Tahir Anwar – ess Well & Dress Modestly Especially When You Come to the House of Allah

Brothers and sisters. This is Imam Tahir Anwar

reaching out to you. I hope and pray

all of you are doing well, Insha'Allah.

You know, we have a saying in the

West, we say dress to impress.

It reminds me there's a hadith of the

prophet

where he says,

Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty.

There's a story that's narrated in the in

the hadith traditions that once there were certain

companions of the prophet, peace be upon him,

who were traveling,

and the

prophet specifically instructed them and said, you know,

fix your saddles,

and he said, be distinct,

that when someone sees you, they they, you

know, they're in awe, they recognize you, they

they that you're you're you're impressive.

And,

there's a verse in the Quran also, Allah

says,

Allah

talks about the donkey, the horse, and he

says that you ride it, and it's also

for your beauty.

The point I'm trying to make is that,

beauty,

physical

beauty, is a very, very important part of

our tradition, and part of that, as the

scholars of Islam have reminded us, is to

dress well,

to dress to impress,

but also dress modestly.

Right?

Modestly means that we dress in a way,

like, you know, what does what does modesty

mean in Islam?

Modesty means that we dress in a way

where

the curves of our body, for both men

and women,

are not shown, are not visible.

And so to dress loosely,

but dressing loosely

and dressing simply, as sometimes people understand it,

doesn't mean to dress dirty

or to dress

down. Dress well.

And so I just wanna take a moment

to remind myself and everyone else that as

Muslims, we're required to dress modestly,

being mindful of what we wear,

especially in the house of Allah

You know, there's a dress code for everywhere

that we go. There's a certain type of

clothes you wear at a wedding, certain type

of clothes that you may wear at work,

certain type of clothes that you wear in

a certain place. Well, we're coming to the

house of Allah

So we dress modestly,

but then we go above and beyond when

we come to the house of God, house

of Allah.

And also, as Muslims, dress well, dress nicely,

dress up, look nice, smell nice,

be nice.

So that's really all I wanted to say

to everyone,

that, you know, dressing well and dressing modestly

is a very important part of our tradition,

and we should be mindful of it at

all times, but especially when we come to

the house of

Allah. May you all be well.