Ali Dawah - HIJAB EXPERIMENT WITH A TWIST

00:00:00.000 Asalaamu Alaikum guys, hope you guys are doing well.

00:00:02.000 Now what comes to your mind when I see to you guys how do you think the hijab and modesty

00:00:05.000 is progressing in today's time?

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00:00:48.000 What do you think about the hijab in today's time?

00:00:53.000 Like where is it going?

00:00:56.000 Like in terms of like how is it going?

00:00:59.000 Modesty, hijab? 1.00

00:01:00.000 Just keeps going back.

00:01:01.000 Like you see the hair appearing even more.

00:01:03.000 What goes back?

00:01:04.000 Like the hijab. 1.00

00:01:05.000 It goes like, I mean like people wear it differently just depending on fashion.

00:01:08.000 Yeah.

00:01:09.000 Okay, one sec.

00:01:10.000 When you say it goes back, what are we talking about?

00:01:12.000 I'm talking about the hijab. 0.63

00:01:13.000 It goes back.

00:01:14.000 One sec, one sec.

00:01:15.000 Yeah.

00:01:16.000 Your name's?

00:01:17.000 Waalaikum salam.

00:01:18.000 Your name is Waalaikum salam.

00:01:19.000 Where is modesty and hijab going today? 0.99

00:01:22.000 What's your thoughts on hijab and modesty?

00:01:24.000 Like do you think it's going good, bad?

00:01:26.000 I guess it's going good and bad.

00:01:29.000 Yeah.

00:01:30.000 I feel like in terms of like actions, people are sort of not valuing hijab in the same

00:01:35.000 way as it was before.

00:01:36.000 Who's the people that we're talking about like?

00:01:38.000 I know like some people on the street and I see like some women like, I don't know, 1.00

00:01:42.000 wear hijab for fashion reasons.

00:01:43.000 Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

00:01:44.000 Where do you think hijab and modesty is heading?

00:01:47.000 It's becoming modern.

00:01:48.000 Yeah, very modern.

00:01:49.000 How?

00:01:50.000 In what way?

00:01:51.000 Like there's a lot of hijabis now that are like into fashion. 1.00

00:01:54.000 What do you mean hijab?

00:01:56.000 Where do you think modesty and hijab is heading in today's time?

00:01:59.000 Is it good?

00:02:00.000 Is it bad?

00:02:01.000 No, no, no, no.

00:02:02.000 Like what would you say?

00:02:03.000 Today's time obviously it's not going good in it.

00:02:05.000 Like you see girls obviously wearing hijab and then they're wearing tight jeans. 1.00

00:02:08.000 They're wearing like tight clothing and stuff.

00:02:10.000 Okay.

00:02:11.000 And obviously that's not going well.

00:02:12.000 Okay.

00:02:13.000 Bro, what is your view of how the hijab is becoming and how it's progressing in this

00:02:20.000 modern day and age?

00:02:21.000 Where do you think hijab and modesty is heading in today's time? 0.95

00:02:25.000 I think hijab and modesty is becoming more, like, the hijab is becoming more tighter,

00:02:31.000 I think, and more, it's become more moderate in terms of like, for example, I wouldn't

00:02:36.000 wear skinnies two years ago.

00:02:37.000 Yeah.

00:02:38.000 But now you're seeing hijabis showing off their bodies. 1.00

00:02:41.000 Did you say you wouldn't?

00:02:42.000 I wouldn't wear skinnies.

00:02:43.000 I'd laugh at them.

00:02:44.000 I'd say, oh, that's too gay or whatever, but I wouldn't wear it. 1.00

00:02:47.000 I'd like loose.

00:02:48.000 But now I wear them really tight.

00:02:49.000 I wouldn't wear jeans and this.

00:02:50.000 So, again.

00:02:51.000 Okay.

00:02:52.000 So, you're talking about...

00:02:53.000 I think modesty and hijab is heading in today's time. 1.00

00:02:56.000 There will be no more hijab in the realistic unit, if you think of it.

00:03:00.000 Like, there's been a lot of styles and that.

00:03:02.000 For example, the normal hijab, and they turn it into that camel type thing. 1.00

00:03:05.000 You never know, still enough, they'll just take off with hats and that.

00:03:08.000 I just think it'll be harder for people to wear it.

00:03:10.000 That's why, because they're trying to change laws than that, I think.

00:03:12.000 It'll just come into this country as well.

00:03:14.000 Okay, you mentioned the hijab over the head, yeah? 0.96

00:03:17.000 The hijab isn't just a headscarf, it's how you walk, it's how you talk.

00:03:20.000 Yes.

00:03:21.000 It's a lot more than just this piece of material.

00:03:23.000 What do you feel?

00:03:24.000 How do you feel about the way the hijab and modesty is progressing in this modern day and age?

00:03:30.000 How do you feel about it?

00:03:32.000 She's the one wearing it, so I have to ask her.

00:03:34.000 She's the one wearing it?

00:03:35.000 Yeah.

00:03:36.000 I think you got the question a bit messed up, because you know why?

00:03:39.000 I'm talking about men's hijab.

00:03:40.000 Men's hijab.

00:03:41.000 Yeah, why did you jump to women's hijab? 1.00

00:03:42.000 No, I'm talking men's hijab.

00:03:43.000 What?

00:03:44.000 What?

00:03:45.000 What is men's hijab?

00:03:46.000 Oh, I think like...

00:03:47.000 One sec, one sec.

00:03:49.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:03:50.000 I wasn't talking about women. 0.85

00:03:51.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:03:52.000 I'm talking about men's hijab.

00:03:53.000 Men's hijab.

00:03:54.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:03:55.000 I'm talking about men's hijab.

00:03:56.000 Huh?

00:03:57.000 Men's hijab.

00:03:58.000 Not men's hijab, like, modesty. 0.96

00:03:59.000 Men's modesty.

00:04:00.000 Oh.

00:04:01.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:04:02.000 Like, no, no, no.

00:04:03.000 Like, do you know men's modesty, yeah?

00:04:04.000 What's that?

00:04:05.000 We're talking about men's hijab.

00:04:07.000 Okay, I see.

00:04:08.000 About men's hijab.

00:04:09.000 Oh.

00:04:10.000 Yeah.

00:04:11.000 In our religion, does it teach only women to cover up? 0.99

00:04:13.000 No, no, no.

00:04:14.000 It teaches men too.

00:04:15.000 Okay, hold on a second.

00:04:16.000 Okay, okay.

00:04:17.000 Why did you say that when I said hijab and modesty?

00:04:19.000 Why did you jump straight to female? 0.93

00:04:20.000 That's what we're taught.

00:04:21.000 To think.

00:04:22.000 Yeah, that's the point here.

00:04:23.000 Because I didn't want elaborate.

00:04:24.000 I just said hijab, modesty, and you went straight to female. 0.99

00:04:28.000 Not that I'm picking on it.

00:04:29.000 I'm just trying to say, this is a problem, right?

00:04:31.000 Because the hijab is for brothers as well.

00:04:34.000 I noticed that you said, okay, so I let her talk about it because she's the one wearing

00:04:38.000 it.

00:04:39.000 A lot of us as men, we tend to forget that we also have a responsibility of covering and,

00:04:45.000 you know, of behaving in a certain modest way, et cetera.

00:04:49.000 Why was he surprised?

00:04:50.000 He was very surprised.

00:04:51.000 Oh, yeah.

00:04:52.000 Because, like, it's mostly talked about women, innit?

00:04:53.000 Hijab. 0.85

00:04:54.000 Hijab is like... 1.00

00:04:55.000 Why is it when I say hijab and modesty, you straight away think about women?

00:04:57.000 I just want to know.

00:04:58.000 Like the word hijab, innit? 1.00

00:04:59.000 The word hijab, you just speak of a head. 1.00

00:05:01.000 You're right, but I also said modesty, innit?

00:05:03.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:05:04.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:05:05.000 Okay.

00:05:06.000 When I said modesty and hijab, why did you straight jump to sisters? 0.97

00:05:09.000 Because you approached two sisters asking about modesty and hijab. 0.51

00:05:12.000 I assumed it was related to us as females.

00:05:15.000 Okay, good.

00:05:16.000 Don't you think that's a problem that modesty and hijab is only...

00:05:19.000 Whenever we hear it, automatically we think of sisters.

00:05:21.000 Why is that?

00:05:22.000 Isn't that wrong?

00:05:23.000 Isn't modesty?

00:05:24.000 Doesn't Allah SWT order in the Quran how a man should conduct himself before a woman? 0.63

00:05:27.000 If I was to go up to someone random and say, you know, what do you think of the hijab?

00:05:32.000 A woman would come into their head. 1.00

00:05:34.000 Why do you think that is?

00:05:35.000 I think that's mainly our fault.

00:05:36.000 Yeah.

00:05:37.000 That's, you know, not only just Muslim men, but perhaps Muslim women themselves.

00:05:40.000 Yeah.

00:05:41.000 It's a...

00:05:42.000 I think it represents a misunderstanding that we have.

00:05:44.000 Yeah.

00:05:45.000 And our ignorance.

00:05:46.000 Why is it when we say modesty and hijab, automatically we think of females?

00:05:50.000 Um...

00:05:51.000 Probably like...

00:05:52.000 As a man, that's what you think.

00:05:53.000 As a woman, you think of...

00:05:54.000 Yeah.

00:05:55.000 Do you think you're taught that at home?

00:05:56.000 Like...

00:05:57.000 Nurture.

00:05:58.000 Nurture, yes.

00:05:59.000 Is it?

00:06:00.000 Yeah.

00:06:01.000 You're nurtured kind of like...

00:06:02.000 Especially if you're Muslim. 0.98

00:06:03.000 Women are always covering, innit? 1.00

00:06:04.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:06:05.000 We don't really focus on the men covering.

00:06:07.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:06:08.000 Mainly just the women, innit? 1.00

00:06:09.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:06:10.000 That's interesting.

00:06:11.000 Totally right though, innit?

00:06:12.000 Totally right, right?

00:06:13.000 That's very interesting.

00:06:14.000 You know why?

00:06:15.000 Totally right.

00:06:16.000 Because you're the only one and the first one.

00:06:17.000 Because what is...

00:06:18.000 When we say modesty and hijab, we get a lot of brothers start saying, you know sisters?

00:06:21.000 And I'm like, who even talked about sisters?

00:06:23.000 I'm talking about brother's hijab, yeah?

00:06:24.000 Yeah.

00:06:25.000 I have to respect you.

00:06:26.000 The fact that I said modesty and hijab, that you refer to both male and females.

00:06:28.000 You have to, man.

00:06:29.000 That's the main message.

00:06:30.000 We have to show them, man, because they don't know.

00:06:32.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:06:33.000 My wife... 0.95

00:06:34.000 Yeah.

00:06:35.000 Beats me, man.

00:06:36.000 I'm joking.

00:06:37.000 I'm joking.

00:06:38.000 But you know...

00:06:39.000 Do you know what the men's hijab is?

00:06:40.000 So...

00:06:41.000 Lowering his gaze.

00:06:42.000 I don't know.

00:06:43.000 Or...

00:06:44.000 Keeping yourself respectful.

00:06:45.000 Yeah, there's that.

00:06:46.000 There's lowering your gaze.

00:06:47.000 But do you know what you should be covering as a man?

00:06:49.000 Of course, yeah.

00:06:50.000 What...

00:06:51.000 What should you...

00:06:52.000 The privates.

00:06:53.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:06:54.000 Where should we cover up as males?

00:06:56.000 From your neck to your...

00:06:58.000 Navel to the knee, yeah? 0.57

00:07:00.000 Should men wear tight clothes?

00:07:01.000 No.

00:07:02.000 No, it shouldn't.

00:07:03.000 No, it shouldn't.

00:07:04.000 Why?

00:07:05.000 Because it...

00:07:06.000 It shows the order.

00:07:07.000 Yeah.

00:07:08.000 A men's hijab is, for example... 0.78

00:07:09.000 I believe, not covering your ankles, for example.

00:07:10.000 Okay, okay.

00:07:11.000 Or...

00:07:12.000 Lower gaze, maybe.

00:07:13.000 I don't know.

00:07:14.000 Lower gaze.

00:07:15.000 Yeah.

00:07:16.000 Lower gaze, how you conduct yourself.

00:07:17.000 Yeah.

00:07:18.000 We should cover from our navel to our knee.

00:07:19.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:07:20.000 No tight jeans.

00:07:21.000 Yeah.

00:07:22.000 Do you know, as males, men, we need to cover up as well.

00:07:23.000 How?

00:07:24.000 We have to cover from our navel. 1.00

00:07:25.000 Yeah, from here.

00:07:26.000 Like, for example, yeah.

00:07:27.000 From the belly button area to the knee.

00:07:28.000 Good.

00:07:29.000 You know.

00:07:30.000 Are we told to lower our gaze?

00:07:31.000 How we speak?

00:07:32.000 In a good manner, innit?

00:07:33.000 Good, good, good, yeah.

00:07:34.000 Like, I know some people that wear tight jeans and stuff, you hear me?

00:07:37.000 Yeah.

00:07:38.000 And some of them, sometimes when it comes to the summer, they wear shorts that are above

00:07:41.000 the ankle.

00:07:42.000 Exactly, exactly, exactly.

00:07:43.000 Above the knee.

00:07:44.000 So, obviously, all of that, innit?

00:07:45.000 Like, obviously, they're not doing it right, innit?

00:07:46.000 Yeah.

00:07:47.000 Like, make sure the trousers are up, innit?

00:07:49.000 And, um...

00:07:50.000 That's one thing.

00:07:51.000 In general, even in the way they dress, like, there's a certain length that their trousers

00:07:54.000 are meant to be, and everything.

00:07:56.000 Yes.

00:07:57.000 Okay, do you know they have to be covered from the navel to the knee?

00:07:59.000 Yeah.

00:08:00.000 Yeah.

00:08:01.000 And they can't wear tight clothing.

00:08:02.000 No, like, tight, tight jeans and stuff like that, yeah?

00:08:04.000 It's double standards.

00:08:05.000 A lot of the people we've been asking today have linked the hijab to only females.

00:08:08.000 Right.

00:08:09.000 So, what this social experiment is actually about is linking the hijab to males. 0.86

00:08:13.000 Right, okay.

00:08:14.000 Because us as males, we also have a responsibility.

00:08:16.000 Certainly, our beard is our hijab. 0.65

00:08:18.000 Yeah.

00:08:19.000 In a certain extent.

00:08:20.000 And, like, the way we should be dressing and covering.

00:08:21.000 No, of course, modestly, yeah.

00:08:22.000 Yeah.

00:08:23.000 And the way you speak.

00:08:24.000 So, don't you think that's...

00:08:25.000 Where does that problem...

00:08:26.000 Where does that come from?

00:08:27.000 This mentality of modesty.

00:08:28.000 When you say modesty, boom!

00:08:29.000 Automatically, you think of a female. 0.98

00:08:30.000 Why not a male?

00:08:31.000 Where does this come from?

00:08:32.000 Families that have females that normally would be like, yeah, why should I be modest? 0.95

00:08:35.000 To the females, I wouldn't pretty much say anything to the male.

00:08:38.000 Okay.

00:08:39.000 Yeah.

00:08:40.000 Okay.

00:08:41.000 Do you feel like we're more harsh with the women in regards to the way they should dress, 0.98

00:08:43.000 but the men kind of get to slide with the way that they can dress?

00:08:47.000 I don't have that with my wife, who's off camera.

00:08:50.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:08:51.000 But I think I try to stick to the same sort of rules that are applicable to me that is applicable to her.

00:08:57.000 It's like double standards.

00:08:58.000 How?

00:08:59.000 Like, it's more expected for the women. 1.00

00:09:01.000 It's taught for the women from childhood that modesty is for women, and hijab is for women, 0.90

00:09:05.000 and it's not really taught for men.

00:09:07.000 Exactly.

00:09:08.000 So we want to change that with the social experience.

00:09:09.000 Where do you think that comes from?

00:09:10.000 This whole mentality when we say hijab and modesty, we automatically think of females. 1.00

00:09:14.000 Why are we programmed like that?

00:09:15.000 Even in cultures and stuff, it's emphasized mostly on the women. 1.00

00:09:18.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:09:19.000 And not really don't think about the men.

00:09:20.000 Yeah.

00:09:21.000 So what that means is actually we need to implement more of the Quran and Sunnah.

00:09:24.000 Yeah.

00:09:25.000 Because culture, unfortunately, teaches a different thing.

00:09:27.000 Like even when it comes to marriage, innit?

00:09:28.000 You want to get married?

00:09:29.000 Nah, not from our caste.

00:09:30.000 But does Islam teach that? 0.98

00:09:31.000 Nah, no.

00:09:32.000 It doesn't.

00:09:33.000 Do you feel like it's culture that causes people to think that hijab is only for a female?

00:09:36.000 Yeah, definitely.

00:09:37.000 What would you say to brothers out there who criticize like everything they say about

00:09:41.000 sister or hijab color, this stuff.

00:09:42.000 But when it comes in, when they go on holiday, topless, when it's summertime, they don't cover

00:09:46.000 properly.

00:09:47.000 Like what message would you give to them?

00:09:48.000 Say take a leaf out of your own book first, man, you know.

00:09:50.000 The Quran says don't be a hypocrite.

00:09:51.000 Don't contradict yourself.

00:09:52.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:09:53.000 We, we don't wear a heart on our sleeve no more, man.

00:09:56.000 So, a lot of brothers, man, fix up yourself, then go preach.

00:09:59.000 You know?

00:10:00.000 Yeah.

00:10:01.000 That was standard.

00:10:02.000 Yeah, that was standard.

00:10:03.000 Like one of the, if I'm not mistaken, Uthman ibn Affan, you know, he was a companion

00:10:07.000 who had so much higher.

00:10:08.000 Even the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would cover himself.

00:10:10.000 Do you get it?

00:10:11.000 He would say this is a man that angels get shy of, you know?

00:10:13.000 So it's just like a little like reminder for everyone.

00:10:15.000 Like modesty is not just for females. 0.91

00:10:17.000 Anything else you want to add on?

00:10:19.000 That's it.

00:10:20.000 That's it.

00:10:21.000 Thank you.

00:10:22.000 I really appreciate it.

00:10:24.000 When we ask people, the reason why we do this.

00:10:26.000 Mate, see what's going on here, mate?

00:10:28.000 I'm filming it.

00:10:29.000 Trying to look good.

00:10:31.000 No, no, no.

00:10:32.000 Get out of here, man.

00:10:47.000 Hey, give me one.

00:10:48.000 Thanks, honey.

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Ali Dawah - April 01, 2017

HIJAB EXPERIMENT WITH A TWIST

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