 The hijab has been worn in practice for centuries. Even before Islam, the women of the Abrahamic line would cover themselves where the veil would act with respect and honour. In the 20th century, the media platform grew vigorously and was very accessible to people of all ages. Many Muslim girls began using this platform to talk about their religion and beliefs and tried to make wearing the hijab in the West easier and more fashionable. However, the way the hijab was worn did not accommodate to the Islamic Sharia. Hijab became more of a fashion symbol and the word modesty was used to define all actions. For young girls watching these YouTube influencers, they have a desire to be like them and to dress in a more fashionable way. In some cases, they would also feel pressured to look a certain way, to fit in and be more accepted. The spiritual aspect of hijab is usually neglected. Many tend to focus on the physical hijab with the belief that the covering of the hair is enough. However, once ekhlaq, interaction with the opposite gender and the way they carry themselves amongst people is also vital. I met up with Sister Ma'asulma Ja'afad to look at the spiritual hijab in further depth to discuss ways in which we can empower the young people with hijab. So we want to talk about hijab and the area surrounding hijab and modesty and how young girls and boys are affected in the society we live in today. Firstly, could you just briefly explain what hijab is in Islam? For example, is it a spiritual or a physical concept? I think it's a bit of both because obviously you've got the physical covering which everyone identifies with as the hijab, so it's the head covering. I think most people, when they think of hijab, they think of a head covering. It's a lot more than that. Obviously it's the full covering of the body for a woman with her hair being covered as well. But there's hijab of the eyes, which is referred to first and foremost in the Holy Quran and it's addressed to the men before it's addressed to the women where they're being told to cast down their gaze and to cover their private parts. And then the women are told to do exactly the same in the next verse in Surah An-Nur and then the Holy Quran goes into the physical covering of the woman. But there's a whole spiritual aspect of the hijab as well and the social aspect as well. So there's lots of different parts to the hijab. I think we get so caught up on the head scarf that we forget everything else. And I think that's quite dangerous because then you're not even fulfilling the physical hijab let alone the spiritual hijab, the social hijab, all of those sort of go out of the window. And would you say that it's key for young girls and boys to first have the spiritual aspect of hijab before they are to achieve successfully the physical aspect? For sure. I think with any ruling we need to realise that it's coming from the spiritual perspective first and foremost. Any ruling that is in Islam is not to do with the body, it's to do with the soul because we know how to take care of our bodies. We're living in a physical world so we know how to take care of our physical body. We know when we're hungry, we know when we're thirsty, when we're tired, when we're hurting. If the body is ill we know that. So God doesn't tell you to make sure you're eating your five a day or drink two litres of water or whatever, eight hours of sleep or whatever it is at the moment. But He does tell us how to take care of our soul because we don't know how to and we're not even aware of the soul because we're living in the physical realm. Yet it's the soul that is who we are and it's the soul that will continue the journey when we die. We will leave behind the physical body which we've taken so long taking care of and we'll be given another body. But it's the soul that is who I am that will continue. And out of His love and mercy, Allah tells me how to take care of myself, how to take care of my soul. So when He tells me something as wajib, the purpose behind that wajibat is to ensure that the soul is taken care of. And when He tells me something as haram, it is because it's absolutely detrimental to the soul and that's why He tells me don't do this, it's going to damage you in ways that you won't even understand but trust me, don't do this. But because we only look at it from the physical perspective, we sort of think, no, no, you know, how's that going to hurt me? It's fine. And we bring everything back into the physical realm. And yes, some of the wajibat does benefit the physical body but that's not the purpose. The purpose is for the soul. And if we understand that then we will look into all the rulings in a much more deeper sense rather than trying to sort of understand it only from the physical perspective. Sister Sarah Bukhari is a graduate of International Relations. I paid her a visit to further my understanding of this topic. So can you briefly explain the history of the interaction of Islam within the West? So we have two different elements that it's important to critically analyse when we're discussing this concept of hijab because there's a long history of this interaction with the West and sometimes as Muslim believers who are new to integrating in a Western society as diaspora communities, it's very easy for us to focus on the turn of the 21st century in the events of post-911 as a central point of our identity and the response that hijab has had in the public sphere as a result. But the history of hijab and indeed Islam in the West in general, a meeting of the East and West with some people call as clash of civilisations is really important to analyse and result in terms of how it impacts our identity today. So in the 18th century what you find in European history and Dr Jose Nasa has a briefing and he denotes the exact element of this history of the Enlightenment era being a time of a revolution in the ideas and the conceptual theories which define European society and in that time what you find is the philosophies emerge where there's an interaction between science, rationality and the issue of faith in the public sphere. So the issue is that the religions of European history and societies had been at war with one another, it's caused much conflict in the history of European society and as a result there's this huge question as to where does religion really fit in the public sphere and then you find in the 19th, 20th century the history of colonialism intensifies and in 1907 it's the first track record of Christian missionaries they say Yvonne Haddad is a strong philosopher and theorist in this regard in regards to the history of Islam and Christianity and she says that in a journal she writes in 2008 that 1907 is the first interaction Christian missionaries had with the Islamic Orientalists other as a woman and these women obviously quite publicly adorned the hijab as a statement of faith this was an antithesis to everything that Europe was trying to project at that time and therefore the issue of the hijab became very much a talk of discussion in the western world it became something which was denoted as completely opposite to what the progressive female should look like it became a symbol of backwardness and oppression it became spoken about in such a sense that there was an element of sympathy and trying to understand why these women had such a subjugated role within eastern societies and therefore the symbol of the hijab became this pinnacle of the differentiation between western and eastern society and from that point onwards really it became a huge amount of discussion in regards to how these two societies would merge I think about the physical aspect of hijab most of the time it's the females that are affected so when they go to college or university the peer pressure, the social groups can really affect how they decide to wear their hijab and a lot of the attention is kind of removed away from the boys or the men because with them you can't physically see their hijab how can we get girls to embrace hijab and love it truly for what it means instead of it just being just the physical aspect but actually loving it and having the desire to embrace it and to do it correctly okay so there's lots of different things here I think that if I can just break it down one I think if a boy is fulfilling the hijab it will be noticed even in the physical realm because he will behave in a different way than boys who are not fulfilling the hijab so the way he interacts socially with girls the way he looks at them out of respect when he's talking to them and not out of lust and desire all of those will be picked up so even although you said that it won't be noticed it should be noticed if it's not being noticed in the boys and that means their hijab is not being they're not behaving in a hijabi perspective and I think that's really important to realise that so they should look different to non-Muslim boys in the way that they behave so the social hijab should come across straight away whether you're a boy or a girl obviously for a girl the physical attire, the dressing that she wears it stands out much more and I think that makes people feel like they can't fit in and I think there the problem is that we shouldn't feel the need to fit in we should have the confidence in our own selves and our own identity and the understanding of the hijab so that I don't compromise my values and my soul and the detriment to myself in order to please people who after I leave university I will probably not even see or hear from I think it's a lot to do with confidence and I think we don't understand how to teach confidence to our children as mothers, as parents we think if we put them out there in the public eye if we get them to do speeches, if we get them to do this they'll become confident confidence is from within confidence is knowing who you are confidence is when you have your relationship with God and when you know that you have God behind you you don't need anyone else and you don't feel worried or scared about anything living in the West and holding on to religion is a constant battle with enough confidence the religion would no longer be compromised confidence allows any individual the ability to carry themselves and to address in accordance to Islam without having to worry about peer pressure and the expectations of social media and society So as young girls that live in the West I wanted to get your views and opinions on how you integrate into society and how hijab affects you or doesn't affect you Can you tell me a little bit about how you deal with your day to day life with hijab and if there are any struggles or challenges that you may or may not have? Okay so me personally every day I'm not an everyday home person I'm always out to college, work or shopping as well so me leaving the house wearing the hijab is something I've chosen to do myself and I've forced me to do it but in the society and nowadays what you hear in the news how hijabs get dragged and everything it doesn't stop me from wanting to wear it but it scares me like walking around on the roads and everything just to an extent like you start getting paranoid someone's going to come to you or anything but overall as a person I just love wearing a hijab Okay and you are at college and how do you feel when you go into college wearing hijab and observing hijab in the way that you do? So at my college there's a lot of hijabies around so it doesn't make me feel like very isolated not like different but as a Western country everyone's going to look at you or they're going to start questioning what is that on your head or they start wanting to know everything but as a whole community they know Muslims are a very big population in the UK so it's not as bad as what people would picture it outside the Western countries Okay and do you feel like it kind of restricts you from anything or limits you to do anything wearing your hijab? Not really I mean personally I've had it since 9 years old so it's always been part of my life I've managed to like at the beginning when you're first wearing it it can feel a bit unusual but as you get along it becomes part of your life so it comes to who you are How do you feel about integrating into university there are now so many social media influences and different ways of wearing hijab Do you feel in any way that kind of not pressures you into it but kind of makes you not feel the same way about hijab that you maybe did before? I mean you do, you would feel a bit uncomfortable because you'd see like everyone wearing a specific style of hijab and then you might wear a bit longer or a bit looser and you don't feel you might not feel as comfortable but then you can I think it just really depends on you as a person like how much confidence you have to wear what you wear Do you feel like you're isolated at times because you know at university and college now there are many different ways or forms that young girls choose to wear their hijab Do you feel segregated from certain you know Muslim groups or girls at college and university? I personally feel like I see it as my identity so I don't really feel like it affects me as much when I see other people wearing it differently like I've just learned to ask each person has their different way of in each culture has a different way of wearing the hijab and perceiving it so my way, this is my way I'm happy the way I do it so I don't feel like it would affect me even though my reunion is not really in a place where there's a lot of hijab it's more English but still like it doesn't really affect me as much how I see my hijab and how I wear it I would just still go along and try to like do your own thing Yeah, make them understand that this is just how I am Right, okay What would you say to other young girls that kind of finding it difficult to maintain it and like feel I feel very proud of myself as the guide because that's how you choose it for yourself so you choose it for other people to teach about hijab That's a good point that you mentioned so do you think like influences and role models are something that have a big impact on young girls like with social media, internet, bloggers the hijabi fashion how much do you think that affects people within like your uni your college or even yourselves at all It has a major effect I think because that's the kind of hijab that's shown on social media so you want to wear that to fit in you want to act a certain way or do certain things just so you can fit in with other people so you can be a part of that that weird like community thing but really you're just I feel like you're just stuck in your own bubble when you're like that because you're constantly trying to fit in with someone Is there anything else like within the communities that helps younger women to kind of maintain their hijabs and to be part of a community Is there anything like I know they have, is it Jealousa groups? Jealousa groups or like Quran lessons okay where you make you bring all this Iraqi community or just Muslims Shia as in general we're all together about Quran, about hijab about the Tafsir of the Quran and everything so it's such a great way to bring everyone together and explain what we're trying to say and it's communication like you listen to their views and you express your view as well so it brings you more than freedom of communication as well you get your idea across correctly he's mostly for yourself as well to be honest like when I go to these Jealousa it's mostly for myself so I remember who I am I remember through this whole you know we have a crazy life you go to uni some go to work so you're you're not always like within religion in the midst of religion so when you have these kind of things or like religious events programs you have these Jealousa it's a good reminder for yourself like okay this is who I am this is what I believe this is what I should like this is how I should carry myself on a daily basis how do you feel when you go into environments where you're surrounded by constant you know haram things and being a Muslim and observing and Salah and all of this how do you feel when it comes to that time like it doesn't stop me I would look at them and I'll feel sorry for them okay and then I'll feel like oh I'm doing this right but they start questioning me it's exam time and like how what you're doing is basically haram you're forcing yourself I'm like I'm not really forcing myself like Allah is going to help me through the exam because I'm fasting okay they'll look at it as a different way like you should give yourself energy and have food in the morning and come do the exam because you're going to fail they'll just stop throwing all these negative stuff hmm okay there is a lot of pressure there yeah I personally think there's a lot of pressure like to be living in the West yes hijab is accepted but what type of hijab would you say is accepted hijab like like I don't always wear a chador for example but you'd wear a abaya you would get judged you'd wear something long you would get judged it is difficult there is a lot of pressure and I would like you would understand why there are a lot of girls taking off their hijab yeah but it just comes back to yourself and how you would you know sometimes maybe your hijab would be perfect right and your hijab would be strong but you would be lacking in other things because of all the pressures that you're going through some girls would come home and even though they were in the hijab they just want to take it off once because I'm so fed up of wearing this and I'm so fed up it's so hot it's so you know there's so many things that would stop you or people would look at you in the streets it's not as common now as it might have been years back but it's still difficult because you don't want to feel like you're standing out and naturally when you walk in the street wearing a hijab even if no one's looking at you you'd feel like the whole world is looking at you yeah some may say that the western society is accepting the hijab big brands are using women wearing the hijab in their commercials or releasing sport hijabs however is the western hijab or the Islamic hijab being accepted? does social media pressure females and men to dress and act in a certain way? I sent my colleague Saeed Mohsin Shah to further investigate and discuss the connection between hijab and social media with Saeed Abdullah El Naqib when we look at social media you know well it wasn't around in my time in the 90s and then suddenly there was this big boom of people using the internet to interact with one another over long distances and to discuss current affairs news even their personal lives I mean how beneficial and how dangerous can social media be especially for us as a Muslim community well if we're talking about social media we do understand and everyone knows there's negatives but when you put into the scale idea of the Islamic circle let's say then there's there's a danger if the people that is behind the screen or behind the keyboard or behind the phone doesn't know how to go about in their morality and indeed the hijab which we'll be discussing inshallah so I think because it's a newer thing you'll find it's not discussed as much because the people that are using it they don't want to hear a Mawlana come and say well this is how you use Facebook or this is how you use Instagram or this is how you use emails etc or Snapchat because they're like well what does the Mawlana know about what I go through or what does the Mawlana know about using Facebook what does the Mawlana know about using Instagram or Snapchat but you'll find when Islam comes to us the etiquette is always there when Islam tells us this is how you should preserve your hijab this is how your morality should be this is how you should portray yourself being a messenger for this religion doesn't matter whether you're behind the screen or you're face to face with a person it should be the same exact way that you carry yourself the way that you speak to a person of the same or the opposite gender when you're meeting with them should be the exact same keeping that in mind when you talk to them online obviously so I think just to answer that you know what do you think yes there is a huge danger it's like a knife you could either use it to cut an orange or you can kill a person now talking about the current situation with young girls and how they are observing their hijab and the struggles that some may face now would you say social media has a part in that bloggers, YouTubers do they influence the youth with their hijab I think it's an extraordinary development we've had again since the post-enitement era that technological advancement has reached such a point where we're experiencing things as human beings even from a non-spiritual religious perspective which is really bizarre to the makeup of a human being in general so what you're finding is this abundance of this culture which is very much portraying images of a perfection of a life which is perfect of ideals which are perfect but if you speak to anybody in this world and you go out into the street you'll realise that everybody has a story and no such existence of perfection actually occurs in anybody's life so it's a war of ideas always the technological information ages is a war of ideas and within that war a lot of identities are confused often alternated and changed and often transitioning as a result of the impacts of the technological era so I think with social media especially with the war on terror being something which was so publicised in the public sphere as a Muslim you're growing up hearing things about your religion which automatically will make someone feel like what is my position within this society do I really belong here what stance can I make to give my religion a good impression and I think the emergence of beauty bloggers this modern modern fashion movement originally arise from such an intention to put Islam and hijab on the map in a way that is positive to the societies that are watching and interacting with it and I think the tragic thing is is that this this trajectory of displaying Islam and the hijab and our parents in such a purely material way has almost taken from the spiritual benefits of this idea of modesty yeah and I mean how does the kind of the western feminism tie into this and the perceived rights of women Islam we believe in the equality of souls we believe that there's a purity to the souls that every human being has a genderless soul it's this idea that we are equal in all regards in front of the eyes of the Lord there's not this idea from God himself that women are lesser than men or from the prophet even that women were ever lesser than men but in a physical way we have varying responsibilities which come with the gender roles that are within this material so Islam's idea of transience is this idea that we live in dualistic existence where we are souls with bodies rather than bodies with souls and unfortunately as it may scholars have you know understood this issue for quite some time but there's this huge niche between merging these two identities and especially in a world which has become increasingly materialistic and increasingly focused on the material elements of what it means to be present in society so yeah let's look at the positive sides of social media I mean high street brands internationally recognised companies have started to incorporate like hijab models you've got in a sports brand you know producing famous sports brands producing like sports hijabs so can social media be a platform to actually promote hijab and good etiquette so you could it's two sided again so for example if you're portraying it in the right manner then it's perfect but if it's portrayed in the wrong manner and people get on board that becomes problematic because therefore you get a lot of people going to a famous brand or a famous personality and the way they portray hijab if it's intertwined with what hijab is or within the boundaries which is hijab or acceptable hijab then it's a huge positive because you find all these girls that want to wear the hijab all of a sudden they have a platform saying wow this famous brand let's say has now introduced the hijab and it's been worn in such a way you know what I might want to do that that looks like something I would be willing to do and then you have on the flip side you know many influences that you know got famous you know by becoming a hijabi that you know does many things and there's many of them and all of a sudden you'll find yourself they follow them they might not first necessarily have the right hijab but because they're at a platform where they have huge following all of a sudden this let's say girl that's just put on the hijab that has all these pressures around them suddenly look up to these people because you know everyone else is looking up to them how are they wearing the hijab my parents are telling me to wear the hijab in such a manner you know and it could be a problem at home where I haven't you know as a parent as a child what the hijab means therefore I'll be easily influenced by the public by the people in social media seeing what they would like whether they're commenting on what their thoughts are because you can read the comments you can look at the the reviews you can look at the comments that are being said they influence themselves what they think of the hijab you know and it goes more towards a personal preference rather than what a religious aspect of it so personal preference would say well I like wearing it in such a manner that manner could not be Islamic that manner could be not hijab at all however it's their interpretation that's where the danger comes because as a as a young girl trying to understand what hijab is not having any understanding previously therefore these guys are going to be my role models now the danger with that is let's say one day this lady takes the hijab off or begins to slowly slowly slowly deteriorate her hijab this girl has followed her all her life and she's looked up to this person all of a sudden she's like she's taken it off or she's wearing it like this gives me complete legitimacy to wear it like her because she's a role model so yeah we were talking about social media and these people what we call influences is it our fault that we follow them and we are influenced by them or can you not blame someone to look up to these so-called role models and as a community what do you think we should be doing I don't think you say boycott them now because obviously you're following a person for a reason I mean Manali has a very interesting statement which says find wisdom in the tongue even if in the tongue you don't have a fault you can find wisdom so there might be aspects of a person that are beneficial this person that's an influencer I may be following them for let's say as an example for males let's say clothing or it could be yeah it could be anything but the danger is if I'm influenced by something other than that which is beneficial to me so if I'm following an influencer let's say she's a female and I'm following her for let's say her social you know psychology let's say or for example how to raise kids or a cooking show could be anything health and nutrition or making breakfast the idea is I'm following because I want to gain something which is absolutely fine but Islam tells you you should increase in knowledge try to learn as much as you can that's a positive the negative becomes when I'm influenced other than that which is beneficial to me so when I'm influenced with how she carries herself or let's say if a person that I'm following as an influencer has a foul mouth if I'm influenced by that it becomes a danger now would you find that the rise of Muslim female feminists has been part of this kind of area where men have got away with so many things because they're able to get away with it whereas women are the flag bearers of Islam and when they walk out with their hijab they are automatically recognized as being a Muslim would you think do you think that with this growing rise of Muslim feminists that this has impacted them in that way where they feel it's not fair they're being kind of pressurized a lot more than men there's definitely a huge question of patriarchal patriarchal society in Islam and how that's impacted the progression of a female and her role within the society and you find that a lot of feminist Muslim feminist scholars who have written abundant works and some of the biggest critiques against Islam have come from people who claim to be Muslims themselves who claim that the religion of Islam has been dominated by this misogynist narrative which belittles the role of the women whereas Islam itself didn't come to do that now as communities I think it's the individual's responsibility within families within communities it's a really question is that the case and if it is the case what are we doing about it but as for in terms of feminists who have reacted to that I think if you look at some of the works these Muslim feminist scholars that I speak about they will specify that actually Islam itself the prophet he's putting himself when he makes dances such as getting up from his seat whenever Fatima Zahra walks in the room he's making a point that you know just 20 years ago you were burying your daughters alive and now I'm telling you that my daughter's status in this room is one which should be honoured by the men and women alike and when he's raised that on the day of Mubahila for example he comes out and he says the prophet comes out our women, your women he brings Fatima Zahra such a statement to say that faith is in the hands of this woman Seyda Khadija shouldered the responsibility of prophethood with Imam Ali alaihi salam Seyda Zaynab carried on the torch of the prophecy through her stance after Karbala where she took such an active role as a media medium at that time to propagate the views of what it means to speak up in times of tyranny so I think when you look at the history of Islam there's definitely not a question of what the role of a woman is when the prophet peace be upon him married Seyda Khadija there's definitely not a question that some people say she's older some people say she's definitely the most wealthiest business woman in the whole of Arabia at that time so he's marrying an empress who has the individual autonomy and rights within her own capacity and he as a man is not feeling undermined by her position he's not this is a woman who has traits which are to be commended within the development of Islam her role is so pivotal so I think her society is important to always go back to the origins of faith do you think we can use the same techniques to help with the other side of Khadija which is more to do with the psychological and the verbal I mean we've been talking a lot about the physical side of Khadija but what about for example people on Twitter what they're saying is absolutely appalling or disgusting what is it is it how you have suppressed ideas and they're just trying to rebel and get out what they want to say or do you think that it is more of they're just trying to get trendy they're just looking for instant fame or popularity that they have to go down this route where their mannerisms and their verbal hijab you could say it's absolutely appalling yeah look you can't say that doesn't exist to a large extent it does because at the end of the day I think what drives us is popularity nowadays and if you were to write something like a hadith let's say you will get I don't know how Twitter works but retweets so let's say Twitter you'll get like retweeted you might write a hadith no one retweets it you write something that is borderline like bad and you'll get like 100 retweets and you think to yourself well you know what this is working for me and you just keep on that road why because now you get feedback now you get people that review you these are people that and some people they don't even care they review them they could say something bad and they get real like hate but that puts their name out there and they're like you know what it doesn't matter as long as people are talking about me and so that's what the danger is that you don't see the value of who you are is it quite is it necessary for women to cover their hair considering that it's not even seen as attractive for as you know so you might say that for yourself but other people might have let's say history you know as people progressed you'll find clothing became more predominant and within religion which is because now you're comparing secular societies to what Allah has bestowed now when you look at religion knowing that Allah created us and he knows us better than anyone else within religion you find the people that are closer towards Allah are portrayed to be those that cover their hair in Christianity Judaism you'll find now or anywhere you go with a picture of Bibi Maria you can't see a picture with her without a veil and nowadays it's an aspect until now it's an aspect of beauty the way that a girl would do her hair the colors that's the thing we need to realize that the hijab all that down the drain when it says you know what you should give your face you have your hands and then I'll cover everything else and preserve it for your palm now I don't have any more pressures I can focus on that which is important rather what people think of me I want to focus on what Allah thinks of me now I know within different cultures different types of hijab are observed that also kind of place a part in how people choose to wear their hijab and also going back to kind of predating Islam hijab's meaning was very different I mean I read in articles where hijab or the veil would be worn by the wealthier and those that were poorer would be hardly covered or in a veil and also not forgetting Christianity Judaism they also have hijab and modesty their beliefs and their religions so it's fascinating to see how it was and how it's become and I feel like things are kind of going backwards instead of forwards in terms of hijab kind of what's your thoughts on how hijab has kind of moved through history from you know it being worn by those who are wealthier to now kind of less of it being worn by practicing Muslims El-Gindi is a scholar who in 1999 does a study on the hijab and he says that there's over a hundred different types of ways in which people can wear the hijab and that's just what's recorded that's the research samples of suggesting over a hundred different ways and I think the term itself has become so synonymous with this especially in the public sphere with this political rhetoric regarding the burqa within societies within a very extreme form of religion with communities that are isolated and the truth is like you said it exists beyond all these cultural political constrictions and it exists in a realm which is far greater than that though time and culture greatly impacts hijab I think Islam has accommodated for that at least in terms of how the hijab is spoken about in the Quran you find that Allah uses such a it's such a loving way of saying to a human being that modesty is good for you it's not said in a way and I think this is where as religious people and I'm not really sure I believe in that term but people who want to practice religion they have to we have to question how we're propagating this idea of rightful hijab because the way Allah speaks about it is in a way that defines it as a spiritual unity between agendas it's something where there's a huge interaction between the physical form of wearing the hijab whether a girl's in this society or in Iraq there's this openness in regards to how someone chooses to wear it even in Christianity and Judaism they do have religious law you know towards segregation and also women covering up without a doubt without a doubt Judaism you know it's looked at to be not taboo but it's looked down upon if you were ever to leave your house without a covering on your hair as in their scriptures it's dishonoring that you would leave your house without a cover with a veil on your hair Christianity is likewise it's as if you were to ever to go and pray in a church or be in public without a headscarf or a veil to cover your hair it's dishonoring your head and you might as well shave your hair off and you'll find now even nowadays just saying that 2019 the perspectives of Christianity being religious you go to the nuns they're all wearing fully covered and that is looked up towards to be an aspect where people are religious as long as she learns to have a relationship with Allah know that what Allah is telling her is for her benefit for her growth realise that there is a bigger picture there it's not about this world this isn't all there is and sort of understanding the hijab loving the hijab having the role models that you know that we talked about that portray what hijab should be realising that the hijab doesn't stop you from having a voice doesn't stop you from having fun women are commonly seen as flag bearers of Islam they are constantly associated with Islam when seen on the streets because of their hijab the hijab empowers women and gives them a sense of security and safety hijab should not be a factor that stops girls from achieving their goals and fulfilling their dreams it should be a part of them and a part of who they are