Hijab and job.
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Assalamu
alikum
I am a lecturer in co-educational institution.Most often I have to stand
infront of the guys and discussion with the students regarding subject.I am
wearing a losefitting chdidar with scarf,it is not attractive ,not transparent
,I use to show my face & hands till wrist infront of others.
As per
islamic rules & regulation am i allowed to continue the job ? or quiet it ?
Brother/Sis I need clear explantion regarding Hijab & Job ?.
Jazakallah
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Answer:
Hijab and job
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide,
and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 24 Surah
Noor verses 30-31:
30 Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard
their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: and Allah is well
acquainted with all that they do.
31 And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and
guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments
except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils
over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their
fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their
brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or
the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical
needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they
should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden
ornaments. And O ye Believers! Turn ye
all together towards Allah that ye may attain Bliss.
Although Islam has laid the complete and total financial
responsibility of running the house and the family on the shoulders of the man,
Islam does not at all forbid or prohibit the believing woman from working and
earning, if she desires to do so; provided she fulfills the rights that are due
from her to her husband and her family in full, scrupulously honors the
Commands of the ‘hijaab’ and guarding her chastity, and the work itself does not violate any of
the dictates of the deen.
The exact same conditions that apply for a believing man
who works and earns, would also apply to the believing woman who desires to
work and earn:
Thus in essence, as long as the duty and tenets that Islam
has laid upon the believing woman is not violated by her time and energy spent
on her work, there is absolutely no harm and no restriction in a believing
woman working and earning.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan