You know what vanity is? Vanity is the assumption that the Most High God cares what goes on your body (ie: clothing, headwraps, etc.). Go find one living thing that was not born naked, just one. If you adorn yourself based on anything outside of your Self and your Guidance, that is vanity. If you concern yourself with the appearance of persons not under your gaurdianship (children, grandchildren, etc.), then that is vanity. If you compare yourself to anything that is not One Perfect God, that is vanity. If persons were ment to be same, there would be but one person or at least one type of person. If we were all ment to eat the same there would only be one thing to eat.
Any person, rightious or otherwise, who throws negativity (of any kind) at anything, human or otherwise, is overcome with vanity. Thinking that the opinion of any one person is as valuable as the will of God is not only vanity but also folly. Anyone who would dictate how a woman should dress is mistaken. Anyone who assumes a woman is not rightious if she is not wraped from head to toe in fabric, is mistaken. Anyone who thinks that God's work can only be done in a certain costume, is mistaken.
What does God say of the women and men who wear a string of beads or a loin cloth as their only garment?
Flesh is a temporary state of being that has so little to do with rightiousness that it's sad how many people are caught up in it. If you live to be a hundred, your life will still be only a blink in time. Who you are outside of physicality is what matters, everything else is vanity. Preservation of the gifts one has been blessed to recieve is all that matters, concerning vanity and rightiousness.
Eventually, ones will discover that the path to rightiousness starts and ends naked; born without adornment, die stripped bare to one's soul. There, in nakedness, is GOD.
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