It is curious this matter of the headscarf being banned for judges in Denmark. The argument is that it is a religious symbol. Apart from any criticism of this bizarre reasoning, since I know of nowhere in the deen that proposes scarves as symbols, it is nevertheless clear that the reason the Danes and others have arrived at this conclusion is because a great number of people wear the scarf as if it were a symbol. This is the matter that needs to be addressed. “Allah does not change what is with a people until they change what is with themselves.”
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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016. He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there. 14 May, 2023 0:03 View more posts