Oh sisters! What has taken place in your heart, that you have lost all shame and modesty? 

Where are the days where sisters would say 'audhoobillah' and lower their gaze when affronted with a male who would lack shame and cat-call them, the kind of man who in the modern day we would label a 'sleaze'?But now, we have sisters who innerly enjoy the cat calls of this sleaze, yet on the outside they pretend they are offended, and begin screaming or shouting at the male on the outside... 

Our hijaabs are covering us, yet our characters are naked and speaking out louder than what is hidden. Hijaab of the voice has been forgotten – we shout in the streets, giggle and cheer out loud; making oneself 'heard' and 'seen' is apparently the new rage.  

Dear sisters, the true downfall of a Muslim woman is when she begins to slip away and lose her modesty. A woman cannot be described, she is an amazing creation. She can control hearts, she can turn hearts, and she can also misguide hearts… You have full control of yourself right now, and before Allah takes that control from you and sends you to your grave – control yourself and your modesty. Don't let it slip away… for if it slips once... it will keep slipping until it remains no more.  

There is no need in this world for a Muslim woman who has given her all to men, and lost her modesty, because there's no goodness left in her. Do you not think dear sister, of how many women have become items; passed from one male to another, seen by one male to another, discussed by one male to another? Deep in your heart, do you feel a need or an urge to be like these items? Do you think 'REAL' men, real brothers who are worthy of marriage and would treat their wife like a princess, would marry such used items? Gather your self-respect, lower your eyes and let it raise your heart, to be granted the honour the Beloved Messenger Muhammad pbuh came to give you; the honour he came to liberate you with, the honour he came to free you with. Why do you cage yourself while having been given the izzah (respect) from Allah swt Himself? 

Subhanallah! Human nature is such, that we always seem to try to 'free' ourselves from whatever we have – even if we have good, we seem to run towards the bad, and when we have bad, we complain we don't have the good. And surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware... and we will be judged. 

We see our sisters, with heads covered, yet bodies on display. Yet we see some sisters with bodies covered, and others with faces covered – yet their voices are louder than the public tannoy system. Sister, what has happened to you, that you have forgotten your responsibility within society? Have you forgotten that by looking at you, people perceive Islam? Have you forgotten that by hearing you, people perceive a Muslimah? Have you forgotten, that you are not representing yourself but you are representing Islam? Do you realise that as a covering Muslimah who 'LOOKS' practicing to the world, you HAVE to take on the responsibility of representing a true 'Muslimah'? Otherwise not only are you disgracing yourself, but you are disgracing the entire Muslimah population… Think of the effect it has on non-Muslims my sister... 

Be a sister who has self respect – who doesn’t feel the need to 'look good' for society and all it contains, the filth and the dirt. Why do you feel the need to make men in the society feel happy by being able to gawp at you? Why do you feel the need to make men who may be practicing lose their faith in Allah over you? Why do you feel the need to give others a chance to stare at your beauty, when your real beauty should be preserved for none other than your husband AFTER he becomes your husband... and not before? 

What about those sisters who cover their bodies yet 'decorate' themselves with ornaments they consider 'fashionable', having manicured their nails, having plucked their eyebrows, proudly showing themselves to others around them, not thinking for a moment that Allah swt is also watching them. 

We beautify our faces before departing our homes, to the extent where we know we will be stared at by men because of the want-on beauty we are displaying to them purposely. Nobody is suggesting to leave the homes without washed faces. Moreover, walk out with the intention to 'not' attract intention purposely without your intentional beautification. Can you imagine the Arsh of Allah when one of His Slaves leaves her home with the soul intention of misguiding or teasing His other Slaves? And that’s all you are my dear sister, a mere slave. There is no status of a slave in the world. The true and the long-lasting status is with Allah swt in the Hereafter, so work towards it, conceal your beauty in this life so you can be raised with more beauty than you thought you even had in the Next Life.

For simple daily pleasures don't destroy your aakhirah… 

Try to resemble 'Aaaysha (ra) the beloved wife of Muhammad pbuh, who was widowed at 18 – yet kept herself pure up to her death… 

Try to resemble the Sahaabiyaat (the female Muslimahs at the time of Rasoolullah pbuh) who never raised their voices like beasts in public… and never allowed a man to degrade them with his voice, never allowed a man to shout at them, never allowed cat calls - because they had self respect and that’s all they displayed to the world through their lowered gazes and their covered bodies…  

We have much to learn from these great women…