Thanks to the beautiful sisters who contributed to this blog carnival, here they are. I want you all to know how much I appreciate your contributions.
Safiya Outlines: A beautiful Muslim sister.
Walking in His Footsteps: tkmuskrat: Modest Fashion Cents: Beautiful Christian sisters.
Recovering Christians: Kristen Mom of 3: Kristen Mom of 3 : Beautiful Jewish sisters.
I will continue adding to this list all week, either from sisters who volunteer, or by the results of my own surfing. If you still want to contribute a particular post, please drop your links in the comments box. Thanks.
Here are the results of my own surfing. This carnival is scheduled to continue growing all week, so keep checking back.
BEAUTIFUL JEWISH SISTERS
BEAUTIFUL CHRISTIAN SISTERS
BEAUTIFUL MUSLIM SISTERS
WHY I COVER MY HAIR
by Jenna
"First and most important, I cover my hair because Allah told the believing women to cover in the Quran.
“And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear therof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons, or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex, and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O you Believers, turn you all together towards Allah, that you may attain Bliss.” (Quran 24:31).
“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognised (as believers) and not be annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 33:59)
“O you Children of Adam! We have bestowed on you raiment to cover your shame as well as to be an adornment to you. But the raiment of righteousness, that is the best. Such are among the Signs of Allah, that they may receive admonition.” (Quran 7:26)
Second, I cover my hair because as an American muslimah it invites other American women to ask me about Islam. This helps to clear some misconceptions that some people might have about Islam or Muslims. I am often asked if I feel oppressed. Or if I have to walk behind my husband.
Third, covering my hair has made me feel more like a person and less of a sex object. Most men think of hair as alluring. So by not displaying my beauty I'm not encouraging men to gawk at me. Covering also actually makes me feel more attractive for my husband. Because he is the only one who can see something as simple as my arm."
ONLINE HEADCOVERING STORES
NOTE: To all the beautiful sisters who previously left me comments saying that they want to contribute to this carnival, I will extend your deadline until Friday so you can still contribute a link of your choice. If you don't, I will assume that life held you up and you just didn't get a chance to do it, or maybe it completely slipped your mind. On Friday, however, I just might visit your blog and see if you have anything written that compliments the carnival and choose from random posts that you wrote on the subject in the past. I want to ensure that you still get the "link love" you deserve. Peace to all the dear sisters in religiously inspired head-coverings.
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15 comments:
I'm glad you have some participants!! Off to go check them out!
Beautiful posts - thank you!
Salaam Alaikum,
I had to put my own carnival together and it was surprisingly enjoyable. Glad you liked the post.
What a totally delightful surprise... Ruti will be tickled as punch when I tell her!
Am I allowed to nominate a truly lovely lady who writes 'Livin in Layla Land' for your festival?
http://livininlaylaland.blogspot.com/2009/05/memories-of-mothers-day-past.html
Nominate away sweetie!
:0D oopps better nip over to visit darling little Layla and let her mommy know :0D
What a great idea, masha Allah and thanks for including my little rant ;) Although I had known of Jewish women covering in various ways, I was really surprised to find Christian women covering when I became a hijabi. Locally, I am often mistaken for Russian Orthodox.
Thanks again, I look forward to reading all the posts!
Salaam Ms. Hajar
I wanted to submit my poem "You American Immigrant" to your carnaval as part of my expression of some of the experiances I've had "walking around - with that thing on my head" - but I wasn't sure how to post the submission? I'm kind of new to blogging so I'm not sure how to do some of this stuff.
I'll give it a try tonignt and see if I can figure it out.
I posted your link on my blog - but - I'm not sure I did what I was suppose to?
LOL
I'm pathetic aren't I?
I saw you list "Kristen mom of 3" as a Jewish sister, but I always thought she is a Christian who lives a life according to the teachings of the Old Testament! I'm really confused!!!
Wonder which one she is?
I think I remember having read posts on Jesus in her blog(sth Jews would never do)
I know that it may not matter that much but I hope you'll be able to clarify.
Bless you and your darling twins.
Eli
Kristen, Mom of 3 is what is considered a Messianic Jewish lady. Haven't you heard of Messianic Judaism?
yes I have heard about Messianic Judaism, BUT, I know an orthodox Jew who considers herself Messianic and she does not believe in Jesus, and there is also the fact that even though some ethnically Jewish Messianic Jews are considered Jewish, on the whole both Judaism and Christianity consider Messianic Judaism as a form of Christianity rather than Judaism.
peace
Eli
I don't know that many, but I read a post written by one lady who considers herself a messianic Jew and she is offended by the fact that other Jews do not consider her to be Jewish.
http://sanilrivka.blogspot.com/2009/04/frustration.html
According to this post I assumed they preferred to be called Jews. I hope no one is offended that I listed them as Jewish. Because Recovering Christians and the wonderful lady at Seeking the Narrow Way are also Messianic Jews.
I'm sure no one would be offended by this as the differences among denominations sometimes becomes so confusing that those who belong to a particular one usually understand these "mistaken" understandings and are eager to explain the difference.
I would think that asking Kristen momof3 could be a good way to resolve this, as far as I know her she is such a lovely lady that she would kindly explain everything.
Peace
Eli
Salam Alaikum Sister, I really like your blog and your kids are so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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