Currently in the U.K., there are signs of the country wanting to impose a ban on the niqab.

Answer

It is of fundamental importance to understand that Muslims are obliged to conduct themselves in obedience to the Shariah. Any activity or method in violation of the Shariah is doomed to fail irrespective of any good intentions. Whatever is going to happen will be by the decree of Allah Ta'ala, and people will be deserving of it.

A ban on the niqab is not a big issue. Muslim women of today, especially those who wear niqab, are regarding the niqab as a licence for venturing outdoors and mingling with fussaaq, fujjaar and kuffaar in public malls and other places. They labour under the satanic idea that the niqab has emancipated them from Hijaab, hence they are free to wander around just as they feel.

It should be well understood that the niqaab is merely an item of Hijaab. It is not the be all of Hijaab. The first Waajib and highest category of Hijab is to remain within the safety of the home precincts. If women obey Allah Ta'ala and remain at home, they will not be molested on the streets; they will not become mal-oonaat (accursed) for venturing outside for just every nonsense. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that women are aurah, and when they emerge from their homes, shaitaan lies in ambush for them. He casts surreptitious glances at them and he lays his snare to involve them in fitnah with males. Women have no right to emerge from their homes in violation of the Qur'aanic ban.

But, since they violate the Qur'aanic ban, Allah Ta'ala constrains the kuffaar to place a ban of another kind on them.

If they remain at home, a ban on the niqab will really not affect them. Furthermore, many women use the niqab as a cover for their evil and haraam glances. Just as it is haraam for men to stare at women, so too is it haraam for females to stare at males. But, under cover of the niqab, they perpetrate zina of the eyes, mind and heart. Since they abuse the niqab and do not deserve to don the sacred cloth, Allah Ta'ala allows the kuffaar to rip it from their faces so that what they are not honestly concealing becomes exposed. Hijab is firstly at home. That is where they should remain.

Women should not emerge from their homes for working, for participation in Tableegh, in Walimahs, and in any other function. They may emerge to visit relatives occasionally. All the emerging should be done on their behalf by their mahram males. There is really nothing to be concerned about any ban of the niqab. Resort to Inaabat ilallaah --, repent, make Taubah, submit to the Shariah, adopt correct Shar'i Hijaab, and Allah Ta'ala will be your Protector. He will guard your honour, modesty and chastity. He states in the Qur'aan: "And, Allah will protect you against the people."

It is not permissible for Muslim women to participate in public street demonstrations as the kuffaar women do. Only lewd women prance like kuffaar clowns in public roads. This kind of Satanism is not meant for Muslim females who are supposed to be the repositories of the highest degree of modesty and chastity. Their brains are thinking currently like the brains of kuffaar women, hence they seek to emulate their kaafiraat,, faajiraat, faasiqaat counterparts in the western world of kufr. They should only voice their opposition by means of letters and petitions. The males should fight their case. And, obviously Dua is of utmost importance.