Al-Azhar sermon: We violated the prophetic directives and made private parts freely available
Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hawari, Assistant Secretary of the Islamic Research Academy, delivered the Friday sermon, today, at Al-Azhar Mosque, explaining that the bitterness of the reality in which we live is revealed day after day in light of the shameful events and facts that one is ashamed to talk about, starting from forbidden sighting and criminal harassment, all the way to the indecent assault of children and adultery, even with mahrams, which indicates a moral defect, moral deviation, and social dissolution. Pointing out that these unfortunate events awaken hearts from their slumber, awaken minds from their slumber, call upon us to adhere to the morals required in this time, and warn us to respond to what arouses instincts and desires, such as deviant invitations, suspicious pages, paid channels, and actions that trivialize evil and facilitate the forbidden.
And Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hawari explained that the Muslim nation is a nation. She is chaste, chaste in her speech, chaste in her taste, chaste in her earnings, chaste in covering her shame, and chaste in her relationship with other nations, which is what the Prophet’s supplication, peace and blessings be upon him, demonstrates: “O God, I ask You for guidance and piety, chastity and wealth.” He also pointed out that Islam did not limit itself to imposing punishment for the crime of harassment, the crime of adultery, or the crime of sodomy when it occurs, but rather it preceded the occurrence of the crime by laying down the means that protect society and block the way for these crimes and ugliness. It ordered the maintenance and protection of private parts inside and outside the home, and surrounded the relationship of men and women with a fence of morality, and directed instincts to what they should be in.
Dr. Al-Hawari stressed that private parts must remain hidden and protected and should not be revealed in the name of freedom or under the name of God. The banner of civilization and civilisation, which was demonstrated by the guidance of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.
Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hawari pointed out that the nation has opposed this prophetic guidance from two aspects, the first of which is the permissibility of spying on others with cameras and applications, which is used for blackmail, defamation and bullying, wondering about any rational or legal justification for this spying and lurking in people’s homes and private parts. The second aspect is presenting our lives and our privacy to the world and displaying them for free on social media pages, where people transmit the flow of their lives in all its details in an unflattering way, including taking pictures with wives and children while they are undressed, asking: “What kind of mind is this that justifies this absurdity to a person?” Then we ask after this, where did the corruption of morals come from?
His Eminence mentioned the hadith of Bahz ibn Hakim when he asked the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, about our private parts, what we remove from them and what we vow, so he said: “Guard your private parts, except from your wife or what your right hand possesses.” And when he was asked about A person being alone with himself said: “God is more deserving of people being ashamed of Him than people.” His Eminence wondered how reality would receive this hadith when people reduce their clothing and spread it in order to be seen, or take off their clothes by choice, stressing that Islam obliges a person to cover up and protect himself even if he is alone, so modesty and concealment are better, and modesty is better than God is better.
The Assistant Secretary of the Islamic Research Academy warned against the habit of looking at private parts, in reality or on screens, because “frequent touching kills the feeling.” The addiction to looking at exposed private parts and naked pictures kills the sense of sanctity and guilt, so what is forbidden becomes easy in the souls. Dr. Al-Hawari stressed that lowering one’s gaze is required of both men and women, citing God’s speech to believers, male and female, to lower one’s gaze and protect their private parts, and stressing that at a time when women are reminded of hijab and modesty, men are reminded to lower one’s gaze, as a woman’s uncovering of her private parts is not a justification for looking or harassment, citing what Saeed bin Abi Al-Hassan said to Al-Hasan Al-Basri about Persian women who expose their breasts and heads: « Keep an eye on them»
His Eminence stated that Islam is keen on achieving “general chastity,” and therefore forbade adultery and abhorred it, and not only forbade falling into it, but rather forbade closeness to it: “And do not approach fornication. Indeed, it has been An indecent and evil path. He forbade the seclusion that might lead to it, and the Prophet – may God’s prayers and peace be upon him – said: “No man should be alone with a woman unless the third one is Satan.” And he warned against being lenient in it, even with relatives whom he is reassured about, because from this lenience incest occurs, and he stressed the warning against “the in-laws,” as He forbade the soft word that tempts the sick in heart: “So do not be submissive in words, lest he in whose heart is sickness tempt.” He forbade a look that constitutes evidence of adultery, just as he forbade merely looking or touching with desire, citing the hadith: “For one of you to be stabbed in the head with an iron thread is better for him than to touch an unpermissible woman.” And he made the suspicious look of adultery: “The eyes commit adultery… and this is confirmed or disbelieved by the private part.”.
Islam has also created etiquette for the road that keeps people in it, including: “lowering the gaze, And refraining from harm, and returning peace, and enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is evil, and forbidding the evils of the streets, including imitation, which entails a curse for those who do it, whether men imitate women or women imitate men.
Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hawari concluded his sermon with a statement. Islam provided the solution and laid down ways to attain chastity, starting from childhood with raising children to respect private parts by asking for permission, caring for private parts, lowering one’s gaze, respecting the sanctity of the road and public facilities, and being chaste in clothing, speech, sight, and walking. It reminds harassers and those who look at women’s private parts that God is aware of them and that they have private parts. The solution to incidents of harassment is summarized in four axes: strengthening the faith motive, activating the legal deterrent, providing psychological treatment, and commitment. Moral.
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