Hosai Mojaddidi – A Tale of Salam & Hijab

I think one of the most beautiful things ever about the Islam is our

greeting. It really is. And I say that as someone who, when I first

started, you know, this is I'll just quickly mentioned but when

the first day

the first day I ever wore hijab, you know, I went into a fabric

store. This is when I made the intention to wear hijab. And I

literally went into an Indian fabric store here in Berkeley,

California. And I asked the lady to cut a square, and she just made

a square piece of fabric with all the frayed edges and everything. I

wanted it and I come I call it I call it a babushka style, you

know, it's like a Russian little woman from I don't know.

I kind of tied it in a knot because I have pins we this was

way before all the fancy hijab styles there are now so I tied it

and I was scared obviously, this is many years ago over 2025

router, how many years ago now? But at that time, there was some

fear coming out, like what am I going to receive? And I'll tell

you just a little bit about the Subhan Allah Allah sends people.

I'm walking in the streets of Berkeley, really, for the first

time imagine wearing hijab in public

and always find a sense this brother, African American and

brother I don't know if he was Muslim or not, but the way he saw

me and he greeted me it was like he just came and gave me this bolt

of energy. I don't know what it was. I can't describe what but he

definitely impacted me because he just said it was so don't fat

ugly. I salam Wa alaykum you know, he's just like, so proud of me.

And I would have sent him to me and I will never forget that

moment because I was like, it was like a low is like you're good.

You're good. You know