Niqabs for Sale

Assalamualaikum dear lovely friends, readers, followers and visitors.

Thank you very much for visiting KakChik's Wardrobe and if I'm lucky, I'll get a comment or a message from you. I was a bit busy since yesterday because I have a meeting with my books supplier which basically means, have to make a list of books to return, make a new list to order, prepare a cheque and have a meeting.

Apart from that, one of my colleague at work lost her mother in law yesterday's morning, innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raaji'un. And my other co-workers spent two hours visiting her family. We just want to give them moral support for their loss. Insyaallah the arwah may rest in peace.

So, here I am taking a few minutes of my time to inform you that I have many black niqabs for sale. There are single layer saudi niqab, double layer saudi niqab which came from Makkah, Dubai, Bangalore and also made in Malaysia.

Here are some of the samples:

double layer with nose string, from makkah, RM25

single layer with head cover, from dubai, RM25

single layer with head band, from bangalore, RM20

If anyone interested, they are still available. You can order by emailing me at hanniaziz[dot]yahoo.com.

I'm sure there must some of you who are really in need of a niqab. Contact me ok. Thank you.

Sharing: Hijab/Niqab or No Scarf at All

This article is written by Prepare For The Hour

It is a very well written article about aurat and hijab. I hope it is okay with her for me to share her article here because I think her good article will have more readers. Please give credits and thanks to Sister Safyiah of PREPARE FOR THE HOUR.

Now, let's read her article and reflect.

Bismillah


Salamo Aleikom Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu


I want to comment about an article that I happened to read one of these days. I posted it on my Facebook profile by mistake, but I want to have my say in it, inshaAllah.


This is the article in question: Stop Telling Muslim Women How To Dress


I must say, I was allured by the title, but, once I started reading it I just felt how much of consciousness of todays trials and Islamic thought weren't put into the article.


I agree that some people lead the subject of hijab/niqaab to sexist views, but it's not all of them. Let's see: isn't a Muslim woman supposed to follow the Qur'an and the Sunnah? So, why would she go back on the Qur'an and the Sunnah at the same time when it comes to her clothing? WAIT, now that I'm saying this, people will start calling me extremist. Well, it's not me who is extremist then, look to the Qur'an, see the context and the commentaries of the Sahabah and other scholars and then check the Sunnah about hijab. No, it's not me who is extremist.


Also, there's a difference between insulting and giving advice. The first is not allowed from a Muslim to another Muslim or even to a kafir (unless during war, when the kuffar are hostile towards the Muslims). The second is more than allowed, but are the receivers of this advice with an open heart for the worry her sister/brother has on her Hereafter?


Another thing is when the people that don't wear hijab and don't wear the proper hijab, try to say that there's no such rules in the Qur'an and Sunnah that tell them to cover up more. Well, go look again and bring a sheikh to explain it to you or just look to the rulings on the clothing through Islamic history and compare to the lay back attitude of some sheikhs today that allow some people even to drink wine and eat pork... astaghfirullah.


Now, let's make some differences here. Not wearing hijab or not wearing proper hijab does not mean we can judge the faith of that person. Faith is in the heart, it can't be seen through a garment. It's like smoking. You can't tell a person that smokes that they have low faith. Some relative in my husband's family smokes and I see each Fajr prayer, he stays praying and reading Qur'an until the sun rises, he is an old person, so it's hard for him to go to the masjid. And I KNOW many Muslims don't do that, they don't even go to the masjid if they can. Many of them don't even pray Fajr and they still don't smoke. So, let's make some sense here.


The reality I see many times is that as much as the sisters and brothers want to see some positive change in the people who don't wear hijab or don't wear proper hijab, out of worry, not of insult, they take the advise as an offense, which shouldn't happen. Why are they so sensitive to this matter? Is it because they know they are wrong in wearing what they wear? Allahu A'lam.


I see many times a sister giving an advise to another sister who is not wearing proper hijab and she simply gets offended by the worry of her sister who is advising.


One of these days, after I took care of my visa, I went to a masjid near the building I was in. The prayer started, everyone prayed. Then, after it finished, a sister comes to the prayer room. For you to have a picture, she was not wearing proper clothing to enter a masjid, she was wearing a very tight shirt on the upper part. Yes, like most of the girls in Egypt. So, before she prayed, a lady who was about 40-50 years old called her and asked her name. She said her name and then the lady advised her "you can put some prayer dress over your clothes so that your prayer can be accepted". The girl smiled and went away, she did not pray. So, which kind of Muslims are we talking about? The ones that take an advise as an offense (generally). I must tell you, if the Sahabah took and advise and confirmed it to be the Sunnah and the right way, they would hold on to it and practice it as much as they can.


Understand, my sisters in Islam, that the people who advise you, worry about you. They are not indirectly offending you, they want the best for you, they want Paradise for you. Insulting is one thing, advising is another thing. Let's distinguish that a bit.


To the people that advise, try to be as subtle as possible, be kind and gentle. Explain with proof from Qur'an and Sunnah.


To the subject about "men and women can't be friends in Islam", well, they can, as long as they are mahram. It's not about sex, it's about Islamic rulings and how Islam was and is practiced. I remember the incident when 'A'isha (raw) was alone in the desert when she went to search for her necklace, she fell asleep. The person who came and saw her said "subhanAllah", did he go there and say "how are you 'Aisha, what happened, why are you here?". No, their conversation was direct to the point and he tried to help her, not out of friendship, but out of respect and knowing that she was the wife of the Prophet (sws). Also, why is there a separation between men and women in prayer? Even if the women pray behind the men, there's a separation, the women don't pray beside men and men don't pray beside women, and this is a Sunnah. So, you see there's no mixing allowed by the Prophet (sws). And he (sws) advised us not to go to supermarkets, if possible. To avoid what? Mixing. So, if you say non-mahram girls and boys can be friends, why did the Prophet (sws) forbid girls and boys to be in touch in the first place?


Another thing, scholars are mostly men, if you don't take an advise from a scholar then you're in an even worse situation and you should check yourself and the faith you are having right now. If people write books on this subject it's because they care, they don't write books out of a hobby.




Let's take a deeper look to our teachings.


About the non-Muslims telling Muslim women how to wear. They are adding wood to the fire. I must ask to the non-Muslims, where in this whole world are you capable of telling a Muslim what he/she is doing wrong or right in his/her religion?


Most of these non-Muslims just go to their Muslim neighbor Sami around the corner and ask him to give them a commentary from himself on the Qur'an just because they think by a person knowing Arabic that they can understand the Qur'an to that extend.


Let me remind the non-Muslims that Qur'an is not like the Bible. Many of you may not have seen the original texts of the Bible, but we Muslims have to see things in Arabic to have a deeper understanding of what's being said and even so, we need something called Tafsir from scholars to know the exact meaning. It's not like "bring a cup of popcorns and let's watch the movie". It requires years of study of the grammar and the interpretation from hadith and the sahabah and the students of the sahabah to know about these verses in the Qur'an and explain them. It's not like you read it just like that and it's what's in front of you. There's something called "context". If you don't care about the context you're just like Al-Qaeda that reads and does, no question about it. You're using Al-Qaedas tactics? Aren't you supposed to be against their way of thinking?


Take Care


Salam

Been a long time... lol, don't get used to it

navy niqab @ http://www.sunnahstyle.com/product_info.php?pName=two-piece-velcro-niqab-navy-blue&cName=niqabs-all-niqabs for $10.99 USD

navy shayla @ http://www.sunnahstyle.com/product_info.php?pName=extra-large-shayla-w-crocheted-trim-navy-blue&cName=hijabs-wrapsshaylas for $18.99 USD

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BTW, sorry my set kind sucks, I am rusty,

Sharing: Behind the Veil

From: I Got It Covered

Picture credited to Rizal Tahir

Imagine stepping outside every day – your body and face in complete concealment from the rest of the world, with only a slit exposing your eyes to see where you are going. A life devoted to the constant worship of God, through extremely modest dressing.

This is the life that twenty-six-year-old Noor B. lives every day. This is the life of a niqaabi (nɪˈkɑːbee), a woman who wears the niqaab or Islamic face veil.

It is lunch time and Noor is on break from the weekend intensive seminar she is taking entitled: Islamic Code of Ethics. The lounge is flooded with young women: some wearing head scarves and jeans, others robed with complete face veils. Greetings of Assalamu Alaykum (Peace be upon you) are exchanged as the women eat and eagerly discuss the new information they have acquired from the seminar.

Noor sits with her back facing the exit door. She does not want to take the chance of a man seeing her face when the door opens. She explains that it is generally okay to take off her veil in front of other Muslim women and close male relatives, but in this instance she was in a public area and did not want to take a risk.

Dressed in an all black niqaab and jilbaab (a looser outer garment that covers the entirety of a woman’s body) all I can see are the creases on the corner of her eyes indicating her nervous smile. She does not think she is worthy of being interviewed and apologizes for eating while I conduct the interview. She lifts the black veil, takes a bite of her egg roll and then lets the veil fall back in its place as she finishes chewing. She makes sure to tell me one of her biggest challenges is eating. “It’s so hard!” And with the same process of lifting her veil for each bite, one can only imagine how tedious it can be.

Eating is not her only problem though, as she tells me that finding places to purchase her niqaabs and jilbaabs are not easy, especially given her petite figure. “I got this one from Saudi Arabia, and I had to hem it like 6-inches! …And when I shop in the [Islamic] stores in Brooklyn, they are so expensive.” She tells me she likes the black ones because they draw less attention than a brightly colored outfit would.

Noor began wearing the niqaab six months ago when she went to Mecca for ‘Umrah, a pilgrimage that can be performed any time throughout the year. “Seeing all these women in niqaab, I was like, what am I doing?” So she took the next step – completely veiling her face and body. When she came back to her hometown of Brooklyn, NY she received mixed reactions.

It was no surprise to Noor’s mother who is already a niqaabi, but her friends were not as supportive. “I had friends who didn’t understand the super-change I was going through. It was mostly my non Muslim and non practicing Muslim friends who were surprised.” Although she has remained sociable with her friends, she admits these friendships are not the way they used to be.

She explains that the issue of niqaab as an obligation or an option has been the crux of the debate amongst Islamic scholars. “But if you study the Qur’an [Holy Book in Islam] and the Sunnah [the examples/teachings of the Prophet Muhammad], we find that Allah commands the wives of the Prophet to cover themselves.” She tells me the wives of the Prophet were considered the best and purest women of all time, and covering was considered an act of modesty and submission to God’s command. “If this act of veiling was made obligatory for the best women ever created, then it must be fard (obligatory) for us… What would lead me to believe I’m better than them?”

She then begins to recall the moments that led to her decision of veiling. “Another turning point in my life was a [marriage] proposal that I received. The guy wanted to marry a niqaabi woman and my initial reaction was: I am not the one you want.” But after reading up on the issues and reasoning behind the niqaab, something changed, “…and I found this was something that I wanted to do.” She explains it was something of an epiphany, and this feeling of increased faith is what prepared her for a life changing alteration.

We briefly shift into the topic of marriage and she tells me that young Muslims are always eager to marry. “It’s what prevents lusts from turning into immoral acts, like premarital sex… Anything that leads to desire, even too much looking [at the opposite sex] is considered unrighteous and un-Islamic.” This is why the marriage proposal from a man she did not know did not seem unusual or out of the ordinary. She tells me the criteria for Islamic marriages is that the aspiring spouse should be very religious. “He knew my dad, and asked for my hand in marriage…and that was it.”

Noor says she disagrees with people who say change is gradual, because for her, change happened almost instantaneously. “I went from wearing the hijaab (Islamic head scarf) with fitted jeans, to wearing the niqaab and big jilbaabs… [Before], I never even studied Islam when I was in hijaab.” And in this short transition period, she recalls the longing she felt to fulfill her duty as a Muslim woman. “Every time I saw a niqaabi I was jealous. I would stare at each and every one of them thinking, why can’t I please Allah (God) the way she pleases Allah?”

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This interview was conducted in the early months of 2008. In July of 2009, Sr. Noor Bhuiyan passed away. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon – to Allah we belong and to Him we return. May Allah have mercy on her soul, and grant her entrance into the highest level of paradise. May her deeds and her words, and her life and her death, be an example and inspiration for us all.

Why am I wearing niqab?

Assalamualaikum and good morning to all my friends and readers.

Firstly, I'd like to apologize (again) for my lack of update for this blog. Whenever I have some personal issues I seem not to be able to write in English and that's why the absence of any new post. And yesterday when I was planning to update, my laptop crashed and right now I'm using my office desktop, borrowed for a while with my boss consent. I do not like to use the office equipments for my personal benefits. It's not right otherwise it's ok with the b o s s.

As for today, I'd like to reply to questions from different people but has the same purpose.They would like to know why as a Malaysian, I wear niqab.

My simple answer would be I'm wearing it because I want to get closer to Allah. It has nothing connected with people. It has nothing about being Malaysian or not. Niqab is for everyone who wish to wear it. No one ask me to wear it. Not my husband and not my parent. I found that after I started wearing it more than 14 years ago, I become better in my belief in Islam, I practice more, I do more religious work, I learn more about Islam and of course I grew more confident to tell people that I am Muslim. And I found peace.

Insyaallah both ways of hijab is correct. Don't you think so?

Another reason for wearing this niqab is that I believe niqab is sunnah. Some believe it to be fard, depends on which opinion you stand for. As for me it is sunnah but I try to be committed in wearing it  whenever I'm out of my house and around non-mahram (A non-mahram is someone who you can marry, someone who you should cover yourself in front of). 

I've read so many stories and hadiths about women during the time of our beloved Rasulullah saw  who put on the veil in certain situations.  There are hadiths that say that niqab is sunnah and not fard but still everyone is open for their own belief. Do not force others  to believe what you believed but you can tell them about it. If they also later want to believe the same opinion, alhamdulillah. 

There are many ayat from the Qur'an that ask the women of the believers to cover themselves. For example the ayat below:

‘O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks ("Jalabib") veils all over their bodies (screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way Tafseer Al-Qurtabi) that is most convenient that they should be known (as such) and not molested: and Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful." Surah al-Ahzaab: 59

As I am not a scholar, I do not really know how to give my argument on this but if you'd like to read more, please use your internet access to search on 'dalil on niqab' insyaallah you'll find some texts that are interesting to read. Then please make your own conclusion.

Wearing full hijab as what Islam has teaches us is very good, alhamdulillah. I am not complaining. For me niqab is a personal thing between you and Allah. As a Muslim woman, I am an ambassador of Islam and my niqab has been one of the tool, to open the door to communication between me and non-Muslim. I combine my niqab with the best Islamic attitude that I know of.  It's not easy to write about my feelings but if you know me in person, you'll know that wearing niqab does not restrict me from doing so many things socially, politically, economically or academically. 

That's it. I do not know what else to write. Believe it or not, wearing niqab has make me a person as I am now. I'm not perfect. Not at all but insyaallah I will always fear Allah every time I think of doing something bad. Na'uzubillah.

Ordered them but still not arrive yet

Last week I've ordered 2 pieces of niqabs and I butterfly abaya from Saharayusuf's blogshop. The niqabs was posted on Wednesday if I'm not mistaken and they should have reached me today. Hopefully they'll arrive tomorrow.

The niqabs are a one-layer plain type niqab. I try to find a pic from Saharayusuf but to no avail. She only have the pictures of niqabs with a little embellishments. They look nice but I prefer the plain one. If you'd like to buy pretty niqabs such as this:

and this:

you can visit saharayusuf.blogspot.com There are more choices there.

And for once in my life, I will try a butterfly abaya custom-made for me by a Malaysian. This is the abaya that I've ordered.

Now, is the time to wait patiently for their arrival. Hopefully they'll arrive this week because Sahara promised me, after the payment is cleared, it will take one week for her to finish making the abaya. So, I'm gonna trust her.

Today is the Niqab Day

Assalamualaikum wr wbt everyone.

May the blessings of Allah be upon us all.

Today is The Niqab Day to show our solidarity for all the sisters every where in this world who wear niqabs either they are free to wear it or they are prohibited to do so. As a niqabi myself, I pray that Muslim sisters would support this special campaign as part of our personal contribution to the sunnah.

PLEASE DO NOT COPY

If you can do it, please wear a niqab for today. My post is a bit late to be published as half of the day is already gone but I hope I can gain some interest and support.

Here's the content of the campaign which I copy and paste from the Mind of a Muslimah's blog.

On monday 8th March inshaAllah, We will make it known the choices of muslim women's. We have rights! And it's Our right to cover as it's your's on monday 8th March.

Description:

Violence against women is happening in the world. This violence is not just physical but also verbal. Goverment who we have elected are ones who now are holding our sister against their will, they are the ones telling us how a woman should look or behave. Moreover, the government ignores woman needs—and denies their very existence and prevent human rights.

Womens are the ones who had to fight to have basic rights, throughout the history, the question is why is this happening now?

Sisters and brothers, we need to show the world that We muslims are as equal as others and We have right as they.

Join to take part of Niqab Day, to show our support to our sisters on 8th March 2010 on the Women’s day - it’s a day when the world celebrate. Let’s celebrate the choices of women's.

Oh, do you by any chance celebrate the International Women's Day?

Picture is copyrighted by Rizal Tahir.

Helping a friend to make hijab and niqab

3 different colours of cloths will be turn into hijabs and niqabs, soon.

Assalamualaikum dear readers. May all of you are in good health and enjoying your life wherever you are.

I was quite exhausted after completing several chores since this morning. Thursday is always a busy day for me. This is the day when I have to go to the banks, post office, my bookshop, shopping for groceries, take care of my nieces and wash the ever mounting of clothes (got to do the ironing and sorting later tonight). Well, all these works make me out of ideas and a bit lazy to update.

Anyway, I promise a blogger friend last night that I'm posting a picture of some clothing that I'm making into hijabs and niqabs. Actually, I'm going to help her making them. I was telling myself, "Hey, it's been almost 3 years since I last sew a hijab and niqab. My skills might be rusty. LOL, what would she think when she saw the hijabs and niqabs. What was I thinking?". However, I choose to help her because I just like helping people especially if the help in need is related to clothing.

So... my friend, I hope you'll like the colours. Oh, there are 3 because 1 is mine. If you happen to like all 3, I'll let you have them. InsyaAllah I'll email you the prices later. Hopefully my connection will be good tonight because the weather looks very good. There won't be rain tonight. I really pray for that. Please Allah.

Got to go now. Hubby's just came home and he would want some afternoon tea. Wassalam.

Making Niqaab Is So Easy

I am bored speechless inside this cold office. Outside is raining heavily and I think I'd be drenched before I get into my car to go home.

But let's have some fun with a lesson - MAKING YOUR OWN NIQAB.

Thanks to CleverMuslimah in YouTube for sharing her video with us.

Let's get to the lesson:

I'm going to try this at home.

Video is from HERE.

Zaitoon Abaya Fashion Show in Dubai Hotel Vid.

Warning, the vids do contain music do turn your speakers off while watching if you prefer. I like the first vid because it shows a bit of how Emirati girls style their shaylas as niqab.