Haifaa Younis – The Quran Has It All #15 Dress Code
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The speaker discusses the dress code of Islam, including the use of clothing to cover one's private parts and the importance of showing beauty to men and women. The speaker also provides details on the dress code for women and the importance of avoiding showing one's beauty to others. The speaker emphasizes the need for rules in the interaction between men and women and the need for practice in the community.
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So as a community,
as woman,
as men living
together on this earth,
Allah
taught us something also.
One of the uniqueness of the
human beings are they are the only creatures
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
created
that they need
dress code.
If you look at any other creatures, they
don't. The way Allah created them, that's how
they live here, other than human beings.
Was that
mentioned in the Quran?
SubhanAllah.
Yes. What should we wear? It's in the
Quran.
So, what did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
in Suratul Aaraf, the height?
Adam.
Now, this is a call
to all the children of Adam.
Muslims, non Muslims, everyone
living before coming after
us. We have sent down to you
clothing,
to cover
your
private parts.
Isha,
so another
kind of clothing. Isha is the clothings that
we use, that we wear
for beauty.
Outer garments to beautify us, and that's fine.
That's what Allah said. But then, as the
Quran,
the beautiful way, when Allah
gives things that are halal
and we should do, but then he gives
us things that is better.
And then he and made this parable. Look
at this one.
The garment of.
This is
better.
This is from the signs of Allah.
So they may remember.
What is he telling me and you?
If you look at the next verse,
it will explain this even.
Children of Adam,
do not let Shaitan
lure you.
The same way.
Remember when we talked about why didn't we
say? Was shaitan trick?
And what did he what does he do?
He made them one day, ate from the
tree that Allah told them not to eat.
What happens?
Their private part were exposed.
Why is this?
Humanity, human being,
and especially Muslims,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala focus always on something
called haya
mainly when it comes
to related to dress is modesty.
And what shaitan did to them in in
Jannah, he made them disobey Allah, and the
result of the disobedience of Allah, they were
exposed. And Allah is telling me, don't do
that.
Be careful.
And,
the garment of taqwa, I'm not going to
wear taqwa, but meaning when the
consciousness consciousness
of Allah subhanahu wa'amtala will be like my
clothes. It's always attached to my body. I'm
gonna be always
thinking of Allah,
learning about Allah, remembering Allah, and obeying him.
Now we go to Surat An Nur,
the
light, the chapter light, where Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala here goes in detail, especially about the
dress code for the woman. For the men,
he said 2 things.
Say to the believing men, lower your gaze
because that will help in the conduct between
the 2 genders.
Guard their private part, including the dress code.
Allah is unaware of what they are doing.
When it's come to the woman,
Allah gets into more details.
Why?
Because as women,
normally,
beauty is part of us.
Allah
beautified us. And now, he comes and says,
starting the same way,
meaning Rasool Allah alaihi wa sallam, say to
the believing woman,
lower your gaze, same as the man.
Guard your own private part
and don't show your beauty. Don't expose your
beauty.
Accept
that part or that beauty or those beauties
that are naturally
there. And most of the scholars will tell
you it's usually the face, the hand for
those who say that face is okay to
be not covered. For those who say it
needs to be covered, they say in the
dress code you are wearing should not be
too beautified.
But then Allah immediately afterward
give more details.
What is al Khimar? Khimar is from word
hamr, which is something that covers. And in
that time, Khimar is the head cover.
The head cover, they didn't call it hijab.
It's called.
But at that time, they used to just
put it very loosely on the head, and
it doesn't cover their
chest or the or the parts from the
neck down. And Allah said,
keep that cover of the head,
of the hair, but draw
it draw it. Make it tight
that it touches the skin, cover the whole
face, and cover the part from the neck
up to the cleavage of the breast.
That's what is the hijab.
It's the
cover of the hair and that part. But
then he didn't say this only.
Again, don't show your beauty.
Meaning, anything that I, as a woman, does
to make me look beautiful,
it is not haram,
But it should not be shown to everybody
because afterward, he said, don't show your beauty
except to the following people. And he mentioned
all the miharam,
all the men that the woman cannot marry.
That's the dress code.
Islam is a religion
that teaches me every aspect of my life.
I call Islam as Islam as a physician
again, It's Islam of prevention.
Islam is a dean of prevention. It's not
dean of treatment. Treatment comes later on after
all the preventions we didn't do and we
fail. So what is the prevention to keep
the moral morality in the in the communities?
Morality on this earth
is one of the measures is
that there has to be rules
in the interaction between the two genders
and how the genders, especially the women,
dress
to keep this morality,
to keep this beautiful earth that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala make us as representative of Him.
The conduct on this earth should be the
way that pleases Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May
Allah make it easy for all of us
and may Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, teach us
and make us understand and make it easy
for us to practice it.