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mystical_moon
As a new sister to Islam, I wanted to ask about wearing the Hijab, this is more for people in non muslim countries and areas where there might not be any muslims.
Not only have I not told my parent's yet, when I came back off my holiday, I was wearing the Hijab because I was in a muslim country and I removed it because they told me it looked silly.
Today, I tried to wear it again, while I was going out with my mom and she said, you're not going out in THAT are you? So, I just took it off.
I did actually tell my mum today i'd converted, she simply said, "well go back to Pakistan which is a muslim country then." so I know if I started wearing the hijab at home they might not like it, but if I wore it for interviews and such, it would cause arguements for me at home, like, "Oh your not getting a job because you have that on your head, you should take it off".I can just see my dad saying such things to me.
So, how do I get around this? Also, have many of you experienced predudice from employers for wearing the hijab? Is there anyway you can try and find employers who aren't doing to discriminate against you?
Any advice please :hmm:
Sis tell your mum Islam doesn't belong to Pakistan or a Muslim country it's for the whole of humanity, it's not something that is dependant upon your race or nationality, it's dependant upon your believe in one god.
As for your problem it's very common for reverts to go through this, they get rejected by their family's and people look at them strangly and think your some kind of weirdo.
but don't let them bother you, you know the truth that this life is a test and the angels are recording for the day justice.
just do everything you can within your power to get to paradise that's your goal right? we all have that goal, to eventually reach paradise in the end.
Sure we're gonna come across obsticles as we go through our test, but it wouldn't be much of a test if it was easy. Some of us have harder tests than others, but the harder the test the greater the reward. So just say to yourself
"I'm gonna focus everything on pleasing the 1 who made me and getting to jannah no matter what people say or think"
I've seen lots of hijabans working in places here, it's not something uncommon for a women to be walking round in hijaab cos there's so many of them. Just put your trust in Allah and try to please him in every action you do.
I'm sure you don't look silly sis, they're just saying that to make you feel like you don't want to wear it. There's nothing better than a good, pious, respectable, sister who wears Queen like hijab and jilbab or niqaab, and always lowers her gaze.
A good mentality to adopt is
"I don't care what people think of me, I only care for what my creator thinks of me, as long as he's pleased with me I don't care what the rest of man kind thinks"