Muslema Purmul – Beauty And Seduction In Islam

			And you should feel beautiful in
your hijab, but you should not
		

			feel sexy.
		

			And that's a different concept.
That's a different concept
		

			altogether, and that's ugly, and
that's seductive and that's
		

			harmful. Seduction as a concept is
something where the person who is
		

			seeking to do it is seeking to
control someone else's behavior.
		

			It's not goodwill. Goodwill comes
from a desire to give and let
		

			people be good and to be in a good
state. And it's consideration, and
		

			it's wanting them to be safe. It's
wanting them to be protected.
		

			That's goodwill. Seduction is I
want this person to be affected by
		

			me in a way where I can control
you know that interaction as an
		

			example I like to use sometimes
with young people, is in the movie
		

			Lord of the Rings.
		

			What does the elf queen? Is it
Lady caladria? What does the elf
		

			Queen say when they put the ring
of power, when Frodo puts the ring
		

			of power in her hand?
		

			What does she say? Essentially,
the ring represents the voice of
		

			shaytaan. Right? What is, what is,
what is her sisters? What is our
		

			enemy? Telling us? What is our
enemy tempting us with, tempting
		

			us with,
		

			I want all men to look at me and
despair.
		

			That is the voice of shaytaan.
It's seduction, and it comes from
		

			needing to have power over other
people. And it is not even like a
		

			more, I mean, a more benign
intention would be that a sister
		

			just wants to get married and have
a spouse. That's a benign
		

			intention. But this is, I don't
even care about you, but I want
		

			you to be desperate for me.
		

			That is evil, that is, that is,
that is quintessentially evil. And
		

			that's, you know, a society
that's, again, the Western society
		

			really promotes the culture of
seduction, and it promotes the
		

			seducers, you know, that so and so
can be this. You know, they're so
		

			powerful because they can do this,
this female actress or that male
		

			actor. And we are the opposite. We
have a completely different
		

			paradigm. And the Prophet Muhammad
SAW, he said that every religion
		

			has a distinct characteristic, and
the distinct characteristic of
		

			Islam is Hayat.
		

			So again, Hayat coming from
Goodwill, from actually not
		

			wanting to harm creation, from
wanting that creation to be at
		

			peace with it, with its brother
and its sister. And that doesn't
		

			mean that if a person again,
because everything has to be this
		

			is like a very, you know, thick
topic. If someone is not intending
		

			to be seductive and someone else
is attracted to them, that's not
		

			your fault. And in Islam, being
beautiful is not a wrong
		

			intention. So in Allah, that Allah
is beautiful, and he loves beauty.
		

			Beauty is a very important
spiritual concept in Islam, and a
		

			man or a woman can and can and
should feel like before they leave
		

			the house. They should look
presentable. They should have a
		

			beautiful appearance. There's
nothing that is wrong with this
		

			concept, but they should never
intend seduction, because
		

			seduction is harm. And we have to
separate the two in a society that
		

			doesn't separate the two, and we
have to separate the two, even in
		

			Eastern cultures that don't
separate the two, all right, so
		

			you separate the two, and that
every morning a sister, when she's
		

			wearing her clothing, she should
feel beautiful, even with hijab,
		

			even with you know, hijab is not
about covering beauty, as we call
		

			it. Hijab is redefining what
beauty is. Hijab is saying, I'm
		

			going to be I'm going to do what
is beautiful to Allah, and so you
		

			adorn yourself with clothing that
is beautiful. You.