Reshma never lacked confidence in Hijab. She never had the penchant for revealing any part of her body to charm others. Hijab was not a problem for her at all.

The Turkish students and their teacher approached me. They told me how girls couldn’t wear the hijab in their schools now – I felt strongly about this and asked how girls cope and about the controversy involved with this enforcement. I found a raging spark ignite when I thought about anyone taking away my right to wear the hijab.

It’s easy to point out the weakness in others, especially a physical weakness that is very apparent, like a girl who hasn’t put on the hijab yet, but it’s a lot more difficult to look at our own faults and notice the mistakes in our attitude and actions.

“If I paid you ten dollars, would you take that off? How about twenty dollars?”

Days turn to nights, nights to days. Awake, asleep; asleep, awake.