assalamualaikum waalaikumsalam first i
want to tell you that I'm a Muslim I
believe in everything written in the
book of allah are quran and then
everything he said but unfortunately i
find difficulty to confess myself with
the Farida of Keysha they have any
advice concerning this I wish that you
could assess me and many of my friends
okay thank you
just like Allah fit for your honesty may
Allah reward you for your honesty and
this is the first step to solve any
problem is to be honest to admit I have
a problem to admit I have a difficulty
if a person doesn't even admit they have
a difficulty they will never be able to
solve the problem let me remind myself
and you that to commit a sin is one
thing but to justify a sin is much worse
to commit a sin is not good it's bad but
to justify a sin is a million times
worse if I'm committing a sin suppose I
was able I suppose somebody is smoking
or drinking and he says oh I know I'm a
sinner may Allah forgive me
this is not good at least though he's
being honest with Allah and when you're
honest with Allah there is hope for
forgiveness when you're honest with
Allah at least there's a chance of
repentance the Prophet SAW I seldom said
feeling guilty for a sin is the essence
of repentance another moot over feeling
guilty means you know you're committing
a sin you know you're committing a sin
this is the essence or the first step to
repent from that sin so make sure if you
are committing a sin that you don't
justify that sin because justifying the
sin is something that is very very
dangerous extremely dangerous and that
really lowers that rank that we have
with Allah infinitely secondly you ask I
have difficulty about the variable of
hijab I remind you that the concept of
hijab is a concept that is found very
explicitly in the Book of Allah
Genda jalaluhu and very explicitly in
the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa seldom Allah says in the Quran
well that led the believing women well
your blue bin ABI who Marie Hinda Allah
Giroux behin Allah says in the Quran
that led the believing women draw their
homework over there jube and homo is the
plural of Tamar and Tamar is the Arabic
word for that which covers your head in
English we call it a headscarf so Allah
is saying let believing women draw their
head scarves over there do you and jube
is their chest area so Allah is saying
take your headscarf and make sure that
you cover even your chest with the
headscarf
this is very explicit in the Quran
there is no ambiguity here many people
now are saying where does the Quran say
we have to reach a job these people are
people who have never read the Quran
it's right there in front of them black
and white it's right there Allah says
let believing women put their head
scarves and cover their necks with it
why is this because some women listen to
this some women in the days of jahiliya
they would cover their hair but they
would take their headscarf and throw it
behind their back and they would expose
the upper chest they would expose the
upper chest you know how the dress is
our in our times the low blouses that
are common in the western attire in
front of other women that is something
else but in front of men no woman can
wear something like this so Allah is
saying even if you wear a headscarf make
sure you cover the front part of your
body as well don't just take a headscarf
and throw it behind you take the
headscarf and put it in front of you so
the Quran is very clear and realize my
dear sisters that this concept of
modesty is something that Allah is doing
not just for our protection but
primarily for yours Allah says in the
Quran that let believing women wear
their coverings and garments why valleca
Idina and your Ruffner fana you thing
that is better for them Allah is saying
for you to wear your scarf for you to
wear your covering it is better for you
Allah saying why so that they will be
recognized and not taunted not
humiliated not become the object of
teasing and of evil things follow you
then so my dear sister realized that
this protection that allow once from you
it is to protect you not only to protect
the rest of society but to protect you
also realize that our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa seldom our prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa seldom praised modest women
and he praised women who guard their
chastity and who guard their beauty that
Allah has given to them and he also was
not happy in fact in some a hadith he
cursed those women who flaunt their
beauty in one hadith he said those women
who do so they will not smell the
fragrance of paradise in another hadith
he said these women who flaunt their
beauty or of the signs of the day of
judgment this is of the signs of the end
of times that women will lose modesty
and in another hand all of these a
hadith basically they tell us the
positive of covering the positive of
being modest and the negative of being
immodest my dear sister in Islam let me
remind you of a blessing that all of you
here take for granted it is a blessing
of living in a Muslim land and a Muslim
country I come from America I come from
America that's where I live that's where
my home is that's where my my family
everybody is there
for a sister to wear a job in America
it's not easy especially post 9/11 I
know we know this as Muslims living
there
my own wife has been threatened
ridiculed people mock her people look at
her and stare
they there's something strange they'll
give sarcastic comments sometimes even
if I'm with her
they might just give an evil remark or
something like this it's not easy
practicing Islam in western lands and
yet and yet we find that at home did in
that hundreds and thousands and hundreds
and thousands of Muslim men and Muslim
women are rediscovering Islam in the
West you go to Islamic conferences as
large as these may even larger than this
and you find masha'Allah brothers upon
the Sunnah
sisters are wearing hijab they are doing
so despite the problems living in the
West my dear sister Allah has blessed
you to live in the East Allah has
blessed you to be amongst Muslims no one
will make fun of you if you were a
hotter scarf no one will ridicule you no
one will give you threats no one will
think anything strange of you this is a
Muslim society you're living amongst
Muslims you hear the Adhan you're mixing
with people who believe in Allah and His
Messenger what is possibly preventing
you from this level of excellence what
is there preventing you from coming
closer to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala yea
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why are you deceived something so simple
so straightforward living in a society
of people who are believers in a -
messenger I pray that Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala gives you the strength and the
courage and he gives all of us the
strength and the courage and the Iman to
live like Muslims to act like Muslims to
behave like Muslims this is only only by
doing this and only by being proud to be
Muslim will the pride that Islam
deserves return my dear sister I ask you
a blunt question if you are embarrassed
about being a Muslim if I am embarrassed
about being a Muslim that is
confusion is it any wonder that Islam
has become something to be embarrassed
about the day that you are proud to be a
Muslim and I am proud to be a Muslim
that is the day that Islam itself shall
regain its pride may Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala make us amongst those who bring
that pride back which is arkham allahu
khairan
assalamualaikum warahmatullahi
wabarakatuh