OPINION-ACADEMIA | Mahsa Amini, Azyumardi Azra, the hijab and Wasathiyah Islam
One woman one vote: Iranian women wait to cast their ballots for the 11th parliamentary elections at a polling station in Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine in Tehran on Feb. 21, 2020. (AFP/Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency)
Julia Suryakusuma
Recently, when the mother of a friend died, in the public announcement of her death, the photo used was of her wearing a scarf on her head.
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My friend said it was a hijab and that he had chosen that photo because he believed the image of the hijab would help cleanse her of her sins in the afterlife.
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Really? Says who? The Quran? The hadith?
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What an easy way to cleanse one’s sins!
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The funny thing was, never in her life did his mother ever wear a hijab.
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In fact, she often expressed her dislike and disdain for women who wore hijabs in an attempt to cover up bad, un-Islamic acts (corruption for example), their hypocrisy, to show off the latest Muslim fashion or to wear the political hijab, worn by women politicians to show off their “Islamic credentials” to the electorate.
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His mother was wearing a scarf the morning the photo was taken simply because she felt cold, and she had draped it over her head and shoulders to keep herself warm.
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So why did the son impose his “religious” hijab on her after she died when she had rejected it while she was alive?
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta ●
Wed, September 28, 2022
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