The Myth of Good Looking

When grandfathers in half trousers, shirts tucked in and sleeves rolled up, move on the beaches displaying the youth, which they have already lost, and grand mothers in sleeveless T shirts, tight slacks , roam around the lounges of malls staring at the windows of fashion stores, to look for the latest in the fashion world, then we come to the conclusion that the definition of beauty has changed and so has the perception of beauty.

These days every one is trying to look good. So the gyms, the diet and health centers, articles and books on health all are in good business. The other day a grooming class for males in Mumbai announced that they were entering into their twenty-fifth year. Among the many lessons in the etiquette they teach, one thing that strikes me is “how to be decent with opposite sex”. The love pundits know it very well that the best way to impress the opposite sex is to appear and behave decently.Do you think that Iblis could have forced Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit (or what so ever it was)? Surah Ar’af informs us of Iblis’s approach in the verse, 21 :“and he swore that he was their well wisher……” There are modern Iblises around us swearing through hundreds of advertisements in almost every TV channel and every page of Newspapers and magazines that they are the well wishers of women folk. They are every where. Even in pages of face books they lurk at young girls . Unfortunately some of them even appear as sheikhs and muftis in da’wah and in fiqh, pretending to teach you one thing but wanting you to learn another.

It is very amusing to note that even educated people are beauty fooled by the new standards of beauty. It seems that aging people don’t want to grow older and young girls, as young as nine ,are in a hurry to grow into young women. Comparing themselves with movie actresses and models they have a terrible complex of looks and weights. Considering the time spend in gazing at the mirror, if only mirrors were perishable items like shoes and dresses, getting ragged after using, all of them would crack in few weeks.

A little girl shared her experience of dieting on the net : I am afraid of putting on weight , so I stuck a picture of a fat lady on the door of my refrigerator to frighten my self every time I am tempted to open for having ice cream or butter.!

People refuse to age, they don’t want to look old, so they seek refuge under the sharp knives of cosmetic surgeons and anti aging creams to hide their wrinkles and grey hair. Women entering into thirties are afraid of loosing their jobs and their boyfriends to the younger girls.

A man’s class is no more measured by the amount of his wealth but by the number of female following he has. Adultery and fornication is served like a tasty dish. Famous men appear in public with beautifooled girls proudly displayed like trophies.

The school children are also dragged in this pomp and show. Sexy education is crept inside their mind in the pretext of sex education with the inclusion of ‘how to use contraceptives’ and ‘ways of avoiding unwanted pregnancies’. The age of consent has replaced the age of marriage in many constitutions. It turns into a liberty to enjoy with whomever you want, without taking any social or financial burden of females. “Fruits of Radical Liberation”

Written by Nisaar Nadiadwala