Do muslim women wear a veil for cultural or religious reasons? Where does this tradition come from?

Question

The verse in the Koran that indicates that women should cover themselves (Qur'an, 33:59) seems to be open for debate, given that the Arabic translation is not precise - so it appears that it is up to the priests (mullahs?) in charge to decide what interpretation is "correct".

Answer 1

You know when the Koran was written the Muslims actually treated there women better than most societies including the West. Women were just used and abused all over the place. The idea behind the veil is that it protects the womens virtues if you can't see a women then you won't be tempted to seduce her or even attack and rape as oft happened in the past thus both man and womane will lead a more virtious life.

I think this is the opposite now. The veil is rapidly becoming a symbol of fear in the West and as such women are now more at risk of attack than thy are without. I think they should rethink wearing the veil in the light of this.

Answer 2

Both religious and cultural. The Quran says that women must cover themselves, so it's religion, but "how" and "how much" to cover it's up to interpretations. There are different interpretations and traditions, every Muslim Country has its own, so that's cultural. However, only in Saudi Arabia and a few more Arab Countries the rule is to cover the face too.

Answer 3

individually i detect the donning of the veil sinister and impolite and could plenty like it in the event that they did no longer positioned on it. yet I additionally discover the donning of little or no in any respect provocative and impolite and might comprehend objections to that too. i desire this debate at last leads directly to the plenty greater significant undertaking of the indoctrination of harmless babies into deluded religious ideals. i latterly attended a harvest pageant occasion at my sons' college the place a vicar advised each and every of the youngsters that "God made each and every of the little frogs and the cows and Adam and Eve and all and sundry human beings". It appalled me. I worry that those Islamic women who positioned on the finished veil are frequently the precise same little women who have been indoctrinated into chanting the Qur’an as quickly as they might walk, and the daughters of adult males who went in the process an identical technique. it rather is a think approximately their identity for the reason that's the way they have been programmed and what they have grown up believing. The veil is, as Jack Straw has suggested, a sparkling assertion of separation and difference which, in very almost each and every case, is a functionality of religion itself. that's the functionality of religion and that's propagation that would desire to be examined and constrained here, no longer purely Moslem women especially or Islam frequently. we are all babies of an evolutionary technique, no longer a suitable being and, as an atheist humanist, i'm ill of being caught interior the crossfire between warring religious communities. I truthfully have the internal maximum compassion for anybody who has been indoctrinated in the previous that they had the adulthood and intelligence to artwork issues out for themselves and that i desire, at last, they're going to see the easy (which comes from the sunlight and not a God).

Answer 4

Women where the veil because they were told to by Allah to protect their modesty and beauty.
You could say it is religious and cultural, as Islam is a religion and a way of life.
The only thing that people debate on regarding the veil is whether it must cover the whole face or part or none.

Answer 5

The wearing of the veil is being particularly enforced only recently.
Is it the intention of the terrorist to abuse it to escape arrest, as it has happen in a number of occasions where the wanted, dress as a women in veil and was not found out for quite a number of years.

Answer 6

i'm a muslim woman and i cover my hair. because i was born in america and i am part irish and part black(with a bit of a few other things in there) i can assure it is not because of cultural reasons. the hijab is the most empowering part of my faith. i do believe that it is obligatory on every muslim woman but no i dont believe there is hard evidence about this.... it is just one of those things that has to come from faith. here is what made me put on the hijab. if your body is covered and your hair is covered all that is left to show through is your personality. so when people like me and conversate with and become friends with me... i know it is b/ of who i am. i spent a great many years growing up being different peoples barbie doll. i enjoy my life now much much more

Answer 7

It's a trdadition not a religious requirement. A bit like walking with a cane in Victiorian times.

It's a symbol of modesty apparently.

Answer 8

Yes... they wear their veils to show that they are free from the need of having others recognize them for their appearance... they want to be seen for who they are on the inside. They save thier beauty for their husbands. They are not forced to wear them and wearing a veil is not a form of oppression as many assume it is.

Answer 9

Women should cover up but reveal their Faces and hands. Like the nuns in christianity.

Answer 10

NO they wear it to say f***k you go take a hike we don't care about you your beliefs or anything just us its not religious its see me (actually we cant) we don't know you you are a non person abin liner covering who you are a non person ,incognito,in disguise a blob on society who has no say we cant See you we don't know you we cant recognise you cant identify with you , don't want to know you your not natural