Assalamu Alaikum,
Dear Sisters,
Today I feel so proud to know how many of my sisters are wearing hijab with pride. I know how it feels sometimes when you feel like its a burden but really its not, its the shaytaan who just doesn't want us to wear it because he doesn't want us to get near the paradise or to get more towards our religion. I am going to be 16 years old and I now realize how much significance Islam is in my life.
I, like other people was 'gumrah' from Islam. When i came to 10th grade, I had a bad group of friends. Since I live in the USA, I didn't have much muslim friends and the ones I had were not in the right path. They wore tight cloths like me and had the same reasons for not wearing the hijab. I was too shy to cover myself. Now I realize how foolish I was when I thought of it that way.
I am going to tell my story to let people realize that what the youth today are doing is wrong. Parents today should understand that they need to control their children.
My path from right to wrong changed when i turned 15. I hanged around with people that I shouldn't have even looked at. I started out by chatting with guys and it turned out that I had no problem talking to them on the phone. Soon it all became a pattern, an everyday thing.I started to go against Islam and even stopped talking to my parents.I was so into it that I couldn't even do anything else and I didn't find anything wrong with it. Then my parents found out soon. It couldn't be a secret for long and they abandoned me from my friends and school and they told me to start wearing hijab in school but i was too shy and I just couldn't do it, so they accepted to put me in homeschooling. I felt sooo secured after I started wearing my Hijab it just felt like I was born to wear it and that was the day when I thanked Allah that he gave me such a family that cared so much about me to stop me from my 'gunnahs'. Now I feel like I made the biggest mistake in my life and how i didn't realize it at that time but I am happy that Allah Subhanatalla has guided me to the right path. I want people to know from my experience how hard it is to go through all this so they shouldn't even be friends with people that they think will not help them with Islam. I love my religion and love to learn new things about it. All I have to say is may Allah (SWT) guide all of us and may He be pleased with us.
AMEEN.
Source: http://sisters.islamway.com/modules.php ... le&sid=338
Salam
defintely its something to be worn with pride, i've worn it at young age but its full concept dawned on me a little later. i wear the all in one hijabs now, and moving on to covering my face inshallah. 1 down 99 or so to perfect lol. thanks for sharing your story sis its an inspiration to others.
