Love in a Headscarf Quotes

“Don’t just hope it happens you have to make it happen”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“You have to know where you’ve come from to know where you are going”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Islam has rules. Once they are part of your life, you dont notice them anymore.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Don’t look for wealth and beauty as these will last only a short time , and then you’ll be left with nothing. Look for piety and faith and you’ll get everything including wealth and beauty with it”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“His smile can lift me out of even the darkest mood”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“love can blind you to their imperfections.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“You can only ever be complete when you've seen yourself, through someone else's eyes”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“How can one who’s in love pretend not to be in love?”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Seeing is not with the eyes, but the heart. That is why love underpinned all our experiences”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Human  beings like to twist things to meet their own selfish needs.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“I refused to change the way I practiced my faith or to let fear stop me from carrying out what I believed in.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Chemistry could sparkle in z most surprising places and between z most unlikely people.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“It all comes with time and patience”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“I’m thinking about the discrepancies between what people say is Islam and what Islam actually is!”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“In this modern day, when only what we see is allowed to have certainity, and when scientific data seems to hold the trump card for truth, when only what can be measured exists, love defies all these strictures and dances joyfully before the eyes of human beings, teasing them with the promise of the unknown.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“The experiences would be richer and more meaningful if I had someone to share them with”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“It is Love that transforms it from black and white, to breathtaking, beautiful inspiring colors”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Time rarely changed someone’s response to a critical issue”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Weren’t human being full of surprises?”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“The prevailing imagery of Muslim women showed us covered from head to feet in black. The headscarves were long, black, flowing pieces of fabric, draping over a long black cloak, and sometimes with a niqab, a veil, over the faces too, also usually in black. The photographs were taken to make the women look eerie and inhuman, alien to western eyes. But underneath each one was a life, a story, a heart, which was denied by those who saw them just as a ghost covered in black cloth.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“Every Muslim woman has aspirations, just like every other human being. The clothing we wear or the acts of faith we carry out do not change any of that. We want to live happy, fulfilled, and successful lives.”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf

“what was the point of a social value if it wasn't practiced out in a society? It was like believing that kindness was important, but then not being kind out in public”
― Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, Love in a Headscarf