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In the last two weeks I have been inundated with dozens of emails with one particular

focus or theme and so I will inshAllah wa ta'ala answer that question today.

I'm going to take one particular question but it is responding to a much broader issue and that

is regarding a recent political event which we're not going to comment on the politics but it has

certain Islamic issues to discuss as well regarding the enforcement of the hijab in a particular

country and apparently it caused the death of somebody and what not.

Now in this Q&A we're not interested in in political specific political countries so I'm not

going to mention any name neither am I a political commentator but let me give you one question that I

got from sister maha a high school student in Toronto who writes that again out of her long

email that is it true that our religion forces the women to wear the hijab can an Islamic government

have this right shouldn't worship be done freely and then she goes on and on and she says since I

wear hijab in my school all of my friends and teachers are asking me about and then she mentions

what happened specifically in that country and I don't know what to say so can you share your thoughts

and what do I say to my colleagues and my teachers in this regard and so I'm going to use sister

maha's question even though it was much broader than this and even though our sister maha is in

high school I will treat you sister maha as an adult and I will answer your question in a way

that inshaAllah wa ta'ala it's a little bit detailed it is multifaceted but I feel that in order to

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