Hijab:To be or not to be..

The other day one of my colleague has started to cover her head as she was not used to earlier and she remained a hot topic around the campus why and how it’s happened? Anyhow people have passed a lot of comments and might be this bombardment within days she was back to her own, giving a headline that‘’I don’t want to look like a maid, while covering my head’’….and received applause from every corner, though one lady who practises headscarf tried to raise her voice to defend but who cares to listen minorities?

In our neighbours, Turkish women are living and I just wonder that when they come to open main gate or hanging some stuff in terrace, covered from head to toe, but they don’t look like maids…

During university days though we had hell of fights with Iranian girls but always got jealous of their beauty and admired their tag, hijab.

(No debate is required issue related to hijab in Turkey and what makes Iranian girls to wear hijab all time.)

But we don’t have any recognition or carrying any tag and falls here and there, quoting rather interperating religion in different perspective and adjusting it to suit our needs. We are living in a society where cultural and now global or co operative’s environment is affecting our nerves more than anything else. We are suffering identity crisis I think so, if not you but I am.

Days gone, when girls clad in veil or burqa were victamized  as all ill stories linked to them. Now veil has been transformed into another shape but it is being practised in few families still; however surrounding is glamorised day by day.

 Within Islam, the issue of veiling is a subject for considerable debate. Some Islamic experts say the text is open to interpretations, which has accounted for the diversity of veiling traditions across the Islamic world.(I don’t want to go any diverse discuusion,just my concern is that why cant I adopt it ?)

Everyone knows that what Quran says, compulsory to follow it but why I m writing instead to take it just got trapped into society’s norms, scared what people will say? How would I look? How much I can care of its dignity? Leaving most of my habits cos people expecting you just as saint, how cruel they are? How would I bear it in hot weather (it’s very true that one who wears hijab first question other ask from her, don’t you feel uncomfortable in such weather?)Would I encourage at workplace or push to the wall? Long list of fears

How weak I am, slave of so many things, giving hell of reasoning not to wear it, trying to justify myself. May Allah strengthen my faith and give me courage…Ameeen