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My parents want me to take off hijab because they are worried about my safety and or job interview.
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Now to answer this, one thing we have to do is this, and that is we have to shift the focus to the
source of all gifts to the source of all provision. We have to remind ourselves, where does safety
come from? Where does provision come from? Where will our job come from? And the answer is Allah,
Allah and Allah, that Allah is in fact, the protector, that Allah is in fact, the one who provides
for you provides your job provides every gift that you have in your life. And so it really wouldn't
make sense to displease The one who provides these things in order to get these things. It's a bit
like saying that because I want a promotion, I'm going to displease the boss, it's probably not a
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good strategy. But in fact, the best strategy would be that if you please the boss, you're more
likely to get a promotion. In this case, if we want these things from Allah because again, we
acknowledged that Allah is the source, Allah is the source of protection. Allah is the source of
provision, Allah is the source of that job. And so if we want to get these gifts from Allah, then we
should the best route would be to please Allah and to and to actually, you know, worship and and and
obey what he has asked us to do. And the more that we do, the more that we obey Allah subhanaw
taala. The more that we stay close to a law, the more protection and risk provision, we will
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actually get