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Modesty

To Cover or Not to Cover?

A lady sent me a long email about how she read that the Quran never talks about covering the head. According to her, she read the Ayah of Surah An-Noor and that it uses the word Khimar which refers to a veil. She looked up the dictionary and it said things like a shawl or cover. It didn’t say anything about covering the head. Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan responds to this common misconception.

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July 9, 2022
Modesty

Sportswear and Hijab

Hijab, the literary meaning of which is ‘to cover’, ‘to veil’, and ‘to curtain’, is an obligation on the Muslim men and women as detailed

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June 29, 2021
E-Magazine

My Hijab – My Inclusion in the World

The World Hijab Day is an opportunity to show the Hijab wearing Muslim woman as not only an important part of the community but also actively engaged in it. She is a doctor, an athlete, a politician, an astro-physicist, and so much more, writes Kiran Shah

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September 4, 2020
E-Magazine

Haya in Danger!

“And (there will be) Houris (fair females) with wide, lovely eyes (as wives for the pious) like unto preserved pearls.” (Al-Waqiah 22-23) When we look around us, huge

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September 3, 2020
Modesty

Defining the Satar

By S. K. Siddiqui and Tasneem Vali In December, 2001, Nicholas Kristof reported in the New York Times that although Afghan women were no longer

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August 8, 2017