Why women should wear Hijab? ‘Passenger from India’ replies

The 18th episode of ‘Passenger from India’, which will hit small screens tonight at 20:00 GMT, is to answer a challenging question posed by Sita.

In response to Sita’s query on what Hijab is and why women have to wear Hijab, Parvaneh explains to her that Islam values women’s personality more than their physical appearance.

“A woman’s value is not in her beauty but in her personality. She is a person. She has wisdom. She shouldn’t be looked at or judged by her beauty. She is not an object. She must be respected and treated well,” Parvaneh adds.

She further goes on to say that, “Women in the West, as they claim, have achieved freedom and equality by removing boundaries and limits between genders. But what they’ve lost is far more than what they have gained.”

Sita, who seems not to be convinced, goes on asking “like what for instance?”

What do you think this missing element is? Tune in to the new episode of the series to find out.

‘Passenger from India’, directed by Qasem Jafari, airs every night at 20:00 GMT with three repeats the next day at 01:00, 07:00 and 12:00 GMT.

The series is about Ramin who has traveled from Iran to India in order to pursuit his academic studies. While there, he meets and falls in love with an Indian girl named Sita.

Even though her family is opposed to the relationship, they get engaged and he whisks her away to Tehran. Thinking they have dodged past troubles, they soon realize that their problems have just begun.

The series is starring Elham Hamidi, Shila Khodadad, Aliram Nouraee, Majid Moshiri, Iraj Nozari, Behnoush Tabatabaee, Nasrin Moqanlou, Shirin Bina, the late Zohreh Fakour-Sabour, Felor Nazari, Farahnaz Manafi-Zaher, Soroush Goudarzi, and Hamid Goudarzi.

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