Makeup, cosmetics, being well-groomed, being clean, wearing nice clothes, modernism and education, in short ‘sophistication’, is a requirement of Islam

Muslims deserve the best of everything. Allah prepares the believers
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.

Examples of the insincerity of those people who are tyring to ban music:

Although they forbid music, they keep watching music channels,
listen to music and have fun.
Those who are against music go to weddings, go on the floor and
dance and sing.
They say music is wrong but they organize competitions with music
and dance halay.
Most probably, when they are alone in their cars, these people are
listening to music.Music has a warming and comforting effect that
helps with preaching. Music puts joy in heart that is in love with
Allah.
Prophet Mohammed (saas) sang songs, attended events with music, and
went to weddings.
It is an outrageous lie to say that music is a sin in all religions.
If the lovers of superstition had their way with art;
There would be no paintings or advertisement billboards anywhere in
the world.
There would be no artwork in texts used to preach the message of Islam.
There would be no illustrations in textbooks.
There would be no paintings, or vases, glass or tableware with
artwork on them in the hotels.
There would be no artwork on banknotes.
The fabulous paintings in the palaces and wall art would not be there.
The anatomy textbooks wouldn't have illustrations that describe the
human body. There would be no pictures, illustrations or beautiful
sights in books prepared to spread the message of Islam.
There would be no art schools like the Fine Arts Academies.
Allah mentions the statues Prophet Solomon (as) had built, but if
the radicals had their way, there would be no statues as well.
No newspapers, magazines, books or internet would be allowed. Such
people would consider watching TV forbidden too.
We would not have recognized the presidents, leaders, celebrities
or artists of other countries.
Mass communication tools, such as the internet and others, are
important tools in the End Times to be used for the spread of
religion. According to the bans of the lovers of superstition, they
would be banned too, and therefore the efforts to spread the
message of Islam would be impeded and slowed down.
Allah orders us "to take lessons from history, go around and see". If
it wasn't for paintings, we wouldn't have known about some
historical remains, we wouldn't have known about the histories of
other countries, we wouldn't have watched documentaries, we would
have only technical knowledge about them but never have an idea of
what they actually looked like.
There would be no documentaries about the signs leading to faith or
history and there would be a huge shortcoming in terms of general
knowledge and ignorance would have prevailed.
It is of paramount importance to know and ponder over the signs
leading to faith so that one gets a deeper faith in Allah. However,
because of the bans of the lovers of superstition, we would have
never known what they really looked like. For example, we wouldn't
have recognized the animals we didn't see with our eyes.

They spread the lie that music, paintings and dancing are forbidden in Islam

Say: 'Who has forbidden the fine clothing Allah has produced for His
slaves and the good kinds of provision?' Say: 'On the Day of Rising
such things will be exclusively for those who had belief during
their life in the world.' In this way We make the Signs clear for
people who know. (Surat Al-Ar'af, 32)
Although beauty, bountiful food, happiness, joy, love, art, dance,
music, entertainment and all such beauties are allowed by Allah,
the lovers of superstition ban them all. When they are asked, 'What
is the source of all these bans?' they either say it is the
traditions or show their fake hadiths as a basis for their actions.
They don't have a single shred of evidence they can show from the
Qur'an.
Music, dance, having fun, being happy, art, science, paintings are
all allowed for Muslims. There is not a single word in the Qur'an
that bans these beauties. They are all created by Allah as gifts,
and surely the lovers of Allah are the ones who deserve these gifts
the most.
Radicals want a soulless, tasteless and unsophisticated world
Now try to picture the world the lovers of superstition wish to live
in. How would it feel without music, art, or science? How could
anyone say that Muslims deserve a world where there is no beauty,
which is completely dark, isolated, dull, and tasteless? And who
could say that Muslims should live in such conditions when there is
nothing in the Qur'an that requires that.
Allah encourages through the Qur'an that the skies and the Earth
should be studied to see the creation artistry of Allah, leading us
to a stronger faith. So how could anyone ban science after that?
How could anyone try to prevent discovery of the evidence of
creation? What could an ignorant world without music, art, science,
bring to Muslims and Islam other than harm?
Indeed, all such wrong practices so far have always led to Islam
being misunderstood. After the superstition- loving, radical state of
mind spread, the Islamic societies which previously brought
science, art and civilization to the world collapsed, shut
themselves away from the world and a dark, isolated, ugly, ignorant,
unsophisticated understanding of religion emerged. The basic
reason why Islamic countries are mostly underdeveloped, mostly
unsophisticated and crude and why Westerners do not value Muslims,
is radicalism.
The people with a radical mindset always live a soulless, tasteless,
raw life. The houses, neighborhoods, organizations and streets of
such people always reflect that cold, soulless, crude view. Such
people are known with their fondness for starting new foundations,
but even there they cannot manage to stay together or produce
anything useful because of the lovelessness in their hearts. These
foundations are shut down after a while, having done nothing. They
always want to keep that dark world alive everywhere they go. They
don't want beauty, color, aesthetics or art in their worlds. They
don't know how to be beautiful or how to beautify things. Allah
loves what is beautiful. That's why Allah created heaven full of
beauties. How could someone that seeks to ban all these beauties in
the world and is proud of doing that, ever enjoy the beauties in
heaven?
Another mistaken idea such people have is that they think it's
acceptable for those people who are away from Allah to enjoy these
beauties but Muslims should not be allowed to have any of them.
However, it is actually the lovers of Allah that truly deserve
those beauties. Allah informs us of this in the Qur'an:
" On the Day of Rising such things will be exclusively for those
who had belief during their life in the world ." (Surat Al-Ar'af, 32)
Another highly interesting thing about most of these people is that
they don't practice what they preach. These people attempt to invent
new rules that have no basis in the Qur'an and try to show it as a
part of Islam. Then they impose it on Muslims, and when they cannot
find any basis for their allegations in the Qur'an, they come up
with more new rules and fake hadiths that are in complete
contradiction with the Qur'an. In their private lives, music,
dance, watching TV, visiting casinos are all ordinary things that
they do with no reservations. However, they try to show off by
putting on a fake appearance to cause division and show themselves
as 'religious'. Their real lives are not like what they like people
to believe.
They listen to music all the time, go to places where there is music
and dance but despite that, they never stop criticizing others.
That's the essence of their insincerity. Most of those people do not
even pray five times a day and do not observe other religious
obligations. All those superstitions they invented are simply
intended to show them as religious; it is purely for public view to
display their so-called piety.
Sometimes they misinterpret Qur'anic verses according to their own
state of mind, change their meanings and seek to justify their
wrong actions by this misinterpretation. They commit sins, but try
to justify it with their strange state of mind. They keep talking
about how much they don't feel like getting up and doing their
prayers, which is one of the greatest gifts in the world, and which
is a means to express gratitude to Allah. Insincerity is all too
common in their religion of superstitions.
More interestingly, some of them are well aware of their hypocrisy
and insincerity. Although these people have a religion of
superstitions that is in blatant contradiction with the Qur'an,
they believe that they are religious. Their eyes are closed. They
are not able to think according to the Qur'an and therefore they
cannot see the truth.
The Qur'an does not ban music, dance or entertainment
Just like the Qur'an does not ban music, dance or entertainment,
Prophet Mohammed (saas) did not do anything that would indicate
something like that, either. The lovers of superstition act
insincerely one more time, some openly lie, and some are unaware of
the truth. Allah allows Muslims to be happy, to feel joy, to
rejoice. Our Almighty Lord says in a verse: " Do not give up and do
not be downhearted. You shall be uppermost if you are believers ."
(Surat Ali İmran, 139) and thus bans Muslims from grieving.
Moreover,
- In the hadiths of Prophet Mohammed (saas), there are plenty of
mentions of the companions that danced and that even Porphet
Mohammed (pbuh) himself encouraged those who were dancing.
- The Torah explains that Prophet David (as) was singing songs of
praise to Allah with his beautiful voice and that he played musical
instruments and Prophet David (as) is praised for that. So, it is
clear that Allah sees it as a beautiful act and because Allah likes
it, Allah gives us the good news of such joys in heaven, too.
- Dance is about rhythm and harmony. Allah created the whole
universe with a rhythm. Birds, insects, even butterflies dance. The
birds make their beautiful music with their tongues. The sound of
the sea, the sound of the wind-blown leaves in a forest, they always
have a rhythm. Allah loves rhythm, dance, music, beautiful sounds.
- Heaven is created with that rhythm, too. In heaven, all the tress,
flowers and animals will dance with joy. One hadith explains it as
follows:
Abu Moses al-Es'ari (r.a.) narrates: He said the following during
the sermon in Basra: "Allah sent a message to the residents of
Paradise: "Did Allah keep His promise to you?" and at that moment,
the residents of paradise will look at all the jewelries, clothes,
fruits, pure spouses, rivers and then they will immediately say,
"Allah has kept His promise to us." The angel will ask three times,
"Has Allah kept His promise to you?" and they see that everything
they were promised came true, they will say, "Yes!". The angel will
answer: "There is one last thing", because Almighty Allah manifests
Himself on His servants, and lifts the curtains in front of their
eyes, and when His servants see Him, all the rivers will gush, all
the trees will sway and make nice sounds, all the mansions, all the
flames will shout out with joy, all the springs will flow even more
beautifully and faster, beautiful fragrances will fill the
courtyards and the mansions, beautiful musk and camphor will travel
around. Birds will chirp, and khuris will fascinate with their
beauties. (Death, Resurrection Day, Resurrection, İman Şarani, p.
370)
- There is folklore and dance all around Anatolia. Horon, halay,
zeybek are all different types of dances in Anatolia. People dance
everywhere in Europe and the USA. A world where music and dance are
banned is not in line with human nature. This would create a huge
distortion in human culture and an amazing gift of our Almighty Lord
would be missing. Trying to ban a beautiful gift that Almighty Allah
praises would amount to failure in understanding Allah and His
amazing art.
- The radical state of mind that bans dance bans music, too. It is
not even possible to picture such a quiet and cold world. Just
imagine; you turn on the TV or the radio, and there is no music, no
harmony. How could anyone want to destroy such a beauty? How could
there be art, aesthetics, beauty or joy in such a dull world?
Those who wish to bring such a dark world to Islam do not know what
they are doing. They do not know that they are trying to destroy the
beautiful spirit of Islam, that they are inflicting the worst
damage onto Muslim societies, that they are taking away their joy,
happiness and creativity. They want people to believe that religion
can be practiced in that blind world. They neither practice religion
as it should be practiced, nor do they serve Islam. They are solely
bringing conflict, dullness, darkness and boredom to the Islamic
world. They are spreading a radical frame of mind that has no basis
in the Qur'an and since they are driving people away from Islam,
they show Islam as a loveless, hateful religion, in effect, hurting
the entire world as a result.
If the lovers of superstition had their way with music;
There would be no compositions from Mozart, Vivaldi, or folkloric
Turkish songs, or classical Turkish songs.
There would be no national anthems, or our national anthem and
Janissary songs.
The Ottomans went into battle with Janissary songs which praised
Allah, and won great victories. The lovers of superstition also
believe that they were wrong.
There would be no musical instruments like the violin, the guitar,
etc., nor the ney which some of those people do actually consider
acceptable.
There would be no conservatories, theatres, or cinema.
As music is so beloved in Europe and the USA, there would be no
music or no music- related art and all those beauties would be
completely ended.
Social events, organizations with Americans and Europeans would be
canceled if there was any possibility of music in those events.
They consider "any person sitting in an environment where there is
music" a deviator, and a person "enjoying that music" an
unbeliever, therefore they wouldn't believe in the words of such a
person, dubbing him an unreliable person. This alone would be
sufficient to prevent building a society based on trust. How could
such a country be expected to have good relations with other
countries?

Story, - Hiding my Heart

I'm a 19 yr. old girl.
I just want to confide something in this site, about my story.
I never had real crush. All of them are actors/singers. It was this
second semester of my 3rd year in college when I started to feel this
kind of emotion. It was because of this man, when I see him. I've seen
him often since I transferred in the university and I don't know why
just now? I can't tell anyone about this matter. I'm a dark horse and
a bit of conservative.
I want to be close to him, I want to talk to him but there's no chance
for that. The worst is he'll be graduating this semester and that
means I will never see him again. I will surely miss the time we
accidentally looked at each other. I will miss the times when we're in
the library. I just can't imagine the next semester without seeing him
again. Only a month is left for that chance.
Upon graduating, he'll soon be back on his own country. Soon he'll
have a family of his own. I have no hopes to be with him the moment he
left this country.
It's so depressing that there's only a month left to see him so I'll
cherish every moments secretly looking at him.
How I wish that the feeling is mutual.
Anyways, I'm still young and who knows, time will come there'll be a
chance for us.