Something bothering...

Assalamu’alaikum,

Ok, so recently, I’ve been wondering about something. You know, sometimes when I hang out with my friends and when we come up with the topic of women, I ask them about “if your going to marry someone, what type of person your going to look for?”. Ok, and they would answer, I look for those that has the looks, charming, nice, responsible and more. Ok, lets skip that, but then when I asked their opinions on those “bertudung labuh” they would say, “alah, pompuan tudung labuh pun bukan baik sangat, kadang-kadang bawah tudung macam-macam ade…rambut kaler, pakai tindik,….,” And more of course. Now the question is, is it really true about “perempuan bertudung labuh” are like that?

Now here’s my opinion. I don’t know if its quite right or wrong, but well, this is my opinion.

You know, if it were true that some girls who wear “tudung” or the hijab are hiding their true form, meant by they dye their hair, have ridiculous hair style and what so ever, I think its far way better rather then those who are proud to show off their adornment. Well, now that is of course the very reason why Allah told us (the Humans) to cover up what is necessary, he said in surah An-nur :

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“…that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty…”

You see, now these types of women are just following what Allah says. Because they think their “beautiful” (which I doubt), puts them to put a veil to cover what is necessary. Anyway, in the above ayat, Allah continues:

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“…that They should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small Children who have no sense of the Shame of sex; and that They should not strike their feet In order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. and O ye believers! turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain bliss.”

Now from this ayat too, Allah referred that they can and only open their veil to a certain people the He specifically mentioned. See for yourself in the ayat.

So, coming back to the topic, you know, sometimes you just can’t predict what “perempuan bertudung labuh” are hiding. And that may be the interesting part of life. You know, a friend of mine said, “its better to not know who and what ‘they’ look like now (not married yet situation) because we’ll have plenty of time after that (after married already) to do many things together (as husband and wife of course).”

You see, I sometimes get quite irritated with people say bad things about “perempuan bertudung labuh” may be because of my sisters are wearing tudung labuh, a majority of my girl friends wears tudung labuh, my mother and her friends wear tudung labuh, my Hidayah teachers wear tudung labuh and lets just say that “perempuan tudung labuh” are very close to me. And what I see to them is, they are quite the opposite of what people say of them. What I meant is that they mostly have the characteristic of being a true muslimah and which is a good thing and far more better rather than those girls whom loiters about shopping malls, clinging to their male friends and more.

Anyway, talking about the negative comments that I got, I also made a positive conclusion from it. What I think is that, why many people, when they see a small fraction of “perempuan bertudung labuh” doing bad stuff they tend to blame the whole lot,well, it may be because they put a great hope for “perempuan bertudung labuh” to be a good example to them. To correct them if they get astray from the right path and to show them what is it like to be a true muslim. Why I say this? May be because usually, “perempuan bertudung labuh” are always referred to be very equipped with religious education. So, my advice to my dear beloved friends of “perempuan bertudung labuh”, why not try to make a good example of what you can do and help those people who are searching for Allah’s Hidayah by showing them the true path. A small help could bring to a huge change.

Ok, lastly, this is just my opinion regarding to part of the holy quran and a small knowledge that I know of. I typed this article just to clear out some speculations about “perempuan bertudung labuh”. I hope it helped out. So that’s it from me, Wassalam.

* Really hope that anybody could give some feed backs.