TAJI LA MUSLIM WORLD BEAUTY PAGEANT LIMECHUKULIWA NA....

21 year old University of Lagos student Obabiyi Aisha Ajibola, beat 19 other beauty hopefuls to emerge Muslimah Queen 2013. Ajibola won the exclusive beauty pageant for Muslim women which took place today Wednesday September 18th in Jakarta, Indonesia. She received 25 million rupiah ($2,200) and trips to Mecca and India as prizes.

The contestants were all required to wear headscarves, covered from head to foot. They were judged on their looks, how well they recited Koranic verses and their views on Islam in the modern world, in front of an audience of mainly religious scholars and devout Muslims

This pageant was actually staged as a retort to the Miss World pageant holding in the same country. The organizers said they wanted to create an awareness within the muslim female community that there is a better form of beauty than the one being portrayed by the Miss World. They said the pageant is Islam's answer to the glamorous Miss World Pageant. Congrats to her!

Mwanadada wa Nigeria ndiye mshindi wa shindano la urembo kwa wasichana wa kiisilamu mjini Jakarta Indonesia.

Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola, 21, alishinda shindano la kimataifa la wasichana wa kiisilamu kwa jina Muslimah mwaka 2013 siku ya Jumatano.

Washindani 20 walishiriki mashindano hayo kuonyesha mitindo ya kiisilamu pamoja na maadili ya kiisilamu wakati wa mashindano hayo.

Mashindano yalifanyika kabla ya shindano kubwa zaidi la mwanamke mrembo zaidi duniani, ambalo limeghadhabisha makundi ya watu wenye msimamo mkali nchini Indonesaia kwa kutaka kuandaliwa huko.

Waliofuzu kwa fainali ya mashindano hayo, walichaguliwa kutoka miongoni mwa watu 500 waliochaguliwa kwa kutumia njia ya mtandao.

Moja ya vikwazo vya kuruhusiwa kushirki kwenye mashindano ilikuwa kusimulia kisa chako na ambavyo ulianza kuvalia Hijab au mtandio, ambacho kilikuwa kikwazo kwa wote waliotaka kushiriki.

Washiriki walitoka Bangladesh, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria na Brunei.

Kabla ya fainali, washindani walihitajika kuamuka kwa sala ya asubuhi na kuswali pamoja huku wakijifunza kusoma Koran.

Bi Ajibola, mwenye umri wa miaka 21, alilia na kusoma aya kutoka kwa Korani, jina lake lilipotajwa. Alituzwa dola 2,200, pamoja na ziara ya mji mtukufu wa Mecca na nchini India.

Kabla ya kushinda alisema kuwa nia yake ya kushiriki mashindano hayo ilikuwa tu kuonyesha dunia nzima kuwa dini ya kiisilamu ni nzuri sana.

Eka Shanti, aliyefutwa kazi kwenye televisheni kwa kukataa kuvua mtandio wake, ndiye alianzisha shindano hilo miaka mitatu iliyopita.

Aliambia shirika la habari la Agence France-Presse kuwa walifanya shindano hili siku chache kabla ya shindano la kimataifa la mwanamke mrembo zaidi duniani kuonyesha wasichana kuwa kuna njia zengine tofauti ambazo unaweza kuwa mrembo.

Indonesia ndio nchi yenye idadi kubwa ya waisilamu duniani.