DISTINCTION BETWEEN JILBAAB AND HIJAB. AND HOW TO WEAR THE JILBAAB.
May Allah bless you, there is a light distinction between Hijab and Jilbaab and that's why Sheikh Muhammad Naasirud-deen Al-Albaanee changed the name of his outstanding book (Hijabul Mar'atil Muslimah) to (Jilbaabul Mar'atil Muslimah) as he said. Because all Jilbaab is Hijab but not all Hijab is Jilbaab (check page 21 of the book. Last edition).
Na'am, when a Muslim woman is going out of her house she must firstly wear Khimar (a piece of scarf that covers her head to her chest)then the long Jilbaab but while in her house then only Khimar.
Sheikh Muhammad Nâsirud-deen Al-albaanee (May the choicest forgiveness then blessing of Allah be bestowed upon him) said:
Then verily after Allah has explained in the previous verse -the verse in soorah nur- what's compulsory for a woman to hide among her adornments before the strangers and those before whom she may expose her adornments. Then Allah ordered her in the other verse that whenever she wants to go out of her house to wear Jilbaab over her garment and Khimar ( the head tie that covers her hear to her chest) because this covers her most and it magnifies her movement a lot, and the verse is the say of Allah The Most High:
"O Prophet, tell your wives, your daughters and the believing women to draw their Jalaabeeb (plural of Jilbaab) close to them, so it is likelier they will be known, and not hurt. Allah is the Forgiver, the Most Merciful". (Q33:V59).
So, when this verse descend the women of Ansar went out and it's like there's black eagles on their heads because of the Akyisa (garment) they put on.
And the Jilbaab means, a loose outer garment that a woman wears over her cloth according to the most correct opinions. And it (Jilbaab) is what she uses most whenever she wants to go out of her house, as narrated by the two Sheikhs (i.e Bukhari and Muslim) and others on the authority of Ummu 'Atiyyah (RadiyaLlâhu 'Anha) she said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) commanded us to bring out on 'Id-ul-Fitr and 'Id-ul-Adha young women, menstruating women and purdah-observing ladies, menstruating women kept back from prayer, but participated in goodness and supplication of the Muslims. I said:O Messenger of Allah! One of us does not have Jilbaab He said: Let her sister cover her with her Jilbaab.
He proceeded and said:
Sheikh Anwar Al-Kashmeeree said in (Faidhul Baaree 388/1) while commenting on that hadeeth:
"So, it's known from it (the hadeeth) that, verily the Jilbaab is required while going out and that, she shouldn't go out if she doesn't have Jilbaab."
And what's meant by Jilbaab is a garment that covers from head to toe (I said: Where is the two pieces adopted by the TMC and others? May Allah guide them to the right path) and indeed I have mentioned it shortly that, Khimar is used in the houses while Jalaabeeb (plural of Jilbaab) is used when she's going out, and so I expatiated the two verses concerning Hijab, namely: "That they should draw their veils over their bosoms" (Q24: V31). And the second : "To draw their Jalaabeb (plural of Jilbaab) close to them (Ahzab: 59).
Sheikh Al-albaanee then said (after he has quoted the comment of Al-Kashmeeree): But the truth according to what's in the two verses of surah Nur and Ahzab is that, it's compulsory for her whenever she wants to go out of her house to wear Khimar (a piece of scarf that covers her head to the chest) then the Jilbaab over the Khimar because as we said shortly, this is what really covers her most and it saves her from picturing the shape of her head and shoulders and this is what Sharee'ah (Islamic teaching) wants as I'll expatiate it when mentioning the fourth condition (of Jilbaab).
He proceeded,
And what I said here is in accordance with how part of the salafs explained the verse of wearing (the Jilbaab). It's said in (Ad-dur 222/5):
"And Ibn Abi Hatim recorded on the author of Sa'eed Bn Jubair while explaining the say of Allah: "To draw their Jilbaab close to them" He said: They should draw close to them their Jilbaab, which is the garment over the Khirmar and it's not allowed for a stranger to see her except she wears Jilbaab over the Khimar which she uses to wrap her head.
Sheikh Al-albaanee said: Know that, To wear the Khimar and the Jilbaab together when she's going out has been neglected by a great number among the today's Muslim women. What is known to them is either only Jilbaab or Khimar in fact it might not cover them all (I said, like that of TCM, NASFAT, QAREEB, TA'AAWUN, TADAMMUN and others among the misguided sects may Allah guide them all and save our women from their abyss) like the one called "Al-'isharib (The scarfs)" whereby it'll expose part of what Allah makes harram for them to expose among the inner adornments like the front hair, neck. As an example.
And among what will stipulate that it's compulsory for her to put on them together is the hadeeth of Ibn `Abbas while explaining the verse: "And say to the believing women, that they lower their gaze cast down their eyes...." and Allah exempted from them "As for women past child-bearing, who have no hope of marriage. there is no fault in them that they discard their cloaks provided they do not reveal their adornments, but it is better if they abstain. Allah is the Hearer, the Knower. (24:60)
In another narration on the authority of Ibn `Abbas that he did recite the verse as" that they discard part of their cloaks" So He (Ibn 'Abbas) said: "Al-Jilbaab" (I.e they may remove the jilbaab and wear only Khimar) and so was said by Ibn Mas'ood too.
I said (I.e Sheikh Al-albaanee): This is a direct text to stipulate that it is compulsory for all women to wear Jilbaab over the Khimar. Except for the Qawaa'id (I.e the women who have no hope of marriage because of old age) so they may not wear the the Jilbaab.
Isn't the right time for the righteous women wherever they are, to arise from their forgetfulness and fear Allah and wear their Jilbaab over their Khimar? End quote from (Jilbaab Al-mar'atil Muslimah fil Kitaab was-sunnah Page: 82- 86).
To be continued...............
Written By: Abdul-Fattahi Afolabi (May Allah forgive him and his parents).
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