مواقف العلماء من حكم نقاب المرأة المسلمة وحجابها الكامل قديمًا وحديثًا دراسة تحليلية مقارنة

View Points of the Scholars about Covering the Face and Complete Body for A Muslim Woman: A Comparative and Analytical Study

Abstract

This research is a comparative and analytical study, which focuses on the ruling about veiling the entire body including face and hands of a Muslim woman. Views of classical and contemporary scholars regarding the issue have been presented by the researchers in this study along with the reasons of their difference in opinion regarding the issue. Moreover, they compare these opinions, analyse them academically and clarify the intellectually convincing view in the light of reason and revelation. Furthermore, the researchers examine the degrees of veracity and authenticity of aḥādīth of the Prophet (sws) that the scholars adduce in their contestations. In this regard, the researchers have used two approaches: The first is the comparative one in which different opinions of the scholars regarding the issue are discussed in detail, compared and the intellectually convincing view point is explained. The second is an analytical approach which focuses on a critical analysis of the viewpoints of scholars, study of some Qur’ānic texts, evaluation of Prophetic traditions they adduce and an analysis of their chains (asānīd) and text (matn) according to the science of hadīh. The researchers conclude that the valid and intellectually convincing view is what the majority of the scholars says: it is not obligatory for a Muslim woman in Islamic Shari'ah to cover her face and veil her entire body in front of unrelated men. Rather, the holy Qur'an permits her to keep her face, hands and feet uncovered and visible for all. This permission for her is also proven by many Prophetic narratives and the common practice of the women who were companions of the Prophet (sws) at the time of his Prophethood.