Veil

Rigid veiling of women is unspeakable[edit]

"All women in Persia are enveloped in veils in public. So completely covered are they that even the hand is not visible. This rigid veiling is unspeakable."

(Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 251)

Not possible for women to universally go without veils in the East, but the Bahá'í men and women meet together which is a beginning of woman's emancipation (as started by Tahirih)[edit]

"Question: Do the Bahá'í women go without veils in the East?

"Answer: It is not possible for them to do so universally yet, but the conditions are not nearly so restrictive as they were. The Bahá'í men and women meet together. This is the beginning of woman's emancipation from the thralldom of centuries. Qurratu'l-`Ayn was really the liberator of all Persian women."

(Promulgation of Universal Peace, pp. 251-252)

(Passage mentioning veiled handmaidens)[edit]

"How many the veiled handmaidens who turned unto Me, and believed, and how numerous the wearers of the turban who were debarred from Me, and followed in the footsteps of bygone generations!"

(Bahá'u'lláh, cited in Promised Day Is Come, par. 220)

Disuse of veil has lent its share toward accelerating process of subordinating clerics to civil authority[edit]

"...The disuse of the veil which the mullás fought tooth and nail to prevent...all these have successively lent their share to the acceleration of that impelling process which has subordinated to the civil authority the position and interests of Muslim clericals to a degree undreamt of by any mullá."

(Shoghi Effendi, Promised Day Is Come, par. 232))

Per the edicts promulgated by Muhammad, a Muslim husband must not oblige a Christian wife to veil herself[edit]

"In the edicts which He [Muhammad] promulgated it is clearly stated that the lives, properties and honor of the Christians and Jews are under the protection of God; and that if a Muhammadan married a Christian woman, the husband must not prevent her from going to church, nor oblige her to veil herself...In short, there are seven detailed edicts on these subjects, some copies of which are still extant at Jerusalem. This is an established fact and is not dependent on my affirmation. The edict of the second Caliph+F1 still exists in the custody of the orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, and of this there is no doubt.[+F2 Cf. Jurjí Zaydán's Umayyads and Abbasids, trans. D. S. Margoliouth.]"

('Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 21)

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