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Originally Posted by Timbit
Yeah, there is an Arab way and there is a desi way.
The Qur'an doesn't say you have to cover your hair. It says to draw your headcovering over your chest. It doesn't say you have to wear an abaya/jilbab. So you have Muslim women in South-Asia who wear a shawl or chador to cover their heads and bosoms. That is hijab for them. They don't think the way we dress in the West is hijab either, where people make sure to cover every single strand of hair but wear tight pants.
She's certainly not exposing herself.
My point is there are different meanings of "hijab" and "purdah" and I don't think it's right to say that Pakistani women don't wear a hijab properly.
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A Womans awrah is everything except her face and hands, and that awrah is covered by Hijaab. Your hair is part of your awrah.
Secondly, there is consensus among the Ulema of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaa, that a Womans hair is part of what must be covered in Hijaab.
Just because it is a common practice in some Countries doesn't make it automatically Islamically acceptable. The way some of the Women wear it in different parts of the World is more cultural then religious.
And Allah subhanna wa ta'ala knows best.