Islam's Reformers .pdf

having said that her sister “Asmâ’ came near Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam). She had a thin dress on her. Thecolour of her skin was visible. Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) didnot look at his sister-in-law. He turned his blessed face awayand said, ‘O Asmâ’! When a girl arrives the age ofperforming salât, she should not show men her parts otherthan her face and hands.’ ” It is understood from this hadîththat it is a grave sin for women to go immodestly dressed nearmen. Imâm az-Zahabî says that Allâhu ta’âlâ will punish in thisworld and in the next those women who show men theirornaments, e.g. gold, pearls over their outer dress, who useperfumes or are dressed in multi-coloured, silk tissue, withbroad cuffs which expose their arms, and show themselves tomen in this manner. Because these evils exist mostly in women,Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) said, “On the Night of Mi’raj, Isaw Hell. I saw that the majority of the people in Hell werewomen.”“He who believes in Allâhu ta’âlâ and in the Last Dayshould enter the public bath wrapping himself with a largebath-towel. He who believes in Allâhu ta’âlâ and in the LastDay should not send his wife to public baths!”“The country of Iran will come into Muslims’possession. There are buildings called ‘hammâm’ there.Men shall enter the hammâm covered with a large bathtoweland send their wives there only for a bath-cure or forgetting clean from haid and nifâs!”“A person who believes in Allâhu ta’âlâ and in the LastDay should not stay with a nâ-mahram woman in a room!”“Towards the end of this world, it will become harâm forthe men of my umma to go to hammâms; for there will bepeople whose private parts are exposed there. May Allâhuta’âlâ damn him who uncovers his private parts and himwho looks at another’s private parts!” [1]“The person who commits adultery is like the personwho worships idols.” This hadîth points out that adultery is a[1]It goes without saying that the public baths mentioned in thesehadîths were not used by both sexes at the same time. There weredifferent public baths for each sex. The limitations imposed in thesehadîth-i-sherîfs, therefore, involve those public baths used by onlyone sex at the same time.- 115 -