THE HIJABIFIED VERSION!

Wassup  people?!?!?

High waist jeans are the trend in the fashion industry (I heard so).

Okay, so I was wondering about how fashion, dressing and stuffs related have changed in our era and now from going all low everything is turning too high!

How easy it is for a piece of cloth to destine what we are going to present ourselves as! How crazy it is for those who go behind ALDO or ZARA, (let me be honest, these are the only two brand names that came into my little head)? Now those brand-maniacs will have their own reasons to justify but I never get the point on how easy it is for a human to forget his/her lord’s command and follow the latest trend so that they are too TAGGED IN THE “MODERN” CATEGORY. Now the reason I double quote the word modern is simple because in the generation a person is modern if his dressing style, social (online) life, his language etc are up-to-date.

Now talking about my sisters who believe they have to end up tomorrow in front of their lord the below stuff is especially for you. (Anyone’s welcome to read though!)

How many of us actually are in hijab when required?

How many of us turn around to dress up as celebrities at parties or other occasions?

How many of the daily hijabis turn out to be diva’s on their wedding?

I know how crazy we girls are when it comes to dressing. How we keep shopping for the best outfit, matching heels, matching accessories, matching what so ever. But again are we listening to our lord who told us woman that we are the most precious species on this planet. We have been raised to such a position that heaven comes under our leg but still we forget all this when it is a farewell party or a wedding reception. We paint our faces with highlight pink and blue, we stitch a dress on our body, and we fine a giraffe neck heel and think ourselves to be the prettiest among all! (Am I exaggerating???)

So I too had this problem, you see, trying to fit myself in this big world.

I realized that it isn't hard to practice my religion at all. As long as I am a Muslim woman I would not have to worry about pleasing the people around me. All that matters will be if my LORD is happy with me and as long as I listen to him I am free of worries!! J

In this world where fashion industry is a means to expose woman it is necessary we have something we call the hijabified version of dressing. Something modern as well as modest. Something that make us feel comfortable. I always believe that dressing is not something that shows out who we are rather it is our character that reveal to the people around us who we are.

To be a Muslim girl who wants to satisfy her lord is such a easy task with some difficult path but again  it is said NO PAIN NO GAIN.

Our life here is not permanent, it is temporary. And our everlasting amazing life is yet to arrive. So why not sacrifice something for your own better in the future.

Sisters let us not forget that

He is our creator

Our king

The lord of the Day of Judgment

And he created us and to him we return

So let us start up the hijabified version of life!!!!

Wait for more…. J

Peace!

©abcdrian42286

A WALK DOWN THE MEMORY LANE......

I was five then, my first day in school. I sat beside a girl who later turned out to be one of my best friends. How excited we used to get each day to meet each other and play with each other. Kurian, my first guy friend, the gentle man in my class He was the tallest kid in my class, I wonder where he is now! My first guiding star, Mrs. Shameem Saleem. UKG ended with me being an apple tree, a granny and of course a hyper-active, naughty girl with short curly hair!

Kindergarten taught me that life is not a short travel but a big one which always matters on small steps we take.  All the first lessons from “mat” to what I learn now started from the small steps since KG!!

Our first friends will always remember us what ever be it. Our first teachers teach us things which no one else can. Our first parties are always the ones we enjoy the most. The first tears that drop from our tiny eyes are valuable because those tears taught us lessons to be forever in our heart. I still remember how hard it was for me to leave my parents and go to school every morning and now how many of us at least remember to tell them all “BYE” OR “LOVE YOU” before we leave. We have grownup to be so big we tend to forget the little things around us…...

My first fight because the girl sitting beside me made fun of my bestie!!(Now this is a real sensitive topic) and how easily we forgot within a period time. But now things change, we fight with our own friends and pretend like everything’s fine. No matter what happens we don’t want to hurt our baby Ego!!

We roam around in the same classroom but won’t talk. The funniest part is the fight would have been for the silliest reasons :P.

The red uniform still makes me want to go back to those days, the days free from responsibilities. The days free from any sort of tensions. The only confusion was picking up dolls, the days when we could share everything with our parents, (not that you can’t now). The days will always be cherished in my memories. My kindergarten life. To all my buddies including KURIAN,SNEHA,SUHANA,NAHAN,NAFEESA,MAAZ,JANNATH,HEBA,FIZA,NEETHU,

SAMINA,SHADIA,AYESHA,GOKUL (MY KG CLASS MATES who I remember…..) LOVE YOU GUYS AND IF EVER GET A CHANCE LET US ALL GET TOGETHER!!

THOSE WHO READ THIS……. IF ANYONE OF YOU KNOW ANY OF THESE PEOPLE JUST LET ME KNOW, IT WILL BE A GREAT FAVOUR (UKG-S, 2001-2002 BATCH….THANKS!! :))

LISTEN AND THEN TALK....

I see it every day while going to school. A father and a kindergarten girl sitting on a bench in the park and talking. The girl was telling her dad things, most probably about her school and class. She was showing different actions and jumping around; you know what all a five year old girl will do if you let her have the spotlight. I looked at the father; he was sitting and listening to her. Just keenly listening to his five year old daughter telling him stories. I looked at my dad for a minute and smiled, knowing that this hero sitting right beside me listens to my crazy weird stories too.

We all have this big problem in our life, we don’t bother to listen. We all want to talk, give advice, scream, shout, backbite, and spread rumors. But we are not ready to LISTEN! Mostly because we are busy to give someone some time to tell out there problem. We have important things to do than understand why that girl in the corner of our class doesn't talk. We all including me take life for granted.

And then we see people like that father who change our reasons to live. Let us all change the way we treat people, let us all try to LISTEN more than talk!!

MY LIVING ANGEL!!

Captivating me with your eyes,

Long I've wondered what you are.

My breath stops when you pass by,

I’d wish if the next moment would pause.

Time passes way fast, how much

I wish I could rewind and play.

Sorry for what I've done.

Atone I will till you come back,

Coz you are my angel…

My living angel!!

wish i could......

Wish I could...but I simply cant......
you did change me...and that to from bad to good
and when you need me...I am forced to be unseen..
not so I like it...but circumstances at present has lead me to...
so please don’t misunderstand...and think am ignoring you
and I promise I will be there...just let me get through this now...
so please have some tolerance...
people who I thought I would never even know in my life...
have become so close..
and you are one among them...
and people whom I thought will always be there by my side....
have ignored me always...
so you who changed me....I will be there by your side….if god wills…. 

(THIS HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF MY OLD POEMS!!!)

yell it out now....!!!!

just be open and tell it out..or yell it out. we all have the habit of taking life for granted and keep many things for tomorrow. telling someone what they mean to you or apologizing for doing some wrong. who knows what is going to happen tomorrow, so live in the present and let out yourself…else we will be the one regretting!!! maybe it could change your world or its not worth but the main thing is you let it out of your heart!! be it a I LOVE YOU or a SORRY yell it now and you will feel awesome!!! :P

move on coz life goes on.......

we feel they are going to stay beside you forever!!! as if they will forgive you for all you nuisance. but we think wrong!!! once they are hurt no matter if you were BFF’S they are gonna ignore you and you are left alone and have to pretend everything is fine. my life taught me a big lesson, if you made a mistake and your friends don’t forgive you then move on….coz life isn't ending there…….they will ignore you, you will do the same and it is all gonna happen and the best part is life will go on!!! so smile and treat yourself with some self respect!!! :)

SUICIDE

What my fate turned out to be

Every time I step out,

I see something that doesn't belong here.

Something that was not to born here.

And that is when I recognize,

It is my own reflection.

Like an angel my mother brought me up,

But in return I could give was a devil.

Life never was vivid for me.

Every time I listen to the screams,

I even think I was to be killed.

Living like a dead body

Be nothing but my fate

Of all the beauty I have seen it was my

Mom’s eyes I fascinated,

She turned mad when she knew

Her only angel was not up to good

She ran over proving

That rumor was rumor

And for me to do was

To leave forever.

I was thrown by many, beaten by other.

Some took me for pleasure

while other to finish their anger.

Whatever it was I was skin and bone

Not knowing what to do

I walk around

Crying for what I lost

But the most

Was my mother....

At last I knew what to do

I found it near the river.

And that was what I did

Suicide...

FAITH, WHERE ARE YOU?????

Since the start of this year I had a familiar and a similar routine. But today there was a small change.

I was fasting today. Well for us Muslims it Sunnah to fast on Thursdays and Mondays. So today I woke up and cleaned up myself and walked straight to the kitchen and then I realized I was fasting. The other day I was really restless wondering how it would be for me to fast this summer in the desert land of Saudi Arabia. Well Alhamdulillah I managed and I really wish it goes the same in the month of Ramadan. I remember learning in my Qur’an classes that the main thing required is faith in our lord and I guess that is what helped me today.

This thought made me take to different times in my life when I had lost faith in my friends, family, my lord, me myself. To be honest if I had faith in me myself then maybe by now my first book would have been published. :(

We all tend to lose faith in ourselves easily. It could be a inner thing in us pulling us back and keeping us away from achieving it. I believe it’s the game of Satan because seeing us achieve something good is way out of Satan’s league!!

The thing is that achieving something good is always tough. First thing we need to have inside us is faith in our creator. I am an ardent believer of the quote that " NOT A LEAF MOVE WITHOUT GOD'S WILL". Well it is the truth. 

We all feel that we humans are the most powerful ones on this planet and that there is nothing impossible for us to do. I agree with this statement.  But something that we tend to forget or ignore is that without the ALMIGHTY nothing is possible and that everything is possible mainly because of our creator.

Having faith in our creator is not an easy step because we have to develop certain belief in us and it does not come easily. We need to believe that there exists something that is perfect and is GOD ALMIGHTY. Next thing is that praying to him asking for anything and everything that is acceptable. We people remember god only when we need him. This is something we have to change. So let us believe and pray to lord and develop faith in him first and then in ourselves.

After all there is nothing impossible with him around!!!

That is it for today folks and do include me in all your prayers!!! J

(I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO PUBLISH MY DIARY TOMORROW BECAUSE MY GRANNY IS FLYING BACK AND I WILL BE A BIT BUSTY THERE!! SOWWIE!! IN SHA ALLAH WILL POST SOON!! J )

I WANT MORE AND MORE.......AND MORE!!!

Hello people, well I thought from today onward I will include a new stuff! And that is more like a diary. Well I would write down one thing that made me think on the specific day and share my views on that!

7/7/2013

My mom and I went to meet one of her friend who is also her student. I knew the woman as mom’s student but nothing more than that. We reached her home and I was shocked! The lady who smiled and who seems to be so satisfied with her life lives in a one bedroom apartment with two kids!!! I felt sad for them.

I started thinking about all the comforts of my life. I have a whole room that I still hate to share with my brother when that woman and her husband and her two kids sleep in one room! I have a study table, a bed that I don’t have to share with anyone and many other blessings from lord. I went back to all those times I was sitting and complaining about not having a better home when what I actually have is luxuries in reality.

Its normal for a human everyone say, to want more in life. We all are never satisfied with what exist in our hand but we want more. 

 It’s a fact, I agree. But can’t we actually bring a change to the fact. Can’t we actually keep away the greediness inside us? Shut it away and lock it up and never bring it back. We can change ourselves if we want to. After all nothing is impossible!!

So let us all try to bring a change into the world and let us learn to be happy with what we have!!!

That is it for today folks….hope I could spread a good message to you all!! J

HIJAB, UNDERSTAND DON’T UNDERESTIMATE!!!

Well I have been living my entire teenage life wearing a piece of cloth on my head which is called as the "hijab".
I was taught from young what women have to cover and what men should cover and yes the piece of cloth is important. But the thing is that the societies in general see this as a source of weapon to kill people or to oppress women and to restrict their freedom. The media has depicted woman who cover as old fashioned people or those who don’t have a value or class in this modern world.

The actual reason why Muslim woman cover them self up and tie a cloth around them self is not because they are afraid of the public or not because of fear of the opposite gender, it is just because they are listening to their lord and after all he knows the best.
Many Muslim sisters are afraid to follow the hijab fearing that the public might not accept them. Yes, it is tough to get into a famous company with that cloth on your head, it is going to be tough to sit among a group of friend wearing full sleeves, it is going to be tough to explain why you cover up like this.
But always we should remember that at the end it doesn’t matter if the public was happy but if Allah the almighty was happy.
When talking about men, lowering their gaze in front of a mahram is their hijab. Honestly speaking the hijab for men is really tough to follow because this is not a piece of cloth they have to wear but to put their eyes when they see a lady!!!
Many men have succeeded in fulfilling this but majority cannot. They might not even realize the fact that they are admiring a woman, because their hormones are jumping around!! When the hijab of a woman is something the world keeps on talking about the hijab of men are not. One thing we should realize is that these two hijab if properly followed can only lead to a better place. The female gender cannot expose them self and ask the men not to look at, that would be like keeping a bone in front if a dog and asking it not to touch!! Neither can the men ask the woman to cover her face or sit back at home so that they don’t have to the female specie anywhere out.

Another misunderstanding is about woman covering their face. Islam has not made it important for a woman to cover her face, it is totally her wish and liking and therefore if woman goes out in proper hijab without covering her face there is nothing she is going to be punished for. Moreover men have no right to force women to cover their face just because they have their hormone jumping all around. So to my brothers I want to tell that please just because you can’t lower your gaze don’t force women to cover up their face, and to all my Muslim sisters and brothers I want to tell one thing, the whole of mankind may reject you, but their creator has already accepted you!!!!

What more…..

Breathtaking things happen in everyone’s time.

But luckiest like me get the preeminent!!

Gazing at the mirror I memorize all the fun,

When had when I was five, ten and fifteen.

Home is born as you both are there.

And love is constitutional because of your inhabitance.

My prayer for you both is to have a long life,

A life that hurts none and never hurts you.

Gifts in life are really unexpected,

But what did I do to have such miracle.

You both have educated me things I feel illogical,

And have helped me in all my collapses.

My love is out flowing, now and forever.

All thanks to you, I am born here,

What more can I anticipate….oh my parents!!

FRIENDS INFLUENCE US??? OH YES....THEY DO!!! :)

Hello!! Long since we met??? Well am back on track!!!

Thanks to a buddy of mine I thought of writing something for my blog, so here is a big thank you to RIA RAICHAUDHURI!!!

Well last week I was lying on my bed and thinking about what changed me from who I was to who I am now and I realized my friends are the ones and  also realized that the teenagers and the youth get influenced mainly by their friends. So if I take my example I was not a very good girl, well I am now!  The one who showed me the light and helped me to the right path is HAJER. Now she will never ever agree to this, she will tell me that it isn't her and stuff, but she is the reason I am who I am now!!!

When I talk about influencing it could be bad as well as good. We all have friends who we are close to or maybe just a friend or for namesake a friend!! We really should be careful with whom we become close to because unintentionally without our knowledge they will influence us in many ways. Some girls and guys try to eat and sit the way other friends in their group do and others who cut of their limits might even get into drugs and alcohol. It is natural for a boy or a girl to get influenced by his or her friends, because they are the ones they roam around and have most of their teen life and college life spent around with. So we should be a bit selective when it comes to friends. Now once we are into a bad group of friends we might not realize the fact that we are into no good and we feel what we are doing now is right, but later when we are to live a life and start earning and stuff we will surely have the hangover of this influence and can never have a good life. Now when I mean to say we move away from the bad group doesn't mean we hate them, we should at the same time try to make them see the difference between what is good and what is bad.

I am one of the luckiest girls who have a good bunch of friends around me!! I have friends like Hajer who would show me what is write and help me learn more about my religion and Rasha to make me laugh always and even though she is so immature knows what her limit is and so told me too that have fun, but in your limits and last but not the least My POOH FAMILY who taught me some beautiful lessons like:

1.       BE POSITIVE

2.       BE YOURSELF

3.       BE HAPPY

4.       SMILE ALWAYS

5.       DON’T BOTHER IF PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF YOU

6.       LOVE YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

7.       HAVE FAITH IN GOD

8.       WHAT SO EVER HAPPENS BE STRONG

9.       ETC….ETC…ETC….

An important lesson out of all which two of my friend from my “pooh family” taught was:

1.       Don’t get offended if people are going to correct you, take it as an advice (THANK YOU RIA AND SHIFA)

We may not notice, but we always tend to please them rather than being ourselves, which is literally bad for us in our future. I always believe that having one friend whom will help us in finding the right path is better than to have hundreds of friends who happened to choose you as their friend only if u fit in their checklist. So before you regret just sit back and think about what type of friends are you with!!

So that is for now!!!

Salaam, Adios…………… :)

BEAUTY OF ME!!

Beauty of my eyes is not the long lashes,

But the good I see.

Beauty of my nose is not the perfect length,

But the gorgeous scent I smell.

Beauty of my lip is not the cute color,

But the words I speak.

Beauty of my body is not what I highlight,

But the way I cover it like pearls under sea.

Beauty of my heart is not only the pure blood,

But a heart that touches and feels.

Beauty of me is not my lifestyle,

But the positive in me!!

HIBA FAROOK (HBZ) ©

IS INNOCENCE A FELONY??

(THIS POEM IS DEDICATED TO INNOCENT KIDS LIKE BALACHANDRAN WHO ARE SHOT TO DEATH VICIOUSLY!!)

Am I to live here?

With so much of fear!!!

Is being innocent...

A felony in today’s world!!

Or has killing been embossed as,

A hobby for many!!

Or is it a kind of drug,

That has to be injected all the time!!

Why didn't they look into my eyes

That only resembled love and harmony.

How can man be so awful…?

Guns could take a lot of life,

But I ask “Can it create one?”

Don’t these murderers’s have kids??

Well to those kids I want to tell,

“Stay far from them,

Because you will be asked to pay,

Even if you’re a killer or not!!!”

And as I lay there waiting for

My approaching death!!!

I close my eyes and respire,

My last breath..!!

HIBA FAROOK (HBZ) ©

I WALK...THE FIRE SPILLED ROAD!!

(THIS POEM IS DEDICATED TO THOSE ORPHANS OF PALESTINE AND IRAQ.  GOD IS WITH YOU, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!! WE PRAY TO SEE YOU RISE!!)

 I walk through the fire spilled road,

That was my homeland, burning now!!

I weep with no one to hear me,

Only god knows what I have lost.

I don’t know where to go,

I don’t know what to do.

As I reach my so called house,

Now packed down with a grenade!!

I reach my doorstep to see

My family, lying breathless.

How malicious could man turn out to be??

The question actually is “WHY”!!

I miss those days when peace,

Filled the world from all roads.

I walk through the fire spilled road,

That was my homeland burning now!!

HIBA FAROOK (HBZ) ©

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE!!!

Even after I hear she was raped

I stand there with my mouth shut.

It is not because I wanted to

I was thinking why her…?

Why did men turn out to be animals?

Why did they roughly leave her to death?

Where did the love and care go?

Did they forget the pledge they repeated?

Every day since they went to kindergarten….

INDIA IS MY COUNTRY…..

AND ALL INDIANS ARE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!

Why are innocent girls suffering?

From such rape attacks

Why are girls to die?

Because of some beast!!

And then I think

What could be the solution?

Well that is when I recollected a proverb….

PREVENTION IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN CURE!!!

We girls should always be careful

We don’t know who our attacker is

In this era it could be,

Brother, guy-friend or even father!!

It is not because they want to

It is just because the environment has leaded them to!!!

Today we girls follow the western…

Or to be specific the Hollywood trend!!

We think miniskirts are an attraction.

Yes it is…but leads to complete destruction

We think roaming around at night is cool….

But yes it also leads to complete foolishness

I am not telling we are not allowed to

But sometimes we should be careful about ourselves

Only because we carry a pepper spray

It is not going to help us everywhere

And if we trust all out there

We will be the next one to be attacked

So it is always better to be safe…

And as the saying goes…

Prevention is better….always better than cure…

HIBA FAROOK (HBZ) ©