The Girl With Green Scarf

Might sound a little odd, but this Girl in the green scarf isn't Rebecca Bloomwood, neither is she a Shopaholic  nor does she give a damn about a job at Ellet. Instead here's this girl, a Muslim girl , the kind you'd be least interested  in, and the green scarf, that’s the thing many people would want her to take off, from her class teacher, to her own mother, but has any one bothered to ask  about what  she wants?

No, Wait! I'm not going to bug you with my thoughts……….. But ….

Why is it so Important to see a woman's hair?

You wanna see the color of it? You can ask her that, can you? What if she's lying ?

Don't laugh! This is serious, way more serious than I'd ever thought it could get…… You don't believe me, well , by the time you end up reading this

You sure will.

And honestly throughout my life I've never asked any girl as to why does she wear such revealing clothes? As I believe it’s completely a girls choice whether she wants to wear a bikini or a burkini (now you wanna know what a burkini is ? Right? Well, it’s a swimming costume designed for women who observe purdah) I know it sounds funny. 

Now say yes in your mind if you agree with me.

The Earth has an atmosphere protecting it from the harmful UV rays of the sun.

Fruits such as orange or apple have a peel around them.

Diamonds are found not in beautiful valleys but in coal mines.

And every gift has a wrapping paper on it.

Have there ever been moments when there has been a woman right next to you who was more beautiful or hotter than you ,didn’t you feel bad about yourself then…

Then why do we question those women who dress up more modestly than we do. Who's given anybody the authority to decide what we want to wear. Now you'd point out that the same condition applies to the Qur'an as well. Well the Qur'an is a holy book, okay! Don’t compare it to your mindset. Well , the same logic applies to Vogue and a gazillion other magazines that tell us what to wear and how to wear and why to wear and where to wear and they go on and on and on………………. Maybe that’s why I read them with so much of Interest. 

Okay! Honestly I myself took around many tears to finally put that on my head, and trust me 7 years back from now I wasn’t even close to even thinking about wearing it. For a long period of time I’ve been looking for good reason not for  others but myself. I have no clue what made me wear it…….I just felt that at that point, it was the right thing to do….. the right way to love Allah! 

I absolutely agree with the fact that women in the gulf no longer want to wear those black parachutes, but I also feel that some of them would want to, after all they haven’t grown up amongst the  Americans, aren’t dying for Dior or Chanel for that matter.

Never let Politics teach you how to treat people!

A hijab is an integral part of a Muslim woman life, it is a part of her identity. An identity that is neither suppressed or oppressed, rather liberated from the unattainable demands of the worl.

And its men. Everywhere I go people wanna know who I am? When they look at me they might wonder how I look without my hijab, but I’m sure of one thing that is true when I’m talking to them they’re listening to my brain and listening to every word that it says carefully.

My outer appearance takes a backseat and what’s visible is what inside. Never judge a book by its cover ( a small sentence with  a deep meaning at least in my life. As I end this I am somewhere satisfied with my answer to my own question, but my journey for my support to hijab continues…..