The "Camel Hump" hijab

THERE ARE POSSIBLY  THOUSANDS OF BLOGS /EMAILS /WEBSITES THAT HAVE TOUCHED ON THIS ISSUE: SO NOW ITS MY TURN...LOL

I have been hearing about this whole big thing about how the "camel Hijaab" is haraam, and me loving my Hijaab, decided to go find out were it comes from. I found that it stems from a hadeeth that is as follows:

It was reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There are two types of the people of Hell that I have not seen yet: men with whips like the tails of cattle, with which they strike the people, and women who are clothed yet naked, walking with an enticing gait, with something on their heads that looks like the humps of camels, leaning to one side. They will never enter Paradise or even smell its fragrance, although its fragrance can be detected from such and such a distance.” (Narrated by Ahmad and by Muslim in al-Saheeh).

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Now I am no senior scholar or anything but I thought I would give just my opinion on it. At first I thought why would it be haraam? It’s encouraging more women and more youth to cover them and wear the Hijaab. I won’t lie... I sometimes wear it like that. And there is AWAYS a reason as to why something is made haraam.

looking at the Hadeeth I was wondering if all of those go together - referring to the women that will not enter...(or get the smell) of Paradise.

Because they do say 2 types of people:

Men with the whip people like cattle

And the women that are openly dressed with a "camel hump".

....At least thats how I read it....

Well what if you have a “camel hump” and you are covered?

Doesn’t that count for something?

Is it not about ourah?

Are we then not discouraging young women to wear the hijaab

Is this hadeeth then not taken out of context?

Just questions I’ve been asking myself since I’ve come across this whole thing.

I am not perfect; I listen to music and do a number of things that make me well...ME... Even though I try to better myself, I do have my flaws... (allot of them), but I think if it is encouraging young girls to cover themselves, which now a days is something very rare, then should it not be a good thing.  And I am not saying that all the ulema saying that this form of Hijaab is haraam are wrong. I just want to know what exactly makes it haraam. Is it because it has now become a fashion statement? And if so does it not encourage non Muslims to then cover themselves as well? Help them see the beauty in our deen?

Its all so confusing.



Boeka On The Beach

The fast is here and I am in a different mind space... But sometimes you get so distracted with doing other things that you don’t realize how much time you actually waste doing these unimportant things

The hardest thing about the fast is not really the hunger part
It’s everything else that comes with it

Controlling your temper

Keeping your thoughts pure and clean

The Ramadan is a time to ponder, reflect, repent.It’s a time for change, by doing small things....

There is a hadeeth that is as follows:

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “Fasting is a shield (or a screen or a shelter). So, the person observing fasting should avoid sexual relation with his wife and should not behave foolishly and impudently, and if somebody fights with him or abuses him, he should tell him twice, ‘I am fasting.” The Prophet added, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, the smell coming out from the mouth of a fasting person is better in the sight of Allah than the smell of musk. (Allah says about the fasting person), ‘He has left his food, drink and desires for My sake. The fast is for Me. So I will reward (the fasting person) for it and the reward of good deeds is multiplied ten times.”

It’s amazing how many things you notice during this time that you never really saw, how many things you appreciate more...

Like when I am driving to or from work... The beauty of the world that we are live in... The grass is greener, even the mist looks more beautiful and more mysterious

Then I had an encounter with an asylum. And it made had me thinking and appreciating my life and my sanity and the way the creator has made me.

Why is there so much hostility in the world during this time? I thought this was a month of peace, but all around me I am seeing people act out. Is it just their test? Or have they lost their patients because they hungry LOL

What I really look forward to in the Ramadan is our mass boeka (Iftar). All my cousins and friends and friends of friends come. Just us youngsters. Anyone that is considered "youth" can come. We come together and bring whatever we can. Every year it is at a different location.

I remember our first mass Iftar:

It was on the beach. We were all rushing to get there on time, and then trying to hear the athaan (Call to prayer). (Didn’t have a radio...LOL). Finally when we saw the sun had set we broke our fast. Made our prayer on the beach. It was allot of fun and very cold. But that didn’t stop some of us to jump into the freezing water....

MEMORIES I WILL NEVER FORGET 

 

The Guitar

My brother has a guitar and I thought it might be a good idea to try something like that out

You know how it is.... You always hear or see someone playing and wonder how hard it actually can be....

Or it is....: “I wish I can do that".....



I recorded a piece but it doesn’t sound as good as it does in Live LOL.....


It really actually sounds pathetic, but I guess you get better as you try. I don’t want to be held back I want to do everything I can do in this life to make it full.... I want to be old and grey and be able to tell little stories and say: “I did that” with a smile on my face…. No regrets… Even if it is a bit wobbly

It’s not about the beginning or the end.... It’s about the journey

FRINGE

Not the type you wear as hair....lol

Everyone has been saying I must try and finish a series of something.... anything. Some people even have been giving me anema... (Wrong spelling. I know - LOL). I dont have a problem with anima, BTW...... But I can’t seem to sit and watch something without being distracted and once I’m distracted I lose interest.

Then my brother starts watching FRINGE..... OoOh.. It is soooooo CoooOooL... Once you start you can’t stop..... Like that Pringle add....

It’s about a FBI Agent who employs a criminal that gets his father out of a mental institution to help them with supernatural cases.....

I think it’s like a mix of Criminal Minds and supernatural...... Again......

SoooOoo CooOool!!!!

It’s a must watch

Shariefah Khasief Fadzielah

Recently went to a quiraah program It was really spiritually uplifting... listening to finish off a gatam (the entire recitation of the Holy Quraan)

Have you heard a female quariah before? Like Shariefah Khasief Fadzielah - International female quariah

She is unbelievable.... the power in her voice....

UNDERSTAND ME

You do not understand me and dare not try.
I confuse you a bit but you don't know why.

I seem so happy..."How can that be?"
my image is shown as oppressed on t.v.

All you've been taught was so real to you;
I am proving different..."Now what to do?"

Do you keep believing in that image you "knew"
or try to understand this from my view?

I am sane, I have a mind and please don't call me weak.
I live and love, laugh and cry and am allowed to speak.

I think for myself, reason and rhyme and am far from being oppressed
But you're so quick to think that of me simply by how I'm dressed.

This is my choice, my own free will that's why I dress as you see;
so before you judge by what you "knew", come and talk to me.

Anonymous 

Somewhere I belong

I remember when I was a bit younger, I started listening to linkin Park and watched these Dragon ball Z videos.Listening to LP recently brought back all those memories... (LOL - Lotsa funny ones.... was that really me??)


Here's one. Not my favourite, but it just applies itself so well for now....

(When this began)

I had nothing to say

And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me

(I was confused)

And I let it all out to find

That Im not the only person with these things in mind

(Inside of me)

But all that they can see the words revealed

Is the only real thing that Ive got left to feel

(Nothing to lose)

Just stuck, hollow and alone

And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

I wanna heal, I wanna feel

What I thought was never real

I wanna let go of the pain

Ive felt so long

(Erase all the pain till its gone)

I wanna heal, I wanna feel

Like Im close to something real

I wanna find something Ive wanted all along

Somewhere I belong

And Ive got nothing to say

I cant believe I didnt fall right down on my face

(I was confused)

Looking everywhere only to find

That its not the way I had imagined it all in my mind

(So what am I)

What do I have but negativity

Cause I cant justify way everyone is looking at me

(Nothing to lose)

Nothing to gain, hollow and alone

And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

I wanna heal, I wanna feel

What I thought was never real

I wanna let go of the pain

Ive felt so long

(Erase all the pain till its gone)

I wanna heal, I wanna feel

Like Im close to something real

I wanna find something Ive wanted all along

Somewhere I belong

I will never know

Myself until I do this on my own

And I will never feel

Anything else until my wounds are healed

I will never be

Anything till I break away from me

I will break away

I'll find myself today

I wanna heal, I wanna feel

What I thought was never real

I wanna let go of the pain

Ive felt so long

(Erase all the pain till its gone)

I wanna heal, I wanna feel

Like Im close to something real

I wanna find something Ive wanted all along

Somewhere I belong

I wanna heal, I wanna feel

Like I am somewhere I belong

I wanna heal, I wanna feel

Like I am somewhere I belong

Somewhere I belong