The concept of Al-Hayah (Modesty)

To day I want to discuss a very important topic with all of you because nowadays it appear to me that everyone has forget about the importance of this characteristic of a Muslim. Actually yesterday I was reading a book of hadith and I read a hadith regarding Haya and then I felt the importance of it.

Abu Mas’ud ‘Uqbah bin Amr al-Ansari al Badri, radiyallahu anhu, reported that the Messenger of Allah, sallallhu alayhi wasallam, said:

“ Amoung the things that people have found from the words of the previous prophets was: if you feel no shame, then do as you wish.” [Al-Bukhari]

Haya can be translated as: modesty, shame, shyness.

Actually the word Haya was drived from the word “al-hayah” which means life that’s why scholars says a person who has no Haya(shame or modesty) is alike dead person.

Islam encourages modesty. It is one of the most important characteristic of every Muslim.

There is so many other hadith which is related to this and I want to quote few of them.

“Al-Haya (Modesty) is part of Iman (faith)”.

“Haya does not produce but goodness”. [Recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim]

Ibn Rajab pointed out according to the early scholars of Islam that, if you have no modesty, then do whatever you wish and Allah will punish you for what you do. This mode is used by the quran in Surah Fussilat: ayat 40.

Haya (modesty) is one of the most important factors of a person which keeps him/her away from the sinful acts. If a person has no Haya he will do almost every thing without thinking that his act is a good or bad.

Unfortunately today due to misuse of technology (Media) this great concept is endangered. A very common sentence used among us that media provides Entertainment.

Entertainment is taking destructive direction which is affecting the concept of Haya negatively. Every one knows that because of this entertainment the chances of committing sins are very higher and the chances of neglecting obligations are higher as well. Because most of the elements of this new entertainment are crime, suspicious acts and adultery assorted together.

Actually we are abusing modesty through many ways not only by the misuse of media, for example at one side we Muslims are buying media material from the west and we all knows that the west is researching on Qur’an and on the seerat (character) of our beloved prophet Mohammad (sallallhu alayhi wasallam) as well but we are not looking at this. We are not getting the good acts of west which they have.

Sometime we know very well that a person is telling us something good but we don’t admit it because of our ego, so this is another example of abusing Haya. I personally think that there shouldn’t be any shame to accept our wrong acts because if you start accepting it and you don’t cause of your ego, so InshaAllah one day you will correct it as well.

According to the meaning of another hadith which shows us the importance of Haya is:

Haya (modesty) and Iman (faith) are linked. When there is iman, there is haya and if one is lifted, the other is also lifted. All of us born with natual Haya.

So we should try to understand the importance of Haya and keep practice it, but remember that Haya cannot be used as an excuse for not doing good deeds and acts.

May Allah guide us towards the right path and give us tufeeq to understand Qur’an and Hadith.

Under This Flag we are one.... Really are we one under this flag...??

Today is 17th of August, as a Pakistani we have celebrate our independence every year14th of August . This was the 60th time that we celebrated this day. 60 Years ago millions of Muslims migrated from Hindustan for the sake of God as they all said and we are still reading these statements in our academic books and in articles. Here i want to share a picture of a woman who was migrating from India to Pakistan.

INDIA, 1947 -- A grieving Muslim mother holds her child while hugging a family member at the gravesite of her 4-year-old child who died of starvation when their Pakistan special train was stopped for four days by Sikh attacks during their migration from India to Pakistan.
50701969, Getty Images.

See this picture and this mother who left everything which she had just for the future of her children that they will open their eyes in an Islamic state where they will perform the actual practice of a Muslim (A Muslim is a person who submits his will to Allah - the Almighty God.)
and their hearts will be free form the fare of any non-Muslim or Government, that none can stop them to sacrifice a cow for the sake of God. Another reason was that, they thought after British rule the Hindus will take over and the Muslims will remain the same and they can't develop themselves. and do you want to see our development after 60 bright years as per statement of our beloved leaders. Please have a look of our development.

Many people say that we are nuclear power, i just want to ask those peoples who proud on it, was that really our will or we have to do this development due to our worse enemy (India). I think that it is our own achievement but credit should goes to India. we are making nuclear weapons but we cant sale it, our children can't study about nuclear and after all this we say we are independent..are we??

Lets go back to the history when the Muslims of south east Asia thought to have a separate country, what were the causes due to that they thought so. I believe that very strong point of view was 2nation theory (Hindu and Muslims are two different nations their culture is different their language is different), before the partition of Hindustan if we see the history of 12 or 13 centuries back so we will notice that during this period Muslim were the ruled around 1000 years on Hindustan for example (Mughals, Nizaams,Orangzeeb) and so many are they great heroes of our bright past, although at that time the population of Muslim were not that much as we had in 1900. During this 1000 years wasn't these different 2 nations that time...?? wasn't Muslims ruled...?? I think that the Muslims of 1900 or who were involve in this moment of Pakistan, their Emaan was weak they left to depend on the mercy of Allah.

May Allah show us the right path and give us guidance to walk on it and no doubt that he has the best knowledge.

Please leave your comments. whatever you think about 60 years Pakistan.