WHAT’S YOUR CONSTITUTION?
Just because my cousin is getting married in March inshAllah, I have to visit various dress designers with her and my khalas.This time, we also considered going to a fresh graduate from a school of fashion design, who was a really pretty, green eyed petite girl mashAllah.
So she showed us the beautiful clothes on display and we discussed them with her. My khala fell in love with one of the dresses there. It was a white chiffon gown which was richly embroidered with silver sequins and gems, and it came with a white silk shirt and a pair of trousers. My khala stared at the dress and then asked the designer reluctantly if the dress and the colour would suit her, because she wasn’t fair and was debating whether she should go for another shade; and here’s the good part, the reason that made me write this article; the designer’s reply was,
“Yea absolutely! Because ‘white’ complexion is so ‘out’!!”
I repeated what she said in my head, because I couldn’t really digest that and I asked myself whether our skin colour could be obsolete and classed as ‘out’- how in the world can complexions be out?? I laughed out loud because according to the ‘fashion world’, I was ‘out’ and thus to fit in I had to bronze or tan etc myself- I mean cows!!- Who decides really what’s ‘in’ and what’s ‘out’??
I stared at myself in the mirror there and I told myself, speaking quietly to myself in my head that if I started following those who live to impress others, those who are in dire need of fitting in, and those whose constitution is ‘Libas’, ‘Vogue’ ,‘Cosmopolitan’ , ‘Bollywood’ or ‘MTV’ for that matter, then I would definitely go insane.
How many people do we know of who compete in this world for glory, fame, wealth and power? How many people do i know who want to be just like Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Nancy Ajram or Angelina Jolie? People want to emulate what? people?? Those People whose intellect is also ‘out’.Life is not all about that. When we realise what our purpose in life is, we stop participating in this rat race for glory.
When we realise that we have to emulate our Holy Prophet sallallahu alyhe wasallam, we love for others what we love for ourselves, and we leave this sickness of competeing with others by showing off our designer dresses, bags, shoes, big houses, gadgets, schools, careers etc.
As far as the colour is concerned, im just so glad that Allah subhanahu wa ta’alaa is the Most Just, the Most Merciful, the Most Impartial.
Allah does not judge you by your faces but keeps eyes on your hearts’,(Bukhari and Muslim)
–We just have to work on our hearts and then subsequently, the rest will fall in its place. We have to educate our hearts, our minds and our souls. We have to remember that our constitution was written more than 1430 years ago and that it is the Quran and the Sunnah- and we have to adhere to that no matter what the world says…*lol im ‘out’-in your dreams ya dunya 
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Allah subhnahu wa ta’alaa knows best.
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