This Al-Azhar graduate does not cover her hair! She's not a graduate of Islamic studies, maybe?

While reading on this Ayah Pin follower ticked off for not covering hair, it struck me that the lady was a graduate of Al-Azhar, a university in Egypt.

Why wasn't she in purdah?

What's the edict on covering hair for muslim ladies, actually? Anyone?

The Star Online > Courts

Friday September 2, 2005

Ayah Pin follower ticked off for not covering hair

BY K. SUTHAKAR

KUALA TERENGGANU: Twenty-three women came to court to face charges of going against a state fatwa (edict). One of them did not wear a head scarf.

Syariah High Court judge Muhammad Abdullah, who noticed this, ticked her off.

“There are rules to be followed, just like one cannot appear without clothes in public,” he told former religious teacher Kamariah Ali, 54.

“Likewise, one cannot wear a skirt to mosque,” he said, when mentioning a case involving 45 followers of the Sky Kingdom sect yesterday.

BREACHED DRESS CODE: Kamariah leaving the Syariah High Court in Kuala Terengganu.

They are charged under Terengganu’s Syariah Criminal Offence Enactment with not adhering to the state fatwa that declared the teachings of the sect as deviant.

Muhammad said there was no excuse for her not to wear a headscarf since a notice on the dress code was pasted in the court building.

He told her to step out of the dock.

Kamariah denied that a court officer had earlier asked her to wear the headscarf.

However, when Muhammad pressed her to tell the truth, she admitted that she heard the advice.

“I did not follow it as I thought it was his directive,” she said.

The judge said the officer had passed the message on his (Muhammad’s) orders.

She then apologised to the judge and remained in the court.

Kamariah, an Al-Azhar graduate, has also been charged under the enactment at the Besut Lower Syariah Court on July 21 for saying that she had renounced Islam.

Counsel Wan Haidi Wan Jusoh is representing Kamariah as well as three others: Deraman Mamat, 74, Amirah Mohamad, 29, and Nor Aini Mohd Yaakub, 25.

He requested more time from the court to meet the other accused persons who had indicated that they wanted to engage his services.

The judge fixed the trial to be held for three days from Dec 18.

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