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By: Haneen :love:
> "I'm so tired"
> "Tired of what?"
>
> "Of all these people judging me"
> "Who judged you?"
>
> "Like that woman, every time I sit with her, she tells me to wear
> hijab."
> "Oh, hijab and music! The mother of all topics!"
>
> "Yeah! I listen to music without hijab.haha!"
> "Maybe she was just giving you advice."
>
> "I don't need her advice. I know my religion. Can't she mind her own
> business?"
> "Maybe you misunderstood. She was just being nice."
>
> "Keeping out of my business, that would be nice..."
> "But it's her duty to encourage you do to good."
>
> "Trust me. That was no encouragement. And what do you mean 'good' ?"
> "Well, wearing hijab, that would be a good thing to do."
>
> "Says who?"
> "It's in the Qur'an, isn't it?"
>
> "Yes. She did quote me something."
> "She said Surah Nur, and other places of the Qur'an."
>
> "Yes, but it's not a big sin anyway. Helping people and praying is
> more important."
> "True. But big things start with small things."
>
> "That's a good point, but what you wear is not important. What's
> important is to have a good healthy heart."
> "What you wear is not important?"
>
> "That's what I said."
> "Then why do you spend an hour every morning fixing up?"
>
> "What do you mean?"
> "You spend money on cosmetics, not to mention all the time you spend
> on fixing your hair and low-carb dieting."
>
> "So?"
> "So, your appearance IS important."
>
> "No. I said wearing hijab is not an important thing in religion."
> "If it's not an important thing in religion, why is it mentioned in
> the Holy Qur'an?"
>
> "You know I can't follow all that's in Qur'an."
> "You mean God tells you something to do, you disobey and then it's
> OK?"
>
> "Yes. God is forgiving."
> "God is forgiving to those who repent and do not repeat their
> mistakes."
>
> "Says who?"
> "Says the same book that tells you to cover."
>
> "But I don't like hijab, it limits my freedom."
> "But the lotions, lipsticks, mascara and other cosmetics set you
> free?! What's your definition of freedom anyway?"
>
> "Freedom is in doing whatever you like to do."
> "No. Freedom is in doing the right thing, not in doing whatever we
> wish to do."
>
> "Look! I've seen so many people who don't wear hijab and are nice
> people, and so many who wear hijab and are bad people."
> "So what? There are people who are nice to you but are alcoholic.
> Should we all be alcoholics? You made a stupid point."
>
> "I don't want to be an extremist or a fanatic. I'm OK the way I am
> without hijab."
> "Then you are a secular fanatic. An extremist in disobeying God."
>
> "You don't get it, if I wear hijab, who would marry me?!"
> "So all these people with hijab never get married?!"
>
> "Okay! What if I get married and my husband doesn't like it? And wants
> me to remove it?"
> "What if your husband wants you to go out with him on a bank
> robbery?!"
>
> "That's irrelevant, bank robbery is a crime."
> "Disobeying your Creator is not a crime?"
>
> "But then who would hire me?"
> "A company that respects people for who they are."
>
> "Not after 9-11"
> "Yes. After 9-11. Don't you know about Hanan who just got into med
> school? And the other one, what was her name, the girl who always wore
> a white hijab.ummm."
>
> "Yasmeen?"
> "Yes. Yasmeen. She just finished her MBA and is now interning for GE."
>
> "Why do you reduce religion to a piece of cloth anyway?"
> "Why do you reduce womanhood to high heals and lipstick colors?"
>
> "You didn't answer my question."
> "In fact, I did. Hijab is not just a piece of cloth. It is obeying God
> in a difficult environment. It is courage, faith in action, and true
> womanhood. But your
> short sleeves, tight pants."
>
> "That's called 'fashion', you live in a cave or something? First of
> all, hijab was founded by men who wanted to control women."
> "Really? I did not know men could control women by hijab."
>
> "Yes. That's what it is."
> "What about the women who fight their husbands to wear hijab? And
> women in France who are forced to remove their hijab by men? What do
> you say about that?"
>
> "Well, that's different."
> "What difference? The woman who asked you to wear hijab.she was a
> woman, right?"
>
> "Right, but."
> "But fashions that are designed and promoted by male-dominated
> corporations, set you free? Men have no control on exposing women and
> using them as a commodity?! Give me a break!"
>
> "Wait, let me finish, I was saying."
> "Saying what? You think that men control women by hijab?"
>
> "Yes."
> "Specifically how?"
>
> "By telling women how and what to wear, dummy!"
> "Doesn't TV, magazines and movies tell you what to wear, and how to be
> 'attractive'?"
>
> "Of course, it's fashion."
> "Isn't that control? Pressuring you to wear what they want you to
> wear?"
>
> Silence
> "Not just controlling you, but also controlling the market."
>
> "What do you mean?"
> "I mean, you are told to look skinny and anorexic like that woman on
> the cover of the magazine, by men who design those magazines and sell
> those products."
>
> "I don't get it. What does hijab have to do with products."
> "It has everything to do with that. Don't you see? Hijab is a threat
> to consumerism, women who spend billions of dollars to look skinny and
> live by standards of fashion designed by men and then here is Islam,
> saying trash all that nonsense and focus on your soul, not on your
> looks, and do not worry what men think of your looks."
>
> "Like I don't have to buy hijab? Isn't hijab a product?"
> "Yes, it is. It is a product that sets you free from male-dominated
> consumerism."
>
> "Stop lecturing me! I WILL NOT WEAR HIJAB! It is awkward, outdated,
> and totally not suitable for this society ... Moreover, I am only 20
> and too young to wear hijab!"
> "Fine. Say that to your Lord, when you face Him on Judgment Day."
>
> "Fine"
> "Fine"
>
> Silence
>
> "Shut up and I don't want to hear more about hijab!"
>
> Silence
>
> She stared at the mirror, tired of arguing with herself all this time.
> Successful enough, she managed to shut the voices in her head, with
> her own opinions triumphant in victory on the matter, and a final
> modern decision accepted by the society, rejected by the Faith.
Arguing with Ownself until Shaytan is Triumphant.