The debate over the veil

Author: Suhaib Mahmoud Al-Saqar Number of pages: 420 Publisher: Dar Afaq Freedom from the constraints of stagnation and absolute tradition is a noble goal that free minds aspire to. But those who abandon the shackles of the old will not enjoy intellectual freedom if they then shackled their minds with the chains of contemporary ideas. And the modernist will not grant us the liberation of our minds from the imitation of the old jurists if he then ties our necks with their imitation and stagnation on their sayings. It is the right of every rational free person, when a jurist informs him of the ruling on hijab, to ask for the evidence. And it is also his right, if a contemporary modern critic orders him to abandon the obligation of hijab, to ask him for the evidence as well. And he will not be truthful in calls for freeing the minds if he cannot convince us of the obligation of hijab, nor if he cannot convince us to abandon and remove the hijab.