Araf 28-30

Araf 28-30

28- AND WHEN THEY COMMIT A WICKED SIN THEY SAY: “WE FOUND   FATHERS DOING THIS AND ALLAH COMMANDED US TO DO IT”.  SAY: “ALLAH DOES NOT COMMAND DOING WICKED SINS, DO YOU SAY WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW CONCERNING ALLAH”.

29- SAY: “MY LORD COMMANDS THE UPHOLDING OF JUSTICE, AND TO BE STEADFAST IN SALAH AT EVERY MOSQUE, AND WORSHIP AND CALL UPON HIM SINCERELY IN FAITH, FOR AS HE MADE YOU BEGIN, YOU WILL BE RESURRECTED”.

30- A GROUP IS RIGHTLY GUIDED AND A GROUP WILL BE TRULLY MISGUIDED, FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN THE DEVILS FOR CLOSE FRIENDS AND ALLIES INSTEAD OF ALLAH, AND THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE RIGHTLY GUIDED.

Before Islam the disbelievers had certain habits which some people practiced concerning the Tawaf around the Kabbah.   They used to do tawaf wearing new clothes, or cloth they did not do wrong while wearing before, or cloth burrowed from one of the residents of Makkah, otherwise men would do the Tawaf naked, and women cover their genitalia only.  They claimed that this was the tradition their forefathers practiced and that they did that it in obedience of Allah the Highest. 

Then Allah the Highest gives us a general rule, which is that Allah the Highest never commands people to do what is indecent or obscene.  Allah the Highest created every one with a basic sense of decency, which his heart accepts and rejects what is otherwise, indecent.  Allah the Highest then regulated this with the laws stated in the religion.  Then people try to change our basic feelings considering them backward or uncivilized, and raising the banners of personal freedom, etc.  This happened with homosexuality, sex before marriage, usury,  various ideologies etc.  Man has always been able to justify and rationalize his wrong doings, but this will not work when facing His Lord on the Day of Resurrection.

There is in fact an important dress code when going to a Mosque, regardless of whether they are going there to pray or listen to a lesson, the minimum of which is:

1. To dress decently, for both men and women, men should be covering at least from his umbilicus to the knee, and women should cover her body except for the face and hands.
2. To have washed all the body after impurities like sexual intercourse, menstruation, or postnatal discharge.
3. A person should not go to the mosque after having consumed intoxicants, like alcoholic drinks and drugs of abuse.

Allah the Highest said about this in the next Ayah of the Quran