{"id":15134,"date":"2025-05-27T21:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15134"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:49:42","slug":"why-do-muslim-women-wear-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/why-do-muslim-women-wear-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Muslim women wear hijab?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The act of veiling fulfills the Islamic obligation to establish modest dress and character.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many Muslim women wear\u00a0the hijab out of a desire\u00a0to fulfill a commandment of God. For some, it is also an opportunity to outwardly express their Muslim faith. And for still other women, it is additionally a rejection of societal standards that constantly seek to objectify and sexualize women.<\/p>\n<p>Although often overlooked in\u00a0discussions of hijab, men have their own version of it. Though they are not obliged to cover their entire bodies, they too have specific requirements of dress and behavior that must be dignified and modest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act of veiling fulfills the Islamic obligation to establish modest dress and character. Many Muslim women wear\u00a0the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15135,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134\/revisions\/15135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}