for heaven, the place of infinite beauties, with the blessings He
gives in this world. And Muslims make sure that the world they live
in is as close to heaven as possible, making it almost a preview of
heaven. They make a great effort to ensure that through their
cleanliness, their beautiful characters and their well-groomed
appearances.
Muslims surely will lead a good, sophisticated life, and will have a
clean, well-groomed look. This is because beauty, being
well-groomed, aesthetics, taste in art are all qualities that Allah
loves. The Qur'an does not ban Muslim women from putting on makeup
or looking well-groomed. Indeed, during the time of Prophet
Mohammed (saas) ladies were always very well-groomed. They were
putting on make up too. In fact, men too, during that time, most
notably our Prophet Mohammed (saas), would apply a type of
eyeliner. Muslim ladies were using blush, eyeliners, lipsticks and
henna on their nails and hands. They were also using special
hairdyes.
Indeed, Prophet Mohammed (saas) encouraged dyeing the hair, and
indeed he dyed his hair, too. The hadiths make it clear that the
hair color he loved the most in women was blonde:
5882- Narrated by İbn Abbas ra:
A man passed by Prophet Mohammed (saas) with his hair dyed with
henna. He said: 'It looks good'. Then another man passed that dyed
his hair with a mixture of henna and ketem (a type of black hair
dye). He said: 'This is better'. Then another man passed by who
dyed his hair blonde and he said: 'This is the best of all'.
(SOURCE: GREAT HADITH COLLECTION, am'ul- fawaid min Jami'il-usul wa
Majma'ith-zawaid, Imam Muhammed Bin Muhammed bin Sulayman
er-Rudani, Iz Publishing/2nd edition, Istanbul 2009, page
257-261-262-265-271-27 2-273)
Women should of course look very well groomed and attractive,
complemented with their noble demeanor. This can be achieved only
with sophistication, and sophistication will lead to respect by other
people. It doesn't take being rich or very beautiful to achieve
that. It is sufficient to have that pure outlook of the Qur'an, with
a desire to look clean, well-groomed and dapper in line with the
pure and clean spirit in the Qur'an. Muslims always carry holy light
on them and looking dapper and well-groomed to complement that
holy light will only add to his prestige and sophistication.
Everyone that sees a well-groomed, sophisticated, confident Muslim
lady will admire their looks, their confidence, their
sophistication and their lives in general.
Makeup is one of the allowed ways of looking well-groomed and
beautiful and it is a blessing from Allah. Allah loves all beauties.
That's why women, flowers, trees, butterflies, birds were created
so beautiful. Allah has adorned heaven with such beauties.
It is usually people with a radical view that try to make makeup
illegitimate. They have lost their sense of enjoying such beauties.
In their dark worlds, there is no place for art, love, happiness,
joy, beauty or aesthetics and therefore they would rather see a
woman ugly than beautiful. According to them, the uglier, the more
disheveled a woman looks, she who is created as the epitome of
beauty, the more suited she is for their darkened worlds.
Therefore their understanding of Islam gives the same eerie image
to the world. In the fake religion of the radicals, the women are
deprived of beauty, left without any possibility of being beautiful,
or getting an education; they were made ugly and pushed out.
According to them, women are insecure beings with no intrinsic
value. What modern, contemporary, educated person would accept a
religion that makes a woman ugly and worthless? Who would want to
represent such a religion? Who would defend such a religion?
Because of this wrong view, Western societies misunderstand Islam
completely and stay away from it: This is nothing unexpected. The
role given to women in this model of the radicals is reason enough
for Westerners to stay away. These superstitions based on such a
dark view, instead of the beautiful religion that Prophet Mohammed
(saas) preached are introduced to the world as the religion of
Islam. That's why the world is afraid of Islam.
These lovers of superstition, in this fake religion they have
conjured up using the name of Islam, have destroyed all the
beauties and gifts with their own hands and lost their ability to
enjoy the beauties that Allah created. As the signs of creation
inspire and cheer up a believer with their incredible beauties, the
radicals lack the ability to enjoy the color or scent of a flower,
the beauty of a fruit, the adorable looks of a puppy or even the
sweeping beauty of a cloudless sky.
Despite that, when they encounter something of beauty they are
immediately reminded of the darkness of their own lives and they
don't feel moved by that beauty but uncomfortable instead. This
usually comes out as jealousy. This is the basis of their reaction to
a beautiful, well-groomed lady. They want that beautiful lady to
look ugly just like the disheveled people around them. They cannot
accept the fact that she is beautiful. They cannot praise beauty
and they can't understand the beauty of praising Allah for such
stunning sights. Therefore, they always respond with hostility when
they see an object of beauty and seek to destroy them.
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