Question: Some unveiling women say things like, ‘You only need to have a veil in your heart!’ Please elaborate on this.
Answer: This is an extremely fierce and dangerous strike of the devil. This outrageous statement rejects those blessed verses of the Holy Quran which command the concealment of the outer body. For example, verse 33 of Sūraĥ Al-Aḥzāb (part 22) states:
And remain in your houses and do not stay unveiled like the unveiling of the former days of ignorance.
[Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)]
The 59th verse of this Sūraĥ states:
O Prophet! Command your wives and your daughters and the women of the Muslims to cover their faces with a part of their headgear.
[Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)]
Verse 31 of Sūraĥ An-Nūr states:
And they must not reveal their adornment.
[Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)]
Anyone who completely denies the concept of concealing the body and says ‘You only need a veil in your heart’ will lose her faith. If she was married, then her marriage has broken as well, if she was a disciple, then her Bay’at has also broken, if she has already performed her Farḍ Hajj, then that has also been invalidated, and all her past virtues are wasted. She must repent from this unbelief, recite the Kalimaĥ and become a Muslim again and marry the same husband again (if he does not want to marry her again, then she can marry anyone else) and if she wants to become a disciple, then she can do Bay’at with any qualified spiritual guide. However, if someone