Le Hijab (voile islamique): Difference between revisions

Bucar explique que les commentateurs du Coran ont convenu que la révélation de ce verset fait référence aux hypocrites (al-munafiqun) à Médine (qui sont mentionnés dans le verset suivant, [https://quranx.com/33.60?Context=3 Coran 33:60]) qui harcelaient physiquement les femmes esclaves dans les espaces publics. Le contexte de ce verset est mentionné par exemple dans le tafsir d’al-Jalalayn. Le jilbab a ainsi permis aux femmes croyantes libres de se distinguer visuellement. Le Coran a placé sur elles cette responsabilité afin d’atténuer le comportement immoral de certains hommes. Bucar dit que la signification du jilbab n’est pas claire, mais que la plupart des savants ont cru qu’il s’agissait d’un type de parement extérieur.<ref>Elizabeth Bucar, ''The Islamic Veil (Le Voile Islamique'', pp. 38-40</ref>  

{{Quran|24|31}} tells believing women to draw the ''khimar'' (piece of cloth that covers the head) over their bosoms and to hide their adornment or [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Beauty and Makeup|beauty]] from men.

{{quote |{{Quran|24|31}}|And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment [zīnatahunna إِخْوَٰنِهِنَّ] except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers [bikhumurihinna بِخُمُرِهِنَّ] over their chests [juyūbihinna جُيُوبِهِنَّ] and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects [ʿawrāti عَوْرَٰتِ] of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.}}

Bucar notes that unlike the above two verses, only late traditions provide an occasion of revelation for Q. 24:30-31. Believing women are told to draw their ''Khumur'' (singular: ''Khimar'') over their bosoms (''juyub''). Bucar comments that the word khimar, which some Quran commentators glossed as a veil, mainly meant a kerchief worn on the head, and that the root of the word juyub meant a space between, so probably meant cleavage. Thus she argues that the purpose of this part of the verse is that the cleavage must be covered.<ref name="Bucar40-45">Elizabeth Bucar, ''The Islamic Veil'', pp. 40-45</ref> In the same year (2012) a PhD thesis by Sheikh Mustapha Mohamed Rashed at al-Azhar University similarly concluded that the verse only commands that the bosom be covered.<ref>[https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2012/06/45564/hijab-is-not-an-islamic-duty-scholar Hijab is Not an Islamic Duty: Muslim Scholar] - Morocco World News, 24 June 2012</ref>

Except in specifically defined company, the verse also says that women must not reveal their adornment (''zina'', which besides illicit sexual activity is a word used in a few verses for stars adorning the heavens). It seems to essentially mean a woman's attractiveness, though Quran commentators have always disagreed on the meaning of hidden zina in this verse. Some suggested it meant ankle bracelets due to the final part of the verse telling women not to stamp their feet. {{Quran|24|60}} later in the same surah exempts older women from the command to wear garments hiding their adornment. Some Quran commentators like al-Tabari thought it allowed a woman's face to show, based on a hadith in which Muhammad defines what a woman can reveal of herself when she reaches the age of menstruation ({{Abu Dawud|33|4092}}, quoted in the next section below). For al-Zamakhshari, adornment in this context meant jewelry and makeup. Ibn Taymiyyah and al Baydawi said that even a woman's face and hands must be covered in public except during prayer.<ref name="Bucar40-45" />