Hijab in Islam
Hijab in the Light of the Qur’an and Hadith
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alive, whereas it was formerly only death which
separated children from their parents. Children
there grow up like uncared-for weeds, adding to the
list of criminals. It is generally accepted that the
majority of juvenile delinquents are the product of
broken homes.
Divorce was not so common in former times. Then
how has it reached such proportions now? The sole
reason for this is traceable to the promiscuity of
what in religious terminology is called unrestricted
society. This life style devoid of moral constraints
has made it possible for men and women to live
together like the fish in the sea. With such a life
style, permissiveness is unavoidable. One’s loyalties
keep changing. In a segregated society, where
interaction between men and women is almost non-
existent, a man associates only with his spouse,
which keeps him from forming new loyalties, while
in a free society he comes upon new faces every
day, one better than the other. He then feels like
abandoning the old face in preference to the new
and more attractive one. What is happening in the
West is that the couple live together for some time
after marriage and when they come across a better
