My Hijab.

My Hijab is my crown.

I am a queen, and like a queen I don’t shake hands with strange men.

My Hijab.

My Hijab is peace.

This piece of cloth that covers my body.

Is serenity.

A sign of submission.

They say it’s a sign of submission to my husband.

I say:        No.

Submission to Someone much more important.

Omnipotent.

Allah.

Lord of the Worlds.

My Hijab.

My Hijab is a reminder.

A reminder to myself to behave in the manner I am supposed to:

With integrity.

Peacefully.

Respectfully.

Honestly.

Auspiciously.

Humbly.

Modestly.

My Hijab.

My Hijab may serve as a reminder to other people of how to treat me:

I am not an ornament for your eyes.

My beauty will not be cheapened by using pieces of my body to sell your:

Body wash

Cars or

Power tools.

I will not be used in some misogynists’ music video.

No.    You may not have my number.

All that man covets is hard to reach;

Gold and Jewels must be mined.

Oil must be drilled.

Pearls lie

Sealed

In shells

At the bottom of the sea.

Why is my body any different?

My Hijab, believe it or not, has nothing to do with you:

Your laws to ban it.

Your opinion that I’m oppressed.

Your view on my style of expression or belief system.

Your hateful heart and your hands that rip it from my head.

Your not in charge of my fate

My destiny.

My.          Maker.          Is.

My Hijab is my Piety.

My non con formation to mainstream.

I will NOT let YOU make me AFRAID.

This is who

I AM.

Before you made it something for people to fear.

And attached words like “Terrorist” to it.

Before you attempt to

Try to make me

Take it off,

or Assimilate.

My Hijab:

Get used to it. It’s not going away.

My Hijab is happiness:

Tranquility.

Serenity.

I am here.

I am empowered.

My Hijab is a liberation.

The Flag in the Muslimah Liberation.

The first movement of ‘feminism’;  started by the Prophet Muhammad.

May Peace and Blessings be Upon Him.

I declare these streets

Any streets

My Hijab’s country.

My Hijab’s Universe.

We are free and answer to God Alone.

But mainly

My Hijab and everything under it Is mine.

Mine

Mine

Mine.

My God Given Right.

My Freedom.

My Protection.

My Liberation.

My Dedication to My Maker and

No One Else.

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I am a born Muslim who never practiced Islam before even though I still loved Allah more than anything! I always had an urge to wear the hijab but was never strong enough to go with it. Alhamdulillah, I started reading the Quran and  started to question my life style 24/7. It came to a point where I was listening to a lecture and this Sheikh (scholar of Islam) said if you were to die today and face Allah, what  you got to present in front of Him saying here I did this for you? I took a moment to think what I had to offer and honestly, I couldn’t think of one thing.

Yes, I’m a loving, caring, helpful person with a huge heart but I felt like this question had a deeper meaning. So I said if I didn’t have anything ’till today to offer Allah, I’ll start by this, and I wore my hijab  on January 26, 2015. And I have  never been happier in my life. My life makes sense now. I don’t feel lost anymore. I have a purpose now. I see how different I get treated by the brothers -with so much more respect, even from strangers. If someone offered me 50 million dollars to remove my hijab, I would never in a million years take it off. My hijab, my pride! Salam (peace) to every sister who is on the right path! May Allah be pleased with us. Ameen.

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I started wearing hijab at sixteen years of age.  It was the first day of Ramadan and the best day of my life. It was hard in the beginning but things became wonderful afterwards. First, I lost two jobs and some friends. I also had a hard time with my family. I had no support and I learned Qu’ran and Islam all by myself. With time, I realized that God was protecting me and He had better plans for me. Islam saved me from a lot of things. I felt myself more protected, more respected, simply a better person, and more comfortable with myself. and Alhamdoulilah (God-Graciously) today, I’m more than just happy.

Hijab is necessary, Yes. But the most important thing is one’s relation with Allah and the way one tries to be a better person and a better Muslim. No matter what media says, Islam will shine anyways. I wish blessings, happiness, and love in life for everybody.

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I was born and raised in Spain in a Moroccan family. I always loved my religion, Alhamdulillah (God-Graciously) and I loved to learn about it. But I never liked the hijab and never thought that I could wear it. One day I watched a video about Allah  Subhanaho (All-Praised) saying: ‘I respond to the call of the caller’, the Sheikh was saying that look at the Creator, He is saying that He will answer any call. He did not say only a good person, a Muslim or a non-Muslim. He just said ‘the caller’. I was shocked.

I always got excited and happy to learn something new about Allah and Islam, but it was very different this time. I asked myself that the Creator of everything said that He will answer the call of a caller but what did I do for Him? Then I thought that it is an honor to worship Allah and got up to pray. I made my wudhu (ablution) like I never did before, with all my heart. I was super excited because I wanted to pray to Allah (I prayed since always but never with such humility and emotions).

When I stood up for Salah (Islamic Prayer) and said ‘Allahu Akbar’ ( Allah is the Greatest), I started to cry. My heart was crying. I felt as if my chest was enlightened with His Divine Light. I cannot describe it. Then in sujud (prostration), I prayed with all my heart: “Ya- Allah ( O Allah!) You say that You answer any call, so please answer me and make me one of the Muslimahs that Muhammad salallaho aleyhi wa salam (Peace be upon him) will be proud of.” I didn’t say anything about the hijab in the dua’a (supplication).

I went to sleep and the next day, I decided to wear the hijab (October 1st,  2013). Everybody was surprised, but I felt like nothing could stop me. I’m not only in love with my hijab, but with Allah sebhanaho wa ta’ala (All Praise to Him) and Muhammad salallaho aleyhi wa salam (Peace be upon him). There’s no happiness like feeling yourself close to Allah. A lot of things have changed in my life for the better since then.

Jazzak’Allah khair ( May Allah reward you) for reading my story. Keep me in your dua’a(supplication).

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I used to be a school teacher. A friend from Malaysia once asked me that why don’t most of the Muslim women in our country (Myanmar), who do not work for the government and mostly live within the Muslim community, wear hijab?

Actually, there are many Muslim women in Myanmar who wear hijab. But we have lived under socialist rule for almost three decades and are now passing a democratic transition. So, we are not yet ready to wear hijab but we do practice Islam and remain steadfast in its way.

Though some women would like to wear hijab but they don’t do so because of various reasons like their husbands would not allow them to,  they don’t want to distinguish themselves from the non-Muslims around, and they don’t want to leave the modern fashion.

But, what we have learned all our lives as minority Muslims is that no one but Allah is able to protect our dignity and properties.

It is most imperative for us, Muslims, to draw closer to Allah and gain His pleasure. So, by explaining to the people around with different views and unsupportive husbands, and making them understand, let us together strive for increasing the number of Muslim women who wear hijab! Insha Allah (God-Willingly)!

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