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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]Well, you're the one equating burqas to oppression.......Haven't you heard? Allah is enough for me :) As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need society's standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don't need to become just like men to be honored, and we don't need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lie not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave. Praise be to Allah, the cherisher and sustainer of the worlds ~[/quote]

You don't get it... it's like for some of you people there are only bikinis and burqas and nothing in between.  Muslima, you are just as bad as the people on here who believe Muslim women are "brainwashed."  I don't dress to please people... I dress in practical, reasonably attractive clothes because I might as well.  I believe that God actually loves beauty- look at all the flowers, the animals, all the beautiful creation surrounding us.  I don't think it upsets God if I wear a dress with flowers on it that mimics his creation.  God doesn't care if your hair shows, he cares about your heart.

But since we're talking about it... Islam appears to be a highly particular religion.  Where in nature do we see that God has been so particular in his creation?  Look around you- the tremendous variety of trees, of flowers, animals, people.  God loves variety, and the idea that he came up with these incredibly specific rules for every aspect of existence strikes me personally as bizarre.[/quote]

I don't understand the beauty comments. The Prophet (pbuh) has said that Allah is beautiful and He loves beauty. It is for this that the whole of Allah's creation has been designed and created according to the highest heavenly standard of splendor and order impossible to be ever emulated by anyone. According to Ibn al-'Arabi, who epitomized the Sufi speculative ontological thought, the divine beauty through which God is named "Beautiful", and by which He described Himself as loving beauty, is in all things. There is nothing in existence but beauty, for God created the cosmos only in His image, that is, in the image of His infinite beauty. Hence all cosmos with all its objects and events is beautiful. Even in the Quran we are told : "It is Allah Who has made for you the earth as a resting place, and the sky as a canopy, and has given you shape - and made your shapes beautiful -, and has provided for you Sustenance..." (Gafir 40:64) - Your definition of beauty must be different than mine, what they say is true "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

By the way I was responding to the rhetoric "Muslim women are veiled and oppressed" and was being sarcastic about the miniskirts & bikini comments. I do not believe that all women who dont wear a hijab dress to please people, I used to be one of these women, and lots of women in my family do not wear the hijab. And Yes God loves variety, that is why He created us this way, white, black, yellow, ect. But if you do believe in God, why would you think He would just create us and let us be in this world without any Guidance at all? Everything that is created in this world comes with a user guide that answers all of your questions. When you buy a new product, the first thing you do is read the user guide. Why would the human being be any different? Muslims believe their user guide is the Quran, it tells us everything we need to know to survive in this world.Now the fact that the rules of Islam strike you as bizarre is perfectly normal. The prophet Muhammad saw said " Islam began strange, and it will become strange again just like it was at the beginning, so blessed are the strangers.” so I totally get why it would look strange to someone who is not Muslim & to be fair a lot of Non-muslims practices, their view of life ect are extremely strange & bizarre to me...[/quote]

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