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The Purdah System

Opinion

  • It really hampers the development of women personality.

  • Does not allow them to participate in functioning of society.

  • Their role is reserved to Zenana Area.

Roxana Ahmed,

I am quite comfortable, it is my

choice to wear it. Because I am from one of that country, where crime rate is high and thus it gives women protection from any sexual assault.

Definition

Muslims in India

Practiced by Burqa.

Mainly practiced in provinces of Muslim population.

What is Purdah

  • A type of practice in some cultures and religion, mainly middle east and south Asia.

  • Practiced to prevent the men to see women.

  • Practiced by wearing a particular type of clothing, different in different cultures.

  • Mostly practice in Islamic and few Indian societies.

Reasons

Survey

  • The main purpose of Purdah system is to is to keep the women away from public gaze.

  • This practice can also be seen as the deceleration of religious beliefs and faith.

How do you feel in Burqa?

In South Asia

  • Mainly practiced in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

  • In India, it is not only practiced in Muslim families,but also in Hindu, families.

  • However, there is huge decline in its practice in Hindu families with the course of time.

Quran

A fatwa, written by Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid on the Saudi Arabian website Islam QA, states:

The correct view as indicated by the evidence is that the woman's face is 'awrah which must be covered. It is the most tempting part of her body, because what people look at most is the face, so the face is the greatest 'awrah' of a woman.

Purdah in Hindus

  • Practiced mainly by Ghoonghat.

  • Practiced in mainly Provinces of Hindu Population.

How it is Practiced?

  • The women are made to stay in an area in house,

which is occupied only by women. (Zenana)

  • Separated by a curtain which is called Purdah.

And the women who practice this are called Purdah

Nashin.

  • Women are not allowed to cross that Purdah and men also are not allowed to enter Zenana area of the house.

Religious values

The practice of Purdah got some religious values .

It is defined in Holy Quran as Hijab, which are set

of rules for all Muslims.

Quran

"O Prophet! Say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the faithful to draw their outergarments (jilbabs) close around themselves; that is better that they will be recognized and not annoyed. And God is ever Forgiving, Gentle."

Qur'an Surah/Chapter Al-Ahzab Ayah/Verse 59

Quran

"And say to the faithful women to lower their gazes, and to guard their private parts, and not to display their beauty except what is apparent of it, and to extend their head coverings (khimars) to cover their bosoms (jaybs), and not to display their beauty except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husband's fathers, or their sons, or their husband's sons, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their womenfolk, or what their right hands rule (slaves), or the followers from the men who do not feel sexual desire, or the small children to whom the nakedness of women is not apparent, and not to strike their feet (on the ground) so as to make known what they hide of their adornments. And turn in repentance to Allah together, O you the faithful, in order that you are successful"

Qur'an Sura Nur Chapter: The Light. Verse 31

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