Wearing My Hijab Around Family (preach, experience, pray, bless)

[Mestemia]

Originally Posted by Holly

Hi everyone. I can't wear my hijab around friends and family because they would know that I am a Muslim if I did. My family would disown me if they knew I was a Muslim and my friends probably would too. What can I do? Just not wear a hijab?

I cannot help but wonder why, if you are a Muslim, you would have Mormon listed as your religion.

No offense intended, but I have to agree with Katzpur.

[Super Universe]

Maybe I missed it but can you show me in the Koran where it says to wear a hijab?

[Laila]

Originally Posted by K.Venugopal

If you are living in liberal democratic societies, your switching religion and dress style would not be grudged by anyone and you would have legal protection. But if you were living in Saudi Arabia (the citadel and bastion of Islam) and a Muslim there, you would probably be arrested if you were to convert to Christianity or Hinduism and display your new religious enthusiasm openly.

A fair point made.

[Laila]

Dear Holly,

I suggest you think about the bigger issues around living your faith and being a good muslim, rather than get stuck on a dress code. When your family see you transformed as you truly live your faith they will be enrolled.

[Laila]

Originally Posted by Super Universe

Maybe I missed it but can you show me in the Koran where it says to wear a hijab?

It doesn't state in the Quran that one must cover their hair or wear a hijab. However, this is mentioned in the hadith (equivalent to the talmud in Judaism) and I suppose it is up to the individual how they interpret their obligations to God.

God makes it clear in the Quran that it is essential for one to cover their private parts and that the best garment is the garment of God consciousness. I personally feel that I have not and do not compromise my faith by not wearing a head scarf.

[angellous_evangellous]

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[Peace]

Originally Posted by Super Universe

Maybe I missed it but can you show me in the Koran where it says to wear a hijab?

“And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear therof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, or their brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons, or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex, and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O you Believers, turn you all together towards Allah, that you may attain Bliss.” (Quran 24:31).
“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 33:59)

[K.Venugopal]

Originally Posted by Laila

Dear Holly,

I suggest you think about the bigger issues around living your faith and being a good muslim, rather than get stuck on a dress code. When your family see you transformed as you truly live your faith they will be enrolled.

Great advice, Laila. True religion is not in the externals. It is a transformation within. Look at Mohammad himself. He lived a magnificent, bold life and lived as he pleased and had Allah to support him all the way. (Moral: God's for those who do their own thing.) The same was with Jesus - the man who said "Let the dead bury the dead". And the earliest hero of them all - Krishna, with his 16,008 wives, routing the villains in war by merely advising his General etc. etc. It is we, 'followers' of all religions, who are freaks, who come out as worms when compared with those titans. I say, be a Mohammad, be a Jesus, be a Krishna. Let's not follow them, let's be them and be better than them. Let us follow today to lead tomorrow. Believe me, Mohammad, Jesus and Krishna - all are truly dead and gone. Let us learn from their lives and the lives of the best that were amongst us. Let us belong to no one but to ourselves. Let us not be caught up with dress codes. Let us know, ultimately, came we nude and go we nude.

[K.Venugopal]

Originally Posted by angellous_evangellous

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I would have liked to just say "Sorry for trespassing. I hereby withdraw." But I wish to add that I belong to no religion and I accept all religions as my human heritage. Nevertheless, civil society (or RF) cannot function unless it follows the laws in vogue. If we disagree with the law we may protest. But we have no right to be lawless. Saying thus, I withdraw from this forum and apologize for trespassing, for I am not exclusively a Sunni.