In more recent years, public nudity has become more and more acceptable, with many celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West promoting nudist selfies and music videos.
Although Vanity Fair and a plethora of social media corpse may promote and encourage nudity as a form of art, entertainment and freedom or whatever, the Qur'an has a different perspective.
First, there is nothing natural about nudity. The first humans were created clothed by Allah. Adam and Hawa (a.s) were innocent and pure; they wore a clothing of Paradise which bequeathed them with dignity and self-respect. Second, their clothes were snatched by shatyan, as a form of humiliation after they obeyed him. Therefore, in the Qur'an, public nudity is a consequence of following shaytan, who affects the hearts and minds of people, by creating vulnerability and indecency.
Shaytan is still active in humiliating the children of Adam. Public displaces of nudity honours shatyan and further advances lust, immorality and perversion in the world. This is not to say that the human body itself is evil or repulsive. The human body is sacred, noble and praiseworthy when it is a tool of worship. It is pure, lovely, admirable in marriage. However, public nudity is disgraceful and obscene.
Although Vanity Fair and a plethora of social media corpse may promote and encourage nudity as a form of art, entertainment and freedom or whatever, the Qur'an has a different perspective.
First, there is nothing natural about nudity. The first humans were created clothed by Allah. Adam and Hawa (a.s) were innocent and pure; they wore a clothing of Paradise which bequeathed them with dignity and self-respect. Second, their clothes were snatched by shatyan, as a form of humiliation after they obeyed him. Therefore, in the Qur'an, public nudity is a consequence of following shaytan, who affects the hearts and minds of people, by creating vulnerability and indecency.
Shaytan is still active in humiliating the children of Adam. Public displaces of nudity honours shatyan and further advances lust, immorality and perversion in the world. This is not to say that the human body itself is evil or repulsive. The human body is sacred, noble and praiseworthy when it is a tool of worship. It is pure, lovely, admirable in marriage. However, public nudity is disgraceful and obscene.
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