body of a woman | Forever Islam

The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “A man who thinks about the body of a woman under her clothes until he can visualize her shape, will not even smell the fragrance of Paradise.” [Albahr-ul Raaiq, vol. 8, p. 218]

A woman who keeps herself hidden and covered would hate to be the object of a strange man’s fantasies. There is no police in the world that can know or prevent a man from thinking about another woman. The only person who can stop him is himself. The only police that he can be scared of, are Allah’s angels who will carry out His orders of punishment, since nothing remains hidden from Him.

You are your own police. Let your conscience police you before Allah’s angels have to do the job! Thinking about and imagining the looks of a non-Mahram is forbidden in the Shariah. So save yourself from unworthy thoughts – thoughts that will keep you out of Paradise!

The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “No man should look at the Awrah of another man and no woman should look at the Awrah of another woman. Also, no man should be with another man under one piece of cloth and no woman should be with another woman under one piece of cloth.” [Muslim]

The Awrah for a man is from his navel to just below his knees. The entire body of a woman with the exception of her face, palms and feet are included in her Awrah in front of a man. In front of another woman, her Awrah is from her navel to just below her knees; though keeping her body well covered and not looking at others’ bodies is more modest and thus more beloved to Allah (subhana wa ta’ala).