Modest Muslim clothes

Modest Muslim clothes

From Pikiran Rakyat

Some women earning a living professionally as actresses and commercial stars have frequently been seen on television, wearing fashionable and sexy clothes.

It might be a demand of their job that these celebrities should look charming, even though they have to reveal their body shape, an act incompatible with religious teachings and the prevailing ethics and norms of society.

In this transitional period, thanks to television as an agent of change, information may reach even the remotest parts of the country. As our people are good at imitating things, it is only logical that whatever they learn from television will also be easily imitated.

I witness, with a sinking feeling, why girls and women are dressed like artists. They put on fashionable and sexy dresses at public places, both in cities and villages.

I feel even sadder when female teenagers or adults, who imitate their idols' fashion style, confidently wear such dresses in public without any feelings of sin or shame or without any fear that they will tempt men.

As Muslims, we should remember that most parts of a woman body must not be visible. Women are magnificently beautiful and can therefore become charmingly alluring. Women must make use of this advantage more professionally and with dignity, without of course abandoning religious values.

I would like to call on all relevant parties such as celebrities, fashion designers, advertising people, television management and women in general to maintain the ethics and norms prevailing in religions and in the community.

I believe that all people, either men or women, love to see elegant, modest, beautiful and broad-minded women.

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