"The Hijab Problem" - A Poem

(after "The Problem" by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I like a shawl; I like hijab;
I love Muslimahs, think they're fab.
And on my heart hijabi styles
Fall like sweet strains, or kohl-eyed smiles;
Yet not for all her faith can see
Would I that hijab'd sister be.

Why should the scarf on her allure
Which I could not on me endure?

-Jannah Bint Hannah

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Jannah
Friend of American Islamic Fellowship
blog@americanislamicfellowship.com