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Fatwa CenterHusband commands her to wear Hijab but she finds it difficult because she goes to college
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I'm married woman with one child and I go to college to finish nursing degree and thank god I pray and do everything my husband wants me to but there is one thing that really makes me so uncomfortable that my husband want me to wear Hijaab but it really hard for me to do it in here in United States of America because they just look at me in weird and start to say some bad thing to me I told him that I won't do it as long I'm in the USA. I wonder if that is Haraam and my prayer would be accepted and right or not? Please let me know.
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention as well as that of his family and all his companions.
If you performed your prayers fulfilling the conditions and pillars of the prayer (then your prayers are correct like covering all the body except the face and hands). Not wearing Hijab when going out or not obeying your husband when he orders you to wear it does not affect the validity of your prayers. However, it should be noted that the most precious fruits of performing prayers is that they deter the person from committing sins. Allaah Says (what means): {…and perform the prayers (establishment of the prayer), Verily, the prayer protects one from Al-Fahshaa' (i.e. great sins of every kind, unlawful sexual intercourse, etc.) and Al-Munkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism, and every kind of evil wicked deed, etc.)…}[Quran 29:45]. If a woman does not wear Hijab, she is committing one of the gravest wicked deeds as Allaah ordained the woman to wear Hijab and be bashful when going out of her home or when in the presence of marriageable men. Allaah Says (what means): {O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments.}[Quran 33:59]. If this religious obligation is coupled with the order of the husband to his wife to wear Hijab, then the obligation is more confirmed in her regard. That is because a woman is obliged to obey her husband in what is permissible. The Prophet 
said: "If I were to order anyone to prostrate to someone else other than Allaah, I would have ordered the wife to prostrate to her husband." [At-Tirmithi]. Obeying the husband is an act by which the woman gets near to Allaah, exactly the same as she gets closer to Allaah with the performance of the prayers, and other acts of worship. The Prophet said: "A woman who performs her five prescribed daily prayers, fasts the month of Ramadan, guards her chastity and obeys her husband, she will be addressed (on the Day of Resurrection): Enter Paradise from any gate you like." [Ahmad]. If people find it strange for a woman to wear Hijab, this should not obstruct her from wearing it, as people might even find her prayer or ablution and her other religious obligations strange, so would she abandon all that just because people find it strange? What is important is that this matter is a religious matter, so it is not permissible to neglect it in any case. For more benefit, please refer to Fatwa 82379. Therefore, we advise you to wear Hijab and be patient regarding the harm which you might face, and Allaah will reward you for being patient. You should remember the biography of the Prophets, may Allaah exalt their mention, and that of the scholars of our righteous predecessors
if anyone deserved to be safe from harm, they would have been safe from that, but this is a test from Allaah.
Finally, if there is no possibility to continue the studies except by abandoning the Hijab, then it is an obligation upon you to abandon your studies and not your Hijab, as there is no rival to being safe on Day of Judgement.
Allaah Knows best.
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