Surah Al Araaf Ayat 26 Urdu translation

Surah Al Araaf Ayat 26 meaning in urdu

اے اولاد آدم، ہم نے تم پر لباس نازل کیا ہے کہ تمہارے جسم کے قابل شرم حصوں کو ڈھانکے اور تمہارے لیے جسم کی حفاظت اور زینت کا ذریعہ بھی ہو، اور بہترین لباس تقویٰ کا لباس ہے یہ اللہ کی نشانیوں میں سے ایک نشانی ہے، شاید کہ لوگ اس سے سبق لیں

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(7:26) 0 Children of Adam! *15 Indeed We have sent down to you a garment which covers your shame and provides protection and adornment. But the finest of all is the garment of piety. That is one of the signs of Allah so that they may take heed.

O children of Adam, We have bestowed upon you clothing to conceal meaning

*15). By referring to an important aspect of Adam and Eve's story, the attention of the people of Arabia of those days was drawn to the evil influence of Satan upon their lives. Under Satan's influence they had begun to see dress merely as a shield of protection against the inclemencies of the weather and as a means of adornment. The basic purpose of dress to cover the private parts of the body - had receded into the background. People had no inhibition about the immodest exposure of the private parts of their body in public. To publicly take a bath absolutely naked, to attend to the call of nature on thoroughfares, were the order of the day. To crown it all, in the course of Pilgrimage they used to circumambulate around the Ka'bah in stark nakedness. Women even surpassed men in immodesty. In their view, the performance of religious rites in complete nudity was an act of religious merit.
Immodesty, however, was not an exclusive characteristic of the people of Arabia. Many nations indulged in it in the past, and many nations continue to indulge in it even now. Hence the message embodied in these verses is not directed just to the people of Arabia. It is rather directed to all men. Mankind, which is the progeny of Adam, is warned against this particular aspect of Satanic influence on their lives. When men show indifference to God's Guidance and turn away from the Message of the Prophets, they virtually place themselves at the mercy of Satan. For it is Satan who makes them abandon way's that are consistent with true human nature and who leads them to immodesty in the same way he did with Adam and Eve. Were man to reflect on this, it would become quite evident that when he is deprived of the guidance of the Prophets, he cannot even appreciate, let alone fulfil, the primary requirements of his true nature.