Adan Sheikh
Islam, as it should be told
“There is no God, but Allah, and Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is his
messenger”. A quote muslims live by. The importance of this quote is no muslim is true
unless there is sincere belief in these words. If you don't know who Allah is, he is
believed by muslims to be God, and is responsible for creating the universe, mankind,
and the holy book called the Qur’an. In this book called the Qur’an, Allah’s main claim
is for his readers to believe in his oneness, stay from sin, and to use the lessons from the
Qur’an to their everyday lives. These lessons, however, tend to be misinterpreted by
people.
Now, many aren’t familiar with this book, which is fine because, well it's in Arabic
and not everyone can read arabic. Thanks to english translators, readers can understand
what Allah is saying to his worshippers. In the book there are plenty of moments in
which Allah talks about Women. He mentions how Women should properly act, and
how modest they should dress. A common clothing Muslim women wear is the hijab or
the niqab. If you don't know what a hijab is, a hijab is a head scarf muslim women wear
with modest intentions. A niqab has more to do with privacy and the woman's body is
covered head to toe, with only the eyes visible. The women can decide either or, so it's
really up to them. Now that we got that part settled, here comes the interesting part that
people don't understand. Although many readers have a chance of comprehension, this
book still has a chance of being taken the wrong way. For example, I read an article a
couple days ago that was mentioning Muslim women being banned of wearing the
Niqab in France. France is the only country in the world to do said act. The french
president, Nicolas Sarkozy says “Burqas (Niqabs) are not welcome in France. In our
country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all
social life deprived of all identity.” We see Sarkozy’s main reason as to why he “gave the
thumbs up” to this ban, but what he doesn’t realize is these women chose this lifestyle
and he is taking away the right for them to express their freedom of religion. In the
Quran it clearly states “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
husband's' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, or their brothers'
sons or their sisters' sons, or their women or the servants 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 you Believers, turn you all together towards Allah, that
you may attain Bliss.” (Quran 24:3...
