Anyone who carefully examines the Islamic Texts (Qur’an and Sunnah) and the lessons of history becomes convinced about the evils of Tabar’roj and its harm, both on religious and worldly matters especially when it is associated with the mixing of sexes. Some of its underlying consequences are:
– The competition amongst the displaying women in showing off their beauty. This is seduction, and it leads to the spoiling of morality and leaves women as merchandise articles exhibited for anyone to look at.
– The corruption of the morality of men, especially the youth and those in adolescence. It pushes them to commit various kinds of sins [1].
– The destruction of family ties and causing a lack of trust between family members and the spread of divorce.
– The commercial abuse of women in the world of advertisement, entertainment and other areas as well.
– Doing harm to women by declaring their ill intentions and evil conscience thus rendering her venerable to harm by the wicked and the insolent.
– The spread of diseases.
The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said:
“Sins didn’t spread in any particular nation until they openly conduct it and as a result, plague and other illnesses that were not present among their predecessors became widespread amongst them.”[2]
– Facilitates the sin of zina (fornication) by the eye.
The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said:
“The adultery of the eyes is the lustful look…“[3]
– Tabar’roj makes it difficult to lower the gaze.
– Justifiably brings down Allah’s punishment
The punishment of Allah is more severe than atomic bombs and earthquakes.
Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says:
“And when We[4] decide to destroy a town (population), We (first) send a definite order (to obey Allah and be righteous) to those among them [or We (first) increase in number those of its Population] who are given the good things in this life. Then, they transgress therein, and thus the word (of torment) is justified against it (them). Then We destroy it with complete destruction.” (Qur’an, Surah Al-Isra’, 17: 16)
The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said:
“When people see wrong (or evil) and they don’t change it, then it is imminent that the punishment of Allah will fall upon them.”[5]
[1] You may have seen teen-age kids on the corners of many streets in Europe and in North America rooming around, smoking to get high, half naked, and on drugs looking to engage in sex. Why? What happened?
Many try to hide from the hard facts! The drive for lust and materialistic life became the “god” of the new generations: the Pepsi-Michael-MTV-Jackson generations. The result: AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
[2] Part of a lengthy hadeeth related by Ibn Majah, Abu Na’eem, and Al-Hakim who said: “it has a good chain of narrators”. Ad-Dahabi agreed to Al-Hakim‘s report.
[3] Saheeh Muslim V.4, hadeeth # 6421 p. 1397
[4] Plural Pronoun: Is used to stress the Greatness and Power of Allah Who is One.
[5] Related by Abu Dawoud, At-Tirmidhi, Ibin Majah and lmam Ahmed.