here we go again

you know what i think we all need to do? i think if you wear hijab then you should educate yourself on everything to do with hijab. i believe its your right and responsibility as a hijabi. so when those uneducated, over the top fools come in and attack you for wearing a yellow hijab, you can shed some light on their uneducated mind and reveal some evidence on the matter.

i keep getting comments from people (and ive seen them on other blogs as well) going off their head, leaving comments like this...

"black hijab is the right hijab"

"sister - girls can not wear colours, it attracts men"

now i dont know about you, but i have never seen a guy *ahem* in his pants from seeing a girl wear some turquoise. and if a guy does, then there are obviously some other issues going on that are more important.

if people only looked into the evidence, they would see that the sahaba wore colours. let me repeat - the women at the time of the prophet wore colours. no one lived their life in black. they wore jewellery. aisha is well known for wearing rings. there is documented evidence in the hadith about their hands being decorated with henna, ordered by the prophet to distinguish the male hand from the female hand. women wore kohl (eyeliner). that section in the quran where it talks about ordering women to "hide your adornments" - those 'adornments' are actually your breasts - its not talking about necklaces.

go look into it yourself. a muslim is allowed to decorate themselves within limits. they are allowed to look beautiful and presentable, within limits. (check out pixie's blog posts for detailed explanations on clothing related hadiths and islamic history).

i just get so bloody sick of uneducated/misinformed idiots who DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, going around saying "you cant wear a ring... haram! you cant wear any colour other than black... haram! colour attracts men... haram!"

lets ask a man, shall we?

i received this comment from a guy on this blog today, in response to another person's comment on women having to MUST wear black and it really made me laugh and thank him for his honest and very intelligent opinion.... (its a long one)....

If the topic is about whether Muslim women can or cannot wear color, and whether it drives men crazy or not, then for God's sake please take culture into account. If you go into Africa, all over you will see African women wearing brightly colored abaayas and robes and shawls and skirts. Bold blue, pretty pink, screaming yellow, garish green, obnoxious orange, and so on. BRIGHT colors. But its common. And because its so common to the Muslim african cultures, its not a problem there. It doesnt cause fitnah like it might if a Saudi woman were to dress in a yellow, orange and white ensemble in the middle of a Saudi or Iranian sea of black-abaaya clad women.

If you go to Turkey, women there frequently wear color and its very common. You come to North America, same thing. You go to Afghanistan, India or Pakistan, ... OHMYDAGWD they're all wearing COLORS!!! ... and you don't see men getting all excited about it.

You go to Indonesia and there the most common color for Muslim women in public, is an all-white chador. They all wear white! SHUCKS!

Seriously, please do not use women's fashion in Saudi as a yardstick to measure up other Muslim women worldwide. Because if you really want, I'll bust out the articles and accounts of those areas in Saudi where MARRIED WOMEN dont even show their faces INSIDE THEIR HOUSE to their own HUSBANDS. The guy has been married for 30 years, and he hasnt seen his wife's face. And its not just an isolated case.

So please, drop it with "You're either with Saudi or you're against Islam" way of thinking. Its not conducive to good mental or spiritual health. Islam was revealed for all humanity, and it didn't come to impose the Arabian customs of life on the entire world. That would be just absolutely retarded. Its about general principles and ethics that can be implemented anywhere regardless of geography, time, or language.

Last but not least - this is coming from a guy who's 28, young and built like a rock. Born and raised in the West, but still maintains cultural links to his homelands in Mideast Asia - the color pink has NEVER excited my loins. I honest-to-God do not know of a SINGLE GUY who gets all excited when seeing a pink dress on a girl. I find it an annoying color to be honest because so many girls I know go completely overboard with that color, doing their whole rooms and houses up in pink. What does excite my loins is that which is already known by everyone here, and the author of this website has referred to it subtly when she tells the ladies to stop wearing bum-tight jeans, or tight tops, or tight leggings, etc.

(thanks maverick) what do you think?