encompasses, and that you remember the burning and decomposing after death. And the one who desires the Hereafter leaves the splendours of the world, and the one who does this has fulfilled the right of observing modesty before Allah Almighty.’ (Musnad Imam Ahmad, vol. 2, p. 33, Hadees 3671)

If we have spent our entire lives committing sins with our hands and feet, being habitual in using our tongue for obscene speech and using our eyes to take unlawful glances, then remember, these very limbs will become witnesses against us on the Day of Judgement, just as it is mentioned in part 18, Surah Noor, verse 24:

یَّوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَیْهِمْ اَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَ اَیْدِیْهِمْ وَ اَرْجُلُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُوْا یَعْمَلُوْنَ(۲۴)

On the Day when their tongues, and their hands, and their feet will testify against them, regarding what they used to do.

[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 18, Surah Al-Noor, Verse 24)

Dear Islamic brothers! We should fear that these limbs which we do not feel shame in using to commit immodest actions today and disobey our Lord with without any hesitation, will become witnesses against us in the court of Allah Almighty and cause us to enter Hell. Therefore, make sincere repentance from all sins, make an intention to avoid all immodest acts from today onwards, and make efforts to adopt modesty. Let us now listen to some ways by which we can attain modesty.

Allah Almighty is watching

Dear Islamic brothers! It is a natural thing for us to become embarrassed if someone we know was to see us committing a sin in private, and we feel ashamed to go in front of them. If we were to adopt the same mindset regarding our Lord that ‘Allah Almighty is watching us,’ then alongside avoiding sins, modesty will also be created within us.

A method of protecting the eyes

Sayyiduna Imam Muhammad Ghazali رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه states the following in Ihya-ul-‘Uloom: ‘A man asked Sayyiduna Junayd Baghdadi رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه, ‘Which thing will