I like hearing stories about why girls started wearing hijab and when they picked it up and I hope you guys will share yours.
I started covering my hair in November last year but I wasn’t very strict so sometimes my hair ended up showing and my clothing wasnt very hijab-like. It’s only in the last few months that I’ve started wearing hijab properly as well as abaya.
I started after this huge event in my life, living alone for the first time. It was such a natural progression, one day the idea got into my head and I just started and from that day on, I’ve loved wearing my hijab. before that i swore to people around me that I would never wear it.
For me, hijab is more than just modesty in clothing, its modesty of the eyes and modesty in the way I walk and these days I’m working on modesty in the way I talk and i hope inshallah i succeed. The hijab itself (the scarf covering my hair) makes me feel protected and makes me feel better about my own self respect. It’s like a physical way to show that I believe in Allah. so even when im not praying or reading quran and im just sitting in class or something, i know im still doing my duty and worshipping Allah by following His command.
And I love it when in restaurants and on the streets and in university people that I don’t even know say aslamalaikum to me and give me the respect of being recognized as a muslima.
So what about you guys? when did you start and why?
I m trying to become a good muslim
I do try to talk to peeple with respect, not matter age, sex, culture.
But besides that, I dont do mutch about praying etc, khair, I will keep trying
Sarah jee.. Please teach me how to wear those things tooo....:( ...
I love to wear hijab.. but then i feel so bad.. cause 2 of paki girls in my school wear shalwar kameez and i saw many ppl talk behind her.... that which kind of dress it is.. or she looks so funny.....that is what stops me from wearing shalwar kameez... otherwise the place where iam living are mostly Pakistanis (Ahmadis) and i have a mosque in front of my house... but still i feel like if i wear it... please will pass the same comment on me.... Can any one tell me how should i convince my self that i should wear hijab.:( ....
It is definitely something I plan on doing Sarah. Just haven’t found the courage or the motivation to do so. I gave up short sleeves about 4 years ago and it took a while to get used to it but now I’m perfectly fine with it. Hijab is the next step inshallah!
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*Originally posted by Attia: *
Sarah jee.. Please teach me how to wear those things tooo....:( ...
I love to wear hijab.. but then i feel so bad.. cause 2 of paki girls in my school wear shalwar kameez and i saw many ppl talk behind her.... that which kind of dress it is.. or she looks so funny.....that is what stops me from wearing shalwar kameez... otherwise the place where iam living
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You don't have to wear a shalwar qameez to dress modestly. You can wear western clothes in modesty too.
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*Originally posted by Minerva: *
this is my next assignment...to get myself to wear Hijab...
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dont force urself into it..read about it, talk to other girls about it and once you are convinced then do it...cuz I have seen girls forcing themselves for watever reason or gettng forced to wear it n it doesnt take a second n it comes off
Attia I respect who dont give a crap about other ppl n wear watever they want to but I do think theres a place for everything...shalwar kameez is not farz on us hijab(by hijab i dont mean just covering ur head) is! The last thing that should be stopping you from wearing is wat ppl think...lol ok i will go into my dukh bhari kahani if it helps u :p
When I started wearing the hijab, no one in my family wore it n our whole family isnt all that religious either, u could say moderate n stuff but wasnt that into it. In the beg my mom was cool with it cuz she thought i am just doing it n i will get sick of it n move on to doing somethign else..but later on her friends started putting crap into her head like hijab pehne se larkiya old fashion lagti hain, rishtay nahi miltay, n that i am too young to wear the hijab n all..so my mom started telling me to take it off n i was like HECK NO, the world can go to hell...my brothers thought i was doing it to fit into my friends n stuff..my cousins thought i was doing it to look better than them n that it sucked how we couldnt fish for guys n at times they even told me it was embarrasing to go to the mall with me...basically my dad was the only one who was happy with it n couple of other friends but afterwards everyone realized that i was very serious about it and that I was trying to change my ways and make myself better n now they all respect me for it, n other ppl started wearing it too cuz they realized its actually really cool n not a pain..hehe I was very proud of myself when my aunts started wearing it cuz I dont know they are older n they should be doing it n teaching us..not the other way around..so anyways why do u care about other ppl who dont even matter to u?? I did it n at times it did get me a bit down n stuff but I knew i was doing the right thing for the right reason n I knew Allahs watching and He matters the most...more than my mom too..so why care about others?? Make them like you for who YOU are, not for wat you wear..
I have been wearing hijab for a while, like since i was in 6th grade or something :halo: No special story behind me wearing it. All the older bajis were wearing it and so I wanted to too. But as I grew older, I realised that it made me feel safer. I am still not where I want to be ( i wear makeup occasionally, lipgloss etc). But its a start I suppose.
