What hijab exactly is to you?

                                                            

                                                             ...What hijab exactly is to you?...

Salamualaikum sisters out there. What a cliché title I know right? I know only some will read but care none, I need to speak up for something so it’s either to stay and listen, or get on to other sites that might catch your interest.

                                                    Hijab- an Arabic term which refers to modesty.

Modesty has been and continues to be a subject of Islamic modal statute, but it is its abused physical interpretation that has ignited the term as an oppressive muslim woman dress code. Obviously, the term was mushroomed by the skeptical idea by infidels who feel insecure over the wide spread of Islamic society, seemingly observed by the look of our muslim women. The barrier that keeps them a bit apart from our sisters, they say, can only be vanished by persuading them to take off their hijabs. Well, in Malaysia nothing much is left to say about our sisters. It is often like to see a half drown fish who wish to jump out of the tank to be free, without realizing that it is the water from the tank that has been keeping them alive back then. Sad, isn’t it? But here, as much as you see the ‘fish’, still there are those who acquainted and observe with the true concept of hijab. May we be among those people.

Wearing a hijab and understanding the concept of wearing the hijab are two completely different things. 

Wearing a hijab means choosing a hijab to match in with the garment, putting it on, and simply walking around head banging to Bruno mars’.

Understanding the concept of wearing the hijab is when you instill a good niah@intention of wearing one, observe the type of fabric, its length (whether it covers the chest or not), not doing something which could possibly spoil the initial niah of wearing hijab (like wearing it just for fashion or saving your money getting compounded by some fierce makguards of your college, instead of obeying the Islamic law), or showing off your untouch-able face skin in a great zoom-able picture in any social networking account, licking up some colourful lollipops! Or going to any places which can create fitnah (pubs maybe?) thus down rating the image of other muslim women wearing modesty (hijab).   

Shocked? Well I am. And impressed. How can I possibly write that when portraying outer beauty has become my top list in my free time favourite? which means that I am leading my way to riak? Which means each step I walked with the pride within was nothing but another sinful step to hell?  

Turn around and look at what we've done, sisters.

Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it!
And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it.

-Qur'an, surah 99 al zalzala ayat 7-8






Astaghfirullah..

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