I'm not very modest and I hate it but I can't help it.
published by Titanium on 11 June, 2012 - 18:15
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Modesty in Islam. What is it?
Physical modesty is to do with covering up and wearing baggy clothes and masking every part of the body that might attract the opposite sex and etc.
Mental modety is to do with what you think and how to think about stuff/life and all it's prettiness and rubbishness and being able to control your thoughts etc.
Verbal modesty, being polite more than anything. Make silence your best friend and avoid all confrontations etc.
Virtual Modesty? I think that's all to do with being modest on the internet with people you only know of over the net, have never met in person and never will.
and I'm sure there are other forms of modesty and there's a lot more to the ones already mentioned.
It's a very difficult thing to attain and something that makes you look like you're either super naive or just super shy. It occurs in some people naturally but I question their intelligence and they just look shady, like they have something to hide.
Anyways all I wanted to say was I find modesty very weird. For example, when people talk about it and how big a thing it is in Islam, they aren't being very modest. A bit silly and ironic.
This makes those people less realiable and hence I won't take their word seriously. They're just big show offs in my brain.
I might be sitting on the wrong side of pedantism but I'm not very modest. I don't think I'll ever be modest because with me what you see is what you get; what I am and not someone who hides away, prenetending to be selfless when the end goal in their mind is the best possible life after death.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
I wonder why God decided that we should be modest as humans?
You can't be a modest Muslim if you accomplish something and then brag about or feel content that you'll be getting credits for doing good. Surely not?
How can you be somebody when you pretend to be a nobody?
Modesty and selflessness is linked. Since I don't belive that Muslim or any other person of faith has the ability to be selfless, I don't trust people who claim or appear modest. They annoy me BIG TIME.
Modesty over-rated or what?
Comments
28 August 2010
11 hours 47 min
You make me think soo much, more than i need to LOL Modesty seems like such a hard word and topic to define!
I've seen a tincy bit of your modesty when i was trying to praise you for the right reasons and you just didn't want me to say anymore. I think that 'was' modesty, definitely, or its the fact that you don't like people saying good about you?
If you accomplish something, you 'can' talk about it, and take credit for it, because your the one whose done good. I think you 'can' speak of your achievements, aslong as your not repeating the topic 10 times, with everyone just getting sick of you! Now thats what i call bragging, not when you want to share all your good actions! You 'can' still be modest and share what you've achieved at the same time, in my opinion!
If people didn't talk about all the good that they've accomplished, then i don't see how you can aspire or receive inspiration or look upto someone. You might not even be able to have a decent convsation! What would you end up telling people? All the bad stuff only? No, you'll just depress them with all your bad actions, if thats 'all' you talk about! It's good to talk about achievements, its not bragging, it gives the person your talking to, motivation, like 'if i can do it' - you can do it, with a little bit of effort.
If you kept quiet about all your achievements and never told anyone, boiy, you'd fail an interview! Why would you want to keep them to yourself and remain silent? What is the point then? You 'do' have to speak up about them and tell people what your made of, and that you don't just sit at home, doing absolutely nothing at all.
I think Allah wanted humans to be modest generally, to avoid pride and over-boasting. People just get too full of themselves and become too self-centered, with no care in the world about anyone around them. It creates all the ranks, and 'your not better off than me', and 'i look down at you', kind of situations! I think thats what were supposed to be avoiding and hence, the reason we were made to be modest. Its supposed to prove that we're equal in the sight of Allah, (but were different when it comes to piety and religious-ness).
Thats my essay, in response to the topic of modesty! I don't know if i've made any sense to you, but it all makes a lot of sense in my head!
24 December 2008
4 hours 46 min
peopel dont do stuff to get the best life in the hereafter. its abt doign for the sake of Allah. abt doing it coz He told us to/ we want to be grateful. paradize is just a side thing. somehow it became hte main fcus and the other reasons got overshadowed
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
12 September 2011
6 months 3 weeks
Salaams Titanium
Soo modesty...overrated? Yes.
Should that matter? No
Why? Because God hath ordained modesty for us
Why hath God ordained modesty? Some of the reasons are told in hadith and sunnah, but god knows best and hwteher we like it or not we are PUNY next to him...The Prophet (SAW) said to the nearest meaning that you won't know something unless you ask, but do not question fate (And free will and al-qadrt and all that , btw not talking about the night or power), because that leads to doubt!
People say i'm clever and i ALWAYS disagree..not out of modesty (well maybee a little) but mainly because well with all the stupid things i do and the obvious things i miss...i VERY much beg to differ. Now most people take this as modesty (people will believe what they wnat to believe....), so now i am modest...i am in NO WAY SHY or NAIVE (<<although the last part maybee subject to debate). I am also most definitley not a nobody, because i am a somebody. So i can be a somebody, because i am a somebody. Nw theres me<< a perfect example (:DI think thats pretty clear :P)
Nw if that isn't evidence enough then look to the wives and daughters of the Prophet; Khadija, Aisha, Fatima and then if not them then the example of Asiya the wife of the MOST evil man that ever lived (although also up for debate IMO); Firaoun.
I'm both Modest and Not modest depending on what modesty your on about. Its overrated, but what can i say i'm a sheep (<<<doubtedly but for your sake Titanium i'll put it in, i seem to have thumbs it seems....among many other human chracteristics). If i annoy you i'm sorry, i assure you i am not shady..... (<<that is not for debate Just so youw know). I don't see thats selflessness and modesty at all are related.... To be anive and shy well Mariyam (as) can arguably be described as both, but in the end she's the most perfect women that ever lived and will undoubtedly get the hereafter.....i'd rather be shy and naive and have attained the hereafter than whatever is not that.
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