 the hijab of the clothes is extremely important. It's extremely important but there's a more important hijab brothers and sisters. The word hijab as we said means a barrier right? Now when you think about harassment in the workplace the solution to it is to implement a barrier. What type of barrier? A barrier that minimizes exposure between the two genders. Now I know some people the minute they hear this solution they will say wait a minute wait a minute you're out of your mind you're talking about segregation between the genders impossible. We'll never have segregation in our societies. Look I'm not calling it segregation I know the word segregation is negative here in the West let's not use this word but you know sometimes unfortunately a problem that we have in Western society sometimes when we think of certain solutions immediately our mind shuts down. We don't want to listen impossible you know it's like a thousand years ago if you were to say that the earth was round even the biggest of scientists was not willing to hear from you was not even willing to listen to you. Don't let words or ideas scare you think about the solution and how practical the solution is. We're not talking about complete segregation but we're talking about minimizing exposure at the workplace. You see most of our time brothers and sisters is spent at the workplace when you ask a man who works at an office and who has a female coworker this man sees his female coworker more than he sees his wife. Do you know that? That's life here in the West. This man speaks to his female coworker more than he speaks to his own wife. This is the problem of our society. This is the constant exposure. A female is being constantly you know exposed to a man at the workplace. Now the problem is this constant exposure even an average man after a while once he feels too comfortable in the workplace he will make an unwanted advance. He will verbally harass you will say something inappropriate. Make a negative comment about something about her about her looks about her body about her clothes. That happens. This is the biology of males brothers and sisters. We can deny it all we want. Just look at the statistics. We've got successful men, wealthy men, educated men, all of them suffer from this disease. When you have female co-workers around you in the workplace yes maybe the first month mashaAllah. You're a good person. You're shy. You're embarrassed. You have that haia. You're very polite. You're very gentle but once you get too comfortable with your co-worker two months pass by three months four months one year what happens then you became you become a perpetrator of harassment whether you know it or not many of them don't have bad intentions they're not willfully and deliberately harassing but once they get too comfortable that's what happens they begin to make inappropriate jokes inappropriate remarks and many of the women are suffering in society so the solution is minimize the contact for example if a company has let's say 10 offices have five offices for the female workers and five offices for the male workers what's wrong with that minimize that daily contact when you minimize that daily contact you are protecting 70 percent of your woman from harassment you're protecting their honor you're protecting their dignity these women are emotionally broken psychologically they're affected have mercy on them but unfortunately our society does not want to even listen and you're even saving the economy because we've demonstrated how harassment in the workplace reduces the productivity of our economy so that's even good for your own economy now i know some will object with this common objection they'll say look if you implement this segregation i know they'll insist on calling it segregation fine call it whatever you want but this is the solution at the end of the day now if you implement this segregation in the workplace what happens is those men who are working in their own offices they will collaborate conspire and subjugate women and you will have inequality just like we had thousands of years ago we need women in every room on top of those men so they don't take away their rights this is the objection right i'm not advocating for complete segregation brothers and sisters board meetings company meetings important events the decision-making process yes everyone should be involved we're not talking about segregation here because when an employee goes to the board meeting when a board member goes to the board meeting the company meeting it's an appropriate atmosphere no one's going to try to harass each other there because they're in a formal setting we're not talking about that that's fine everyone should participate we're talking about the day-to-day work we're talking about the office work that happens every day in the office this is the problem when when these coworkers get too comfortable with one another especially the males what we're saying is have a partition here put them in different rooms have more people in the same room there are ways to address this and we can be creative but for us to ignore this and say no fine as long as women from their own choice they've come to this company they've worked they're working here they're getting their salary we have no issue we're denying the reality where's the honor and dignity of these 70 percent of women brothers and sisters this is a realistic solution so we're not advocating for complete segregation in our events for example community events that are appropriate that's fine there can be some exposure there can be some appropriate contact we're talking about a particular disease in our societies that exist in the workplace it is in this in these areas that we need the true meaning of the hijab the hijab of space we have the hijab of clothes we all know about that and it's wonderful but it's a partial solution you can have a modest woman who's appropriately dressed at work but even she will not be spared from harassment after a while after months and after days and after years even she will be the subject of harassment because of this constant exposure so what we need to implement is the hijab of space once you observe the hijab of space brothers and sisters i guarantee you that 70 percent will go down 10 percent five percent you can even eliminate it but you know what the major problem is and i'll conclude with this we have lobbies in our societies who will make it very difficult for such solutions they will resist such solutions as much as they can and you know who this lobby is made of it's normally made of males we're talking about wealthy powerful males because they want this this situation to continue because they're taking advantage of it they go to work this man he says he feels powerful he feels arrogant he's like look i'm successful i'm wealthy i can do whatever i want i can go to mic workplace and i can see these female employees and i can say whatever i want i can do whatever i want i can make any comment that i want and it's fun for them they're enjoying it that's why they'll never accept this type of hijab even these men will resist not because it's limiting women they don't really care about that but because it limits them and this is the problem they have a powerful lobby and they're taking advantage they're exploiting these women but by implementing the hijab of space i truly believe that this is one very practical solution that will eliminate harassment in the workplace