Beneath burqa, a mangalsutra and chooda

[KRAIT]

@Federer In Hinduism, A "Lota" is used to offer water to Sun God. So Muslims shouldn't use it ?

 

[Federer]

How old are you ?

Read the above post and then decide for yourself.

hey mate.do you have something against islam?

I personally advice you to hate the people who interpret islam ot any other religion in a bad way.

That is correct interpretation of Islam only!

You have the writings from Islam in front of you. Decide from an unbiased rational thought of mind yourself.

 

[Patriots]

Once detected, What is their Punishment?

There is no worldly punishment ... Allah will punish him on judgment day ..

Resembled in thoughts & deeds or looks ?

Everything

 

[Ayush]

Read the above post and then decide for yourself.



That is correct interpretation of Islam only!

You have the writings from Islam in front of you. Decide from an unbiased rational thought of mind yourself.

ya that is correct interpretation of sharia islam.
but how many muslim countries follow sharia? it is too orthodox to be accepted by majority people.

so we shouldn't relate islam to sharia only.

there were many such things in hinduism too.
so by your logic should a widow be burned with her dead husband?

 

[Kaniska]

NEW DELHI: As burqa-clad Sumaira walks past the streets of Jama Masjid, there's nothing really striking about her. That's until she flashes the bright red bangles she's wearing — the kind that newly married Hindu women have around their wrists.

Young Muslim women in India, and even Pakistan, can be increasingly seen sporting the chooda, mangalsutra and often the sindoor. And they see no taboo in it, taking it as a fashion statement, something that adds to their 'just married' look.

''Wearing a chooda doesn't make me a Hindu or a lesser Muslim," says 21-year-old Sumaira. "See, among Muslims there is nothing that differentiates married women from those who are still single. I have been fascinated with choodas ever since I was a kid. So that was one of the first things I bought after my engagement. In fact, my cousin Saima, too, wore one at her nikah." So did Huda Ahmad, also from the Jama Masjid area here, when she got married last week. To her surprise, none of her relatives objected.

It's not only the chooda. The demand for mangalsutras is picking up, and not just in India but also in Pakistan where many of those who ask for it attribute it to the influence of India's enormously popular saas-bahu soaps.

Two years ago, when Naseema Aziz, a resident of Karachi, visited her relatives in Delhi they were startled to see her buy seven diamond-studded mangalsutras from Karol Bagh. "Mangalsutra is a beautiful neckpiece and goes with every suit," Naseema explained over phone.

"If one is wearing it out of choice, there's nothing wrong in it. In Pakistan everyone knows I am a Muslim. Merely wearing a mangalsutra won't have me confused for a Hindu."

Jewellers in Delhi confirm this trend. "In the past two-three years, we have seen a growing number of Muslim women, some in burqas, ask for the mangalsutra," says Ankit Kohli, owner of Raj Jewellers. "They prefer the ones that have diamond pendants."

With the mangalsutra and chooda finding favour among Muslim women, how can the sindoor, that eternal sign of a married Hindu girl, be left behind? But while most Hindu women prefer red sindoor, Muslims tend to go for orange. Interestingly, in parts of Kolkata the two different shades have come to distinguish women from the two communities.

Rizwana, who works as a nanny in Kolkata, has seen her mother with orange sindoor. She followed suit when she herself got married in 2010. "Hindu women use red and we orange. Don't women in Delhi do the same?" the 24-year-old asked. In Bihar, however, many Hindu women also use orange sindoor.

This confluence of cultures can these days be witnessed during Muslim weddings too. Some of them come complete with what resembles the sangeet ceremony.

Omar's wedding in Delhi is on February 23 and he's busy not just with his shopping but frenetic dance rehearsals. "Though the wedding is on the 23rd, the nikah will take place on the 10th. And there is a sangeet-cum-mehendi function with dance performances by relatives and friends. Both Hina, my fiancee, and I will be performing," says the excited man.

When asked why the nikah was being held before the functions, he says, "If we perform together before the nikah, some of our elderly relatives might not like it that the girl and boy are dancing away without even getting formally hitched."

Beneath burqa, a mangalsutra and chooda - The Times of India

I am not an expert in this area..But this type of trend proves that there is a difference between a culture and religion...Like if you say in US and Western countries....Most of us wear dresses like Western people...even women like to wean jeans, shirts and pants....That does not make those women less Hindu or less Muslim...And the same women and men again when come back to India ..they wear the traditional dresses...And again if they go to Pakistan...they may wear Burkha or whatever traditional dress they would like to wear....

This kind of trend would bound to continue as people donot like to be seen as a different entity that the majority people or they might like in the fashion sense.....

 

[Federer]

@Federer In Hinduism, A "Lota" is used to offer water to Sun God. So Muslims shouldn't use it ?

Lota is not seen as a Hindu symbol but a Mangal Sutra is.

Ask any Muslim you know to come to temple and pray, do this simple thing in your life and you will get your answers.

 

[KRAIT]

Lota is not seen as a Hindu symbol but a Mangal Sutra is.
Ask any Muslim you know to come to temple and pray, do this simple thing in your life and you will get your answers.

Define Mangalsutra ? What does it look like ?

Kasab was wearing a Saffron band and conspiracy theorists called him Hindu because instead of all the information, they deduced from one thing only.

 

[Armstrong]

I dunno what a Chuddaa is but if its anything like bangles or bracelets or one of those gold bangles then yeah Pakistani women wear it all the time but a Mangalsutra or a Sindoor ain't something that I've ever seen any Pakistani woman wearing !

 

[Federer]

ya that is correct interpretation of sharia islam.
but how many muslim countries follow sharia? it is too orthodox to be accepted by majority people.

The concept of country itself as much non-islamic as much as Mangal Sutra for Muslims.

The people who you call anti-islam or extremists want all the Muslims of the world (From American, Indian to Pakistani) to go back what the Prophet said of how a Muslim should live and follow his duties as a a Muslim.

so we shouldn't relate islam to sharia only.

Sharia is Islamic Law only!

Munafiqs (Manipulators of Islam) are afraid of Sharia and try to downplay it.

 

[livingdead]

I dunno what a Chuddaa is but if its anything like bangles or bracelets or one of those gold bangles then yeah Pakistani women wear it all the time but a Mangalsutra or a Sindoor ain't something that I've ever seen any Pakistani woman wearing !

the article says some ( I think very few...) indian muslim women wear sindoor.. may be bindi (a sticky d ot like thing), and a few pakistani women wearing mangalsutra...
Mangalsutra looks like a piece of jewellery, a hindu woman wearing colorful headgear does not become muslim.. so whats the big deal..

 

[Armstrong]

the article says some ( I think very few...) indian muslim women wear sindoor.. may be bindi (a sticky d ot like thing), and a few pakistani women wearing mangalsutra...
Mangalsutra looks like a piece of jewellery, a hindu woman wearing colorful headgear does not become muslim.. so whats the big deal..

I thought the Mangalsutra was a Hindu religious thing !

Khair anyhow whatever the hell it maybe; I've never seen any Pakistani woman wearing that or a Sindoor !

 

[Hobo1]

Jewellers in Delhi confirm this trend. "In the past two-three years, we have seen a growing number of Muslim women, some in burqas, ask for the mangalsutra," says Ankit Kohli, owner of Raj Jewellers. "They prefer the ones that have diamond pendants."

Hope fascination for Hinduism in India's Muslim masses keeps growing and hope they finally come back to Dharmic fold.

 

[Fekay]

It's nothing sinister,just women following trend for beautification. I've also seen Muslim women wearing a fashion type gold bindi on celebratory occasions. Being a Muslim doesn't mean you dress like an Arab. Some things just hold cultural significance and nothing wrong with people wearing them.

 

[Ayush]

The concept of country itself as much non-islamic as much as Mangal Sutra for Muslims.

The people who you call anti-islam or extremists want all the Muslims of the world (From American, Indian to Pakistani) to go back what the Prophet said of how a Muslim should live and follow his duties as a a Muslim.



Sharia is Islamic Law only!

Munafiqs (Manipulators of Islam) are afraid of Sharia and try to downplay it.

ah mate.you sound like Zarvan.
anyways, your thinking.

 

[Haseebullah]

I in my life have not seen a single Pakistani women wearing a mangalsutra and Sindoor.

I just came back from a wedding in Lahore,i have attended many more.

I understand that mangalsutra is a special type of necklace and Pakistani muslim women do wear necklaces but not mangalsutras.
And sindoor?Are you mad,no on in Pakistan in their right mind would wear that.Some one out of the 200 million might have worn it but it is in no way becoming common.