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Hi Friends/Lecturers at the University, May be you are seeing me for the first time without my usual 'hijab'... Well, this is "ME" when i am home... I have started wearing the head veil since 2001 and i do not regret my decision at all... i am the only one among my 4 sisters to wear the 'hijaab'... Everyone has her own perception of life and how they will pursue it. fortunately i have tolerant parents who never impose things on us(their only 5 girls), otherwise, all my sisters would have worn the head veil and perhaps may not be happy wearing it. well, The baby i was holding in the Eid comments is my little cousin Salmaan and not my baby(am sorry, if u've already thought he's mine....)
posted by Yummmn @ 10/30/2006 06:59:00 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Zaynah,
I must say I was indeed surprised to see you without the hijaab.
Can I ask you what motivated your move to the hijaab?
Christina
Hi,
I did know that one day or the other some of my friends will ask mne how i look without it...
well, as a story, i did come once in the Public Relations Class(of Ms Oumme Narod)without the hijaaab for a self-presentation and... Guess! They all laugh in class, including Oumme and i could not even start to read my first line... i got completely stuck!!!! Madi and Poonam and Avinash would gladly report that in class...
what motivated me to wear it? It is a profound sense of 'mal d'etre' that i grew up with since adolescence... i was always the silent girl in class and always alone and stuck in my corner at home...,i had quite a difficult adolescence and it did happen that i could not bear anyone looking at me... Because, at that time, i seemed to be the only tall/slim girl in my family/region/class...
Now, being tall is the fashion...
Anyway, i went for a pelerinage to Saudi(in 1996) and this motivated me to start wearing the hijab as i found some kind of liberty within it and of course, people stopped staring at me for no reason...
Perhaps one would think that i am 'hiding' behind the hijaab... but well, The hijaab has not become a form of escapism yet for me but it has reinforced myself and helped me in re-positioning myself...
well, i do think i have said a lot and i have replied to your request...
and i am pretty sure if i ever come in front of anyone without it, he/she would not recognise me!:->
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