Comments on: Beauty in the Muslim Blogosphere

By: blog follower

blog follower — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:42:28 +0000

all these muslim fashion bloggers have perfect lives – great style, handsome husband, cute children, perfect marriage, and access to beautiful things whilst demonstrating to their muslim ummah how to look beautiful and modest. that’s how the “modest street style” project came about too, which is photographed by a male muslim. i use these images as examples to compare with what i am wearing so as to silence these “negative comments” from disapproving elders, as a way to justify my style (ie. see, muslim blogger wears tights with long top, and she has the perfect life, so what’s wrong with me dressing like her?) as long as these blogs are used for good intentions, then they are definitely most welcomed.

By: Em

Em — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:49:51 +0000

Lovely article. Interesting comments.

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:42:36 +0000

A muslim female blog I recently discovered (thought i’d share): http://unicornsandbutterflies.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/blessings/

By: Kendriana

Kendriana — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:31:07 +0000

This is related so I thought the author might find this interesting. Woman keeps her beard for the sake of her belief, but what really get’s me is her response to criticism when someone took a picture of her at the airport and posted it on reddit for laughs. Pretty thought provoking when I think about the excuses I’ve made for the sake of beauty perception.

http://feministing.com/2012/09/27/a-sikh-woman-does-not-apologize-for-her-appearance-and-everyone-learns-something/

By: izzy

izzy — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:49:35 +0000

salam sis, really loved the article got me really motivated 🙂

By: ZAI

ZAI — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:20:43 +0000

I think we should be careful not to be too zealous here.
In this modern age, especially in Western countries, where there is SO much emphasis on looks, fashion, etc. I don’t think we should be too harsh on the sisters writing these blogs or even out in the “real” world…

There is tremendous pressure on the young, even moreso on young women, in this society and they are constantly bombarded with images, articles, catalogues of this and that…If they are writing these blogs and appreciating fashion and beauty within boundaries acceptable to Islam..then I think we should back off with high falootin’ ideological/philosophical condemnations. Better some halaal indulgence than for them to feel that Islam is a contrictive ideological prison and leave the religion all together.

We have to get out of these utopian paradigms. I’m not saying we shouldn’t talk about higher ethics, but should be done carefully and without being condemning. Not everyone is at that level of development, infact few of us are, and again I rather these kids/young adults stay within Islam and indulge in some of their interests( as long they’re halaal) rather than leaving ’cause they couldn’t reach the HIGHEST ideal and got criticized for it…

By: Muslim

Muslim — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:30:18 +0000

I completely agree with this article. Unfortunately, for some hijab has become a fashion item instead of an act of obedience to our Creator. We should b focusing on purifying our souls but instead, some are more worried about what style to put their hijabs in.

By: Dinda

Dinda — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:48:31 +0000

Masha Allah. such a great reminder! Jazakillah khayr, sis Sumayah 😀

By: Gluuma

Gluuma — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:10:10 +0000

Ok, for the sake of driving the point of this article home, I REAAALLLLY feel the need of posting links to the blogs that would exemplify what this author means. But for the sake of not hurting anyone’s feelings, I will simply say just search the terms Hijab Blog in google and see what you get. Then read the article again.

By: M

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:16:22 +0000

Completely agree with this line: “Just look at Facebook: we’re slowly turning into superficial, self-obsessed, narcissistic, mindless, individuals that base our value on the number of likes, comments, re-tweets, shares and re-blogs we get.”

There is a lot of good that can be done with social media and a lot of people are using it for good Alhamdulilah. But wow, the amount of bad as well.. Allah alMust`aan