Haya Through Speech Analysis

4) Haya through speech---Sofea had been always kind, sympathetic and soft towards her parents, friends, sister and towards the strangers. Who never negotiates any decision or thought against her rules she takes the decision to marry Imran whom she does not want to do. Sofia is a polite and soft-hearted lady. She started dreaming of Naim, thinking of him on every special occasion and she supposed to share this feeling with him. At that very moment she could realize that Naim still had the relation behind her and even he never thought to marry Sofea. Sofia controlled herself doing any odd reaction rather she blessed them from her heart and told: “May you both live happily ever after.” (p. 213). Her nice and soft words compel Conall to
Once the sequence comes and Sofea was also called a terrorist by a stranger on the way. And the word pinched her for a long time, but at the same time she consoles herself like: Negative comments from people must hurt the hijab wearer, but the feeling of modesty after wearing a hijab is superior enough to ignore those comments of the ignorant people (Why Islam? Web site). She strongly believes that all should rather fear God, not these people who are far away from the light of Islam. Her faith comes clearer when she mentions the sermons given by the Imam of the mosque, about the duties of a real
Seriously??!! You’re living in the West!!!” (p. 40). Again, some men ask: “You are living in the West- what’s with the hijab?” Then Sofia says: “Honestly, I can’t like God. Life is so much harder without God, you know?” (p. 43). It is obvious that ‘wearing hijab is a perpetual punishment’ for her and she has to struggle a lot in living in the West as a true Muslim woman as she tells: “From a marketing angle…. No one wants a scarfie in the workplace” (p. 31). But ‘hijab’ has always been a religious reminder for her to keep her away from any odd acts even from hugging any man or shaking hands with them and more. She wears hijab not to maintain the Muslim dress code only rather her feelings come forth from the fear of God, from her faith in Islam. Hijab is the strength of Sofia to protest any disregards. Once Naim asks if she really writing a book or doing other business in the name of the survey for writing; Sofea was quite angry and answered with full confidence on her modesty that ‘Of course I’m writing a book. Hijabies don’t lie” (p. 70). To her hijab must be respected as well as the hijabi. She met the flatterer Naim, whom she started to like, but something stopped her to trust him too. Once Naim offered her to have sex even for once only. She answered: “Next time you say something like that, you are going to get punched in the face…… You need lessons on how to speak to a hijabi”