Comments on: Why do you wear hijab?

By: Nadia

Nadia — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:09:55 +0000

Honestly, for me, it was an identity issue. It’s weird living in America when your parents are immigrants and your religion is different from most of the people around you. It’s a common dilemma for first-generation children, I think, about figuring out where they fit in.
When I started wearing hijab, I felt more comfortable in my own skin. I knew what I was. And, in a odd way, it made me feel more American as well.
Of course there’s the religious factor, but that wasn’t the deciding force for me. That’s what made me explore the idea of wearing hijab, but that alone didn’t feel like enough of a push.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:15:20 +0000

Because I felt like it lol. j/k

I wanted to please my creator. That’s pretty much it. I live in a very Muslim area so I don’t have social problems with or without it. (Plenty of Muslims here don’t wear it but many many do also so.)

By: saleema

saleema — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:43:52 +0000

Asalam O Alaikum
well at first i wasn’t ready to wear hijab at all. but last year when I came back from Hajj I started. However, I lost my job when I came back from Saudia Arabia and still looking for a job, but I’m happy wearing my hijab.

By: caraboska

caraboska — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:20:05 +0000

For many years I had been moving in the direction of hijab. It was a bit problematic because I am a Christian. But then on the first night of Ramadan this year, a certain other blog I read featured a hijabi who stated plainly in the first sentence of her feature that… she is a Christian, and I thought, ‘Well, my Book gives me the right to wear it, I want to, if she can do it, so can I!’ And so the very next day I put it on.

It’s modesty, it’s beauty and dignity. And since I’m a Christian, it’s also a prayer garment, and there is a verse in the Bible about praying without ceasing. And that verse is invariably what a Christian woman has in mind when she decides to cover full-time. And that means it stays on all day until I go to bed, even if the only male around is my cat.

And since there are verses about keeping religious practices private, you could say it’s a matter of modesty to wear something pretty enough that no one has to know whether it’s a religious garment or a fashion statement, unless there’s some good reason to tell them. It’s a fine line of course – pretty, but not extravagant. No doubt one spends a lifetime figuring out just how to do that.

A day in the life of a hijabi: Tonight, I was at an art gallery, it was opening night for an exhibition I’d translated the catalog for, and there were several people present who had not seen me since I put on hijab. On the one hand, I got tons of compliments – I almost began to wish I’d worn jilbab! On the other, they had the heat turned up so high that I nearly passed out (poor heat tolerance seems to run in the family). Thank God a) they had food, b) someone thought to open the windows :D:D

By: aminath

aminath — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:18:05 +0000

salaam,

well at first i wasn’t ready to wear hijab at all. but i always admire them not in me, but those who wears them. however, my parents did try to force me into wearing but at first i refused, cox i believe one should wear hijab for ur religion, for god and should believe in it.wearing hijab for me like, me believing in it.so i assured my parents that i will wear hijab when im completely ready. insha allah i did. and im loving every moment of it