NUDITY OR MODESTY

Asalamualaykum Warahmatullah,

We often forget how exposed we are to nudity.

It is so normal for us to see adverts showing women half naked that we no longer double take.

But have you noticed its always women who are objectified this way?

Not that we want to deal with naked men as well as an issue.

Its odd to think that the more women are fighting for equal rights and feminism is becoming popular, the more women are used as sex objects and advertising material for music, shampoo, clothing and more. 

Its odd to think that people have the audacity to question the hijab, to say that it is restricting, to say that we are oppressed. 

What is oppression anyway?

Sheikh Google/ Wiki says that oppression is: 

"Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority"

So tell me this, how is liberating yourself by covering up, being able to wear lose clothing, being judged by your mind and your actions, being able to be taken seriously a form of cruel or unjust treatment, OVER wearing no clothes, or wearing tight clothes, showing the shape of your figure, allowing yourself to be wolf whistled at, and commented on by the shape of YOUR body,  being put in a situation where you are without shame told whether you are other peoples idea of hot or not, being accepted or not accepted into a job because of what you are wearing.

Where in all of that is freedom?

Even us muslim girls conform to this ideology. We have a hijab on our heads but still we show off our bodies by wearing short or tight clothing, wanting certain parts of our body to be on show?

WHY? Take a moment to truly think about this. 

Actually think about whether we are just literally contradicting ourselves. 

Are we literally in this to please people in this world for a short period of time, over pleasing our Lord who holds our eternity?

I read a beautiful saying by Ustadtha Yasmin Moughad where she basically said that everyone is yearning for a paradise, and what ends up happening is we make this world our paradise, when it is not. Paradise is a beautiful place with no negativity, just beauty, happiness and eternity. Yet we are all very aware that this life is not that, yet we continue to force it into our own form of paradise.

It doesnt work like that. 

We need to be a team, we need to think about our behaviour, we are not animals who get to do what we want, when we want and how we want. 

We are creatures with a conscious, with the ability to have a choice and be held accountable for that choice. 

We are weak but we can be strong.

We just need to work on ourselves.