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    May this booklet help you in your way of Spiritual

    life. Let us be obedient to Allah, Our Creator. For

    that we must obey what Almighty has asked us to

    do. If we are observing part of it and neglecting the

    other part for our convenience then where is the

    deen which Allah has perfected upon us. Allah

    demands a total submission to Him, which itself

    stands for the word Muslim. May Allah help and

    guide us in our way to the truth, insha Allah.

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    In the name of Almighty Allah, Most Gracious, Most Benevolent.

    May Allahs peace and blessings be upon our beloved Prophet Muhammad and all

    those who follow him till the Last Judgement Day.

    [This is a true story of a Muslimah in her own words, who became a Hijabi, during her

    spiritual quest.]

    Assalaamu Alayikkum Dear Sisters

    I would like to share my experience on Hijab, what I felt after getting covered myself

    and how I got it covered etc to all my sisters who still hesitates to do that. First of all I

    would like to say that if you are a Muslimah you must obey Allah and HisMessenger and their commandments, which includes our Hijab as well.

    Hope this article on my experience will give you a platform for self

    examination and I will try my maximum to give you every aspect on

    Hijab, and why it is important to wear both physically and spiritually,

    insha Allah. You can see some links from this article which will take you

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    to another sphere of Knowledge, which insha Allah may quench your knowledge thirst

    to some extend at least.

    For that let me take you to my past. Even if I was born and brought up in a Muslim

    family I was unfortunate that I was not at all a practicing Muslim as my parents all were

    the same. But all of them are so good at heart and believed in Allah and was doingcharity and doing prayers occasionally. More over the teachers who taught me Quran

    and Islam gave me little knowledge about the peaceful religion, as they themselves

    were incomplete about the depth of our religion, though they provided me everything

    superficially and I was taken back with very many doubts in my mind, with no one to

    answer .I was just thinking then what if I showed my hair? What is the big deal in that,

    as I can understand showing other body parts may lead to provocation to the opposite

    sex. I was so upset with many such doubts that I even feared to join under any Islamic

    institutions who demand Hijaab as part of the uniform.

    During that time I hardly read Quran and I think now, If I could have read the BeautifulDivine Book Quran, then I would not have dared to ask such stupid questions. Because

    I thought Hijaab was made by male world to suppress woman. So sorry to write this as

    a Muslim Woman, but that was me in those past dark years of my life. I was more

    influenced by Christianity as I was studying in a Christian School from my kindergarten

    to Bachelors. But Alhamndhulliah Allah kept HIS eye on me that I was saved and was

    thrown to the light of truth by His blessings in the disguise of my husband. Everything

    around me turned upside down when I saw my Old-in-laws doing their prayers however

    tired and sick they were. My husband use to do his regular prayers and my inner

    conscious started to prick me and I was questioned by myself and I felt ashamed to say

    that I am a Muslim as I was not doing my obligatory prayers in time. I slowly realized the

    peace I got when I did my prayers on time and started taking fast in all the month of

    Ramadan. Even if I miss, I somehow manage to makeup the days by taking equal days

    from other months. I got into a peaceful track, which once were so hard for me.

    I bought a Quran with explanations and translations. I read many times many verses

    but failed to understand many verses meaning in its real sense. I read Quran

    occasionally as I was a working woman at that time. But Alhamndhullilah Allah doesnt

    want me to be among the wrong doers. As a result my husband got an offer from United

    States of America and I took my Quran with me. The first flight in the plane, the take off

    kindled a spiritual flame inside me. That was my first flight. I started

    looking down through the flight window and I saw the earth and all its

    inhabitants so tiny and small, I just thought of Almighty, thinking How

    tiny we will be then in His eyes and yet we take pride in us. Tears rolled

    down through my cheeks and I was spiritually fuelled by that sight.

    There in States I got leisure time and I started reading Quran and taking

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    Sunnah fasting and did Night prayers which I did even when I was not a complete

    practicing woman during my school, graduation days. May be because of that only I was

    blessed by Almighty with a good husband and almost all of my prayers of Duniya were

    answered and hope my prayers for Life Hereafter will also be answered by Him, insha

    Allah.

    As my eyes were going through Holy Quran, it got stuck on the below verses and I

    started to ponder over those ayats:-

    O you Children of Adam! We have bestowed on you raiment to cover your shame as

    well as to be an adornment to you. But the raiment of righteousness, that is the best.

    Such are among the Signs of Allah, that they may receive admonition. (Quran 7:26)

    And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their

    modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what mustordinarily appear therof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not

    display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their

    sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons,

    or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of

    physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex, and that they

    should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O

    you Believers turn you all together towards Allah, that you may attain Bliss. (Quran

    24:31).

    O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw

    their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they

    may be recognized and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful. (Quran 33:59)

    Then only I realized, Hijab is not male made but Allahs demand to believing women

    and rest fashionable dresses are male made to expose women as a commodity. I also

    did many researches on science regarding male psychology and how seeing hair ignites

    male sex hormones. Moreover I just looked on Christians portrait of Mary and statue

    where she is always portrayed as wearing long loose dress with head covering to toe

    and also nuns and old generation women who more or less cover their

    whole body and hair with clothes and thinking upon all these, I also

    wrote a small blog post here Role of Dress in Islam

    http://eemaantevazhi.blogspot.com/2010/04/role-of-dress-in-islam.html.

    After learning by myself and finding what is truth and what is false I got

    myself covered, Alhamndullilah. At that moment I just dont want to hear

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    what scholars were saying because many scholars have different opinions on different

    things. I just want to learn what Allah demanded and what Prophet Muhammad [pbuh]

    showed as role model throughout his life. Alhamndhullilah I am feeling secured now

    while I walk around and my dress itself is showing the message of Allah and I feel

    confidence while I wear my Hijab .

    Another point which attracted to Hijab was that, as I am a literature post graduate andbasically Indian, I love Kamala Das who was a world renowned controversial poetess. Iwas moved when she, who is born in a typical Hindu family, declared her Shahada andembraced Islam and became Kamala Suraya. I was shocked to read her comments onPurdah and Hijab. Just have a look to her concept on dressing,

    The purdah (Islamic face veil) that I wear protects me. I like the purdah which Muslimwomen wear. I like the lifestyle of Muslim women. Purdah is a wonderful dress. No manever makes a pass at a woman in purdah. It provides her with a sense of security.

    In Delhi alone, most of the offices have a woman worker to comfort the customers witha melodious voice. In the recently-held book fair at Pragati Maidan, female models insemi-nude were installed as a statue so as to attract and allure more and more visitors.The oglers thronged such venues and were in a hurry to touch their body. What ashame! A woman's body has become a commodity to popularize products. In a societywhere incidents of eye-teasing are on the increase, molestation in offices goesunabated, promotion is done only after a female employee entertains her boss, what awoman needs is nothing but protection of her freedom.

    You can read about her by going through this

    link.http://eemaantevazhi.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-i-embraced-islam-kamala-das.html

    From States we moved to France where I continued my studies on my Deen. Once Iwas taken by a Muslim, [but she hardly observes Islamic dress code] friend to a French

    administrative office to get me registered for unemployment as I am a qualified teacher.

    When we were to enter the main entrance of the office she said I must take off the Hijab

    to get into the office and she added you cant wear your hijab if you work in France as a

    teacher. She was my husbands Boses wife, that I couldnt say NO to her and I

    removed my Hijab. But that moment tears were rolling from my eyes and even if I was

    standing infront of ladies I felt that I was naked, only because I removed Hijab. And

    soon after I rushed back to my home and prayed to Allah to forgive me for disobeying

    Him and that moment I decided I dont need a job by sacrificing my religion and

    disobeying Allah and I turned to online teaching, which alhamndullilah is

    a great success. But I think with that incident, Allah want me to realize

    that Hijaab has become a part of my soul. Otheriwse how could I know

    how will be a Muslimah feeling when she is forced to take off her Hijaab

    .I am thankful to Allah who opened my eyes to the true world of Light. I

    am still continuing as house wife. But no complains as Allah wants me to

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    acquire more knowledge on Islam and help others to understand Islam, insha Allah.

    That is the real blessing of my life.

    I also learned from an authentic Hadees that Women are not supposed to pluck theireyebrows and I was shocked to read that [Sahih Al-Bukhari 7.815 Narrated by Abdullah]

    Allah has cursed those women who practice tattooing and those who get themselvestattooed, and those who remove their eyebrow hairs, and those who create a spacebetween their teeth artificially to look beautiful, and such women as change the featurescreated by Allah. Why then should I not curse those whom the Prophet (saws) hascursed? [Is beauty parlor allowed in Islam or not? a quoted question and answersection. You can read that from this linkhttp://eemaantevazhi.blogspot.com/2009/09/is-beauty-parlour-allowed-in-islam.html] I stopped eye brow plucking as I dont want Allahand Prophets [pbuh] curse be upon me even in the slightest way.Moreover now my family is also a practicing Muslim family, as they were guided by

    Allah through various incidents that touched their life, Alhmandhullilah. Now I am here

    on this stage of my spiritual life which Allah planned for me and He himself guided me to

    this point with very many testings throughout my life. Nobody except Allah could help

    me to face all such situations, with great reward of His mercy showered upon us.

    [Cartoon picture acknowledgement to Google Images]

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    "Do not fear this world.

    But be fearful of the next world.

    That will be a better decision of the intelligent believer"

    Jazzakha ALLAHU khyran...