The Practice of Veil in Islam – Its Obligation and Utility

Maulana Nadeem Al-Wajidi explains in this article (Translated from Urdu by Syed Raihan Ahmad Nezami) why in his and other Islamic scholars' view the veil is essential for Muslim women. Supporting his arguments from Quranic verses and Hadees, he explains why a woman should not only be veiled from head to toe but no more than one of her eyes should preferably be allowed to see the world, and that too, of course, from behind the netting in the veil. An essential read for both kinds of readers: those who want to confirm themselves in their view that women have to be kept under leash, practically imprisoned in their houses in order to save them from prying male eyes and their Satanic conduct; and also those who want to see what nuts our maulanas are and what kind of primitive world they live in and to what extent they can go to disparage the great, forward-looking religion of Islam which essentially freed women from slavery at a time when almost the entire world was mired in backwardness and ignorance and women were treated as chattel, if at all they were allowed to be born -- Editor
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