Hijab — Page 135
135 are also on an increase among the non-Purda observing and their children. May Allah save us from this (predicament). Sometimes, as a result, a really deplorable situation is encountered. ” (Address at Annual Ijtimā‘ Lajna Ima’illah UK , October 19, 2003, Al-Fazl International, April 17, 2015) In the same context, Huzoor Anwar atba addressed and advised those Ahmadi women who have recently migrated to Western countries, specifically from Pakistan and India that they should shun any types of an inferiority complex and safeguard their Purda. He said: “I have observed that these days some asylum-seeking women from Pakistan, some of whom are coming for Jalsa, take off their soon after they exit the airport, perhaps due to some unknown complex. And the Dupatta and scarf worn by them does not, in anyway, qualify for proper Purda. It keeps coming off the head over and over. Then they have applied make up too. If, for example, a woman is a doctor or is in another profession where the traditional Niqab is impractical because of professional hindrances, she may use a scarf that covers her face as much as possible to an extent that it does not hinder her work. But In such cases, the face should not be heavily made up. Whereas when a woman, who is a housewife, and has been observing Purda in Pakistan, takes off her Niqab after coming here and applies make up too, her action cannot be called a righteous action. Such a woman may be considered to have prioritized the world over her faith instead of prioritizing her faith over the world. She is getting influenced by her environment. At times, it is shameful to see that girls and women raised in Europe observe better Purda than those who have come here from Pakistan. Most of them have more appropriate clothing than those who have come from Pakistan or India. Those who used to wear a Burqa are doing wrong if they are shunning it now under pressure from their men, as there is no need to give in to any demand of men that is contrary to the explicit commandments