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Originally Posted by LEGALEAGLE

Literalism in Islamic context means those who reject Hadith...

not from what i understand, the way i've learned it, literalism means taking the meaning of hadiths literally without interpreting the cultural context

Originally Posted by TariqBinSleepin

Same with the quran...thats exactly what your not suppose to do >.<""

thats fine if that's your methodology, but its not the one i follow

from what i understand, islam was revealed in a strict cultural context of the hijaz, and if its not re-interpreted by the scholars for their own time and place, well then you're imposing a culture of a different time and place on your people, thats a form of cultural imperialism and any ideology that does not allow people of a particular time and place to live their own way of life deprives them of self determination and that ideology will fail.

Here's something to ponder on, Islam is supposed to establish justice, fairness and equilibrium, yet every islamic society where there are strong islamic movements(egypt, pakistan, palestine, turkey etc) is split in to two groups of people, islamists and modernists. Where's the equilibrium? Where's the balance? How do muslims plan on establishing khilafa or any kind of unity when half of the ummah is marginalized? And then, countries where there is perpetual uniformity(Iran, Saudi Arabia) are authoritarian and oppressive. How do you establish islam without preserving human dignity?

Fortunately, traditional Islam has been grand and expansive and it allows people to practice in their own capacity and allows people to practice their culture. So while the "Pakistani" hijab is not allegedly perfect, its modest and serves the purpose. As a matter of fact, the pakistani woman wearing shalwar kameez and dupatta are more modest in appearance than the Arabs that wear tight hijab along with tight clothes.

Traditional scholars look at hijab as a concept and not a piece of cloth.

Read this for your own elightenment: http://www.nawawi.org/downloads/article3.pdf
and this is good too: YouTube - Hijaab! Hijaab! Hijaab!! Let's hear Shaykh Hamza Yusuf . . .