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Oh my some of you get a rough deal :enough!: I get the odd ninja comment, but would you believe it, it's from the pakis not anyone else. I don't mind still they are just too silly to realise that the joke is like sooo last year lol. I just wish I had the martial arts expertise to go with the image ;) ;D

But since I started wearing hijaab, I've had some awesome experiences that even I find hard to believe. I get treated better by all peeps, muslim & non muslims and once I was driving late to pick up my ex-hubby from another town. It was near midnight when I stopped for some petrol. There were a bunch of teenagers shouting and swearing at the petrol station attendant. The poor guy looked so harassed that I felt so angry inside. I could never believe what happened next. One of the kids saw me standing silently behind them and elbowed another one. One by one they turned around until all fell silent. I remained silent until one motioned to the others to move out of my way and let me get to the serving hatch. As they moved away, the one who'd seen me first apologised and said "We were only kidding." I was likeeee OMGGGGGGGGGGG what the heck was that about?????? So much respect and they weren't even muslims!!!!!! SubhanAllah amazing.

Then after I started wearing niqaab, a gora (white guy) asked me politely why I wear 'that'? I told him it was recommended in my religion and reserves me for only my husbands eyes. I said "Look, you know how guys go out with their girlfriends tarted up and then get jealous or into fights cuz another man was eyeing up their g/f.. well by covering up, I am avoiding scenarios like that." Lol, well I didnt know any hadiths so had to give some good reason to him. I said think about it, how good my husband must feel knowing that only he is allowed to look at me. He was really impressed and said that this was really good. I swear I could almost hear the guy wishing his girlfriend would ditch her minis. And I swear for a second I felt that something had touched his heart about Islam.

Mind you a few months back when the weather got cold but we still had sunshine I'd go out dressed in all black with my long leather coat over my abaya, dark glasses, leather ankle boots, I did look like something of a terrorist, especially when the mobile phone ear-piece wires are hanging out here and there loooool. :embarrass

Then you get the other kind who simply think a woman looks gorgeous, when all you can see is her kajal lined eyes peeping from nikaab. I noticed this attracts unwanted attention. Once I was leaving a shop and a black bro was about to come in. We nearly collided, I apologised, he just looked at me and with a big grin on his face said "Wickeddddddd.... nice eyes." ullu ka patha!! It makes you think you ought to start covering your eyes up too! Maybe wear a motorbike helmet :mad:

soweee abt the long post :giggling: :-[
 
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Then you get the other kind who simply think a woman looks gorgeous, when all you can see is her kajal lined eyes peeping from nikaab. I noticed this attracts unwanted attention. Once I was leaving a shop and a black bro was about to come in. We nearly collided, I apologised, he just looked at me and with a big grin on his face said "Wickeddddddd.... nice eyes." ullu ka patha!! It makes you think you ought to start covering your eyes up too! Maybe wear a motorbike helmet :mad:

soweee abt the long post :giggling: :-[
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yeah the eyes are a bit of a problem, but in the shops they have like a black netting where it actually covers the eyes so that no one can see them although you can see where youre going and everything. but Alhamdulillah it helps although you dont have to wear the eye cover. :peace:
 
Salaam.

Whether they're wearing a Niqaab/Hijaab, are women even supposed to be wearing make-up when they go out? That would include whatever method they use to beautify their eyes.
 
Assalamu Alaikum brother,

yeah modesty and makeup dont really mix. especially when a person is wearing just a hijab and has a face full of makeup because that wont stop a person from being attracted to you. i dont think wearing makeup is good at all outside as it leads to unwanted attention.
 
As far as I know applying surma in the eyes is sunnah for its beneficial qualities. I've been wearing it since I was old enough to hold a pencil, would feel naked without it *sighs* And my face is covered, except my eyes.

As for beautifying oneself, I think the same could be said for the fancy jilbabs, scarves and abayas sisters wear. They are so pretty that, even though the sister is covered up, she still gets attention. It is easier to ignore someone in plain jeans and a dark top than a sister in a eye-catching abaya.

Does anyone have a hadith on wearing kajol?
 
Salaam.

Course it's Sunnah. In the home to wear it would be fine. But when going out, it's just like applying some make-up. Make-up is fine too, so long it's within the household where only the males allowed to see you can appreciate it.

And you're right. Everything has become fancy now. Very commercial. It's a sad thing. The real Hijab isn't a 'thing', it's a term.
 
ok JazakAllah bro. I will have to get one of the netted nikaabs, cuz no way Im giving up my eye liner lol
 
My friend told me that one time she was walking down the road, (she wears the big somali hijab) And these guys stopped the car adn yelled " I didnt say you could steal my bed sheets!" lolol.

As for me i wear niqab. One time when i was at Malaysia, at the market doing my shopping, i turn a corner and there's a bunch of boys..you know all wearing caps and smoking but are muslims, So when they see me they go "inna lillah wa inna ilaihi raji'un" and pretend to die from heart attack. loool.

Plenty other silly things too. :D:D
 
ASW.
People asked questions lyk ' do you go to sleep in that thing around your head?' i woz thinkin yeh course i do
 
Shouldve said yeah I was born with it lol ;D (Maybe it's maybelline) lolol
 
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I wore a thawb and an Imamah (I used to belong to a sufi group, I looked like Kabbani, seriously) while I was in college. My parents liked it. In the whole college of 8,000 people, there were only 4 of us who wore such attire. So, we were hard to miss.

People gave me weird looks but most respected me and highly regarded me as a religious person. When I approached them, they stopped smoking and some even kissed my hands (little children and). I had to stop wearing it because of my profession. I missed it actually.

In fact, when I had an interview for a scholarship (full scholarship for my graduate degree) I wore that, in spite of advice from friends. My dean of the college (a non muslim) defended me, lobbied for me to the interview committee and I won the scholarship, by the Mercy of Allah. He told me I was academically capable and he liked the way that I carried myself, masha Allah.

That was one of the nicest experience that I had in my life.
 
just remembered another one.....,
when i was on the bus with my cousin, we were just normally chatting when this lady looked surprised at us and then says.."you speak english?" :eek: :uuh:

my cousin then turns around and says.."no im speaking baby language. what do you think?" we were laughing so much, the lady was starting to edge away!:okay:
 
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Ppl say BUH to me, 'cause they say I look like a ghost.. :P
They say that muslim women look so angry/sad/annoyed when they go out, but what do they expect? If ppl would just keep quiet and keep their comments to themselves, then I think they wouldn't look so angry..

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aw sister, go out there and show that you're not depressed or even opressed! they want us to look that way, but this was a lesson that i learnt from my cousin...she goes out there and talks to the women and gives dawah. she shows them she is happy and she walks with such honour it really shows that she is content and pleased wth Allah's command.
 
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Oh I don't look depressed when I'm out, or atleast I don't think so.. :? I usually just smile at everyone.. Not men of course! :D

Today, I was on the way to to a shop, and I was just minding my own business, then this dude walk towards me, and he had his hood all in his face, so he looked really dark! Well, I looked up, and quickly looked away again, and I thought it was as somali-man.. Then when he walked past me, he said: 'Dirty h**', and I was like: 'What the h***???' But it was a danish man..
But usually, I don't even here ppl's comments or see how they look at me, 'cause I don't look at them.. Unless it's a woman.. Then sometimes I try to get eye-contact, and then smile.. & they smile back, most of the time!

I actually had a really nice conversation with a christian woman in the train the other day.. I was reading the book: Stories of the Prophets, and she asked me: 'Do you read that because of school or just for fun?' I read it because I like to read, and because I like learning new things and the prophets really interest me.. Well we talked for a really long time until she had to get off the train.. I hope I'll meet her again, inshâ'Allâh.. She was really sweet.. May Allâh guide her and all of us, ameen..

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Nothing yet. One time a non-muslim man came up to me and asked me if I wanted him to be my husband.. I need a niqab, man.
 
:sl: :brother: & :sister:

i aint had no physical abuse bt ive had quite a bit of verball... i dnt no if its jst me bt 4 sum reason wen the kufars coment on my islamic dressing it only boosts my confidence, i dunno may b its jst me :?

The disbelivers will never b happy until u r 1 of dem or they are 1 of u (mumin/ muslim)!

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I wrote a paper and posted up in the masjid

It was talking about how i love islam and wearing the burka

The title was,''THIS IS WHO I AM...

people was like mashallah,that was very good

And stuff like that

When people meet me and they ask me how old i am and how old i was when i started to wear the burka they are like,''mashallah!Sister your're sooo young

I make sure they say MashAllah laa wa qala laa wa qwatta ida billah after complementing me

You're suppose to anyway so you wont do the evil eye

I remember i was in the laundry with my sister and this guy walked up to me and said:HEY BABY!!!

i WAS like hold up i know you ddi not just come in my ear and say hey baby

Some girls get all happy when guys do that to them but i get mad
And embarrased

A stranger (Who is a guy)has no right whatsoever coming in my face
and saying something like Hey baby

That is annoying and i hate it



SaLaMz
 
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i know this si not good enuf but......I wear a topi (the muslim cap) wherever i go........And i never get any looks.......never have I heard any1 commenting on me..........Actually when I'm walkin on the streets people are like afraid of me, they move out of the street and onto the road......Like as though I'm going to bite them.........They think i don't like that....I LOVE IT!!!! LOL
 
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I wz wonderin weather its "ok" 4 sista 2 wear niqab only 4 specific occasions for example on Salat Al Jumah/ friday prayer, this is because in my local masjids the :brother: tend 2 spread every wer inside nd outside da masjid (as im aware many of u may no wat i mean), personally i feel very uncompfortable in this case! sisters feel free to give ur veiws Insh'allah

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