| Why do Muslim women have more aurat to be covered than Muslim men? |
| Girls and women are the symbols of beauty, love, and compassion. Men are the symbol of strength, confidence, and devotion. In islamic doctrines, men should work and pay money to women. Women are not responsible for financial matters in the family. Whereas, a female is responsible for her husband and children. If women spend their time merely with other peoples and not with their family it's mean they are not doing their duties. This action is ugly and it's mean aurat , something that you should conceal from others. Almost all part of the womens body are beauty so they should be covered. If a man's body arouses female's attention toward him, he must cover his body. So, his body is aurat in this condition. Muslim duty is not just hijab. They should control their eyes as well. The holy Qur'an calls both gender to act faithfully: 'Tell the faithfully men to cast down their looks and to guard their private parts. That is more decent for them. Allah is indeed well aware of what they do. (30) And tell the faithful women to cast down their looks and to guard their private parts, and not to display their charms, beyond what is visible, and let them draw their scarfs over their bosoms...' An-Nur [24:30] |
| What is 'aurat'? |
| What Aurat mean actually? I tried checking the dictionary to find what is 'Aurat' in english since ''aurat' is an Arabic word. And I also tried checking the english Quran translator to find what is 'aurat'called in english. So what I found is that 'aurat' in Quran called 'ornamet' (24:31), 'shame'(7:26) and so on in english. Well literally 'aurat' come from the word 'aurah' in Arabic which means shame and humanity. And basically it mean certain parts of the body that we need to cover from others to see. |
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| Where is aurat? |
| Aurat for men and women is different. For men, the part where they have to close is between the navel until the lower part of knee. For women, they have to close the all part of the body except their face and their wrist. |
| When we should close our aurat? |
| Aurat should be close once you hit puberty. Why? Because when we hit puberty, our sins and deeds will be counted by Allah. For men , their aurat should be closed all the time accept in front of their wife. For women, their aurat is like the men's the aurat is in front their husband, father, the father of their husband, their sons, the sons of their husband, their brother, their brother's sons, their sister's sons, and so on(Please read the Quran, An-Nur [24:31]). So, in front of others who are not mentioned in the Quran the woman can only show their face and wrist only. |
| Why we should close our aurat? |
| People, mostly women think that it is unnessary for them to close their aurat. Here, I'm not gonna tell you that we have to close it because the Quran said so, but I'm going to tell it based on the logic. Aurat is very closed to sexuality. For instance, when the men see the navel, the thigh, the breast, the buttock, or the beautiful hair of a woman, the man will surely got excited and his lust will start to control him. And this is what Islam don't want because when the lust start to control the person, he will surely lost their mind. But, some woman said that, ''why we must to closed our hair?'' Well, we never know what a person like to see. Sometime a man can get excited by just seeing some blond hair. So, in Islam we like to prevention since prevention is better than cure. |
| What are the correct ways to closed the aurat? |
| First, the clothes that we are wearing must not be too tight. And then for women, the hijab that you are wear must at least closed the hair and the breast. To be more proper, wear a hijab like mentioned in Quran; ''O Prophet! say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they let down upon them their overgarments; this will be more proper, that they may be known, and thus they will not given trouble; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.'' Al-Ahzab[33:59] |