Wearing Jilbab & Upset Parent

In Hanafi fiqh wearing Jilbab is required or an optional? what if someone wants to wear jilbab but the mother is not happy with the decision but the father is ok with the decision? The entire purpose of wearing jilbab is to protect one's beauty and the non-mahrams should not see your shape can one wear different colors of jilbabs or one should stick with black?

Walaikum assalam,

There are levels of optimality in women's dress.

1. The "jilbab" as we have it today is not recommended in itself, but because it is a means to fulfill the obligation of covering one's nakedness with loose clothing that does not define the shape of the body. Other clothing can fulfill this, too, as the scholars explain.

2. Use wisdom with regards to your parents.  It is not strictly speaking obligatory to obey your parents regarding a matter like this. However, it remains unconditionally obligatory to be good to them. If this is possible for you while wearing a jilbab, then wear it. If it will lead to arguing, fighting, and so on, assess the situation. (See attached answers.)

3. As for colours, I asked Sayyidi Shaykh Mahmoud Usmani, a brilliant Hanafi faqih and man of taqwa and wisdom. He said that there are no colours that a woman is expected to wear or colours she must avoid. What is important is that she not dress in a way that attracts undue attention (that would not be attracted if she dressed, Islamically, otherwise). Sober colours are, therefore, better.

And Allah alone gives success.

Walaikum assalam,
Faraz Rabbani.