Hello Everyone,
ISIS is the group of millitants, who performed their (bad) job, which is fight agaisnt innocent people on the name of Islam. That is shameful act. I noticed that so many people have no idea what is the rank and dignity Islam gave to women. Usually people seemed that in Islam there is no role of women to take part in activities like men do. Islam has always suffered from many false charges against it due to the misunderstanding of its true teachings. One example of this is the wide spread false notion that Islam in general deprives women of their rights and forces them to go behind the veil. But if one looks with a deeper glance on this subject, it will be found that the veiling of women is not something that Islam has invented. The previous revealed scriptures also contain some traces of similar teachings and Islam came only to complete and perfect them.
In the Old Testament we read about what Rebekah did before Isaac in the following passage:
When Re-bek'ah raised her eyes, she caught sight of Isaac and she swung herself down from off the camel. Then she said to the servant 'who is that walking in the field to meet us?' and the servant said 'It is my master' And she proceeded to take a headcloth and to cover herself. (Genesis: 24: 64 and 65)
In the New Testament we also read:
But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered shames her head for it is one and the same as if she were a (woman) with a shaved head. For it a woman does not cover herself let her also be shorn; but if it is disgraceful for woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. (1 Corinthians: 11: 5, 6)
From the above, it is obvious that the Bible regards the veiling of women as a pious act. But the present day commentators of the Bible, in their efforts to prove that its teachings do not in any way deprive women of their freedom, have denied this fact because they thought that it is a burden on women.
Similarly even some of the modern day Muslims have also followed the same course for the same reason, and they have tried to prove that even Islam does not put this restriction on Muslim women. But they were not successful because, unlike the Bible, the text of the Quran is preserved in its original form and hence it is impossible to get away by twisting the meanings of its verses. Yet this reveals that the lack of the proper knowledge of the wisdom behind the Islamic veil prevails even among the Muslims.
The shamefulness isn't in the act. The acts listed above were simply to show the fact that God made man, and made women from man. The acts themselves existed according to local custom. God and the Bible are not trying to break local custom. God made the Bible for saving people, not for breaking their customs when those customs do not do something that is evil.
Those are local customs, nothing more.
The New Testament explains it better. From 1 Corinthians 11:3-16, virtually the only place in the N.T. that explains it in detail:
3 Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
5 And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved.
6 If 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.
7 A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;
9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
10 For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.
11 In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12 For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
16 If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.
Notice in verse 16 that it uses the word "practices." It is not a law. It is a practice.
Verses 14 and 15 show that nature suggests short hair for men and long hair for women. The words used are "disgrace" and "glory," not "law." However, it is a disgrace for people to turn something that is not law into a law when it harms people.
Verse 13 shows that the Corinthian people had the practice of women covering their heads. Why was it a practice? Because verses 11 and 12 show the way natural law exists... neither man nor woman are independent of each other. In the Lord, man and women work together, but everything comes from God.
In verses 7 and 10 the word "ought" is used. Again, it is not law. It is simply honorable practice. Verses 8 and 9 show why.
Verses 4 through 6 show that the whole thing is about honor and dishonor. If it had to do with law, it would have said law. Forms of honor and dishonor vary from nation to nation and people to people.
Among the Corinthian people, and indeed most of the people all over the Middle East at the time of Paul, women were generally married. They were married so that they would have the protection of their husband, because, generally speaking, a woman is not as strong as a man, and women need protection because of it. Also, just for living, a woman needs the strength of a man, although in our modern day there are many jobs a woman can do without needing a man around to help provide for them. But as late as the first half of the 20th century in America, and still all over the Middle East, a woman has a difficult life if she does not have a man to help support her.
The point is, the hair thing has to do with honor as it exists among the various cultures, not with law from the Bible. When a man supports a woman, it is honorable for the woman to obey the man, but the man should be showing mercy and kindness and love toward the woman. Other places, like Paul's letters to Timothy, show this.
