“If
you have no shame, do whatever you like”!
... By Muqeet
We human beings have come through different ages in history: Stone Age,
Bronze Age, Iron Age. Historians tell us that these ages are
distinguished by the development of technology.
Today technology has reduced women to a mere tool in the hands of men!
It would be appropriate to call the contemporary age, the 21st century,
as “the obscene age”!
This is an era where nudity is riding the crest of the society.
Today world has reached such a stage in obscenity that if you were to
talk about moral aspects, man-of-the-obscene-age will look at you in a
curious way as if doubting your very masculinity!
Modesty, shame, honour, bashfulness which Islam calls as hayaa is lost.
There is NO SENSE of shame whatsoever!
How true was our glorious Prophet Muhammad
sal-lal-laahu-alaihi-wa-sallam when he said ‘If you have no shame, then
do whatever you like’! (Read the full hadeeth here)
Nudity is promoted through movies, through cartoon shows, through print
media, televisions channels and even through the so-called cricket in
the name of IPL !
The best job is done by the advertising media in spreading obscenity
and vulgarity among people.
It is so embarrassing to sit and watch even a News Broadcast with one’s
family. You come across a dozen commercial breaks that are fully loaded
with obscenity!
I dare to ask the Deodorant companies and advertisement agencies, are
your mothers dead? Do you ever have daughters? Will you strip your
sisters and make them run behind a man using your own deodorant brand?
What is the purpose of a deodorant? To attract 100 girls!
What message you are conveying through such advertisements?
You want to sell the product. Sell! Why the hell are you creating such
filthy advertisements?
The Television channels have no manners whatsoever. They simply shift
the ball to the Advertising Standard Council. They have approved, so we
are telecasting!
Have you mortgaged your brain in the Bank of Obscenity Unlimited? Nay!
materialism has made you worse than animals. For, some animals do not
mate in public!!
The meat of the matter is whether it is government or television
channels or advertising media – all have their own definition of
obscenity.
For them a girl ‘dressed’ in just half-a-meter cloth is not nudity! It
is progress! It is liberation! They are happy that they have freed
women of the burden of dress!
Man has gone so far in shamelessness that today modesty is considered
as a sign of backwardness!
People are upset at Muslim woman dressed in hijab because she curtails
their freedom of gazing!
Man must understand the natural laws of Islam. The only alternative to
help create a peaceful world.
Let me refer to this widely mentioned reference:
Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman,” ‘The mother of Yemen’s
revolution,’ when asked about her Hijab by journalists and how it is
not proportionate with her level of intellect and education, replied:
“Man in early times was almost naked, and as his intellect evolved he
started wearing clothes. What I am today and what I’m wearing
represents the highest level of thought and civilization that man has
achieved, and is not regressive. It’s the removal of clothes again that
is a regression back to the ancient times.” Source
Man must submit to the Guidance of his Creator. Man must go back to
Modesty, his natural root.
“Satan threatens you with poverty and orders you to immorality, while
Allah promises you forgiveness from Him and bounty. And Allah is
all-Encompassing and Knowing”. (Surah al Baqarah 2: 268)
Jazakallahu Khayra for reading this post.
Source:
https://yassarnalquran.wordpress.com/
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A
Fabulous Narration about Taqwa... Toubah and Pardon
From “Beyond Education”
collection – Nissar
Nadiadwala’s Editorial for Young Muslims
I have heard this narration from Shaikh Zafrul Hasan Madni who quoted
from Sahih Abu Dawood. My Madni scholar and close friend Shaikh Abdul
Basit confirmed the Hadith to be Sahih Hadith no. is 4379 from Sahih
Abu Dawood.
It was a dark morning in Madinah. A woman was returning after offering
fajr salah. Suddenly a man sprang upon her and raped her. The woman
screamed for help. A man heard her cry and ran to help her. But the
rapist fled. The man who came for her help chased the rapist to catch
him. Meanwhile a group of Muslims, upon hearing the cry of the woman,
too reached there. They heard from her about the incident and they too
ran in the search of the rapist. But an unusual thing happened. Instead
of catching the rapist they caught the man who was looking for the
rapist. The man plead that he was too like them trying to locate the
hidden rapist. So they brought him to the woman for verification. The
poor woman had not seen her rapist but out of shock she exclaimed, "Yes
this is the man!" It was dark when the incident took place but the
woman testified that this was the man. The man pleaded that he was not
but the people insisted that criminals always refuse to accept their
crime.
The matter was presented before the Messenger of Allah. He asked the
man if he had committed the crime, he pleaded innocence again. The
woman was firm that the same man was the rapist. The man had
only one hope, Allah. There was no revelation from Allah to announce
his innocence. The Prophet (pbuh) ordered death penalty for the rapist,
stoning to death.
The man was taken to the place of rajm. All preparations were made for
the death penalty. A pit was dug and stones were collected. The crowd
waited for the order to stone. And suddenly a man tearing the crowd
came forward shouting, "Leave him! Leave him!" He ran towards the man
and stopped the death penalty. "I am the guilty. Leave this man and
punish me in his place," he insisted. The people were shocked. They
inquired from the person if he was really speaking the truth and knew
the consequences of his statement. He said "I fear Allah."
The matter was again taken to the Prophet (pbuh). He heard the man who
pleaded guilty. The man said, "I committed the crime and got away with
it. The woman could not recognise me. The people could not catch me.
Even the Prophet (pbuh) did not know that I was the guilty. But Allah
knew it. I wondered why Allah not uncovered my crime. Then I caused
another crime, letting another man to be punished to death for my
crime. My heart pinched me and I said to myself, "I can escape from the
punishment in this world but will I be able to deceive Allah or hide my
crime from Him? My Taqwa grew stronger and I surrendered myself to the
jury. Please leave that man because he is innocent and punish me
instead for my crime"
The Prophet (pbuh) ordered the innocent man to be freed and then he
ordered that this man should also be freed and not punished! The people
were shocked as my readers too may be feeling the shock. The Prophet
(pbuh) said, "This man has repented in such a manner that Allah has
forgiven him." His Taqwa did not allow an innocent man to be punished
for his crime and so he surrendered in spite of knowing that death
awaited him.
Moral of the Narration? The man who was innocent put his trust in Allah
and Allah assures: Allah will find out ways for him who fears Allah.
Surah Talaq chapter 65 verse 3.
The man who was guilty repented so severely and surrendered out of fear
of Allah, ready to die in this world so that he may escape the
punishment of Allah on the day of Qiyamah. Allah accepted his
apology and as He declares in Surah Baqarah,verse 284: Allah forgives
whomever He wills and Punishes whomever He wills...
But did my readers consider this? The name of the man who committed the
crime, the woman who suffered and the innocent who was arrested by
mistake, are not narrated in any book by any narrator. They remain
unnamed. Though many people were present during the preparation of rajm
and when the real guilty surrendered, no one narrated their names. The
honour of a Muslim is very precious. If only today, even after 1400
years, we can revive that honour ....
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