Modesty

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Modesty

Anas (RA) narrated: Allah's Messenger (saw) said, 'Every Deen has a distinctive quality, and the distinctive quality of Islam is Modesty.'

Abu Hurairah(RA) narrated: The Prophet (saw) said, 'Iman (Faith) has more than sixty branches, and Al Haya (modesty) too is a branch of Iman.'

Abu Hurairah (RA) narrated : Allah's Messenger (saw) said , 'Modesty is from Iman and Iman leads to paradise and indecency is from the (useless) scum/froth and the (useless) scum/froth leads to the fire'

Salim bin Abdullah narrated from his father that once Allah's Messenger (saw) passed by a man of the Ansaar who was admonishing his brother regarding Haya (modesty). Allah's Messenger (saw) said, 'Leave him for modesty is part of Iman.'

Abu Sawaar al- Addavi narrated that he heard Imran bin Husayn (RA) who said :The Prophet (saw) said, 'Modesty does not bring anything but good.'

Imran (RA) narrated one day : The Messenger of Allah (saw) said, 'Modesty is all good.'

Anas (RA) narrated : Allah's Messenger (saw)said, 'There is no indecency in anything except for it makes it defective, and there is no modesty in anything except for it beautifies it.'

Abu Saeed Al Khudri (RA) narrated : The Prophet (saw) was more shy than a virgin in her private room, and if he saw a thing which he disliked, we would recognize it on his face

Abu Masud(RA) narrated: The Prophet (saw) said, 'One of the sayings of the early Prophets which was imparted to the people is, 'If you do not feel shame, then do as you like.'

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Napalm said…
Talking of modesty, I have seen images uploaded on the web by people of their own families, with the women wearing short, revealing clothes and their stuff flying all over the place. That isn't modesty I believe.
July 18, 2008 at 2:34 AM
Ambreen sikander said…
Hey lil :) long time haan :)
July 28, 2008 at 10:48 AM
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