Ali Dawah - December 09, 2014


Try on Hijab Day ｜｜ Ali Dawah


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

141.1728

Word count

1,357

Sentence count

72

Harmful content

Misogyny

6

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Hate speech

43

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Summary

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In this episode, we talk about the hijab and the experience of wearing it and how it makes you feel as a Muslim woman. We speak to women who have worn the headscarf for the first time and how they feel wearing it makes them feel.

Transcript

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00:03:32.000 I feel really warm, like, it, like, keeps all the heat in my face.
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00:03:39.080 Have you ever tried on a head covering before?
00:03:40.980 I have once at my friend's house, because, like, she got married to, like, a person from that religion.
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00:03:46.880 I feel humble and modest and beautiful.
00:03:51.080 Okay, so, um, how did you feel, um, about the headscarf before you tried it on? 0.96
00:03:55.400 I don't know.
00:03:57.080 So, it's just a normal thing that different cultures wear.
00:04:01.240 Okay.
00:04:01.860 When you tried it on, how did you feel after that?
00:04:05.240 Fine, normal.
00:04:07.180 I felt normal, but...
00:04:09.040 What was your name?
00:04:10.080 Daisy.
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00:04:11.320 Okay, before you tried it on, obviously you saw a lot of Muslim women walking around with it. 1.00
00:04:15.340 What did you think of it?
00:04:16.120 Like, what was in your head, like, did you, like, obviously you found it maybe a bit weird?
00:04:19.060 Um, I didn't understand, like, why they wore it.
00:04:21.100 Is it?
00:04:21.380 Okay, wearing it now, like, how do you feel in it, like?
00:04:25.360 Um, I don't know, I feel like I've got, like, a religion.
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00:04:28.460 So, you're just wearing the hijab right now. 0.92
00:04:30.340 Can you please tell me how you feel as you wear it?
00:04:32.600 I'm going to start.
00:04:33.660 Uh, it feels nice.
00:04:34.820 It's warm and nice and warm.
00:04:36.840 Yeah.
00:04:37.860 Um, it's quite comfortable, you know.
00:04:40.800 So, um, this is the Quran.
00:04:42.620 This is what the Muslim holy book is, and it's the word of God.
00:04:46.460 And we just wanted to give it out to you.
00:04:48.420 It's in English, so you can understand it.
00:04:50.140 The written is in Arabic language.
00:04:52.200 We spoke to a couple of, um, women today. 0.99
00:04:55.560 Basically, one of them was, they were interested in trying the hijab on.
00:04:59.220 I was like, that's a, an experience they never experienced before, and how to feel like to
00:05:03.060 be a Muslim woman.
00:05:04.240 I told her, like, do you want to see, the media says that we're oppressed, so I want
00:05:08.020 you to try it on and see if you feel oppressed or not.
00:05:10.580 The conversation led into what is Islam, and one of them was atheist.
00:05:15.520 She believed that she didn't believe in anything.
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00:05:22.860 of God, and she actually, it made sense to her.
00:05:25.220 We had quite a few girls, actually, uh, trying on the hijab, the jilbab, the naqab. 0.63
00:05:31.200 Um, a lot of the, um, actually we had some people that didn't want to take it off.
00:05:35.820 They really loved it.
00:05:36.580 They felt comfortable.
00:05:37.340 I also brung along two of my friends, and my friends felt that whilst wearing the headscarf,
00:05:42.580 they really enjoyed it, and they didn't even want to take it off.
00:05:45.500 I felt the event today went really well, um, in regards to how people approached us, because
00:05:50.760 the understanding of people that don't wear the naqab is, where naqab means you're on
00:05:57.100 your own kind of thing.
00:05:57.960 Like, people don't, people find it hard to socialise with you and stuff.
00:06:01.840 And I found when approaching people, they found it really easy to speak to us.
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00:06:09.880 Like, they were a bit surprised when we told them that we actually wear the hijab because
00:06:14.360 of our own choice, and not as the media portrays it, as oppressed, and maybe a husband or your
00:06:21.380 brother or your father forced you too.
00:06:23.200 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, brothers and sisters.
00:06:26.220 Today was an amazing day.
00:06:27.980 Um, obviously you heard what the sisters had to say, how the event went, what kind of people
00:06:31.940 they came across.
00:06:33.160 Um, and it really has been amazing, to be honest.
00:06:35.520 And, um, I had two brothers here, they were involved with me as well.
00:06:39.060 Did you get any people, like, coming and basically, in a way, with misconceptions?
00:06:44.320 Uh, yeah, people were really, like, forceful with the way that they came up with their
00:06:49.840 ideas, and they tried to indoctrinate, but, alhamdulillah, it was a really good conversation.
00:06:55.020 How did it go after you kind of made them understand about the misconceptions?
00:06:57.860 Did they kind of understand a bit?
00:06:59.900 Uh, I did tell them that, well, what they were saying, and I explained it, and it was
00:07:04.500 a really good exercise for me, actually, to strengthen my deen and understand that I need
00:07:09.480 to do more research, and that they, and it just built a really good connection, actually.
00:07:14.180 Wow, that's amazing, that's amazing.
00:07:15.340 What about you?
00:07:15.760 How did you come across anyone that's a bit, like, violent?
00:07:17.500 Because we had one guy who came, and he's like, oh, you guys don't show your faces,
00:07:21.680 blah, blah, blah, going in a mad one.
00:07:22.800 I didn't even talk to me, just ran off, like.
00:07:24.500 No, I didn't come across people like that, but it was just normal, normal people that
00:07:29.560 trying to come to the, come to the deen, learn about the deen, but I just had some couple
00:07:34.980 of people, couple of people saying, what is Islam?
00:07:40.760 What does it teach?
00:07:41.820 Who is Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, teaching them how the Bible says it 1.00
00:07:48.060 in their own Bible, and they learn it, and it was good.
00:07:51.240 That's good, so regarding what the experiment the sisters did, do you think it was effective?
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00:07:59.080 Yes, it's good to see sisters coming out, trying to give dawah to other Muslim, other
00:08:05.040 sisters and women, non-Muslim, because it shows them why our women do a cover-up, not 1.00
00:08:13.800 because we force them, because they want to have modesty because of the Quran and Sunnah 0.98
00:08:19.020 tells them to.
00:08:19.660 Yeah, exactly. What about you? Do you think it was effective today, what the sisters did?
00:08:23.080 Like, you know, because we had a lot of non-Muslim females coming, and they were really interested,
00:08:26.900 they wanted to try it on.
00:08:28.260 Yeah, these non-Muslims, they were really, really open, and it cleared a lot of misconceptions,
00:08:32.340 like Fathullah said.
00:08:33.800 MashaAllah, it was a great, great, great day, yeah.
00:08:36.080 Yeah, so brothers and sisters, what we can say is today was an amazing day.
00:08:39.660 Obviously, when it comes from our mouth, we're saying, look, our women are not oppressed, 0.73
00:08:42.660 it's different to we having sisters come in and basically saying, you know what, we are not
00:08:46.440 oppressed, we wear it because of this and this, because it makes it better for them, for them
00:08:49.140 to understand.
00:08:50.040 So obviously, that was important, and we have to do as much as we can.
00:08:53.760 You know, if you want, you can do this in your own city, obviously for safety, get your
00:08:59.060 brothers or cousins, whoever's involved, to be there with you to keep an eye.
00:09:02.020 You know, we tried our best, and I think we did really well, you know, alhamdulillah.
00:09:06.480 Like, a lot of people liked it, even if they didn't take it seriously.
00:09:09.580 Like, you know, you never know, like, two years down the line, they might think, you
00:09:12.020 know what, let me see what that religion was about, I tried it a couple of years ago.
00:09:15.400 So it can have that effect in their heart, you never know.
00:09:18.240 Allah SWT guide them in any way, do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:09:20.600 You know, they might try the niqab and be like, you know what, yeah, I feel a bit safe 1.00
00:09:23.500 in it, you get what I'm trying to say?
00:09:24.760 So alhamdulillah, it was really amazing.
00:09:26.600 Inshallah, share this video with non-Muslim friends, and inshallah, try to do your own 1.00
00:09:30.320 thing as well, you know. That's about it from us. May Allah's mercy and blessings be
00:09:34.140 upon you all. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.