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A Day That Changed My Life

October 2002

A Day That Changed My Life

by Shezena T. Mohammed

A year ago I went to school every day without any thought about my safety there. I went to the masjid without ever wondering if there would be any chance of a bomb being in the mailbox. I spoke freely about politics without any thought of being incriminated for my points of view. All that has changed…

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How I Began Wearing Hijaab

September 2002

How I Began Wearing Hijaab

by Shezena T. Mohammed

Everyone wants to go to heaven. It’s just something that every God-fearing person wants. Some people realize what they need to do to get there, and do it, but most of us, in my opinion, don’t. Maybe they think they’ll do it later in life or how they are leading their life isn’t really that bad, even though God has explicitly told them to lead it a different way. I was in seventh grade when my mother decided that she was going start wearing a hijaab.

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