Hijab — Page 49
49 “Hazrat Musleh Mau’ūd ra says displaying your beauty to your own women means that there are other women in whose presence you should not come casually or without modesty. Every pious woman tries to stay away from prostitutes. Their habits and their character are as clear as day, but there are some other women who work for bad people. At first, they go into homes and befriend the elders. After becoming good friends with the mother, these women try to develop a relationship with the young girls and sometimes they slowly and gradually lure them to evil ways. Thus, the command regarding these types of women is: ‘do not let every outsider, every woman, enter your homes. ’ First get some information about them and then act further. Hazrat Musleh Mau’ūd ra has written that it used to be a norm back in the days but has diminished now (it was sporadic in the past, but nowadays we get news from some places that such groups who commit these wrongdoings are being formed again). Especially Ahmadi children in Pakistan should be extremely cautious and parents should be extra vigilant. This is because at times a woman enters the household as a domestic servant but in reality she is someone’s agent, and she gradually lures the girls, at first, by befriending them and then by engaging them in petty offenses. Thus, one should be careful in hiring such servants or maids and must do so after a thorough investigation. In the same fashion, the work of these bad women is being done over the Internet as well. Complaints have been received from Germany and some other countries that there are organized groups of people who hook people by first engaging them in intellectual conversations or other types of discourse, and after developing a friendship they make an effort to get them on the wrong track. ”(Friday Sermon, delivered January 30, 2004 at Baitul Futuh, London, Al-Fazl International, April 9, 2004) Similarly, Huzoor Anwar atba gave this instruction about Purda in a meeting with the National Majlis ‘Amila of Norway: “Different families visit each other’s homes. They say that we have connections