My Hijab Story & What Hijab Means to Me
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2022
- #hijabi #mystory
Hey everyone!
In this video I wanted to briefly share with you my hijab story and what hijab has come to mean to me with time. I filmed this video for several reasons, primarily because:
1. I know many girls want to start wearing hijab but find it very difficult because of society and other people's opinions and I believe that hearing other girls' stories can help them out at least a little bit.
2. I wanted to share my personal perspective and how I feel about wearing hijab and what it means to me and my relationship with it.
3. I want to tell the world that hijab is loved by many girls and viewed as a beautiful and meaningful thing.
4. Many people need to start to accept this reality that hijab is as real as their very existance, and to accept the differences between us humans and realize that these differences are part of this life, instead of wasting their time hating on certain groups of people.
5. To help girls who are afraid of being judged realize that hijab is a strength and that society's opinion is literally the least important. And that whatever you choose to do should be for yourself and not for society to be pleased with you, which is often times literally a mission impossible. You are fully free to choose who you want to be and you should never allow society to block you from becoming who you wish to be.
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I hope you like the video!
Thank you for coming by!
Best wishes,
Elaf
Mindblowing, excellent mind decided to take hijab MashaAllah
Mashallah
I find your story so incredibly empowering and resonate with being worried about peoples reactions. Another thing that stuck with me is people thinking women cant genuinely enjoy wearing hijab. On one end i understand as some people dont get the choice and are even killed for taking it off/not wearing it properly and thats awful. I wanted to say I love that you actually acknowledge the pain some women go through with hijab because not everyone is willingly to acknowledge it. Thats not the nature of hijab, that's just awful people being awful. If hijab was truly inherently oppressive then people like me, whose religion doesnt necessarily require modesty in dress (but in actions) choicing to also wear hijab/tegidion.
As a non-muslim hijabi who didn't and still don't have any hijabi or pagans friends (all my friends are atheists or agnostic) also relate to feeling a bit isolated. Growing up 6-8 I've always felt a calling towards hijab, even before I knew its association with Muslims but I was a small child and didn't dive deeper. In a way im sort of glad, because my lost of interest and a bit of gaslighting by others (who tried to say i was insecure for preferring a modest style) allowed me to fully form into who i am now. In highschool Im glad i experimented with my style and hair. It gave me new confidence to say, "hey ive been there and know i know for sure that modesty is just part of who am i and that doesnt make me insecure." I know how beautiful i am and i want to protect that and if i get married eventually share that part of myself with my partner. For me, hijab not only means that I am paying attention to what my God has called for me and that I am listening, but its also about having control over MY OWN body. As people in the past have pressured me into a more revealing style even tho I was naturally always more modest even as a young child, finally taking on hijab full time as an 19 year old allowed me to have power over myself again and not let others dictate how i dress and how my access to my body others had.
Again, I've always felt called called to hijab and while that was the main reason i felt put it on, the community around it is why i stayed with it. Even when people around me have not been the most accepting, it hurts, but i found power in the fact that i never once considered taking it off, because of what other people have to say. Even tho im not muslim, the hijabi and pagan community has always been so welcoming and loving and understanding of me, and i feel blessed to have been accepted by them even tho i don't have close friends. I just tend to relate more with them in livestyle, in prayer habits and meal choices/requirements/restrictions.
The thing i find a bit hard to overcome is the question that people not muslim or pagan always tend to ask: If it's not required in my religion why do I wear hijab. Even most pagans dont wear hijab all the if at all. Most only wear it at certain times of celebration or for rituals, and they dont call it hijab. Its called a veil or tegidion. Its not so much that i dont know the answer, because i do, it's just idk HOW to answer or if my reasons will be challenged/used against me as a reason make me take it off. Plus, i just don't like sharing my private life with people i dont know to well. Religion and spirituality is so incredibly personal.
Thank you so much for everything you said! Exactly, it’s your choice and nobody else’s. And hijab can be so beautiful that anyone, Muslim and non-Muslim, chooses to wear it wholeheartedly because they genuinely love the modesty it brings them. So that’s why, when talking about the difficult question you get sometimes, isn’t the answer simply “because I like it and I like the way I feel in it. I like the modesty of it, I feel private and I want to be”. There’s honestly so much you could answer with but some will still not get it - again, they refuse to accept. That’s when you give them the silence treatment, which is also an incredible answer if you ask me ⚡️ Thanks for coming by! You made me feel like filming again, talking more about these things.
Have a nice day dear 🫶🏼
Oh and I loved your last words “religion and spirituality are so incredibly personal” - they absolutely are, more than others will ever understand, unless they experience that themselves. It’s really cool. And I love how personal it is!
Mashallah ❤
ماشاءالله الله يحفضج ويوفقج يارب🙏😍
I rlly want to wear hijab but I feel diff
Love you
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Mashalla Beautiful video 👍🇮🇳
Many thanks! 😊