Tag: hijab

  • Ustazah: Allah Gave Permission For Girls To Hug K-Pop Idols

    Ustazah: Allah Gave Permission For Girls To Hug K-Pop Idols

    KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 — The three Muslims girls who have been vilified for hugging K-pop stars during a concert last week actually had “Allah’s permission”, a Muslim religious teacher claimed.

    The young woman, who did not provide her name and was identified by some YouTube accounts as an “ustazah” or religious teacher, said that the three girls would have been stopped by God from going onstage if there was no divine permission.

    “They were onstage with Allah’s permission because in this life, Allah gives us one thing—that is choice. Allah gives us the choice. Allah gave us the choice whether we want to go or not, do something consciously or not,” the tudung-clad woman explained in a YouTube video that is 5:42 minutes long.

    “And they chose to go and Allah permitted them to go; they chose to stand up there and Allah permitted them to be onstage,” she added in the video carried by YouTube users like Pen Merah Dot Com and Siakap Keli.

    In the same video that surfaced yesterday, she also trained her guns on “keyboard warriors”, calling them out for their alleged holier-than-thou attitude and abusive words.

    “But behind Allah’s permission for this to become viral, Allah actually wants to test us who are so good in becoming keyboard warriors to abuse, to speak ill; as if you are all so good since you were born until now,” she said.

    She also pointed out that the three Muslim girls could end up being far better than their critics by learning from this incident, also saying that the girls and their families and friends were already suffering shame from this controversy.

    She said love should be shown to the three girls instead, and sounded exasperated when noting how Muslims and Malays have been squabbling online over this incident.

    The controversy erupted after a video of the meet-the-fans session here for K-pop band B1A4 on Saturday was uploaded online, prompting thousands of angry Facebook users to share and comment on a three-minute viral video of the artists hugging and embracing the tudung-clad Malay girls on stage.

    The clip, which was posted on the Sukan Star TV Facebook page, was suggestively titled “Perempuan melayu dicabul atas pentas oleh mat kpop semalam” (Malay girls molested on stage by K-Pop artists last night).

    But B1A4’s management firm WM Entertainment has since then denied claims that its artistes “molested” the three Malay girls, saying that they were mindful of local Muslim sensitivities and said the consent of the three had been obtained.

    The mini-concert’s organisers TGM Events have also denied the molest claim, pointing out that the event company was run mostly by women and were against “molestation or sexual harassment.”

    The organiser also said the fans were told beforehand not to “touch” or “get too close” to the B1A4 members, adding that the selected fans had given their full consent to appear on stage.

    On Monday, JAWI said it is investigating the girls for public indecency and outraging Muslims, and would probe the matter under Section 29 of Shariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territories) Act 1997.

    Section 29 of the Act allows for a fine of up to RM1,000 and imprisonment of no more than six months upon conviction.

    Yesterday, Utusan Malaysia reported that JAWI said it will apply for an arrest warrant if the Malay girls refuse to turn themselves in for investigation within a week, but the department’s official told Malay Mail Online that they may be spared prosecution and sent for rehabilitation instead if they are underage.

     

    Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com

  • Perempuan Berhijab Melampau

    Perempuan Berhijab Melampau

    Kurang ajar betul minah tudung nie, bergambar dalam keadaan yang memalukan di tempat awam. Pakai saja tudung tetapi perangai macam apa!! Kalau tidak salah gambar ini dirakamkan di sebuah restoran makanan segera.

    Kalaulah tempat terbuka sudah macam ini, apa lagi kalau tempat yang tertutup. Kenapalah perempuan sanggup buat apa saja demi teman lelakinya? Bukan tunang…jauh sekali suami. Menyesal kemudian hari tiada gunanya. Fikir-fikirkanlah.

     

    Source: http://nblo.gs

  • Hukum Hijab Bagi Wanita Islam

    Hukum Hijab Bagi Wanita Islam

    Hijab, atau bertudung, merupakan satu amalan yang diterima sebagai sesuatu yang fardhu oleh kebanyakkan kita di Malaysia dan negara-negara Muslim lain.

    Anjuran untuk berhijab ini disokong oleh dalil-dalil daripada Al-Quran dan Hadith yang menurut saya tidak perlu dihuraikan dengan panjang lebar lagi.

    Namun saya tertarik untuk membawa perhatian kita kepada perbahasan alternatif seputar isu Hijab yang jarang sekali diketengahkan dalam wacana keislaman di Malaysia.

    Hijab dalam Al-Quran

    Anjuran untuk memakai Hijab dapat kita temui di dalam Surah Al-Nuur ayat 31 yang menyatakan:

    “Katakanlah kepada wanita-wanita mukminah hendaklah mereka menahan pandangan mereka dan memelihara kemaluan mereka dan janganlah mereka memperlihatkan perhiasan tubuh mereka kecuali yang zahir daripadanya; dan hendaklah mereka menutup belahan leher bajunya dengan tudung kepala mereka; dan janganlah mereka memperlihatkan perhiasan tubuh mereka melainkan kepada suami mereka, atau bapa mereka atau bapa mertua mereka atau anak-anak mereka, atau anak-anak tiri mereka, atau saudara-saudara mereka, atau anak bagi saudara-saudara mereka yang lelaki, atau anak bagi saudara-saudara mereka yang perempuan, atau perempuan-perempuan Islam, atau kepada lelaki yang tidak berkeinginan kepada perempuan, atau kanak-kanak yang belum mengerti lagi tentang aurat perempuan; dan janganlah mereka menghentakkan kaki untuk diketahui orang akan apa yang tersembunyi dari perhiasan mereka; dan bertaubatlah kamu sekalian kepada Allah, wahai orang-orang yang beriman, supaya kamu berjaya”

    Dan di dalam Surah Al-Ahzab ayat 59, Allah memerintahkan:

    “Wahai Nabi, suruhlah isteri-isterimu dan anak-anak perempuanmu serta perempuan-perempuan yang beriman, supaya melabuhkan pakaiannya bagi menutup seluruh tubuhnya (semasa mereka keluar); cara yang demikian lebih sesuai untuk mereka dikenal maka dengan itu mereka tidak diganggu. Dan (ingatlah) Allah adalah Maha Pengampun, lagi Maha Mengasihani.”

    Inilah dasar pijakan hukum yang menjadi asas kepada perintah agar perempuan-perempuan Muslimah untuk menutup rambutnya dan melabuhkan tudungnya sehingga menutupi dada.

    Aurat berdasarkan fiqh klasik

    Aurat ditakrifkan sebagai kekurangan atau sesuatu yang memalukan dan mengaibkan dari anggota tubuh badan sekiranya di dedahkan untuk tatapan umum.

    Menurut Imam Al-Nawawi di dalam Al-Majmu’ Syarh Al-Muhazzab, aurat diertikan sebagai anggota tubuh manusia yang menurut pandangan umum buruk atau mengaibkan sekiranya diperlihatkan kepada umum dan sekiranya dibiarkan terbuka akan menimbulkan fitnah.

    Fitnah yang dimaksudkan oleh Al-Nawawi adalah fitnah seksual, oleh yang demikian majoriti ulama’ berpendapat bahawa aurat wajib ditutup.

    Sekiranya kita meneliti perbahasan fiqh tentang aurat, terutamanya aurat perempuan. Kita akan menemui perbezaan di antara batas aurat perempuan merdeka (Al-Hurrah) dan batas aurat hamba (Al-Amah).

    Di dalam Mazhab Syafie, batas aurat perempuan merdeka adalah keseluruhan tubuh mereka kecuali muka dan tapak tangan.

    Bahkan Al-Muzani menambah bahawa tapak kaki perempuan juga bukan termasuk dalam batas aurat yang harus ditutup.

    Begitu juga pendapat tentang batas aurat perempuan merdeka menurut Mazhab Maliki, walaubagaimanapun menurut Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al-Maghribi sekiranya perempuan merdeka tersebut merasa bimbang terhadap fitnah, maka ia harus menutup muka dan tapak tangannya.

    Manakala menurut Ibnu Qudamah batas aurat perempuan menurut Mazhab Hanbali adalah keseluruhan tubuh badannya bahkan menurut Abu Bakr Al-Harits, keseluruhan tubuh perempuan adalah aurat termasuklah kukunya.

    Batas aurat perempuan merdeka dan perempuan hamba

    Manakala batasan aurat bagi perempuan hamba menurut Imam Al Nawawi boleh dibahagikan kepada tiga pendapat.

    Pertama, majoriti ulama’ Syafieyah menyatakan bahawa batas aurat bagi perempuan hamba adalah sama seperti batasan aurat lelaki merdeka, iaitu di antara pusat sehingga lutut.

    Kedua, menurut Al-Thabari batas aurat perempuan hamba sama seperti batas aurat perempuan merdeka kecuali kepala tidak wajib ditutupi.

    Ketiga, aurat perempuan hamba adalah sama dengan perempuan merdeka kecuali bahagian tubuh badan yang diperlukan untuk membuat kerja seperti kepala, leher dan lengan.

    Al-Marghinani dalam kitabnya Al-Hidayah Syarh Al-Bidayah menyatakan bahawa batas aurat lelaki adalah sama dengan batas aurat perempuan hamba, perut dan punggung perempuan hamba dan lelaki adalah aurat.

    Selain dari itu seluruh tubuhnya adalah bukan aurat. Kesimpulan ini dibuat berdasarkan kisah Umar Al Khatab yang telah memerintahkan agar Daffar (seorang hamba perempuan) untuk membuka tudung kepalanya. Umar bertanya kepada Daffar – “Adakah engkau ingin menyerupai perempuan merdeka?”

    Menurut Al-Marghinani lagi, aurat perempuan hamba tidak sama dengan perempuan merdeka kerana pada kebiasaannya hamba perempuan ini harus keluar dari rumah untuk melunaskan pekerjaan sebagaimana yang diarahkan oleh tuannya.

    Muhammad Ali Al-Shobuni di dalam Rawa’i Al-Bayan Tafsir Ayat Al Ahkam Min Al Quran senada dengan Al-Marghinani dalam hal aurat perempuan hamba.

    Menurut beliau perempuan hamba akan terbeban dengan urusan-urusan pekerjaan sehingga terpaksa keluar dari rumah, pergi ke pasar dan memenuhi segala keperluan tuannya. Sekiranya diperintahkan untuk berpakaian seperti perempuan Muslimah merdeka, sudah pasti ia akan menyusahkan dan membebankan hamba perempuan tersebut menyelesaikan urusan pekerjaannya.

    Sementara itu, Ibnu Hazm di dalam Al-Muhalla’ berpendapat bahawa batas aurat bagi perempuan merdeka dan perempuan hamba adalah sama dalam apa keadaan sekalipun kerana tidak ada dalil dari Al-Quran mahupun Hadith yang menyatakan perbezaan di antara batas aurat perempuan merdeka dan perempuan hamba.

    Makna aurat berbeza berdasar tafsiran

    Secara umumnya, sekiranya kita meneliti teks-teks klasik fiqh yang membahaskan tentang persoalan aurat kita pasti akan berjumpa dengan perbahasan-perbahasan tentang perbezaan aurat di antara perempuan merdeka dengan perempuan hamba.

    Dan perbezaan ini sangat ketara kerana para ulama menyatakan bahawa alasan perbezaan tersebut rata-ratanya adalah untuk memudahkan, keperluan dan mengelakkan kesulitan bagi perempuan hamba tersebut melakukan urusan kerja yang diarahkan oleh tuannya.

    Ibnu Hajar Al-Asqalani di dalam Fath-Al Bari menyatakan bahawa pakaian (Al-Malabis) adalah berbeza-beza di setiap negeri.

    Sekiranya kita meneliti dari sudut sejarah dan latar sosial masyarakat arab pada masa tersebut pakaian-pakaian seperti khimar dan jalabib sebagaimana yang disebutkan di dalam Surah Al Nuur ayat 31 merupakan pakaian kebudayaan bagi masyarakat Arab pada ketika itu.

    Muhammad Tahir Ibn Ashoor di dalam bukunya Maqasid Syariah Al Islamiyah menyatakan bahawa adat kebiasaan sesuatu kaum tidak boleh dipaksakan ke atas kaum lain atas nama agama.

    Beliau sewaktu menghuraikan Surah Al-Ahzab ayat 59 yang memerintahkan agar isteri-isteri Nabi dan perempuan beriman untuk melabuhkan jilbab mereka sehingga menutupi dada menyatakan – “Ini adalah ajaran yang mempertimbangkan adat orang-orang Arab sehingga bangsa-bangsa lain yang tidak menggunakan jilbab tidak diwajibkan atas syariat ini”.

    Makna “aurat” bergantung kepada budaya masyarakat dan zaman

    Tafsiran aurat sendiri begitu subjektif dan berbeza-beza di antara ulama’ walaupun objektif utama penutupan aurat adalah untuk mengelakkan berlakunya fitnah seksual (Khauf Al-Fitnah) terhadap perempuan.

    Pemahaman terhadap batas anggota tubuh yang membawa keaiban juga berbeza dari setiap tempat dan banyak dipengaruhi oleh keadaan budaya masyarakat setempat.

    Perempuan, sebagaimana lelaki, mempunyai hak yang sama ke atas tubuh badannya dan berhak diberikan kebebasan untuk memilih pakaian yang menurut pandangannya adalah sesuai dan mampu mengelakkan fitnah.

    Sekiranya dia memilih untuk bertudung, itu baik untuknya dan sekiranya dia memilih untuk tidak bertudung itu juga baik untuknya. Yang lebih penting ialah mereka memakai pakaian yang terhormat.

     

    Source: www.projekdialog.com

  • Osman Sulaiman: Malay Muslim Community Must Make A Stand As The Government’s Inconsistent Policies Continue to Divide

    Osman Sulaiman: Malay Muslim Community Must Make A Stand As The Government’s Inconsistent Policies Continue to Divide

    I believe the reason why some people still fear the Muslim women who wear the hijab is becoz they have little or poor knowledge on why these ladies put it on. And they most probably have not had the opportunity nor the exposure to mingle and make contact with them.

    For 50 years, our gov has all of the necessary apparatus to assuage this matter but it has not done so and has in fact shown to be unwilling to do so. It continues to do this so that it can rule by division.

    They continue to disallow any muslim child who wear the headgear from attending the mainstream school and thus segregating the mass of the population from these people and thus compounding the misconception about people who wear the hijabs.

    Many studies have shown that the younger the child is exposed to a certain environment, the better these children will be able to adapt. Unfortunately, the people that rule us think otherwise.

    How then do we integrate people of different faith together? Oddly enough, the Sikh community is given the green light to wear the turban in school if they choose to.

    Dont get me wrong. Im not advocating for the gov to ban turbans in pri and sec schools becoz the muslim girls weren’t allowed to practice their faith but rather to apply the policy consistently for the greater good of the people as a whole.

    For all of its time in power, our gov has continued with its iniquity towards certain segment of the society in particular the malays and/or muslims.

    From time to time, we will also hear the ministers on record to give their skewed perspective of the malays and muslims, creating further doubts. I wonder how our malay/muslim ministers feel serving such a government.

    I also find it hard to swallow that Singapore reproves its neighbour up north for their exclusion of talent based on race but at the same time doing exactly the opposite of what it propagates.

    Other than disallowing the muslim girls who wear the headgear in pri and sec mainstream schools, many job opportunities (particularly in the uniform groups) are also not made available to them by way of implementing discriminating policies. This act has unfortunately spilled over to the private sectors.

    Our gov is certainly not oblivious on the aspirations of the malay/muslim community to be treated justly and to remove any doubts on its loyalty towards the nation. It has come to a point where our fundamental rights are now treated as candies to be given at the pleasure of these people governing us.

    If there are social faultlines that divide us, especially on race or religion, then i believe this gov is the main contributor of such matters.

    It has been many years my community keep giving this current gov their support but have seen no change to this issue. I implore my community to rethink on their choices. The support should be given to people who believe in inclusiveness. Not the artificial ones that we are experiencing now.

    Ask yourself this pertinent question. How many more years do we want to wait? If we have never contributed anything significant to our own community, this is the best chance to do so on a huge scale.

    We cant have any success without a little sacrifice. We should not fear the unknown. No one will change our fate unless we change it ourselves.

    We need to rally our family members and friends to do what is needed. Im afraid that with the influx of new citizens, our political voices will be diminished further. It might then be too late for any regrets.

    Regards,
    Osman Sulaiman

     

    Authored by Osman Sulaiman.

  • American Hijab: Donning The Hijab As a Socio-Political Statement Rather Than A symbol of Religiosity

    American Hijab: Donning The Hijab As a Socio-Political Statement Rather Than A symbol of Religiosity

    I remember donning the hijab for the first time three years ago. I say it was the first time, but really it was one of many times that I had slipped it on, standing in front of the mirror and adjusting the folds of fabric around my face. Yet this time was different. Rather than take it off after prayer or a visit to the local masjid (mosque), I was hoping to wear it regularly.

    It was sometime in winter during my freshman year of college at Northwestern, and I had spent my first three months of college searching for my place among thousands of students. Like any freshmen, I had several identifying factors that felt true, things that I felt could not go unmentioned as I sought out the people who would become my closest friends. These included everything from my taste in books and music to my leftist political stance, but also my religion.

    As a Muslim growing up in a post 9/11 world, I was accustomed to misconceptions about my religion, my race, and my identity. I was acutely aware of the way I navigated the world as a brown body, and how experiences of hate and injustice only magnified themselves when my mother (wearing hijab) or my sister (darker with characteristic African hair) accompanied me places. My body, in spite of its brown shade, was still in the liminal world of racial ambiguity, a place where I could pass into whiteness when it seemed convenient. There were few markers of my race and my religion. In spite of this, however, I had often felt that my religion was not something to be shed or stifled and hidden for the sake of others, for the sake of their comfort. I did not shy away from my heritage, my deeply Egyptian roots, the pride I felt for Africa and Arabia and Islam. They were the places that made me a blank-American, someone different.

    That day in winter, as a lonely and homesick freshman, I remembered that being different was far from wanting or choosing to be different. That, in fact, I was not in control of my narrative so long as I still sought the acceptance of those who might never want to understand me. My desire to wear hijab increased in that moment. Hijab became a symbol of my rejection of white-passing (or at the very least racial ambiguity), a privilege I was distinctly aware I had, and that I knew was not afforded to many of my fellow non-white Americans.

    While hijab has historically had a reputation of being a number of things to “the West,” rebellion has rarely been one of them. Certainly among many Muslims and in many Muslim nations it is often considered a sign of piety, or at the very least culture and respect. Yet rebellion, or perhaps a better word is resistance, is one of the many reasons many Muslims wear hijab.

    In fact, in the 1970s and ’80s, after a period of secularism, many Muslim majority countries were undergoing an Islamic revival, where the society (not the political regimes) responded to its conditions by adopting religion again. It was a reversal of the Westernisation approach, undermining the belief of my grandparents’ generation that the West was strengthening Muslim nations. My mother describes choosing the hijab in college during the ’80s, a little after this revival. Her parents, the previous generation, rejected her decision; theirs was an era where few women wore hijab, where much of the traditional clothing was left behind in favor of western attire, where alcohol was widely accepted rather than forbidden.

    Many American Muslims wear hijab much like the women of the Islamic revival, as a response to the changing times and a rejection of Western influence. While it seems counter-intuitive to wear hijab in a world that increasingly has a negative perception of Muslims, particularly when the consensus among many American Muslims is that one can be religious with our without it, there is a significant presence of American Muslim women wearing the hijab as a strong sense of identity. As one of these women, I know and have insight to a representation of hijab that is rarely portrayed — a representation that I call the American hijab, the antithesis and retaliation to whiteness and the American media, and a nod of solidarity to other people of color.

    In this sense, hijab, rather than strictly being a religious decision, is also a sociopolitical choice and representation. In spite of, or rather in response to, the negative portrayal of Muslims by those (Muslims and non-Muslims) who seek to define our narrative as one of barbaric killing and atrocity, women choose hijab — a piece of cloth that declares their identity as Muslims while simultaneously expressing their individual identity as smart, driven, successful, and independent. A simple yet powerful message. A way in which Muslim women can reclaim their narrative.

    In choosing to wear the hijab, American Muslim women reconstruct the narrative of Islam in America. More importantly, they define American Islam and celebrate its rich cultural treasures: Islamic songs by Cat Stevens after his conversion, legendary icons like Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, a deep sense of community that transcends immigrant heritage to become a new national heritage of its own, a style of hijab and clothing developed to bring together Islamic tradition from across the globe.

    This American Islam has blossomed in many forms: the Mipsters (Muslim hipsters), Muppies (Muslim Urban Professionals), IMAN (Inner-city Muslim Action Network), and many more coalitions of young Muslim Americans who bring together their cross-cultural heritage — their America and their Islam — and share it with the world on a daily basis, through creative productions, concerts, health clinics and activist movements. While each coalition and organization has its own goals, they share a young, vibrant population of men and women alike with a common religious ideology, but also a sociopolitical identity.

    In the same vein, American Muslim women have created communities for hijabi fashion. With blogs, magazines, a strong social media presence, conferences, and more, these women are the epitome of the American hijab as an intricate sociopolitical identity. Instagram is littered with photos of stylish, smart women redefining the traditional garment, following the lead of women like international popstar Yuna. In their defiance of social convention, American Muslim women wearing hijab have paved the way for others and developed a sense of social consciousness and social justice among themselves.

    While this story of resistance may seem new, it is not unique to Muslim women. It is a story that rings true for many individuals of color, whether it manifests itself as choosing to don an afro or to participate in the traditions of our non-American ancestors. It is the story of rejecting social pressure, of rejecting the influence of western media and the western world, and of choosing to openly and clearly declare our difference in a society that readily rejects us as part of its narrative.

    The choice is embracing that difference and declaring it before anyone else can. This often means representing entire worlds, but it also means liberation from the pressures that society imposes with respect to beauty, identity, race, and culture. At the end of the day when I have fears about continuing to represent my faith without trepidation, I remember that I wear my hijab for the empowerment it grants me in declaring where I stand in a world that — more often than not — is in opposition to all that I am.

    I remind myself of the power and privilege of having the choice to decide whether I am explicitly seen or unseen for my difference, and for the ability to pass. While hijab is important to me as both a religious and sociopolitical statement, it is not my skin. At the end of the day, it is a piece of fabric that can be shed. Yet it is my way of acknowledging the unique responsibility and burden that people of color share with respect to teaching others about their identities. To my brothers and sisters of color out there: solidarity

    The story first appeared on xoJane.com

    Source: http://time.com