The story of our mother Eve | Episode (14) | The temptation of nudity

0:00 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

0:03 The story of our mother Eve.

0:08 The temptation of nudity.

0:11 O Eve.

0:13 Our Lord, may He be glorified and exalted, has clarified for us

0:16 in the story of our father Adam and our mother Eve,

0:19 the goal of Iblis in whispering to them both.

0:23 For the Almighty said:

0:25 "Then Satan whispered to them to make manifest to them that which..."

0:29 “Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.” (7:20)

0:33 “Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.” (7:20)

0:36 "...concerning this tree,"

0:38 "...except that you become angels,"

0:42 "...except that you become angels,"

0:47 "...or become of the immortals."

0:51 The verse has clarified three matters for us.

0:54 The first matter:

0:56 The means Iblis used to achieve his goal,

0:59 which is whispering.

1:01 The second matter:

1:03 The goal of Iblis,

1:04 which is to expose the nakedness of our father Adam and our mother Eve.

1:08 The third matter:

1:10 Iblis’s beautification of falsehood in the guise of truth.

1:14 Iblis set out to seduce Adam and Eve

1:18 by targeting their point of weakness,

1:20 which is the desire for survival and immortality.

1:24 Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

1:27 "Negligence and desire are the root of evil."

1:30 The Almighty said:

1:32 “Restrain thyself along with those who cry unto their Lord at morn and evening, seeking His Countenance; and let not thine eyes overlook them, desiring the pomp of the life of the world; and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance, who followeth his own lust and whose case hath been abandoned.” (18:28)

1:35 “Restrain thyself along with those who cry unto their Lord at morn and evening, seeking His Countenance; and let not thine eyes overlook them, desiring the pomp of the life of the world; and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance, who followeth his own lust and whose case hath been abandoned.” (18:28)

1:37 "...and his affair was in neglect."

1:41 "Desire alone is not sufficient to commit sins

1:44 except when accompanied by ignorance.

1:46 Otherwise, the person of desire,

1:49 if he knows with certainty that a thing will cause him significant harm,

1:53 his soul will naturally turn away from it.

1:56 For Allah, the Almighty, has placed within the soul

1:59 a love for what benefits it

2:01 and an aversion to what harms it.

2:03 It will not do what it is certain will cause it significant harm.

2:08 Rather, when it does so,

2:10 it is due to a weakness of the intellect.

2:12 This is why such a person is described as having intellect,

2:15 as having discernment and wisdom.

2:18 Therefore, the great trial comes from Satan,

2:22 not merely from the soul itself.

2:24 For Satan beautifies sins for the soul,

2:27 commands it to do them,

2:29 and reminds it of the 'virtues' within them—which are actually benefits, not harms—

2:35 just as Iblis did with Adam and Eve."

2:38 He said:

2:39 “But the devil whispered to him, saying: O Adam! Shall I show thee the tree of immortality and power that wasteth not away?” (20:120)

2:45 "So he ate from it, and their nakedness became apparent to them."

2:49 “Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.” (7:20)

2:53 "...except that you become angels or become of the immortals."

2:58 Sayyid Qutb, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

3:01 "This unique being,

3:04 whom Allah honored with all this honor,

3:08 whose birth was announced in the Highest Assembly

3:11 in that majestic ceremony,

3:14 for whom He made the angels prostrate—

3:16 and they prostrated—

3:18 and because of whom Iblis was expelled from Paradise

3:21 and cast out from the Highest Assembly—

3:24 this being is of a dual nature,

3:27 prepared to incline in either direction.

3:31 Within him are specific points of weakness

3:33 through which he can be led if he does not adhere to the command of Allah.

3:38 From this point,

3:40 he can be struck,

3:42 and through it, one can gain access to him.

3:44 He has specific desires,

3:47 and through his desires, he can be led."

3:50 Iblis began to play upon these desires.

3:54 "Then Satan whispered to them

3:57 to make manifest to them what was hidden from them

4:00 of their nakedness."

4:02 “Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.” (7:20)

4:05 "...concerning this tree."

4:07 “Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.” (7:20)

4:12 “Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.” (7:20)

4:16 “Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.” (7:20)

4:19 And he swore to them:

4:22 "Indeed, I am to you a sincere advisor."

4:53 So what did Satan do with these constraints?

5:00 O Eve,

5:02 Satan proceeds in achieving his goal

5:05 through calculated steps

5:07 that may not be apparent to you from the beginning.

5:10 The first of these steps

5:12 is to cause you to fall into disobedience to Allah.

5:15 Any disobedience.

5:17 Al-Tahir Ibn 'Ashur, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

5:20 "Satan whispered to Adam and his wife

5:24 for the purpose of causing them to fall into disobedience initially,

5:27 because that is his nature, for which he was created.

5:31 Then, for the purpose of harming them,

5:34 as he knew they would disobey Allah

5:37 by eating from the tree.

5:39 And since he was an enemy to them,

5:42 he sought what would hurt them,

5:44 envying them for the pleasure of Allah with them.

5:48 He knew that disobedience leads them

5:50 to a wretched state in general.

5:53 The manifestation of that wretchedness

5:56 was the exposing of their nakedness."

5:59 The second step that Satan seeks

6:02 is to corrupt your natural disposition (fitrah).

6:05 And when the natural disposition is corrupted,

6:07 nudity becomes beauty

6:09 and covering becomes ugliness.

6:11 Sayyid Qutb, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

6:14 "The deception was complete,

6:16 and it bore its bitter fruit.

6:19 Satan brought them down with this pride

6:22 from the obedience of Allah to His disobedience.

6:25 He brought them down to a lower rank;

6:28 he misled them with deception.

6:31 They now felt that they had nakedness,

6:34 which was revealed to them after it had been hidden.

6:39 They began to gather leaves from Paradise

6:42 and stitch them together,

6:45 patching them,

6:46 and placing these stitched leaves over their nakedness.

6:51 This suggests that these are the physical private parts

6:54 which a human being is naturally ashamed to expose.

6:59 One does not become naked and exposed

7:01 except through a corruption of this natural disposition, a product of the Age of Ignorance (Jahiliyyah)."

7:06 The Great Qur'an has declared

7:09 the reason for Satan's whispering to Adam and his wife:

7:12 It is the desire to strip them completely,

7:17 so that their nakedness becomes apparent to them,

7:20 and they see it in one another.

7:23 There is nothing further in abomination and disgrace

7:26 than for a human to be naked

7:28 and reveal his private parts before the eyes of people.

7:32 Thus, his nature, upon which he was created, is transformed

7:36 from the rank of humanity to the level of bestiality,

7:40 as is the case in most of the streets and televisions of this time.

7:45 Al-Qanuji, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

7:48 "In the verse is evidence that exposing the nakedness

7:51 is among the forbidden abominations,

7:54 and that it has always been considered repulsive in human nature and reason."

7:58 And he said:

8:00 "In the verse is evidence that exposing the nakedness

8:03 of the son of Adam is ugly.

8:05 Do you not see that they hastened to cover their nakedness

8:09 because of what was established in their minds regarding the ugliness of exposing it?"

8:13 So what do you say, O Eve,

8:16 about the nudity in the streets and at weddings,

8:19 among women and in universities,

8:22 and in workplaces alongside men,

8:25 and in channels, films, and series?

8:29 Is this not part of the ugly nudity?

8:32 Is she who exposes herself in any form,

8:36 whether little or much,

8:38 truly preserving her natural disposition?

8:41 We shall continue in a future meeting, if Allah wills.

8:45 And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.

8:48 The story of our mother Eve.

The story of our mother Eve | Episode (14) | The temptation of nudity

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