Speaking on Al-Kawthar program “Problems and Solutions”, Sami Khadra said the veil is normal for all women in general, noting that the issue was not unusual either in the ancient civilizations or the new civilizations, and either in the Islamic or non-Islamic civilizations as he noted that the decency was widespread in Italy decades ago.

But according to Islam, women should not wear eye-catching, see-through clothing and so on, Khadra stressed.

He also described the veil that that is out of ordinary and does not conform to the conditions of hijab as “provocative”.

The cleric noted that the fight against hijab started about a century ago and is still ongoing.

In the thirties, forties and fifties, the hijab was fought directly, Khadra said, adding that it was even expected in the seventies that hijab will vanish in 20 years. However, the cleric said, the hijab spread widely after Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979.

Khadra noted that hijab nowadays is not fought directly but what is spread now is not true hijab with some of women wear veil but at the same time wear makeup and tight-fitting clothing, noting that many new labels such as: fashion veil, civilized veil, extrovert veil, bourgeois veil, the French veil and the ‎attractive veil have come to the surface.

He stressed that women can wear the veil they like but at the same time which does not undermine the purpose of the hijab, citing a part of a verse in Quran that says “And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands.”

The cleric emphasized that women who wear veils that do not conform to the conditions of hijab are sinned.

Elsewhere is his remarks, he noted that the behavior of the woman who wears Islamic veil has to conform to the hijab in order that her veil be for decency and not just a fashion style.

Khadra concluded by saying that the hijab Muslim women ordered to wear is “the cover, the decency and the modesty” and is the hijab which was recommended by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and which expresses the true faith as well as the love of Ahlu ul-Bayt (PBUH) - the household of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).