HomeSometimes old memories pop into your head out of the blue, and they’ve been so deeply buried that remembering them is almost like experiencing them again for the first time. Banana Anne recently posted on her experience as a new hijabi, and one bizarre incident that happened to me nearly ten years ago came to mind.
While living in Pakistan, I was doing some freelance writing here and there. One interview for a news magazine found Owlie, my co-journalist, and I taking an interview with a very elderly, very respectable Muslim doctor who was also a director for the same magazine. When I say elderly I mean over seventy. We were both wearing hijab as well as jilbab, and the interview was interesting but uneventful until in the middle of a sentence, he looked at up at us and said:
“You know, a naked girl on the beach in Cannes has nothing on you.”
I would imagine we both looked pretty blank at that point.
“Your beauty,” he said leaning forward earnestly in his chair, “It is in your mystery!”
He nodded, and smiled in a grandfatherly way, and then went on with the interview as if nothing happened at all.
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The End.
July 10th, 2010 at 12:18 AM
i hope you added that as your byline.
abez & owl
staffwriters outshining naked beach girls
July 10th, 2010 at 4:09 AM
HAHAHAHA what a moment that must have been….
akwaaaaaaaaaaard
You know I started Hijab this week. I will post about it later. Inshallah.
July 10th, 2010 at 11:04 AM
hehe cute, esp coming from an elderly man! hey what magazine are you speaking of over here? i’d like to know cuz im a pakistani…
July 10th, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Baji, I bet more people would have read the article then :p
Stranded: MashaAllah! May Allah make it easy for you and increase you in Iman and spiritual bulletproofness!
Thanaya: This was The Voice, I don’t know if it’s still printed, it’s been a long time!
July 11th, 2010 at 10:51 AM
How sad is it I don’t even have a visual of the moment. I just remember the line, but can’t put a face to who said it. Was it Mr Ghani?
July 11th, 2010 at 2:15 PM
It was the old guy- who used to be a doctor to the Royal Family?
July 11th, 2010 at 5:17 PM
HA!! But I see a tinge of wisdom in the old man’s words….
July 11th, 2010 at 11:29 PM
haha!
July 13th, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Beauty lies in/behind modesty…