This is a story of a Niqabi sister in France
After picking groceries in the supermarket, the Niqabi sister stood in the line to pay. After few minutes, her turn came up at the checkout counter.
The checkout girl who was non Hijabi Arab Muslim girl started to scan the items of the Niqabi sister one buy one and then she looked at her with arrogance and said :”we have in France many problems... your Niqab is one of them!! We, immigrants, are here for trade and not to show our Deen or history! If you want to practice your Deen and wear Niqab then go back to your Arab country and do whatever you want!!”
The Niqabi sister stopped putting her grocery in the bag and took off her Niqab…The checkout girl was in total shock! The Niqabi girl who was blond with blue eyes told her:”I am a French girl, not an Arab immigrant! This is my country and THIS IS MY ISLAM!! You born Muslims sold your Deen and we bought it from you!”
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This is a fact! Many revert Muslims have stronger faith than born Muslims! Why this happened?From my point of view, i think it's because we MUSLIM didn't really hold ISLAM in our heart.We were just borned in the Muslim family and we practiced what we need to practice in spite we didn't know why we do it.We are Muslim only by name and not in our heart.We were just followed but we not tried to believe in it.
If I asked,did u know why we need to pray 5 times per day?what will you say?Is it because other Muslims also prayed and it will look bad if you are not doing it or because you want to get praise from others or because you think you just do it as a daily life routine .Shame on you if you really think like that.That's why you can't feel the nikmah of praying because u didn't put your sincerity and love in it.
Just like wearing a hijab-some of Muslimah didn't want to wear it and come out with many reasons.Some of them said,"alaaaa....please not judge us by our hijab...Not all the girls that wear hijab are good,maybe worse than us laa..."That's because they didn't see why ISLAM made women to wear hijab.
I hope we Muslim can be more like a thinker,searcher and not just a follower.We need to understand why ISLAM asked us to do certain things and prohibited certain things until then we will be a good MUSLIM believer insyallah...
