Chastity is Woman’s Beauty

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Chastity is Woman’s Beauty

Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) said, “Chastity is the woman’s beauty.” 

Beauty is divided into two kinds:

Skin beauty and true beauty.  Skin beauty is the beauty that is short and limited for a period of time, and then it leaves and vanishes without adding any special moral character to the person.

The true beauty is the one that stays with a person forever and gives the person a moral character, personality, spirituality, and will make the person rise to the high horizon of the human’s completion.

Therefore, and with no doubt, we can see that true beauty is far more important, and it should be the one trait a person should seek strongly to have and earn.  If he didn’t or couldn’t gain any true beauty, then skin beauty will have no value at all.

Chastity is true beauty as the Prophet (peace be upon him) indicated.  It is the type that gives the human identity, personality, dignity, and highness in this life and the hereafter.

Make up, perfumes and other cosmetics are fake tools and have no value especially if the woman (God forbid) has no chastity or shame.

Veil or Hijab is the sign that indicates a woman’s chastity.  Whereas being unveiled (Sofoor) harms the woman’s reputation and puts a question mark on her chastity and integrity, because she has made her body exposed for the public, to be seen by hundreds of thousands during the time she has been outside of her house.

Truly I say it would be unknown how many people would have been hurt by wanting her and thus couldn’t have her; also it would be unknown by how many hands her body was touched by.  Does anyone think that their heart will feel secure by her past or present?

(Sofoor) or being unveiled will bring accusations upon the woman, as Imam Ali (peace be upon him) the prince of the believers, indicated, “Whoever exposed one self for accusations should not blame but himself, if accused or doubtfully was charged.”  (4)*

Definitely the unveiled woman will not harm but herself because:

1st:  She loses her social position and she loses her position with God because she is disobedient and opposes the laws of heaven.  Inshallah, you will read the punishment of the unveiled (Safera) in another chapter,  “The punishment of the unveiled women in the hereafter”.

She may also lose her social position because either she may drive herself to sin and vice, or at least she may be in a doubtful position where the people may point a finger at her.

The unveiled woman will gain both of the positions together:

1.      With God, because she is obedient, therefore, she will have the dignity to face the mighty Allah with a face, notable and with dignity.  She did cover when she was asked and with every step, she will have God’s mercy and blessings with her, God’s satisfaction, God will send angels upon her asking forgiveness and paradise for her as written in Al-Qasas (The Narrative) Verse 60:  “…And whatever is with Allah is better and more lasting…”

2.      In the society and in the eyes of the public, she will be respected and honored because she will be beautied with her dignity and chastity, preserving her notability, covering her beauty that Allah has given her for the right person.

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