Naima B. Robert – What if I Took off my Niqab Ladies, We Need to Talk About the Hijab!

So I can say some. I have a question

how would you feel if I stopped wearing the niqab?

Like, no, like on a real?

If one day, you saw me like this, like you're used to seeing me. And

then the next time you saw me on Instagram or Facebook, you

actually saw my face?

What do you think that would mean for you?

You know, would you be sad? Would you be angry? Would you be

disappointed? Would you unfollow me? Would you reach out to me?

Would you make dua for me? Would you think, Oh, another one bites

the dust, you know, another one, once she gets to a certain level

of goes the Islamic attire.

I'm not asking these questions and any way to judge or shame any one,

and especially not you. But I do think that you and I both know

that we as a community are being rocked by this crisis. This, this

crisis of confidence in the hijab, and some people feel that they're

not affected by it, but some people, it's shaken them, you

know. And for me, personally, as a sister, it's shaken me.

And I wanted to have a conversation about that. I think

there's we are navigating so many different pressures, there is the

pressure on that we accept upon ourselves to do what Allah wants

us to do. There are family pressures, community pressures,

then there is social media, then there is society at large. And

then all our internal battles, right. Our internal battles with

who we are, who we are becoming, who we how we want to show up in

the world. You know, we may have issues of, you know, our own

confidence issues, you know, our own issues of feeling comfortable

in our skin of beauty and, and all the standards of everything is

just there's a lot, it's a lot. Okay, there's a lot going on. And

so I invited a handful of really amazing sisters. When I say

amazing, I mean, thoughtful sisters, vocal sisters,

opinionated sisters, and learned sisters, to come together with me

to have an honest and hopefully healing conversation about the

hijab.

I would love for you to join us, so please,

tick, register, check, click whatever it is that you need to do

around on this video.

To get yourself to that conversation, Inshallah, it's

going to be a very nourishing conversation, a very eye opening

and thought provoking conversation. But I think that we

need to have a conversation. So the virtual salon is doing a

special sister session on the hijab and I would love to see you

there. Find out more details on the link below. Hope you will join

us in sha Allah, and may Allah keep us always sincere and

steadfast me Slavonic.