Want to start wearing Hijab but scared :(

The blue is the author's view. The red is a statement of fact. I struggle to see how the matter is completely clear if "the muslim community is divided on the subject".

Right so I've been contemplating wearing the Hijab (scarf) for about 2/3 years now but always put it off.
I have grown up in a very white community and have liberal, not really religious parents. I mean they're muslims and don't drink etc but clothes wise let me wear whatever and give me a lot of freedom. I used to go clubbing and didn't mind wearing skirts with tights or sleeveless clothes. But when I started uni I learned a lot more about Islam and had a couple of experiences with perverts that made me decide I needed to change. I haven't been clubbing for a year and have made a lot of changes..but I want to start wearing a scarf as it is obligatory for women in Islam. This will be by far the biggest change!
But I'm sooo scared! All my non-muslim friends will be so freaked out...I always joke around with my girls and we talk about boys and make innuendoes etc. They always say I'm beautiful and should not cover myself...they don't really get it. Even my mum is against it and thinks I will have racist encounters etc plus will look like an outcast in my liberal family.
I guess I just need your advise and opinions...also I'm a student dentist and I'm worried about my patients too..they're comfortable with me like I am what if they lose trust in me or something if I suddenly start wearing a scarf? And I have a lot of guy MATES purely friends..will they start backing off and change?

Urgh...SO confused...I want to do it was Allah SWT I want to do it to protect myself and I know it's probably Shaytaan that's putting me off but this is such a huge decision. I don't wanna start wearing it then regret it because if I take it off I will look like an idiot!

HELP PLEEEASE

had a couple of experiences with perverts

Shut up and find some Muslim friends to give you advice. Find someone with personal experience of what you're wanting to do, because all you're going to get on here is people like me, who refuse to trust people who hide their faces.

Nooo this is not true:

"And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and guard their Furuj (private parts),and disclose not their adornments except only that which is apparent, and that they should draw their head covers over their Juyub (bosoms), and that they disclose not their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their brothers, or the sons of their sisters, or their women, or what their hands posses, or such of male attendants who have no sexual desire or young children who have not attained the knowledge of women's private parts. And that they should not stamp their feet lest what they hide of their ornaments be known. And turn you to all together, O believers that you may be successful." (24:31)

"O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters, and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies, that is more proper that they may be distinguished and not molested. And Allah is Most Forgiving and Most Merciful." (33:59)

Why do all these Muslim females apparently get stared at and perved on when they're not wearing hijab? I've never seen anything like this? Maybe I'm not hot enough to be a temptation of the devil.

Wow, ladies and gentlemen, check out the two internet scholars

I'm assuming the both of you are qualified in Islamic studies. You've both studied the Quran and the Hadiths in detail and in the correct context and you've fully understood it? On top of that 99% of scholars/sheikhs/imans are just simply mistaken and wrong and on top of that, the vast majority of Arab, Somali, Pakistani, Indonesian, Chinese, Nigerian, white convert women etc all wear it for cultural reasons or for the hell of it.

By the way, just to clear it up. The Hijab is a requirement in Islam. It's not even an issue that's debated.

Right so I've been contemplating wearing the Hijab (scarf) for about 2/3 years now but always put it off.
I have grown up in a very white community and have liberal, not really religious parents. I mean they're muslims and don't drink etc but clothes wise let me wear whatever and give me a lot of freedom. I used to go clubbing and didn't mind wearing skirts with tights or sleeveless clothes. But when I started uni I learned a lot more about Islam and had a couple of experiences with perverts that made me decide I needed to change. I haven't been clubbing for a year and have made a lot of changes..but I want to start wearing a scarf as it is obligatory for women in Islam. This will be by far the biggest change!
But I'm sooo scared! All my non-muslim friends will be so freaked out...I always joke around with my girls and we talk about boys and make innuendoes etc. They always say I'm beautiful and should not cover myself...they don't really get it. Even my mum is against it and thinks I will have racist encounters etc plus will look like an outcast in my liberal family.
I guess I just need your advise and opinions...also I'm a student dentist and I'm worried about my patients too..they're comfortable with me like I am what if they lose trust in me or something if I suddenly start wearing a scarf? And I have a lot of guy MATES purely friends..will they start backing off and change?

Urgh...SO confused...I want to do it was Allah SWT I want to do it to protect myself and I know it's probably Shaytaan that's putting me off but this is such a huge decision. I don't wanna start wearing it then regret it because if I take it off I will look like an idiot!

HELP PLEEEASE

Whenever I see your name, I know it's going to be an Islamic fundamentalist post

The issue has been debated many a time and I'm not going to go over it again. The Qu'ran most definitely does not compel women to wear the hijab. It tells women to dress modestly, and nothing else. Unlike you, I go by God's word, and not the words of men. The misogynistic and repressive motives of male scholars lead to the widespread, wrongful assumption that the hijab is an obligation in Islam. It isn't.

"O Children of Adam! We have bestowed raiment upon you to cover yourselves (screen your private parts, etc.) and as an adornment. But the raiment of righteousness, that is better" Quran 7:26

"O Prophet, tell your wives and daughters and the believing women to draw their outer garments around them (when they go out or are among men). That is better in order that they may be known (to be Muslims) and not annoyed..." (Qur'an 33:59)

"Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that will make for greater purity for them; and Allah (swt) is well acquainted with all that they do. And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; and they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty to their husbands..." (Qur'an 24:30-31)

“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 33:59)

"Ayesha (r) reported that Asma’ the daughter of Abu Bakr (r) came to the Messenger of Allah (s) while wearing thin clothing. He approached her and said: 'O Asma’! When a girl reaches the menstrual age, it is not proper that anything should remain exposed except this and this. He pointed to the face and hands." [Abu Dawud]

Unlike you, I go by God's word, and not the words of men.

“… and We have also sent down to you (O Muhammad) the reminder and the advice (the Qur’aan), that you may explain clearly to men what is sent down to them and that they may give thought.” [al-Nahl 16:44]

“… and whatsoever the Messenger gives you, take it…” [al-Hashr 59:7]

umm as a muslim myself you are very wrong. By all means wear it and I will and everyone should respect that. But there is NOTHING IN THE QU'RAN ABOUT A HIJAB OR HEADSCARF!!!! IT basically just tells you to cover yourself, meaning wear clothes and be modest. Nothing about hair or face or arms e.t.c. You should read it. People interpret it so badly and in a wrong way. This is not just my opinion but what many professors of Islam say. Don't let the perversion of men make you have to cover your self up. You are not a sexual object. you are a human being. The more people cover up the more perverted men get as they see even a slight piece of flesh. This is fact. Go to certain countries and areas and you will see. If you do want to wear a hijab, only do this for yourself.

I want to start wearing a scarf as it is obligatory for women in Islam

umm as a muslim myself you are very wrong. By all means wear it and I will and everyone should respect that. But there is NOTHING IN THE QU'RAN ABOUT A HIJAB OR HEADSCARF!!!! IT basically just tells you to cover yourself, meaning wear clothes and be modest. Nothing about hair or face or arms e.t.c. You should read it. People interpret it so badly and in a wrong way. This is not just my opinion but what many professors of Islam say. Don't let the perversion of men make you have to cover your self up. You are not a sexual object. you are a human being. The more people cover up the more perverted men get as they see even a slight piece of flesh. This is fact. Go to certain countries and areas and you will see. If you do want to wear a hijab, only do this for yourself.

If youi want to wear it then you wear it,

but that means you must accept the looks stares and potential abuse you may get by wearing one, especially when you come from liberal family/society. Doesnt mean its right but thats the way it is.

Oh and you religion does not state you must wear a hijab, that a cultural thng

Wrong

right.

Right as in what?

Right as in I'm right or Right as in you're right?

Tell you what - i cant be bothered getting into an arguement about whether man or god tells your women how to be repressed.

so lets just say your right.

Exactly this. So many Muslims talk about women as if they are a piece of property, I've even heard the analogy that a women is like a piece of fruit that needs a skin to protect it! It's disgusting. People who propagate the wearing of the hijab propagate the disgraceful ideology that, to men, women are nothing but sex objects. It's proven that sexual harrassment is obscenely high amongst men who come from countries where the majority of women are covered up - because the culture of the hijab makes them see women as objects for male gratification, not as people.

Men aren't filthy beasts who will leap on a woman simply because they see her natural form. Yet a lot of Muslims act as if it's obvious that a woman will get set upon by a man if she doesn't cloak herself completely - and as if it's her fault if that happens.