Surat al-A´raf

(68) "I but fulfil towards you the duties of my Lord's mission: I am to you a sincere and trustworthy adviser. (69) "Do ye wonder that there hath come to you a message from your Lord through a man of your own people, to warn you? call in remembrance that He made you inheritors after the people of Noah, and gave you a stature tall among the nations. Call in remembrance the benefits (ye have received) from Allah. that so ye may prosper." (70) They said: "Comest thou to us, that we may worship Allah alone, and give up the cult of our fathers? bring us what thou threatenest us with, if so be that thou tellest the truth!"

Who are you to say?

Who are you to say I am less intelligent thank you for wearing hijab?
Who are you to tell me I am less competent?
Who are you to say I am less happy?
Who are you to say I am more oppressed?
Who are you to judge me on how I choose to dress?
Why are a piece of cloth such a barrier?
I have a brain, I am no less intelligent for wanting to cover my hair.
And I don´t think less of anyone for the way they choose to present themselves.
Why would you think less of me then?

A lot of dreams latley

I´ve been having a lot of dreams latley. Dreams that is waking me up. And that makes me tired. They are not pleacent dreams, you know dreams who are leaving you a feeling of happyness or something like that. No these dreams makes me uneasy and a little blue.

I´ve been thinking a lot latley on hijab, and this is also what I dream about. I dream of not beeing accepted for wearing hijab. People judging me, pointing at me, laughing at me. I don´t know but those dreams are just not funny at al. And I have also been thinking about peoples reactions to hijab. It´s like they think I have no brain, like I lost my mind the second I put my hijab on. I have no idea what people I know will react, people who I don´t care about, I coudn´t care less what they think but people I love are a different matter all together.

And then we have work. I have come far in my line of work allready even though I have not worked for very long. And they do know I am muslim, but if I start to cover. Then what? Will they think less of my ability to do my job?

topless at the public baths

Apparently you can swin topless here at some public baths here. I had no idea that that was even possible. And why? Why would you even want that? it is ugh.... I would not want to see someone else almost naked... what is up with that? I think that it has gone way to far! I am so happy to be a muslim and in a way not be a part of that world. A world very strange to me. I have no words, I really have no words.............

'- We do not define what swimsuits are for men and suddenly we would do it for women. Men can also have big breasts like women's breasts.
The question was raised because the staff wanted to have interpreted how they should act when women came in with bare breasts.'

'The issue has already divided both the red-green majority and the conservative opposition. When the case of forced to wear an upper, were on the agenda in April could not agree on a decision.
But today, all members of the Recreation Committee in Malmö agree. It was a no to topless ban.
- When we started discussing how much of the breasts which may be apparent, if it is OK to just cover the nipples, then it became too embarrassing. Now it says that everyone must have the bathing suit on it, we simply took away sense that women have to wear an upper, "says Bengt Forsberg, (S), recreational Chairperson of the Board.'

'- The goal is not that everyone should be topless in public baths, the goal is for everyone to be able to, "said Frida Hell Roth.
there is a difference for boys and girls, but it should not be, "said Sanna Ferm.'
- the newspaper Metro

Always doing something

It has been weeks since I´ve been home a whole day during the weekend. I am always going somewhere. I sort of miss to just lay on the sofa with a cup of tea and read a book the whole day and do nothing else..... I am always doing something, going somewhere. Don´t get me wrong I do stuff I like, like the arabic class on saturdays and the islamic class on sundays. But the feeling of just being home... I miss that feeling very much.....

Teaching eachother

Today I was at the arabic class again! And I have been learning more letters. It is going great and today we did not fool around so much :P Me and NNNN were more serious today! YAY that was probably good! I am going to sit now and go thru all the letters I´ve learnt so far tonight.

After the lesson, Hubby came to get me and we went out for dinner and then we went to his family. They all think it is very funny that I am learning arabic and I sat and talked about arabic words with hubby´s sister. We said that we should like teach eachother. She should speak swedish with me and I arabic with her, then we would both learn faster. LoL! That would probably work.

Tomorrow I will me with my friend E and then it is off to islamic class with S and N. I really love to learn about islam and arabic! Insha´allah I will be a little wiser from this.

My friend N told me today that she have got some nasty comments about her wearing hijab and I feel so sorry for her about that, but insha´allah she will be stronger cause of it. I have not gotten so much commments, mostly weird looks and today actually a nice comment (sorry N, I forgot to told you). A women who worked at pressbyrån (it´s like seven eleven) and she told me I looked very beautiful in hijab and that I wore it in a really nice and uncommon way. That really made me happy! And also N wrote a really great post about hijab and you can read it here