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The Imām said, “And how do Muslims live in their houses these days? They live undressed like women who don’t know Allaah’s dīn ﷻ would.
I don’t know what level this unclothing has reached in the houses [here] since I am new to this country. But with us in Syria and Egypt you wouldn’t be at fault in saying what you want about how far people have gone in being undressed in their houses, with women uncovering lots of their bodies, above and beyond what Allaah has allowed them to—the parts that Allaah has allowed them to uncover being only, “the areas of permitted adornment that normally appear.” [cf. Qurān 24:31]
For example we have been afflicted by short, sleeveless clothes, inner garments, which in old Arabic they used to call the, ‘Tubbān,’ and which today are known as pants, shorts. Shorts which show the thighs.
So women today—you will see a mom and daughter wear such short clothes. The daughter will sit in front of her mother, in fact, in front of her brother who is full of youth and desire. So she lifts her leg and puts it on her thigh and thus her thigh is exposed, based on what [so they say]? Based on the fact that ‘there are no strangers around’—but her brother is there!
This goes against the aforementioned āyah because as Allaah told us it is only allowed to uncover, ‘the places of adornment [zīnah] that normally appear.’ The thighs have never been ‘one of the places of adornment [zīnah] that normally appear,’ and they never will.
And you will have a woman come out in front of her brother, her father even, with her forearms uncovered—this goes against the āyah mentioned before [which states that they should], ‘ … not reveal their ˹hidden˺ adornments (i.e., hair, body shape, underclothes) except to their husbands.’
So the upper arms and armpits are not part of the places of adornment [zīnah] that normally appear, it is forbidden to show these based on his clear statement ﷺ, ‘The woman is ʿawrah.’
Even more than that goes on: a woman, a mother, will enter the bathroom at home and tell her daughter to massage her back, exposing her back and breasts, and this is all the upper part of the body, and they have no problem with this—where has this come from? [Where has this come from] even though the āyah is clear that our Lord ﷻ only allowed a woman to uncover the, ‘the places of adornment [zīnah] that normally appear,’ and the chest is not a part of that. Nor is the back.
That is why our Salaf aṣ-Ṣāliḥ, may Allaah be pleased with them, used to live in their homes under the boundaries of uncovering what Allaah ﷻ permitted for women [to uncover]. They never had this nudity that has become widespread in Muslim countries today.
So I wanted to remind you of this explicit meaning of the Qurʾān, and that we cultivate ourselves and our women and daughters upon the manners mentioned in the Ourʾān. And that we don’t become affected by the atmosphere around us; since most of the time it only relays disbelieving European customs [to us]. Thus, we must stop at this āyah: ‘… and not reveal their ˹hidden˺ adornments (i.e., hair, body shape, underclothes) except to their husbands.’”
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