Al Sufian


iconSufa 91 - The Modesty (Al-Azim)

1O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Azim;
2The Magnificent;
3And the sixty-third name of Allah, the Infinite, the Unique, the All Knowing.
4Modesty of dress is pleasing to Allah.
5The merchants and moneylenders love to flaunt expensive and rare silks and embroidery,
6As an outward sign of their extravagance and love of materiality.
7These same merchants and moneylenders then force their women slaves to be dressed as prostitutes;
8Yet their many wives and daughters are forced to wear rough and plain clothes from head to toe,
9With only a opening for their eyes and mouth.
10These thieves and defrauders say that such custom is for fear of someone seeing and then desiring one of their female wives and daughters,
11So they sometimes also dress their private guards in the same dressing.
12Yet they deprive women held against their will as slaves of the modesty of dress, as if prize cattle or goats.
13Allah finds such cruelty an abomination of respect.
14A man is a man and should dress in a manner that he may engage without needing to be carried.
15A woman is to be respected and in manner of modesty has right to show her face and hair,
16And to wear dresses and comfortable cloth.
17Do not listen or believe the moneylenders and merchants who believe not in Allah,
18But their own present pleasures in matters of dress.
19True modesty as humility is the source of all virtues.
20Modesty and chastity are parts of the Faith.