We should save her from this pitiful situation into which she has fallen.

We should save her from this pitiful situation into which she has fallen." "I am afraid it is difficult to reform the Muslim women who have decided to follow Western ways," she said, thinking about her cousin. Ahmad said, "A real Muslim woman cannot be fooled easily. She knows the true nature of her religion and is secure in the knowledge that Islam has given her all her rights. Anyway, it is not too late to reform the misled ones.

Even a misguided Muslim woman still has good qualities within herself, which can remove her blindness one day." "When and how?" Sumayah asked. Ahmad said, "1 think the time is drawing near. Women who imitate the West suffer terribly in the end. The breaking up of Muslim marriages has increased due to this blind imitation.

Such marriages, if they are unIslamic, cannot be happy ones, or survive for long." Sumayah said, "Some of the misled women claim that hijab is imposed on woman by man and it undermines her status." Her fiancé replied, "This is mere nonsense and an echo of foreign propaganda. The obligation to dress modestly is not confined to women only. However women are more attractive and can have a stronger influence than men; therefore, her hijab is more significance.

Hijab acts as a sort of protection for women. Islam wants women to cover the source of their beauty, as a means of increasing their dignity. Muslim women at the advent of Islam participated in battles, attended the wounded and encouraged the Muslim combatants.

The Islamic modest dress they wore did not hinder them from having an effective role in their society." Sumayah sighed, "How I wish we were like them." Ahmad told her, "Every woman can be like them." Sumayah asked, "How?" Ahmad said, "Struggling for the sake of a belief has many degrees. A Muslim woman can achieve this any time. The struggle against temptation and corruption and enjoining the good and forbidding the evil can all be forms of struggle for belief.

In tact, the struggle against selfish desires is of more use than all other struggles. Imam Ali (A.S.) said, 'To purify the self of corruption is more difficult than any actual struggle'." The call to prayer could be heard, so Sumayah and Ahmad arose and entered the mosque to perform their prayers. Previous…