True beauty

True beauty is the beauty that will make you appear beautiful in Aakhirah. And this does not depend on a beautiful appearance. Taqwa must be found in a person. Otherwise, there is the chance that his outward beauty becomes a burden.

With Taqwa, a person looks beautiful in Dunya also even if he does not have a beautiful appearance and Allah Ta'ala will make him appear more beautiful in Aakhirah. On the contrary, a person who has a beautiful complexion but has no Deen in him, this is very dangerous situation. You should not be deceived if you see that a lot of people are being interested in you. You would have the right to be proud and content if your youth and your beauty were things that never fades. But even iron rusts. After few days, if you go to visit a person in the Qabr, you will see the truth. And if you go to visit him after few years, you will keep searching but you will not find him. And what will be in front of your eyes, you will not want to see it. And yet that is what made you go crazy. Fortunate are those youngsters who have sacrificed their youth and their charm in the path of Allah Ta'ala. It is those whom Allah Ta'ala has promised to give them a place under His Throne on the day of Qiyaamah.

[English version of "Vrai beauté" – Al Jamiat – Vol.5 No.4]