Ban on veil is unfortunate

 By

Abdul Hannan Siwani Nadvi

The ban on veil in France is unfortunate. Using of veil or wearing Naqab to cover the whole body is the basic right of Muslim women.

According to the report, five million Muslims are live in France, while only two thousand women wear veil.

Despite to be the less number of Muslim veiled women, France’s Parliament approved the laws to ban it.

Such action is based on racial discrimination and it is a bid to deny Muslim women from their Islamic rights.

Interestingly, European, Western and other countries are making amendment in their constitutions to give equal rights to women, while one of them passes a law to ban on veil that is the right of Muslim women given to them by Islam.

It is true that Hijab is not mandatory in Islam and there is no instruction that insists on specific Hijab or Naqab to be used only by Muslim women.

Which kind of dresses can be used by women to cover their body have been left on them. So that, in all Islamic world, Muslim women use different Hijab or Niqab.

The real aim behind using Niqab or Hijab is to cover the body. Hence Islam left this matter on Ulema and Muslim women to select themselves the dress in which they feel better and comfortable and save them from bad elements.

Wearing Hijab or Niqab is the fundamental right of Muslim women, and they not be denied from it.

15-07-2010