Hijab Ban In Karnataka- Supreme Court Hearing- DAY-3- LIVE UPDATES

Justice Gupta : Which is the verse dealing with Hijab?

Pasha : Sura 24.

Pasha : The author (Abdulla Yusuf Ali) is saying jilbab is not compulsory

Justice Dhulia : The scholar is saying regarding jilbab, God is forgiving, and it is not regarding Hijab. But the High Court has taken it as about Hijab?.

Pasha : That is right.

Pasha referring to footnote 3767 mentioned in the HC judgment and says it was the opinion of the translator and not the translation of the text. He adds the footnote is concerning the verse about "jilbab" and not the verse concerning "Hijab".

Pasha : Learned judges of HC has extracted a footnote from elsewhere and added to another verse to say this is not absolute.

Pasha explaining Jilbab and says it covers whole body, and is different from hijab as it covers only head and chest.

Jusice Gupta : How is it different from burqa?

Pasha : Burqa is a Persianised word of jilbab

Justice Gupta : You mentioned, Quran, Hadis...Suras fall in which place.

Pasha : Suras are chapters of Quran.

Justice Gupta : Sorry about my ignorance.

Pasha : It cannot be ordinarily expected to know about other religions.

Justice Dhulia : Again you are taking us round and round, take us through the HC judgment.

Pasha : What is written in Quran is part of the first tenent(faith in god). The other four are meaningless without the first. In the spirtual sense, belief in Quran being the word of Allah, over which a second opinion of human is impossible, is supreme.

Pasha : "Tauheed"(misspelt as thouwheen above) or Iman...translated loosely as faith.

Pasha tells the bench about mandatory practices of Islam - Namaz, Roza, Zakat, thouwheen (faith in one god) and hajj. These are colloquially regarded as the mandatory tenets of Islam.