Generally there seems no limit nowadays to the extent that women (along with men) are prepared to go to with the ‘perfect look’. Forget false eyelashes along with wigs, we are now communicating scalpels, implants and liposuction!Surgery treatment amongst film actresses have been commonplace for quite some time now, nevertheless these days, we wouldn’t be too rigorous pressed to find ordinary girls on the street who are more plastic-type than real! Indeed, in most circles, having multiple facelifts has developed into status symbol: the more you have, the higher you are in the status positions.If questioned whether cosmetic plastic surgery was Islamically correct or not, and then without doubt, most Muslims would automatically respond by saying that it’s actually not, for the simple reason that it may be interfering with Allah’s creation. And certainly, frequently . the correct response. [Scholars have known several exceptions to this common rule if there is a genuine health-related need for it. - Edward.]The companion, Ibn Mas’ood radiaIaahu ‘anhu, once said (quoting what he had heard your Prophet, sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam say): Allah has cursed a tattooers and those who have themselves tattooed, and those women who have their pearly whites filed for beauty and those who get their [facial] hair plucked and thus improve Allah’s creation. A woman remarked, “What’s this all?” So Ibn Mas’ood – radiAllahu ‘anhu -said: “Should I not curse one who Allah’s Messenger cursed? And it is in the Book connected with Allah.” She said: “I have read the Qur’an from cover to protect but I did not find that in it.” He replied: “If you experienced read it thoroughly you would have discovered it. Allah says: Whatever the Messenger provides you with take it; and whatever he’s got forbidden, refrain from it. [Qur'an ul-Hashr (59):7]“So the Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam forbade women from performing these three practices how the women commonly did in the interests of beauty in those days – apparently with their ‘insignificant’ practices for which they would happen the curse of Allah. And this also forbiddance isn’t just restricted to the methods mentioned in the hadeeth. Because Allah says in more general terms in her Book: So set your face actually to the faith, Allah’s handiwork according to the design on which He has made mankind; [Let there be] no change in the creation of Allah. [Qur'an Ar-Room (30):30].Therefore, it is obligatory for us to accept the creation of Allah as things are, not making any alterations to barefoot jogging. More importantly though, it is also compulsory for us to believe that all of Allah’s creation is beautiful, because Allah, the Khaaliq (Creator) does not develop anything except with natural beauty and perfection, which is why According to him to mankind: You can see no-fault in the creation of Ar-Rahmaan [the Most Merciful]. Take a look again: Can you see any rifts? Then look – again and yet once more, your sight will get back to you in a state of mortification and worn out. [Qur'an Al-MuIk (67): 3-4].This kind of mayall sound quite strange when we consider how often we find out women complaining about their overall look. In fact, it is estimated that over half of the Western women currently actually perceive themselves to be ugly. In addition, surveys reveal that nearly all women feel under pressure to help “look good”. As a result, the quest for beauty in to a serious preoccupation for many women. Start any women’s magazine and you will not fail to find a one one which doesn’t contain tips about how to ‘look good”, or which don’t have huge advertisements promoting fresh creams that halt the aging process or concealers to hide wrinkles and many others.Beauty today is big business. Beauty contests are very profitable and – contrary to everyday opinion – more are produced every year. The cosmetics market is a multi-billion dollar industry; this demand for cosmetic surgery is growing at the tremendous rate. All three sectors promote the same notions of beauty that woman all over the place are expected to meet: mainly your white, European, “Barbie-doll” like normal. The pressures on girls to conform to these standards are usually enormous and few are capable to withstand them. (Please look at the follow-up to this article below-Ed.)The fact is that North western women today may complain that they are not treated with equal rights and respect, but it is many people themselves who have made it appropriate for society worldwide to see females merely as beauty-objects who are right now there to be ogled by the men who in turn are the (im) polite voyeurs. When viewed in this light, we discover that beauty contests are certainly not too dissimilar to simple fact itself: just as the highest, slimmest blonde girl contains the title in the beauty tournament, in the real world it’s the tallest, thinnest blonde girl who has got the man!In Islam, beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder. Magnificence is in the whole of design, because Allah – the One free from all imperfections – would be the one responsible for it. And also as Allah says: Your Lord creates in the least He wills and chooses: no choice have they. SubhaanAllah! And far taken away is He from the companions they ascribe [to Him]! [Qur'an Al-Qasas 28:68].So it is with the wisdom of Allah that He has got chosen to create some of us small, others tall, some fat, some thin, some dark-colored, some light – all are wonderful and perfect in their own right. That is why we’re taught from the Sunnah, the beautiful du’aa (supplication) which the Prophet sallAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam would say: ’O Allah, as You have made my appearance wonderful, likewise make my identity beautiful. – (‘Allahumma kama hassanta khalaqee fa hassin khuluqee”).As Muslims, we will need to believe that evil and spot cannot be attributed to Allah. The desire to vary any aspect of ourselves suggests, in effect, that we are unhappy with Allah’s choice and His handiwork, which there is imperfection in what Bigger created. Thus to say about ourself, or anyone else, that we or maybe they are ugly is a great crime. This point was reinforced by the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam when he after saw the Companion, ‘Amr Ibn Fulaan Al-Ansaaree radiallahu ‘anhu, as their izaar (lower garment) was clinging low (to the ground), so he or she, sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, ordered that he elevate it. ‘Amr made an excuse on the grounds that he had skinny shins (i.e. he was embarrassed to show them), so the Prophet answered by saying: O ‘Amr! Verily Allah Azza wa Jal has generated everything in the best form.More or less everything is certainly not intended to discourage ladies to look after themselves and adorn themselves in lawful methods (e.g. wearing pleasant clothes, having nicely accomplished hair etc.). Indeed, decorating oneself is something that the spouses are obliged to do for husbands and Allah rewards the girl who pleases the spouse when he looks at her. But with these tremendous demands on women to conform to your ideals set by the advertising and marketing media, it may be hard for Muslim women to resist experience insecure or uncomfortable regarding their appearance. Consequently, many Islamic women have shed their hijabs as a following fashion; Muslim females too develop inferiority complexes concerning themselves.We must bear in mind that this kind of search for the ‘body beautiful’ is, actually, a deception from Shaytaan. Shaytaan provides vowed that he will create this sort of false desires in humanity. He has said (as stated while in the Qur’an): Surely I will arouse in them (mankind] phony desires; and certainly I will obtain them to slit the ears involving cattle, and indeed I will purchase them to change the nature manufactured by Allah. [Qur'an An-Nisaa (4): 119].May Allah always keep united states safe from the false pledges of Shaytaan, for verily Allah is the Individual who guides to the Truth.The next few paragraphs was originally published inside 1995 in Ad-Da’wah IlAllah – The Magazine Offering Women’s IssuesFollow-UpMay Allah reward sister ‘Ifrat to be with her thoughts and effort. We provide the following item taken from the August 19, 1998 issue of the English language daily Arab News published in Saudi Arabia. This is for those who have followed the articles within “From The Sister’s Pens” for the past several difficulties and has some doubt in regards to what the authors of those articles or blog posts have expressed regarding the all-out struggle for the Muslim woman’s basis and ruination of her Islamic figure. The article is a stark instance of what occurs when Muslims usually are totally separated from any authentic understanding of their religion along with being a Muslim merely presents an “ethnicity” and not a way of life to be learned, valued and adhered to.Dethroned Miss France Hurt But OptimisticZAGREB, Oct. l8 (AEP) Splendor queen Lejla Sehovic, who was stripped of her title of Miss out on Croatia on Friday to get Muslim, is hurt nevertheless optimistic in her determination to be able to press charges for non secular discrimination. “I was very harm by all of this, but now I’m pretty relaxed after these kinds of last frantic days. I will be an optimist and I hope for the best,” 22-year-old Sehovic told Agence France-Presse in a telephone appointment from her hotel room within Zagreb. Beauty contest director Milan Seckovic deposed Sehovic for Friday and proclaimed runner-up Ivana Petkovic, 18, as Croatia’s candidate in the next Miss World competition. There were “irregularities within the voting process,” Seckovic told a new press conference where Sehovic showed up uninvited, stunning organizers and getting applause by journalists. “I could never have believed such a thing could happen to me: in which on a beauty contest one’s religion is checked. Merely had known the ‘right’ religion was needed, I would do not have applied,” Sehovic said. And she added: ‘I feel terrible when people look at me as if I had been from another planet. We’re just a human being made of come and blood.” Getting in touch with the contest “an absolute disgrace”, Sehovic’s lawyer Vesna Alaburic instructed AFP she had requested Seckovic to hand over his evidence for dethroning Lejla. “We will press charges against the organizers, if it appears that Lejla appeared to be disqualified on the basis of religious discrimination. We are going to inform the world: From all appropriate institutions in the country, including the lead designer, and human rights groupings, up to the European human rights court,” Alaburic said. Lejla Sehovic was created and raised in Croatia’s southern city of Dubrovnik where her moms and dads moved from Sarajevo in 1973. Her father Esad died whenever she was nine, leaving behind her and two other sisters, Anela and Djana. She is the cousin of an eminent Sarajevo writer, Fedja Sehovic. The election of a Muslim lady is seen as embarrassing to President Franjo Tudjman’s ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which insured Bosnian Croats against Muslims during the recent Bosnian showdown. But in Dubrovnik, where the opposition acquired local by-elections last Sunday * the same day Sehovic was elected Overlook Croatia – local people and also her family support her, the lady said. I was told that a big delightful party will be organized,” she added. “Now I see what number of people stand by me. Our mum told me that the telephone has not stopped ringing: everybody is calling, even the mayor, and individuals are calling local the air requesting songs for me,” Sehovic said.Meanwhile, runner-up Ivana Petkovic has not mentioned whether she accepts Sehovic’s crown. Her family said she would go public in the next week. “I will let Ivana decide. I believe this is a very tricky problem for both of us,Inch Sehovic said. The incident offers split public opinion within Croatia. “Because Croatia is generally Catholic, I believe we should be very pleased with having a non-Catholic girl as all of our miss,” said Davor Brezicevic, Forty-five. But another woman, exactly who gave her name when Marija, 25, said Sehovic’s crown ought to be taken from her, “for even on the face you can see that she is not really a true Croatian girl.” Sehovic as their plans include, besides dangling on to her crown, following a management course in Dubrovnik, is usually confident things will work outside for the best.”I am the meaning winner,” she explained to AFP. “The things that do not kill a person in life will only make you stronger.”Unfortunately, Miss Sehovic is not in the least special, because we find beauty pageants locked in different parts of the Muslim globe with indeed Muslim most women parading themselves in the most indecent of manner while their families are proud of their daughters’ achievements! Certain Islamic countries pride themselves on their own liberality when it comes to women and one may witness women participating in any variety of activities dressed in clothing that will leaves nothing to the creativity! You may recall that the major fashion “supermodel” a while back became a statuesque Somali beauty ironically called Iman, and he or she was often described as like a “devout Moslem”. She later married the particular British rock star Jesse Bowie (who last time many of us heard had not converted to Islam). During the entire Muslim world, you will find dozens of magazines featuring Arabian looking damsels on his or her covers (and I dare not really look inside), in most of such countries.Such is the depressing reality, but perhaps even sadder is if any Muslims who read the document above are more upset because of the blatant discrimination of the Croatian pageant authorities than the fact that your Muslim woman was involved in the first place! We are not sorry the woman was dethroned and we pray guidance and victory of your Muslims over their enemies with regard to surely her loss when of Resurrection is liable to be far larger than that of a crown.