Christian women are required to cover our heads!! (OP)
I have been asked by both family, friends and strangers as to why I have taken up the hijab a few months ago. I often cite 1. Corinthians 11:4-7 to justify from a biblical prespective my reason for doing so, because God commands it. Often I have been told that a latter verse in the same chapter says that a womans hair has been given to her for a covering and that a cloth covering or hat is not nessecary. Sadly this verse has been misinterperted. I found an interesting artilce from a Christian prespective that examines this issue. So I do not think that a Chrisitan woman voluntarily wearing the hijab is not incompatiable with Christian teaching, if anything it is very compatiable.
I was raised by my maternal aunt and uncle who had custody of me. My dads family had me for a month in the summer. My dads sisters were mere children when I was born, they thought I was a doll instead of a human they would dress me up and paint my face up and fix my hair. As I got to be a teenager after I came to live with my mom they would put provactivly clothing on me, paint my face up like Jezaebel and they seem to make sure they did this when MEN were visiting usually freinds of my dad or boys my age. I looked like a harlot and many times these men would come onto me and of course I rejected them and if they left my aunts would accuse me of being unfriendly to these men, they were company in the South hospitality is important and I should have sat down on their lap if they insisted after all they were being friendly and didnt mean any harm I can think they were trying to marry me off and my father never stepped in and said a word about this. So I guess that is why now I feel the call to cover because I dont like being exploited and looked at like a piece of meat. I am married but if I were not I would want a man to judge me for my charachter, not my looks.
SubhanAllah...Allah guided your heart this far sis. This is why Allah tells us to cover, but people don't understand. This is where real liberation surfaces from Props to you sis
*Without Allah, without Islam, life would be meaningless. If I've ever learned patience, it's because of this. Alhamdulillah...*
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format_quote Originally Posted by Light of Heaven
Ok I see. Thanks for answerin
Your welcome sister. I have prayed many times on this and I will continue too. However I will continue on this forum to learn about Islam as one can never have too much knowledge.
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I believe that the New Testament was written for all times- to be used today just as it was during the age of the disciples. Paul writes from inspiraton of the Holy Spirit, Jesus chose Him personally to teach spread the Gospel.
Yes I agree that Paul saw it is an issue he felt very strongly about that women should have covered heads in his day.
Why add the second part of the verse?
I believe the through the Holy Spirit Paul is showing what is ok in todays culture for women to pray without covering their heads.
How did Paul know that in todays culture it would be ok for a woman to cut her hair? He didn't but the Holy Spirit did!!
ragdollcat- I want you to know that I am not against your choice just that Jesus did not preach legalism in anyway.
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some of the most devout women in christianity wear head scarves. this is to show that they submit to god (think the mary images or nuns) and that their primary concern on this earth is to do his will.
i believe thats more christians should wear the head scarf. it shows to others not only are the pious, but it also protects against the increasing secularism in the west. i wear the headscarf as a muslim, but that is not to say that christians shouldnt, i think it is a wonderful practice=)
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I see and like the Islamic view of it, but the Bible verses that claim that women should cover their heads state that it is because women dishonoureth men, for whom they were created, by not wearing it.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Follower
ragdollcat- I want you to know that I am not against your choice just that Jesus did not preach legalism in anyway.
This has nothing to do with legalism. There are certian commands and rules in the New Testament for Christians to live by. There are rules governing church government, clergy qualifications, roles of man and wife in marriage, etc.
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How is Paul writting for his time and today?
Today it is not a disgrace for a woman today to cut her hair to any length and so do not need to veil. Back in Paul's time it was a disgrace for women to cut their hair and they had long hair so they needed to cover it.
1 Corinthians 11
6If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.
Even today some women have never cut their hair, or if once cut as a child allow it to grow without cutting as adults. They don't realize that once cut hair is always then considered cut.
1 Corinthians 11
13Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
I listed the definitons of shorn, but guess you didn't see it:
shorn /ʃɔrn, ʃoʊrn/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [shawrn, shohrn] Show IPA
–verb a pp. of shear.
shear /ʃɪər/ verb, sheared, sheared or shorn, shear⋅ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to cut (something).
2. to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument: to shear wool from sheep.
3. to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from: to shear sheep. 4. to strip or deprive (usually fol. by of): to shear someone of power.
5. Chiefly Scot. to reap with a sickle.
6. to travel through by or as if by cutting: Chimney swifts sheared the air.
Paul is not writing so much about hair or veils, but spiritual authority and rebellion of the heart. Jesus was all about what was in your heart and not outward appearances.
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I can think they were trying to marry me off and my father never stepped in and said a word about this. So I guess that is why now I feel the call to cover because I dont like being exploited and looked at like a piece of meat. I am married but if I were not I would want a man to judge me for my charachter, not my looks.
Props to you sis 
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