The Muslim Chronicle: Gamal El-Banna: Hijab is not an Islamic Tradition. "There is no specific verse (in the Qu'ran) that obliges women to wear headscarves"

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Gamal El-Banna: Hijab is not an Islamic Tradition."There is no specific verse (in the Qu'ran) that obligeswomen to wear headscarves"Gamal El-Banna is the younger brother of Hassan El-Banna, the founderof the Muslim Brotherhood. However, their common parents does notmean the younger sibling shares the Islamist zeal of his better knownsibling.

In his own words, Gamal El-Banna says, “I was the total opposite of mybrother Mr. Hassan El-Banna.”

Here is a fairly detailed report on the liberal views of Gamal El-Banna inthe Egyptian magazine, Egypt Today.

On the veil, El-Banna states that neither the Qur’an nor authentic Sunnahdemand it of women. “There is no specific verse that obliges women towear headscarves, but you find verses setting the broad lines for [publicmodesty or decency].

Egypt Today quotes him as saying:

“The Qur’an states: ‘And tell the believing women to lower their gaze andbe modest, and to display of their adornment only that which isapparent and to draw their veils over the bossoms [24:31].’ If the Qur’anwanted to oblige women to cover their hair, it would have stated it veryclearly. Why would the Qur’an resort to expressions that have a varietyof interpretations? The fact is that the Qur’an can be understood directlywithout resorting to interpretation if it couldn’t, we would have clergy tolead us,”

In his book al-Hijab (The Veil), El-Banna declares the veil is not anIslamic tradition, but a pre-Islamic one according to research he hascompleted on the Arab world prior to the Prophet (PBUH)’s time. In thosedays, he says, Arab women covered their head and left the upper parts oftheir chest uncovered. He thus concludes that the verse commandswomen to cover their chests, not their heads.

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The Muslim Chronicle: Gamal El-Banna: Hijab is not an Islamic Tradition. "There is no specific verse (in the Qu'ran) that obliges women to wear headscarves"

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Reformist thinker Gamal El-Banna re-ignites an age-old debate, contesting therole of Sunnah in modern-day IslamBy by Noha El-Hennawy

Egypt Today

DEBATING THE QUESTION “Is it Sunnah, or is it Qur’an?” is a near-daily occurrence for many Muslims, but few have done so with thefrequency and fervor of the reformist thinker Gamal El-Banna and hiscritics at Al-Azhar University, the Cairo-based bastion of Sunni thought.

With a recent series of books and articles, El-Banna claims he’s merely outto kick-start a debate the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) would approve of.His detractors counter he is denying the Sunnah, the collect sayings of theProphet and the de facto “second reference” in Islam, a move, they warn,that cuts dangerously close to apostasy.

El-Banna dismisses accusations that he is calling on the faithful toabandon the Sunnah, but insists that the orally transmitted traditions ofthe Prophet (PBUH) are less binding on Muslims than the Qur’an itself.

“We cannot deny the Sunnah, even though it has been proven that most ofthe sayings attributed to the Prophet (PBUH) have been made up, werenarrated in other people’s words or were transmitted inaccurately. Thisdoes not mean that there are no true sayings that set many Islamicfundamental principles; what it does mean is that it’s high time to studythe Sunnah in a different way,” El-Banna says.

To read the full article in Egypt Today, click here.

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