<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657667091626717361</id><updated>2011-11-09T10:54:06.640-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Muslimah's Journey</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muslimahfirst.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2657667091626717361/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muslimahfirst.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Muslimah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13325554696506380629</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2657667091626717361.post-7298541917645036571</id><published>2011-11-09T09:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T09:36:27.090-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Hijab</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When I first thought of becoming Muslim, I had a lot of things going through my&amp;nbsp;mind about what I could no longer do.&amp;nbsp; One of the things that came to mind was&amp;nbsp;having to cover&amp;nbsp;my hair.&amp;nbsp; See, I was one of the women who kept a fresh, new hairdo.&amp;nbsp; It was nothing for me to come to work everyday with a different&amp;nbsp;style.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I enjoyed different looks and changing my hair was a&amp;nbsp;big part of who I was (so I thought).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This made the thought of becoming a Muslim a bit more challenging for me.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I wasn't sure if I would be able to do it.&amp;nbsp; But I&amp;nbsp;had to ask myself,&amp;nbsp;"what's more important....making it to Jennah&amp;nbsp;(heaven) or&amp;nbsp;my hair".&amp;nbsp; When I thought&amp;nbsp;of it like that, covering was no longer an issue.&amp;nbsp; In fact, when I&amp;nbsp;took my shahada, I began wearing my hijab the very next day.&amp;nbsp;I do my hijabs like I did my hair.....a different&amp;nbsp;style each&amp;nbsp;day.&amp;nbsp; I now have every color&amp;nbsp;and style under the rainbow.&amp;nbsp;Instead of changing my hair, I change my&amp;nbsp;hijabs.&amp;nbsp;So I'm still able to be myself, have my own style, and enjoy my hijab. I am comfortable in it and wouldn't leave&amp;nbsp;home without it!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2657667091626717361-7298541917645036571?l=muslimahfirst.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2657667091626717361/posts/default/7298541917645036571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2657667091626717361/posts/default/7298541917645036571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muslimahfirst.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-hijab.html' title='My Hijab'/><author><name>Muslimah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13325554696506380629</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
