A Rational Reason of Wearing "Hijab"

It's been more than 3 times i was asked by my friends who were non-muslim about why i didn't wearing a hijab (veil) like other Muslim women out there..

Honestly i'm quite awkward with this question because i'm not the one who knows clearly about religious tenets like those Ustazah and Muslim scholars.. I just know the basic and i still have many more to learn..

BUT, i try to answer it in a simple language and verse so that it would be easy for them to understand. I guess so.. Heheh..

While i'm searching the verses on why Muslim women have to wear hijab which is more than just a head cover, i found this..

It's because God ordered them to do so in two places in the Qur'an, and because Prophet Muhammad also ordered it. The Qur'an says in Surah 24, verses 30 - 31 what means:

~ "And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty that they should not display their beauty and ornaments excepts what (must ordinarily) appear thereof that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband fathers, their son, their husband's son, their brothers or their brother's son, or their sister's sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hand possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of shame of sex and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O ye Believers! Turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss." ~

Me wearing hijab on the 1st day of Hari Raya

NOTE:
For me, whether you want to wear veil or not is all up to the individual perception and understanding. I believe that there will be an extra credits waiting for you if you follow the rule with sincerity.. Just make sure that there is no element of coercion in making goodness..