Ibn Kathir quotes Aisha who mentioned that the Prophet (S) saw her sister Asmaa wearing revealing clothes and told her that once a girl reached puberty, she could show only this and that. The Prophet’s (S) cousin, Abdullah ibn Abbas said that the face and hands need not be covered. The Companion Abdullah Ibn Masud was of the opinion that the face and hands have to be covered. The precise meaning of this phrase has been disputed by the greatest scholars of the Muslim world. The verse in question is in Surah An Nur: “ And do not reveal your beauty except that which ordinarily appears”. Having been a teacher of the Qur’an for over twenty years, I am well aware of the lie of this claim. The niqab is mentioned explicitly in the Qur’an and yet you deny its validity, was their argument. Actually, I did not see any signs of sisterhood in the room that evening.Īs I tried to leave, after the debate, a small group of niqabi women surrounded me. Do these women travel on the tube or walk down Oxford Street? Or are they chaperoned everywhere by their unemployed mahrams? My second crime was to speak against my sisters. I don’t ever remember sitting on his lap. Yes, I remember sitting on a chair, which was next to a chair on which Douglas Murray sat.
One lady hissed that I needed to repent and that she did not want to stand in front of Allah because she did not advise me. Within half an hour the hooliganism of the niqabi women who harangued me showed the gulf between actions and words. Yasmin Alibhai Brown mentioned that she had received violent and abusive messages from niqabi ladies during the week, and the panellists were quick to tutt tutt at such awful behaviour. It was the behaviour of the niqabi ladies who mobbed me afterwards that told the real story. Last month I participated in a Channel 4 News debate on the niqab.
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