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My Niqab Story
salaam,
well, first of all, many thanks to Allah s.w.t who gave me enough hidaayah to even consider wearing niqaab in the first place. Shukran.
Anyways, here's my story. My mom's side of the family is Alhamdulillah very religious Masha'Allah and well every girl HAS to (emphasis on the word HAS) to start wearing a hijab from when she's about 6 or 8. When I was a 5 year old, my mom put me in this beginners Quraan learning class. And so I used to go there 5 days a week. Anyway, going there had a deep effect on me, even though I was a young kid of 5 years old. I used to see all those girls wearing a hijab and stuff. They were young, just like me. Which is why when my mom told me I had to start wearing a hijab everywhere I went (this was when i was about 6) I did not have any objections. I just simple wore it every place I went to. And no, I wasn't very careful about it. Like, sometimes I would even forget to wear it, or just mess it up, play around with it and stuff like that. And plus, my mom didn't say anything like COVER YOUR HEAD. It wasn't until I was about 8 that i realized it wasn't a joke. Looked at all my girl cousins and couple of friends who wore their hijab all nicely and didn't mess around with it like I did. So I guess you'd say I started taking it seriously. and by that time my mom had become serious and strict about it too.
When I was about 11, me and my cousin (she's a year younger than me) used to dress up in our mom's jilbabs and niqaabs and stuff. sometimes, we even used to wear it to places. but that was just our occasional excitement about the jilbab. We did not wear it because we wanted to, it was only because sometimes we just were in the mood of playing around and stuff. Anyways, by the time i was 12, my mom said I had to start wearing a jilbab everywhere. I was soo not sure if I really wanted to, but I did it anyway. Astagfirullah, I must say, I first did it because of the force I had from my parents and plus, peer pressure from girl cousins etc. and not because of the fear of Allah and following the rules of Shariah. It wasn't until much later that I did it for Allah and the sawaab (good deeds) I would get for it. The six months following the day that I first started wearing Jilbab were kinda not so strict. I used to play around, sometimes not wearing it, other times messing with it just like I did with my hijab. But then I finally got used to it. Now, I could not get myself out of the house without a jilbab. going out without a hijab was out of question. I felt weird without my two ISLAMIC "protective coverings". 2 years rollled by in a jiffy. All my girl cousins, now, even the one younger than me had started doing niqaab fully. At times now, I would even wear a niqaab here and there, but not always, I now realize, that those times when I did wear a niqaab, it was because I was going out somewhere with those cousins of mine. I guess i felt left out without a niqab. Anyways, the month I was going to turn 14, (June 2001) was the month I joined my Aalima classes for the first time. That's where I got to know dawn2dusk and Tara too and it took 2 months for me to be really good friends with them. btw, they're two of my best friends now 
. Anyways, so dawn started covering her face somewhere like in July or August I believe. it was so cool and suited her very well.
I started wearing my niqaab exactly a week after dawn did.
Alhamdulillah, and Jazak'Allah dawn. And also many thanks to my other friends too who were supportive and encouraging.
Well, thats my story. It wasn't that interesting but u asked..
lol, take care Insha'Allah everyone
wassalam
Vitamin X
