An Interesting Story

The two girls were sitting side by side, one of them watching the other carefully adjust her hijab.
"You look nice, sister."
"Thank you. I have seen you in a hijab and you look nice too."
"I wish I could wear it like you, sister."
"Why can't you?"
"Because I am not like you. I am not perfect."
"Nobody is. Only God is perfect."
"You know what I mean."
"Talk to me."
"I take my religion seriously enough but I still worry that I may be unworthy of wearing the hijab as you do."
"How so?"
"Some people dishonour the hijab. They wear it but do not behave accordingly."
"But I know you, my sister. And you are not like them. You observe prayer, fast during the holy month of Ramadhan and read the Quran in your spare time."
"But you do more than I do in terms of religion."
The other one smiled. "What makes you so sure the little that you do is not accepted by God and the plenty that others do is accepted by God?"
"I still believe that only some people are worthy of the garment."
Now the other one laughed. "If that is how you feel, let me ask you this: What have you got to lose from being the kind of person you do deem worthy?"
Silence. "It would be a major change."
"But for the better. And once you have changed for the better, no one should have a problem with how you choose to present yourself. It is between you and God - and no one else."