I Am Enjoying Being A Muslim

If a woman is free to show her body, then why isn't she free to cover it?

A nun can be covered from head to toe in order to devote herself to God, right? But, then when a Muslim woman does the same, why is she "oppressed"? [i]Hijab[/i] is my right, my choice, my dignity, and my life.

My [i]hijab[/i] ennobles me. [u]It's a personal choice[/u]. It’s a personal choice [u]to submit to Allah[/u] rather than the fashion of society. [u]To be beautiful to Allah[/u] rather than people.

Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

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BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F

[quote]If a woman is free to show her body, then why isn't she free to cover it?[/quote]

Because for most of the time, Muslim women are forced to wear Hijab and don't do it out of complete consent, they are either pressurised by their family or by the society, that's why you can't really say "free to cover it" without having a big question mark on that - I come from a Muslim society and I know that for a fact!

That nun vs Muslim woman thing is really getting old - Who are you talking about when you say people view nuns as "devoted" but view Muslim women as oppressed? Whoever is against Hijab will most probably be against the ridiculous "devotion" of nuns too. Plus, you can't really compare individuals who are members of a religious community with regular Muslim women, whom as a majority wear Hijab regardless of how religious they are, I mean, nuns are expected to adhere to strict religious rules given their religious status, but it is not realistic that all these female Muslim women are as as religious as nuns and therefore are willingly wearing Hijab! It doesn't make sense, which brings us to the point that so many of them are forced to wear it..... and FYI, so many verses and Hadiths have made men in charge of women and gave them the liberty to decide on women's way of dressing and living for that matter, so please, do not claim that compelling women is against Islam, further, when Islam says that women who don't cover themselves will go to hell, I don't think it left much of a choice, did it!

Finally, if your dignity is in a piece of fabric, that's a very worrying thing. If you lose it on a windy day, you lose your dignity!

Madeleine · 41-45, F

@BittersweetPotato Thank you for your comment. It's true that there are women who are forced to wear hijab, but also there are women who are forced to remove it. In my post, I made it clear that I'm against both.

There's no punishment in this world, in Islam, for women who don't wear hjiab, neither in the Quran nor in Hadith, that's why it's against Islam to force them to wear it. It's her choice to follow God's commands or not. It's between herself and God. A woman who is a true believer would wear hijab happily and she will find joy in it as much as she would pray, fast and practice Islam.