Hosai Mojaddidi – God Loves Beauty So Why Can’t a Muslim Woman Show Her Beauty

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.