Please take just a second to analyze some of these lines and think in what way they can affect your life, future or even attitude. I wouldn't be posting them if they didn’t have such a tremendous affect on my life!

- An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

- Thrive- don't just survive.

- If the enemy if within range- so are you!

- Every kind action has a not-so-kind reaction.  

- Nothing improves with age

- Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.

- Love makes believers of us all.

- Good things happen when you least expect them!

I end up with a wonderful saying that lefts my spirit up

"Only as high as I reach can I grow. Only as far as I seek can I go. Only as deep as I look can I see. Only as much as I dream can I be"

Tell me what you think... tell me what you feel when you read every one of them. Which one you think is closer to life and to truth?

Let me hear from the good people in this site. Publicize this and see what you will get as feed back from others. It should be fun.

Regards,

H. 

I never thought that I will be writing about the same topic twice, but this is a topic which turns heads and minds daily- and it does the same to me!

In my office, I'm the only one who is wearing the head cover- and it is perfectly okay because the rest aren't Muslims and I respect all of them. I, in fact, fell in love with them as they are so nice and respectful.

When I first started, our office had only 10 employees- including my self. We were only two ladies in the office; a lady from the UK and my self. During the last two months our office started to hire a lot of people.

We grow from 2 ladies to 3- and some time a go the GM interviewed another lady for the position of a receptionist. She is from my country and covered... The GM- being all nice- thought it would be nice to introduce her to me (before even offering the job to her) just to make her feel at home and to get my feed back on her personality too!! When I saw her I was happy that I will have a covered girl with me. I don’t know why I felt this way, but maybe it is something inside each one of us that makes us all craving to attaché our selves to a group! So, I talked to her and I liked her.

A couple of weeks later they offered her the job and asked her to come to the company in order to sign the contract; she came- when she walked from the front door, our Marketing assistant was next to me and she gave me a weird sign- as if she was saying "someone is covered” or “some one took off a cover" and I wasn't sure about it so I didn't give it much attention. I went to pray- and while I was walking back to the office I saw the GM and he looked astonished... I couldn't tell why. I saw someone standing with the marketing assistant and talking to her- so I just passed by them and I didn't say a word. I heard someone saying "hello".. So I looked back and I actually gazed until I knew that she was the same covered (uncovered now) girl that I met some time a go. I said "hello" and we chatted for a while- and the question "why- why - why??" kept knocking the door but I couldn't ask her the question.

I can't explain why she took off her veil- and I’m not in a position to judge any one about that- but I swear to God it was embarrassing.

This same event took place in our university too but different girl with a different scenario of course. One of my professors back then –who was teaching that girl as well- asked me "will you be taking off your veil too at some point in time" and I didn't know what to say.. so I smiled and said "in another life maybe- but not in this one!!".

What kind of a message are we giving the "other" about us- about our religion and about our veil? Is it cosmetics- I wear it when I feel like it and take it off when I don't? To me this is big- and I keep getting shocked in several occasions by girls who does that.

I quote the Holy Quran at the end "وكان الإنسان أكثر شئ جدلا "

May God protect us all.

Regards,

H.