Weighing Of Wearing Hijab

Weighing Of Wearing Hijab

In adolescence and adulthood when a young man, far from Allah, I like to do for fun, disturbing, and tease my friends who wear hijab. At that time are still very few women who wear veils in everyday life. At that time, women who wear Hijab is seen as people who join a particular stream.

At the moment my life began to close with Allah, I just realized how ignorant I was back then. I just realized, that was veiling for women is an obligation contained in the Qur'an. So the hijab (covering genitalia) for women are the same as the order is obligatory prayers, fasting, and worship.

When I get closer to Allah and fight away from all the sinners I've ever done, I really intended it to become Muslim kaffah. After I left the pilgrimage in 1995, and get guidance from my teacher, I intend to leave the conventional bank where I worked until materialized four years later (in 1999) to resign from the conventional banks. Similarly, I want my wife to change the appearance of wearing conventional clothing to be wearing Islamic clothing. But it was not easy to make this happen. My wife is already accustomed to wearing conventional clothing and the environment and their families who are also accustomed to wearing conventional clothes since she was small to be my wife, requiring an uphill battle and length to completely steady wear appropriate Islamic dress.

My wife just ready to get dressed in the hijab sharia after 6 years of returning from the holy land. My wife went to Mecca in 1997 with me still working at the time of conventional banks. Returned from Mecca, my wife is still not ready to wear hijab. He was just able to wear clothing that is quite closed. Various reasons for affirming my wife to not be ready veiled. The main thing not covered is bracing for low self-confidence to wear the hijab. He felt his face is not fit for bejilbab. There are just feeling less each time wearing a headscarf. And in my eyes, my wife added beautiful when wearing the hijab. But he remained confident veiled. But eventually, after a steady intention in the heart of my wife, she succeeded in the third quarter of 2003 to wear the hijab as an everyday clothes to this day.

The reasons are not confident to veiled not only happen to my wife, but also my sister only, and wives, brothers and my brother. However, thank Allah, once they intend to steadily with the encouragement of their husbands, now finally they have used the veil. I am very happy to see pictures of my complete family on Eid last year (1428 H), all adult women wearing the veil in the photo. Photo was the last complete family photo with our mother (3 months after the mother passed away into Rahmatullah). Photo is very different from our family photo in 2002 that almost all the women not wear veils.

On the other hand, many women who already have a full awareness of the veil, but many challenges they face to be able to use the veil in daily life. How many veiled women who want but have constraints because of the workplace that employees can not accept the hijab. They really missed their environment that can receive covered in their entirety.

Experience wife and my brothers are heavy to wear veils because they do not believe either yourself or the environment that do not support, makes me sad whenever I see the official Islamic institution which only covered on the day and working hours only. My personal opinion, really be a pity if 5 days a week and 10 hours in those days because of the demands of work wear veils. And open the veil in public on two other days in a week. How unfortunate that the opportunity has to be able to obey Allah's command is wasted. Why there is still an employee Islamic institutions are unable to use veils only two days a week and several hours on other days, when the environment was supportive. Why are they more afraid of corporate regulation which obliges their headscarves while at work, compared with the fear of Allah's command to cover the genitalia with a veil at all times?

I dunno, maybe I'm too hypocritical because I used to live far from Allah. So when my life closer to Allah, I feel very pity if there are people who have a chance to close with Allah, but do not follow Allah's commandments are kaffah.

Wallahualam bishowab.