I3ad Karma
Al Thani
I3ad Karma
Al Thani
I3ad Karma
inb4 "but that was only afghani blah blah wahh wahh"
You women say you're free of a male dominated world, but what's a better world. A world where you
choose to conceal yourselves? Or where you're
taught to conceal yourselves?
I wasn't taught, nor forced to conceal myself.
smile I choose to do it. I am not a cheap woman
wink . I am a Diamond, and a Diamond is worth more when it's placed underneath a glass container because it is protected, then when it is left outside for it to get scratched, dusted, or dulled away.
So you're saying you just chose to be how you are without any influence of your parents or culture at all?
Yeah. I choose to wear the Abaya, I choose to practice Islam. If it wasn't for the fact that people would be scared or intimidated by the Niqab. I would also wear it.
smile
Well your case is different then, most Muslim females have no choice and are locked in their own lives it's really sad. And you should wear whatever you want to wear, if people are frightened that just means they're ignorant ^^.
I know a lot of girls that follow Islam because they choose to do it. The whole Abaya thing is to protect girls, to form a sense of decency and humility. It's to protect from prying eyes. I wasn't raised Muslim b.t.w, but I was never non-conservative in the way I dress, because of how I was brought up. My mother structured a sense of conservatism and decency, apparel and elegance in how I would carry myself. I was always odd in class because girls now a days don't follow this kind of norm. I was always made fun of, and teased because I simply like being conservative and modest, simple, yet elegant and I don't need to show off my body, or my figure for people to see.
I don't know if I'm getting across
razz
When I went down to Florida, and to South America this summer to visit relatives and some friends, I was confronted with my Abaya. Women would ask me, "Why don't you show off your 'body'?" And someone was even blunt enough to tell me, "You can't sell what you don't show". I told her, I'm not some cheap thing to be showing off in order to be 'sold'. What is this!? I was so appalled a their mentality. Why on earth would I ever show off my body to strangers in the first place? Where has decency gone that every living stranger needs to see our most intimate of intimates? Such as the breasts, which are very intimate and personal, they serve the purpose of breast feeding and creating the feminism in a woman. They're not for vulgarities or to attract and lure men through their gaze.
This has always been my train of thought, however when I converted, I was more engaged in being conservative through the use of the Abaya because it hides my figure. No one needs to know the exact figure of my body. I believe this is personal and intimate. This also does not mean that women who wear Abayas don't take care of themselves, in fact our sense of beauty stems inward, where we know, and feel pretty, but we don't need to show this off. Many women who wear Abayas, underneath you will find intricate and beautiful clothing, amazing hairstyles, everything is clean, modern and so forth. Because it is an inner sense of beauty and happiness.