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The Book of Dress and Veil by Maulana Mohammad Ashigq Elahi Madani Translated by Shakir Rizwani

THE BOOK OF DRESS AND VEIL

History has recorded that the first individual to convert to Islam was a woman, namely, Hazrat Khadija, and the first martyr for Islam was also a woman, — Sumayya, Hazrat Ammar’s mother who was struck down by Abu Jahl with a spear.

It is also well-known that the immediate cause of Hazrat Omar’s conversion was his sister Fatimah.

And it is also on record that when migration from Makkah started for the preservation of Islam there were women too who went along with the men, and these holy women also participated in battles.

They also cheerfully sent their husbands and sons to the battlefield.

Some even taunted their husbands urging them to march out and fight. Are the women of today not interested in Islam? Have they no relationship with Islam?

Do they not claim to be among the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad?

 If the answer is ‘yes’, then, why do they not make a move to educate themselves in Islam, and educate others and recognise their responsibilities?

They ape and emulate Europeans, imitate their fashions, are extremely covetous of jewellery and fine clothes but never think of what they are doing for the Hereafter.

They lose prayer after prayer and forego fasting and zakat.

Is this Islam? Thousands of children every year go without any religious training whatever, nor are they urged to be valiant in the cause of religion. Some even regret that they were bom Muslim;

in other religions there would have been no purdah (veil) restrictions, none to advise them to keep away from film acting, and so on.