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.