Don't be so quick to blame others

Quran For All - In Every Hand, In Every Heart

"Don't be so quick to blame others" By Asma bint Shameem

I remember the first time I went for Umrah was when I was about 16 or 17 years old. That was the time when my family was not really a 'practicing' Muslim family. Yeah sure, we prayed and fasted, but that was about the only thing I knew about Islaam...nothing much more than that.
Included in that was my ignorance of the rules of Hijaab. I didn't cover myself except when I prayed and that also, not too well.
I didn't know that Allaah required of me to cover myself, not just when I prayed; rather, all the time, in front of all non-mahram men, and I didn't know exactly how I should cover myself, either.
You see, I had grown up with the erroneous understanding that it is 'backward' and 'uneducated' to cover yourself, and indeed, those who observed hijaab were looked down upon.