They Completely Lost the Concept of Shame

And the people of Lūṭ, they lost, they completely lost the concept of shame. They had no shame, no ḥayāʾ. Because when you reach the level where you would commit such a thing in public, that tells you that these people had no ḥayāʾ, no shame whatsoever.

And this is something that we find in the West today, among men and among women. There is no shyness. Being shy is a negative characteristic. You are supposed to be assertive, and aggressive, and outgoing, and loud, and noisy. And I have seen from some of the sisters, for example, that the hijab is only a shell from the outside, but from the inside it is home-grown in America. And I have seen it, for example, in conventions: you find that young Muslim sisters are bumping into the brothers, and pushing them around, and screaming in the elevators, and laughing loudly. This is something that you cannot see in Muslim countries when you go to the rural areas. There is shyness.

This ḥayāʾ is lost. This ḥayāʾ is lost even from the Muslims who are living in the West. And these are very important qualities, because ḥayāʾ is a branch of īmān. Ḥayāʾ is a branch of īmān, and ḥayāʾ is not only for the women; it's also for the men. Ḥayāʾ is for the men and women.