Posts Tagged ‘ hijab ’
Really beautiful collection. And beautiful article: Friday, Apr. 04, 2008 Being American — and Muslim By Shireen Khan It was evening rush hour in New York City. 42nd St. was packed, and I was hoping I would make the bus. His voice came out of the crowd. “Take that rag off!” Huh? In my four [ READ MORE ]
{ “O Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (jalabib) close round them (when they go abroad)…”} (33:59) { “And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their [ READ MORE ]
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Do you think you can fully express your inner diva where you live? I first started wearing hijab while I was abroad in London last year, and the muslimahs there are so diverse and creative mashallah. And now, back at university in America (Pittsburgh, to be exact), I feel a bit stifled. Maybe it’s because [ READ MORE ]
engraçado né? Além disso, quero dizer que eu gostaria que ninguém me diga “Happy Valentines Day.” Eu não comemorei no passado, claro que não vou comemorar agora! (Besides this, I would like that no one say to me “Happy Valentines Day.” I didn’t celebrate it before, I’m certainly not going to celebrate it now). Valeu, [ READ MORE ]
So I’m sure you, by now, are tired of my new-hijabi, so-excited-about-Islam moments. Well, God knows best, but it’ll probably be a long time before the excitement goes down, insha’Allah. Brace yourselves. Here comes another cheesy, yet inspirational youtube video on Muslim women. Shout out to all the Muslimahs in the world! “…sometimes, we block [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday, after praying, packing a little, and drinking unnecessary amounts of tea, I decided to head out for London. It was quite a nice day and the sun would be setting momentarily. My roommate and I decided to go to Brick Lane to look at some vintage and then eat some Indian food, finally, since [ READ MORE ]
Salaams everyone, It’s a beautiful day. I mean, it’s grey outside here in London town, but the sun pierced right on through with it’s usual brightness. So, I’m happy. I was checking out some stats of my blog and got a hold of incoming links. Turns out, someone blogged about my blog post. Cool, right? [ READ MORE ]
I thought this was a good article, so I’m sharing. It’s true, we can never get to comfortable in whatever identity we construct. We are constantly be challenged by people we’d least expect. One day at a time. Hadeel al Shalchi “Women who wear hijab in Egypt just have a bad reputation.” We were diving [ READ MORE ]
Bad news: I am coming down with the flu. The good news: Paris was amazing! There was something in the air, I realized, as soon as I stepped off the Eurostar train. Maybe it was the smell of savory and sweet crepes, or fresh baguettes. It didn’t smell like London. I was in Paris. And [ READ MORE ]
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