Hijab: A Divine Ordinance, ordained by all Prophets of Allah (SBUT)

Part 2

Let us now look at a few references to Hijab of ladies which are still remaining in the current so called old testament of the bible:

genesis 20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes* unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

*Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers: The “covering of the eyes” may mean a veil to protect her from the wanton desires of others; Matthew Poole's Commentary: This is to thee … i.e. this I give to thee to buy thee a veil, wherewith thou mayst cover thy face, as it is fit and usual for married persons to do. Compare Genesis 24:65, 1 Corinthians 11:3,6,7,10; Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: So in this he tells her that he had given him so much money to buy her a veil with, and to supply her with veils from time to time to cover her eyes, that nobody might be tempted to lust after her, and that it might be known she was a married woman; …

Genesis 24:65 For she [Rebekah] had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

In the fifth chapter of the book of Numbers when the priest is charging a woman accused of wrong doing with an oath, the woman’s head covering is to be removed for that ceremony; indicating that the head covering was part of the apparel of religious ladies:

Numbers 5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head …

Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

In Isaiah 47 when depicting the humiliation and mortification of a falling queen, it states:

1 … Sit on the ground without a throne … For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate. 2 … Remove your veil … 5"Sit silently, and go into darkness … For you will no longer be called The queen … (NASB (updated) text)

And here are few samples from jewish writings”

 “Although there is no positive command for women to cover their heads in [today’s so called] the Old Testament, there are non-canonical rabbinical writings on  tzniut, meaning "modesty" [referring to the wearing of veil by women …] (Shulchan Aruch, Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's Stone of Help 115, 4; Orach Chayim 75,2; Even Ha'ezer 21, 2 4).” (Schiller, Mayer (1995). "The Obligation of Married Women to Cover Their Hair". The Journal of Halacha 30: 81–108. As cited in the English Wikipedia.)

Will Durant in Story of Civilization IV: The Age of Faith, in regard to jewish law, has written that if A woman who transgresses Mosaic law or Jewish custom, such as going out with her head uncovered, her husband has the right to divorce her without payment of her marriage-contract (kesubah, Ketubah).

It is noteworthy to mention that the law indicated by Will Durant is from the Mishnah (the basic part of the Talmud), Kesubos 7.6, in which the cases when a jewish man can divorce his wife without paying her that which is set in her marriage-contract, are stated.

The Talmud (the collection of jewish law and tradition) states that women who are or have been married (widows and divorcees) are required to cover their hair. The Source: The Talmud in Kesuvos 72a states that the source for this prohibition is from BaMidbar (Numbers) 5:18 which deals with the laws of a sotah - a suspected adulteress - and states, "The priest shall stand the woman before God and uncover her hair ...". Rash'i (Rabbi Shlomo Yitchaki, 1040-1105, author of the primary commentary on the Talmud) provides two explanations for the Talmud's conclusion, one, that from the fact that she is punished midah kneged midah (measure for measure) for exposing her hair to her paramour we see that this is prohibited and, two, from the fact that we expose her hair we see that under normal conditions a Jewish woman's hair should be covered.

And so on …

And in the so called new testament of the bible let us look at 1 Corinthians, which is written by Paul, the usurper of Allah-Ordained Successorship Position:

11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God … 11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered*. 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 11:8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. 11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels … 11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

*The word covering used in English translations of 1Corinthians 11:6, in Greek bible = katakalyptō which means veiling and literal cloth covering. (from McGrath, William (1986). A Biblical and Historical Review of the Christian Woman's Veiling. Amish Mennonite Publications. p. 12. As cited in the English Wikipedia.)

Let us pay attention that as usual Paul has called people to “himself” and to “his” gospel* and “his” ordinances, according to the specifications which Paul has delivered them, not to Jesus and Jesus’ gospel and ordinances:

“Be ye followers of me … and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you”

*bible - Rom. 2:16; 16:26; 1 Cor. 15:1; 1 Thess. 1:5; 2 Tim. 2:8.

It is vital to pay attention that the characteristic of all usurpers of Allah-Bestowed Successorship Position has been that they, firstly, have denied the Allah-Bestowed lordship of the true Allah-Chosen Successors and thus deprived their followers of the Truth of Allah and spirit of the Truth; and secondly they, fully or partly, either have a) disregarded or b) distorted Prophetic Divine ordinances, and thus deprived their followers of the pure body of the Truth of Allah too … Paul after the Prophet ‘Eesa- Isa, Jesus- (SBUH), AbuBakr, ‘Umar and … after Hadrat Mohammad (SAWA) have done exactly that … It is also vital not to ever forget that if the teachings of all previous Prophets (SBUT) were not forsaken and distorted, the descendants of the followers of all Prophets (SBUT) would have followed the Last Prophet of Allah, Hadrat Muhammad (SBUH&HA) and his Allah Chosen Successors the twelve Infallible Imams (SBUT), and therefore the world would not have experienced so much pain and suffering in the name of god and religion … Alas! …

It is from this very same satanic characteristic that Paul has called to “his” gospel and ordinances while according to this very same bible the Prophet Jesus (SBUH) in regard to observing the law of Torah and ordinances has said:

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy “the Law [Torah, Law of Moses]”, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven:

Paul after the so-called death of Jesus, openly put down and disparaged ordinances of Jesus (SBUH):

Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances.

And in this manner Paul the usurper actually disregarded most of the ordinances which Jesus (SBUH) had commanded:

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

While either fully or partially a) disregarding many ordinances, Paul also b) distorted some Prophetic ordinances and commanded the obedience of his own ordinances, calling them “ordinance of God”:

Romans 13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Paul, due to his distorted beliefs regarding women, distorted the true “purifying” Hijab ordinance; he in Corinthians has called for headcovering for women, but this command according to him is to obey her husband, not to obey God and to observe the so called “modesty”. I.e. Paul- believing in inferiority of women- in distorting the pure command of Hijab by the Prophet Jesus (SBUH) has reduced it to a mere submission of women to men.

This is how: “The Reformers understood the head covering mandate for women in public worship to be a sign of her submission to her husband, as the Scriptures declare "Christ is the head of man, man is the head of the woman".” I.e. the christians based on Paul’s doctrine believe that Hijab command for women is only due to man's authority over woman. Ironically the christians claim that a reason they criticize Hijab in Islam is because it is a sign of male authority! While the command of Hijab in Islam and also in undistorted teachings of all prophets (SBUT), has always been a direct purifying command from Allah and thus submission to Allah:

Qur’an 24:30 Say to the believing men that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them; surely Allah is Aware of what they do.

Qur’an 24:31 And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their adorning beauty except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their adornments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known; and turn to Allah all of you [men and women], O believers! so that you may be successful.

Qur’an 33:59 O Prophet! say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they let down upon them their over-garments (cloaks …); this will be more proper, that they may be known, and thus they will not be given trouble; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Paul- who was a self confessed jew (Acts 22:3)- obviously believed in distorted old testament view of women, then he transferred the same distorted belief into the so called new testament- which more than half of its books are from Paul- and therefore also distorted the purifying Hijab command too:

Old testament, Job 14:1 and 4 Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble...Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

Old testament, Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

New testament, in 1 Timothy Paul states:

 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 2:12 But I (Paul) suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

In new testament Ephesians 5:24 Paul commands:

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in “every thing”.

It was the distorted doctrine of Paul which reflected in the statements of some christian scholars:

“Do you know that each of you is an Eve?  The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age; the guilt must necessarily live also.  You are the Devil’s gateway; you are the unsealer of that tree; you are the first deserter of the Divine Law; you are she who persuaded him when the devil was not valiant enough to attack.   You destroyed so easily God’s image in man.  On account of your deserts (i.e. death), even the Son of God had to die.”  St. Tertullian - de Coltu Feminarum.

John Knox (1505-1572):

"First, I say, the woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man, not to rule and command him. As saint Paule doth reason in these wordes: 'Man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. And man was created for the cause of the woman, but the woman for the cause of man; and therfore oght the woman to have a power upon her head,' (that is, a coverture in signe of subjection)." (John Knox, "The First Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment Of Women," Works of John Knox, David Laing, ed. (Edinburgh: Printed For The Bannatyne Club), IV:377. The antiquated spelling of some of the words in this quote is taken directly from the text used.)

Matthew Henry in his Commentary on the Whole Bible, published in 1706 by MacDonald Publishing Co. VI:562 writes:

"She ought to have power on her head, because of the angels [1 Corinthians 11:10]. Power, that is, a veil, the token, not of her having the power or superiority, but being under the power of her husband, subjected to him, and inferior to the other sex."

We cordially invite readers to also read part 2 of “Two Messiahs” and part 4 of “Truth behind ‘Lady of Fatima’” in this site: kindfather.com, related to this issue.

To be continued …