Today, I went to collect a long overdue cheque, queue for 1 hour 10 mins to reactivate my company current account only to be told that I can only do it at home branch, brave the Friday afternoon traffic to go to home branch and finding out there are 57 people in my queue and there are other queues for other type of transactions as well. From no. 1066 to 1215, I cut queue at 1079 coz many people have abandoned the wait and since nobody seems to move when the no. is called, I walked to the counter and Alhamdulillah managed to do what needs to be done. Time out from the house 10:45 a.m., time return 4:00 p.m. You need to withdraw money every once in a while people. Not deposits only and not internet transactions only. Duh!
Anyway, the point of this entry is on what I saw when I went out from the first bank branch. A tudung shop next to the branch was full of people waiting to get in. I just searched the shop's facebook page out of curiosity. Ruffles tudung with weird designs and exorbitant price. I don't get it. You pay for a tudung that can probably go with certain blouse or dress only and what with the design, I'm sure it will be fashionable only for a certain period of time. People have so much money to spend nowadays is it? Ditto with many facebook business on tudung, jubah, muslimah blouses, etc. There's nothing Islamic about spending hundreds of dollars on a piece of tudung that doesn't properly cover the aurat.
Sellers have obligations to the religion too. Not simply profit making mindset uncaring that people are wearing products that you sold, products which didn't comply with religious requirements. If you sell sexy lingerie, you may think positive that people buy and wear them for their spouse or themselves. If you sell blouses or pants that didn't comply with religious requirements, you may think positive that people wear them in the privacy of their home. But when you sell tudung, you have to assume that people wear them in public and it must comply with religious requirements so you'll have your conscience clear that you're not syubahah in the matter of aurat (improper covering that is). Sigh!
If any tudung seller or buyer happens to come across this blog post, think about it. It is not easy to do the right thing. If you do it, Allah will reward you for your intention and action.
I'm currently changing my collection of tudung to longer ones, simple design, netural colours that can be worn with many blouses and dresses. It is difficult to find long tudung with nice simple design nowadays, either online or offline. Sometimes online purchases can be of a wrong color and things like that. It is OK I can give it to family and friends or donate them. I want variety too but my purchase for each tudung doesn't cost hundreds of RM. My personal simple style probably helps in making purchases. Always think simple, always think long term, always think value for money. Ada juga masanya 'alah membeli, alah memakai' but mostly I try to be 'menang membeli, menang memakai' :)
Sunflower gives the connotation of cheerfulness, bright, jolly, merry... you get the idea! However, if any content in this blog didn't fit the cheerfulness implied by its name, look at it this way... I'm putting down all the wretchedness, gloom, melancholy feeling in here so I can continue living up to the expectation of making the association to the sunflower.
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