Mira Al-Bitar, Ruba Mansour:

april.30.2026

     Thus, Nour Khanum’s body triumphed over her hijab (she removed the hijab after being a successful television presenter), and the hijab triumphed over Basma Qabbani’s body (she wore the hijab when she met with the Nusra Front in Idlib), All of this is like a back-and-forth between a body that wants life and a hijab that wants death for it, All of this is like an uprising not only against the hijab and what it hides beneath it of humiliations for women and an exposure of the lie of honoring her with the rulings of laws that despise humanity, Is it true what is said that the Creator singled out women with rulings that suit their nature, such as the hijab? Is a woman born veiled? And are the rulings of the hijab born with the woman? And is the hijab a covering and protection? And why must a woman be covered from the eyes of those who look at her who are not her close relatives? Is it because her appearance is repulsive to the soul? That is, is she something to be ashamed of? In any case, the jurists agree that the hijab is obligatory for every believing adult woman who has reached the age of accountability and is addressed by the rulings of Sharia, which she must adhere to.

  It is said that adhering to the hijab is adhering to heavenly commands and obedience and glorifying the Creator, and thus winning His favor, But how can a person adhere to the commands of a hypothetical entity that he does not see or touch, and yet must obey it? What are the implications or benefits of winning heaven’s favor? Does heaven’s favor mean getting bread when hungry, when we do not see heavenly bread on earth, but rather exclusively American or Western bread? Does heaven’s favor mean reviving dignity by killing it, or guaranteeing freedom by practicing tyranny? Or respecting the will by imposing guardianship, or the health of the soul and body by destroying it, despising it, and considering it shameful?

They say the hijab protects a woman from harm. How so? Does wearing a mask over the eyes protect one from being looked at? Then they say that wearing the hijab promotes virtue, Do unveiled women around the world not know virtue? Does the hijab elevate a woman’s virtue? And the issue of chastity! Is a veiled woman truly chaste compared to an unveiled one? What is the essence of this chastity? Does it mean covering oneself with the hijab when tempted to sin? Have you noticed what some veiled women do as soon as they board a plane? At that moment, the hijab, the jilbab, and the nijab fly away, only to return to their bodies after returning to brothels in Iran, for example, Then comes the greatest evil: the hijab, which distinguishes the believer from the disbeliever, affirming a religious identity, What is the benefit of this distinction and affirmation? Is a woman’s being a believer an identity that elevates her above non-believers, in the sense of affirming belonging to the best nation? Isn’t the slogan of the best nation an empty, sick, and arrogant superiority, inducing women to be distinguished by a fatal religious disease?

Folly and ignorance triumphed in a battle, but they lost the war. They triumphed over Nawal El Saadawi, author of 40 books, by exiling her, putting her on trial, and attempting to force her divorce, However, victory in a battle is one thing, and defeat in a war that immortalized Nawal El Saadawi and transformed her into an icon and a shining symbol is quite another, We are honored by El Saadawi’s birth among us, and the world is honored by her, and by the victory of Hamid Abu Zaid, who rose in stature and position after an attempt was made to destroy him and execute him socially by annulling his marriage—that is, divorcing him from his wife against her will, according to the wicked calculation, They died physically but were immortalized as symbols of good, while those who exiled them remained in the humiliation of their exile, imprisonment, exclusion, isolation, and harassment. Female genital mutilation, the hijab, the nijab, polygamy, concubinage, temporary marriage, and the slave markets and practices of repression remained. The dysfunction, backwardness, and parasitism at the tables of others remained, which turned some into Human waste! All of that was a departure from history, morality, reason, and logic, and remaining in the graveyards as moving corpses, whose existence is distinguished only by the disgust they emanate and the smells of their decay, Rabble on the margins, bullying Nour Haddad, Nawal El Saadawi, and others, was the bullying of paper tigers whose roar was the meow of mice!

Nawal El Saadawi died, but the memory of the “Hisbah” lawsuit remains etched in the hearts of honorable people, Nawal El Saadawi was to be divorced from her husband because, according to their standards of faith and religion, she was not a believer, El Saadawi and Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid were considered heretics and infidels! They are truly children of life, and children of life do not die, because their religion is humanity, not depravity; their religion is honor, not baseness; their religion is humanity, not animalistic barbarity, Nawal El Saadawi’s religion is virtue, not vice; her religion is integrity, Can someone who wanted to forcibly divorce her or revoke her Egyptian citizenship be considered human? Or is he a predatory beast that should be confined to an animal pen?

  Nawal El Saadawi died in her eternity, and female genital mutilation, the hijab, the niqab, polygamy, concubinage, temporary marriage, slave shops, repression, and a large amount of shaky, flimsy, and disturbed people remained outside of morality, logic, understanding, and perception, She died, and the ambiguity regarding death remained for 1440 years,Death is an epidemic that has turned some into moving corpses without reason or conscience, human waste inhabiting cemeteries.

This death seems final, as if it were a justification for a life without meaning, substance, or purpose other than the goal of suicide, Suicide is an admission and acknowledgment of the nihilism and unnecessaryness of this existence, Whoever deserves to exist works for it, and whoever does not deserve it leaves it unmourned!