A group of chastity and veil activists from Azerbaijan visited WFRC in the holy city of Qom.
At the meeting with a group of Chastity and veil activists from Azerbaijan faculty member of WFRC, Fariba Alasvand, told that the first issue to consider is that in Islamic society and in the view of Islam Hijab is a multidimensional issue independent of personal unidimentional view, Public affairs of WFRC reported.
Referring to the Hijab infrastructures in the society the faculty member of WFRC told that in the view of Islam chastity is one of the most essential Hijab infrastructures in the society.
She added that considering the position of the issues of chastity and veil in Islamic society both of them are different in a variety of aspects, since the position of chastity pertains to the moral and internal affairs, while veil is an external issue based on command and order.
Mentioning that chastity is in fact a moral and internal affair, the faculty member of WFRC told in spite of the fact that chastity is a moral habit and internal issue it should be considered that the chastity itself has a number of interdiscourse structures and divisions which becomes a vital process based on male and female specific genders as well as common non-gender dimensions between men and women.
Alasvand told that Islam studies and makes law for this differentiation based on instinct differences between man and woman adding that male and female genders are different in the threshold, form, and the time of excitability.
She added that there are different development stages in Islamic thought; one of the stages is called Sebābat in which the child is two or three years old and has no mental experiences for sexual and sensual instincts.
The faculty member of WFRC told that the stage following Sebābat is called distinction. In this period the child enters a special stage about which the Quran states that you should be careful about your behaviors before the children because they enter the stage of knowing sexual matters which is called distinction period in Islamic jurisprudence.
The expert on veil matters stated that vigilance period is considered a very sensitive training period in the view of Islam and clarified that in the view of Islamic law vigilance period means that the child acquires knowledge of matters related to his puberty.
She added that puberty stage follows vigilance stage which is considered the child’s decision-making period in Islam; since the child is no longer a baby and in fact he grows to the stage of distinction and decision- making in which all of his good and evil deeds are recorded and rewards or punishments have been determined in Islamic law.
The member of WFRC told that since no program is usually designed for men in cultural groups’ programs, our cultural programs about veil and chastity are not able to give appropriate answer to the target community.
Referring to the social capital for veil and chastity Alasvan added that sometimes cultural groups in Iran plan to hold meetings in a number of schools in a district of a city to improve morals of daughters wearing veil; since improving the morals for wearing veil and chastity is a social capital itself.
She also added that in the countries that wearing veil has been forbidden by the ruling state, the civil and social capital of the country, i.e. the veiled and religious people themselves, can have a great influence on spreading the idea of weaning veil and vigilance.
Explaining that holding question & answer meetings about veil is an alternative for this model of countries, Member of WFRC told that now in these meetings un-veiled women who have turned to hijab usually say their memories before and after wearing veil which had good results.
She added that now there is a movement in the U.S. to return to chastity; the people discussing their matters in these meetings had a very good influence on spreading veil and chastity, so the same tested plan could be an appropriate one for Azerbaijan.
Referring to the statistics that shows a great wave of un-veiling has roots in impurity Alasvand told that preventing from impurity and continence will have a great influence on spreading veil and chastity.