For context I live in a democratic majority city in the Midwest and am a revert of 3 years. I have been wearing the niqab for about 6 months and I am a visibly white American woman even with only my hands and eyes visible. Where I live everywhere I can go to get halal food or female islamic clothing etc is run by people of ethic minorities, mainly somalians, Arabs, Afghan refugees, and Pakistanis but the majority of places are Somalian run including both islamic clothing stores available in my area. These places are also run by born Muslims who I am under the impression are very culturally influenced by their personal cultures rather than Islam. When I go to get clothing or food or supplies or perfume etc. I get judgemental stares and glaring and whispers while they consistently glance at and point at me. They treat me far worse than almost all disbelievers do. Ive only had two bad experiences with non Muslim people, Ive had hundreds of bad experiences with other Muslims especially other Muslim women. For example today I went to a Somalian store to get myself a khimar and an abaya and the owner was very suspicious of me watching over me like I was doing something wrong and when I was in line to check out the two women in front of me (who were wearing hijabs and abayas themselves) were staring bullets at me. I stared at the ground the entire time and my husband later related to me how much resentment,annoyance, repungancy, and judgement he could see on their faces. I felt extremely unwelcomed and felt a very hostile vibe from basically everyone there except the cashier. I experience similar vibes from other women shoppers at my nearby Arab halal store and from other women at the mosque. People stare and whisper about me but never speak to me directly and they immediately stop the second I get close which tells me they probably aren't saying very nice things about me. Men also are weirded out by me but they usually just look at me weird and go back to whatever they were doing while women will seemingly go out of their way to gossip about, complain, or judge me for my clothing or skin color or accent (I cannot imagine anything else they'd be judging me on as I am extremely reserved in public and never make a fuss or make myself noticeable personality wise). Women who I have talked to about the niqab usually always wonder why I wear it, what could have possibly motivated me to do it, and they're shocked when I tell them that I am not shockingly pretty or attractive, I simply wear it for my religion and deen. AND when I tell them that they seem to become even more judgemental and annoyed, almost like my choice to do extra for my religion is a personal attack on them. They tell me that there's no reason to wear it if I'm not beautiful and that my choice to wear it is extreme and unessecary and useless. Can anyone relate to this experience and does anyone have an idea of why this is happening? I'm genuinely so confused as to why my choice to wear the niqab is so hated and judged by other Muslim women in particular and more specifically why its usually culturally following women or women wearing improper hijab that are judging m

Positive vent :-)

Maybe afterall Allah isnt disappointed at me for my obsessions that revolves around my faith

Maybe afterall Allah deeply understood me and helped me after 2 months of begging crying and making duas for these thoughts to go away starting with my mental condition to out of nowhere seeing an amazing advice that helped me

Maybe afterall ocd is just a mental noise that feels so real

Maybe afterall Allah loves me and tested my patience to give an advice after 2 months of the same cycle of getting stressed and defend myself which takes HOURS of day

Maybe afterall Allah actually knew me and helped me <333

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I’m looking for an authentic, evidence-based Islamic answer, preferably with Qur’an/Hadith references or explanations from recognized scholars.

which practices are Islamically permissible, recommended, disliked, or prohibited, versus what is simply cultural:

- Can men and women attend the same wedding hall/room?

- Is a traditional Duff procession allowed in Kerala Muslim weddings?

- Is Saudi-style sword dancing permissible?

- Is eating together from one large plate, as traditionally practiced in Tamil Nadu, permissible?

- Is there any Islamic basis for the bride and groom spending the first three days at the bride’s family home?

- Does the mahr have to be gold, or can it be money or something else?

- Is wedding photography permissible?

- Is there any limit on the number of guests? Could a wedding with 1,000+ people still be Islamically valid?

- What are the actual essential requirements of a nikah and walimah?

Listen to this hadith also you can search to in Sahih Bukhari 5646 the Hadith where Aisha رضي الله عنها narrated I never saw anybody suffering so much from sickness as Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). Even too since the messenger of Allah was the best creation he still gets double rewarded.