like an ethnic background, we feel comfortable with each other.
05:23Like a flag held high in the field of battle,
05:26we bravely go out every day in every country of the world
05:30and represent our prophet, peace upon him, our religion.
05:36We represent our men who too often blend into the background.
05:40And we represent our hurting women who need our activism.
05:43We represent any woman of faith unsure how to outwardly express her conviction.
05:50Hijab, like all acts of duty,
05:52comes down to putting the good opinion of Allah ta'ala above human beings,
05:58seeking his love, asking for his mercy,
06:01thriving because of his pleasure with us.
06:05My message to you, my dear sister, is wear the scarf that you may be known.
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