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Why do un-veiled women seem to get better job and marriage opportunities, despite the belief that everything is predestined and by the will of Allah, and how can this be answered based on tangible realities and facts?

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If some societies facilitate jobs or marriage for women who do not wear the hijab, this is a deviation and a weakness in religion and morals, and an insult to those who do not wear the hijab. Some jobs desire them to attract customers or to be free from the constraints of Islamic law, and a husband who prefers a woman who does not wear the hijab has weak ghira (protective jealousy). Facilitating matters for the woman who does not wear the hijab in this world is a gradual drawing away (istidraj) from Allah, for this world is a place of action and the Hereafter is a place of recompense. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "When you see Allah giving a servant what he desires of this world despite his sins, then it is merely a gradual drawing away (istidraj)," then he recited: "{So when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We opened to them the doors of every [good] thing until, when they rejoiced in what they had been given, We seized them unexpectedly, and suddenly they were in despair.}"

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