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Mashallah mashallah. I'm sure you have a wonderful personality then. Cursing someone out for no reason, without giving htem any chance to respond and then ignoring their defense--I guess that's just one bit of your beautiful character.
Anyway to stay on topic: if you want to wear hijab go ahead. If you have any doubts most likely you'renot ready for it and need some more time to think it over. I rushed into it without thinking and the effect wore off after about two months.
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sara I dont care about u. 
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Darling you did enough to send me such wonderful love notes. :)
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My lovely my sweetest most beautiful sara. Its about principles. I dont expect you to understand.
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Sara, petal, “judge not and lest ye be judged” - Dot Cotton, Eastenders (sometime last year).
Im sure you yourself understand the ins and outs of Hijab as you yourself wore it, considering this, i think it rather unfortunate that you would feel the need to disrespect somebody else regarding their personal choice in a matter which is close to home for you too.
As far as personalities go… well i think i shall i leave that one for now. Less hate.
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Mohabbat.... I'm not disrespecting hijab :) I gave enough advice on it
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1: Wear comfortable and long dress.
2: Cover the body with shawl.
3: Cover the head with shawl.
4: Cover the face with shawl.
This step by step is collected from Quran.
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Ive been thinking about it for 8 months. Thankyou for the advice anyway.
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So what's stopping you?
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Try before you buy...
Before jumping to any conclusions, why don't you start wearing one and see if you should keep it or not...
If someone asks you whether you have taken it up, let them know you want to see if you can live with one...
Then develop your own opinion plus read about its importance on websites...
None on GS can convince you any which way and will leave you confused...
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If it anything to do with you My God would let you God know. You have served your purpose here.
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The reason I asked was becuase I thought that many of our muslim sisters may have gone through this themselves - and it would be insightful- maybe. I know only one hijaabi that I respect- thats why I asked here. She said the same as you.
I may do that. Thankyou.
ANd thankyou Sadiyah and OMG too.
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The hadeeth rejectors always neglect the head covering but for the followers of Quran in the light of Sunnah and Hadeeth, it is agreed upon by all school of thoughts that women’s hair are part of her private parts and ought to be covered. Men’s hair, on the other hand, are not but it is sunnah to cover your head as Code_Red mentioned.
Having said that, the best pro will be that you will do it for the sake of ALLAH:swt: and success of a human being is always the success in life hereafter. Who cares about the cons which are temporary anyway and are there as long as one is alive?
And not to mention they are means of a test from ALLAH:swt: … Pass the test … good luck
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It is agreed by all schools of thought that a women’s hair are a part of her privates, but the arguments are weak, and many infuse cultural attitudes of the day to enforce what they may have seen as “obvious”.
Strictly speaking, there is a presumption of covering the hair. I have yet to see anyone cite something that explicitly commands that the hair must be covered (in the same manner that prayers and alms must be offered, for example, or that we avoid fornication).
The oft quoted Quranic versus, and even the various hadith do not command the covering of hair, but it MAY be implicitly required.
Another proper question, though, is why DON’T we dress a certain way…and if the answer is to fit in or to be like non-Muslims, we got a mindset problem we have to fix.
Hijab in it’s current incarnation is a modern take on Muslim dresscode. I think it’s a wonderful evolution of the abaya/Burkah and what not, and is proof positive that we are in fact changing “with the times” on our own terms.
In many Islamic countries were modernity is seeping in, it seems to have been established as part of the social contract. Whereas our traditional societies have historically demanded, or at least preferred, women stay in the home, this isc changing in no small part with the Hijab and what it represents.
With a public assertion of Muslimness, the public sphere is now opening up to Muslim women in a very rapid manner.
One can go to Egypt and see that the Universities are a sea of Hijab wearing women (in particular the Science and Engineering classes, which are near male-only affaris in the West).
To an individual, I’ve found that most Hijabis agree that Hijab is more a state of mind than a mode of dress. You’ll find a large number of people, among them many Muslim women, who simply cannot see past the physical object itself.
To thest people, the Hijab is reduced to a gender-political symbol, and through it project victimhood on the person who wears it. They could care less about how you emote around it, or the spiritual aspects of it.
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Is it impossible to work on both?.. I’m sure there’s a checklist that you have which places fixing every single thing up before taking up hijab, but thats not realistically how its done.
hiccup,
I forgot to add something which i’ve often noticed.. people are usually afraid before this “big” step, and the only solution sometimes is to just go for it, and it seems so easy that in the end you end up asking yourself what you were worried about anyway..
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You want something more explicit than the Prophet (saws) saying that nothing except the face and hands should be visible?
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Hiccup,
you have to be sure and strong when you do start wearing the hijab.
You can't be pious before you start wearing the hijab, because nobody is really pious, everyone has mistakes, you just have to try to do what is obliged and build up your way of life according to Islam step by step. If you waite until you are really living as a pious muslimah, it will take a long long time! ( and who knows you might never get the chance, since you don't know how long you live)
I started hijab too and wore it a complete year, then I took it off for almost a complete year, for all the wrong reasons (to make a long story short -yeah too late- I took it off because of baqwas of other people).
I'm glad I wear it again now. But it is still such a pity that last year I took it off after I had started to wear one, that's why I think you should be really strong and sure and don't mind if other people say mean things to/about you.
In the end it should be your own choice to start wearing it or not wearing it. You wont' be more holy just by wearing it, but you wouldn't be worse by not wearing it. It's your intentions and your actions that matter in the end.
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The hadith in question is actually hazrat Ayesha saying nothing should be visible but “this and this”, pointing to one of her hand and head/face (is it the face, or the head?).
The interpretation is face, but then this simply could be because (as I mentioned) there was a presumption that the head was already covered. Not neccessarily because the hair is “private parts”, but because in those days everyone covered their head.
And let’s not forget that there wasn’t a REASON behind these suggestions (or is it law, and if so why) as clarified by the Quran.
You can’t pick and choose, or blindly apply, hadith. They come with a very rich history.
Bottom line: it’s nothing worth fighting over. It’s not a pillar of faith by a longshot.
As I said, it’s the state of mind that is more important than the physical garb. I pray those who wish to done the Hijab reach this noble state of mind.
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Sorry, that doesn’t fly.. If someone says nothing except this and this to be visible, pointing to hands and face, then that leaves very little room for doubt.
The physical and spiritual states of mind are just as important when talking about hijab.. unless you’ve recently recieved some wahee you’d like to share.