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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]The question I have, at least, for Muslim women, is what is the purpose of being covered?  What is the spiritual significance, what is the spiritual benefit?[/quote]

There are a myriad of reasons why, but the easy, one sentence answer is, because they believe God has made it an obligation for believing women. Muslims believe that their sole purpose in life is the worship of God alone, according to His instructions, as revealed in the Holy Quran, and through the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh). As such, wearing the hijab is an act of obedience to God and, hence, forms the primary basis for wearing it.In Islam, hijab is not demanded of women by men but is ordered upon women by the Merciful Ever-Living.

It is an outward symbol of an inward spiritual reality and aspiration. [/quote]

Ok, I get that it is a religious observance, and an outward sign that you're "spiritual," but other than that, is there anything to it?  Why would God request this particular action?  What spiritual benefit is there to the actual action?  And why aren't men given an analogous way of being spiritual?  Or are they?  I guess how I feel, is that this is something way too trivial for God to ask women to do unless there is a real spiritual benefit.  This is my issue with a lot of tenets of Islam- there are lots of rules and obedience and obligation, and no joy to it, no "fruits" of spirituality.  What is that spiritual benefit?

And you may say "hey, this shows the world that you are Muslim," but there's another side- in a Muslim country, not covering your hair shows that you are non-Muslim, and leads to a feeling of intimidation.  I've experienced this myself, and I've known women who were told, outright, that they are in a Muslim country, it doesn't matter that they're Christian, a native of that country who never wore a hijab, they need to wear a hijab now.  So, yeah, since you don't know any woman who has been forced to wear it, would that count as your first example?[/quote]

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