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Alpha seems you didnt read my post well
They were wearing it before 1919, i believe all of them were, but after 1919 women took it off specially at cities, actually i dont know if they wearing it on that time because it was an order from ALLAH or because it was a tradition...that i have no information about but i can try to find.
But i believe in the past it started as an order from ALLAH then turned out to be a tradition because even Christian women used to wear it too.
As for Yaþmak i agree about what you said at cities, thats what i saw at the pictures but at the fileds that i dont know anything about, Still, women were removing it to greet you if they knew you, donest matter man or a woman but if a stranger, they dont remove.
And no, my grandmother was not covering her hair actually, she did recently at the late of her life in the 80th i guess and i remember watching her without it and later she put it on after her daughter ´teyze´ did. But yes, my great grandmother ´grandmother mother´ was covering her hair tho but not wearing Yaþmak.
My aunt ´hala´ on the other hand kept the tradition till the day she died and used to put þifon scarf on her hair when she got older while she go out, thinking a lady should do that and refused to go out without it, needless to say a þifon scarf wasnt actually covering her hair of course it was elegance to her i believe and till she died she refused to consider herself wearing hijab..she actually wasnt!
So you see Alpha, i know what im talking about..it happened that way in my family too .
Of course Korans are/were available and many imams are/ were there but not many people on that time were able to read, so they couldnt read it at koran and start ask about it as it happened later.
And as for imams, well i actually dont know, they should have told people, but it was a political trend to adopt the Western life style, that is what the King at that time wanted beside we were captured by Britain , and covering hair was seen as backward thing and women were actually taking off Yaþmak after 1919 and participate more in that life style surely it started with educated women/girls and then spread at most cities.
à remember at high school our teacher used to tell us about that period and she said girls at schools then ´60th´ didnt even know they should pray !
But of course there were also religious families out there or at least they were keeping the traditions as their parents did.
My mother told me yes she used to watch her parents praying but she never thought to do and also her parents never told her to do so !
à believe the religion awareness on that time were not having much attention at the society, so being religious meant to be backward, but keeping traditional things were ok.
Ãt was after that when people realized its not what you wear that makes you backward but what you are !
Actually Alpha i have no idea why would you cover your hair at Saudi other than maybe because its very sunny and hot there ?!
Edited (7/21/2009) by CANLI
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Elhamdulillah .
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They do accept cases when you died and were unable to confess.