Hosai Mojaddidi – God Loves Beauty So Why Can’t a Muslim Woman Show Her Beauty
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The question I had was about, you know, the Hadith and I mentioned
that Allah subhanaw taala is, he loves beauty, he is beauty. And
then it's kind of a conflict or a conflicting message that we should
emphasize our beauty. So how can we balance that? And
as my slides, as I referenced in the slides, the point of, you
know, be focusing or, you know, the pursuit of beautification
should really be about the inward, right we want to focus on inward
beautification. And that doesn't mean of course, we don't take care
of our exterior. The prophesy Saddam was known if you study his
Sierra, for always looking the best, even though he had very
little, he took great care to present himself in the most
beautiful way that you know, meant oiling or using oil using perfume.
Always having, you know, again, just the best presentation,
hygiene, of course, where did we learn how to do all of these
things was from his sunnah. So all of that is to say that, yes, we're
permitted to spend time beautifying ourselves and even
within our marriages, we should, right this should be a balanced,
reciprocated thing between both the husband and the wife. However,
if that's all you do, or that's your primary focus, and you place
so much of your value, on beautification, this is where
there's a problem. And in this society, this is the toxic
messaging that we're getting as women, that you have to be a
certain size, your hair has to look a certain way your skin has
to look a certain way your eye color, you should be at the gym
everyday. And you see a lot of women I was telling him, actually
the other day, my son and I drove to the supermarket early because
we had to get milk. And it was after fajr. And, you know, we
hunted, I had prayed, and then we stayed awake. So when we left to
go get milk, it was still you know, dark outside, somewhat. And
so I just I saw a bunch of people on the street running. There were
a lot of activity at this time, right? So very blessed time.
Fudger. But you could see that a lot of the people were up doing
what they were out there, focusing on right the exterior, so they're
doing their exercise. When I saw one guy, he was putting something
in the trunk of his car. And when he came out, he looked like he had
just come from the gym, you know, he just kind of had that gym.
Look, you look sweaty red. Okay, so I was like, he must have just
come from the gym and I said Subhanallah and I told my son I
said, you know, it's amazing that so many people will wake up really
early in the morning, to go to the gym, they will go out of their way
to go to the gym, they'll they'll wake up from their sleep. To do
that. They'll wake up from their sleep right to straighten their
hair for one to two hours. I know people who do this, it is their
morning beauty routine to wake up super early so that they get their
whatever you know, their ironing their orders as a call and I
totally forgot now they're flatiron Thank you. They're
flattered and ready and they get their makeup ready. You got to of
course shower and do all that but there's all this beautification,
but they won't pray. They don't pray to Allah, they don't they,
they just don't pray. So this is where we have it backwards. So the
point again, is we are permitted to beautify ourselves but priority
has to be inward Beautification and character development making
sure we're ridding ourselves of the diseases of the heart, making
sure we're learning and studying the Theatre of the process and the
son of the process of implementing that being people who embody as
much as we are able to the Quranic you know, the Quran in our in our
words and our actions, that's real beautification.