All perfect praise be to Allah, the Lord of all worlds. May Allah's Peace and Blessings be upon the noblest Prophet and Messenger Muhammad, his family, and Companions. I have read an article written by the person, called Ahmad Baha' Al­Din in some newspapers. He alleged the lawfulness of some things that Allah prohibits. In his column "Yawmiyyat", (Al­Ahram Newspaper, issues nos. 36992, 36993, 36994, 36996), the writer launched a severe attack on Hijab (veil) and Niqab (face veil). He called to unveiling the face and considered Hijab a Bid`ah (innovation in religion). He claimed it is just a matter of dress that is part of personal freedom. He even alleged that women used to wear Niqab as a tradition and Islam did not ordain or come with it. He falsely claimed that women used to sit with the Prophet (peace be upon him) unveiled and used to go for trade, pasturing and war with their faces uncovered and they remained in such a state during the era of the Rightly­Guided Caliphs, the Umayyad, and Abbasid Caliphates. He said that when the Turks embraced Islam, they spread their non­Islamic traditions of their tribes, such as the one­eyed veil, yashmak, and imposed them on Muslim and Arab women. The writer expressed his views on the permissibility of unveiling the face, denied Hijab, inserted false claims and lies, and twisted the proofs to give different implications.

A Muslim is encouraged to do whatever may increase his or her record of good deeds and decrease his or her bad ones, overtly and covertly, in words and actions, and should stay away from temptations and their means

and their evil ends.

Similarly, scholars are commanded to promulgate good and teach it in all forms, such as acts of worship, transactions, and Islamic etiquettes among individuals and in the whole society. Those who call to unveiling women's faces advocate that out of unawareness and ignorance of the evil consequences of this call or out of ill intention and purpose, paying no attention to virtuous morals. They may call to the unveiling of women's faces out of hostility and hatred, as the way of the traitors and enemies of Islam who are plotting for this great corruption and dangerous plague night and day, secretly and openly, individually and collectively. Such people call to liberate women from virtue, honor, bashfulness, and chastity to stoop down into meanness, vice, and immodesty.

A Muslim must avoid the sources of evil and traps of Satan in words and actions. A Muslim assuming the process of instructing people should call them to the way of guidance and truth, bring them closer to the means of infallibility and distance them from the places of temptation and suspicion in order to become a godly scholar. It is narrated that `Aly ibn Abu Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Kumayl ibn Ziyad in his will: "O Kumayl, The people are three: a godly scholar; a seeker of knowledge who is on the path of salvation; and worthless confused riffraff who respond to every cry, bend along with every wind, take no benefit from the light of knowledge and resort to no firm stand."

Wearing Hijab protects women, since it helps man lower his gaze from what Allah (may He be Praised) ordered Muslims not to look at, ends desire of the wicked people whom there is disease in their hearts and keeps women away from intermixing with men. Hijab also covers the woman's `Awrah (private parts of the body that must be covered in public) that stimulates men's sexual desires.

Tabarruj (women dressed immodestly in violation of the Islamic dress code) does not only mean that a woman has discarded her Hijab but rather she no longer abides by the Shari`ah of Allah, infringing His orders and calling to immorality. Eliminating temptation constitutes the