While South Asia is often fixated on dictating what women should wear, Muslim men ought to know better. The Quran advised men to observe ‘parda‘ first by lowering their gaze.
Lo and behold! An e-store Maktaba-tul-Madina is selling ‘Muslim glasses’ to help with that.
“Tell the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that will make for greater purity for them; Surely Allah is well acquainted with all that they do.” (Quran 24:30).
Lowering the gaze, in Islamic terminology or exercising modesty refers to a number of things. Like, eyeing up someone’s assets, staring at the beauty of non-mahram women, keeping an eye on the wealth of others, and peeping inside the houses of neighbors.
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How hard can that be? Apparently, it’s so difficult someone devised tinted glasses to help obscure a fellow Muslim’s vision and help a brother out.
Named ‘Qufl-e-Madina’, these glasses only focus on the lower half. Apparently, they were invented to help men get into the habit of refraining from ‘haram’ gazing.
Introduced by Maktaba-tul-Madinah’s online store, these are not just any tinted glasses. Only the top half of these glasses are tinted requiring the wearer to lower their gaze to see in front of themselves.
In a way, it directs the focus of the gaze in a way to prevent staring. Kind of like blinkers/blinders for racehorses?
Qufl-e-Madina glasses pic.twitter.com/PPISkSBxbT
— 𝕽𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖊𝖉 (@RasheedMemon) July 22, 2018
Aside from the Muslim glasses, e-Store Maktaba-tul-Madinah stocks a wide range of Islamic products such as books, magazines, flags, and etc.
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With Ramzan, Muslims must make a better effort to abstain from such things. In Pakistan where women are leered at even with full-face coverings, these Muslim glasses could actually work?
Pakistani Molvis have invented these "Qufl-e-Madina" glasses
That focuses only on "NICHLA HISSA" 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/B6I7z8VqrM— JB (@badnocs) May 1, 2019
Others think this is the worst invention from the Muslim world to date.
Dear Muslim Scientists, we apologize from bottom of our hearts.
Dear Ibn Sina, Farabi, Khwarizmi, Battani, Al-Razi, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Haiyan, Al-Kindi,Al-Haytham, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Zuhr, pls forgive us for current state of scientific, innovative & educational affairs in Muslim World. pic.twitter.com/d8DaEkaSGt— Ayaz Latif Palijo (@AyazLatifPalijo) April 26, 2021
What do you think? Is this idea ingenious or ridiculous? Let us know what you think.
