The Saudi Regime Follows the West Step by Step by Changing the Boundaries of the Awrah!
News:
The General Authority for Media Regulation in Saudi Arabia has revealed the issuance of new regulatory controls targeting content published through media platforms and social media sites, in a step aimed at protecting public taste and consolidating societal values... Regarding public appearance controls, the Authority obligated individuals to avoid wearing clothes that reveal the body from the shoulders and chest down to the legs, and prohibited tight clothes that highlight body details, in addition to preventing transparent clothes that are incompatible with public morals and prevailing values. This step comes within a broader Saudi trend towards regulating the digital and media space, in a way that ensures its harmony with the national identity and preserves ethical and social values. (Al Jazeera, 09/22/2025)
Comment:
It is noted that the formulation of media laws adopted by the General Authority for Media Regulation in the Land of the Two Holy Mosques is consistent with Western ideas related to protecting the freedoms of individuals and their personal information, and more precisely, almost identical to the laws of the General Data Protection Regulation issued by the European Union countries in 2018.
Is the West more concerned about human beings than their Creator?! Haven't the events of the genocide in Gaza exposed Western countries in general?
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "You will follow the ways of those before you step by step, and arm's length by arm's length, so much so that if they entered the hole of a lizard, you would enter it"; We said: O Messenger of Allah; The Jews and the Christians? The Prophet ﷺ said:
"Who else?!" (Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
How long will the rulers of the Land of the Two Holy Mosques continue to follow the disbelievers step by step, and arm's length by arm's length? Will this emulation reach a stage where the ruling regime considers that there are no differences between women and men? And permitting the acts of the people of Lot and lesbianism and other forms of perversion under the pretext of freedoms, after dispensing with the concept of the woman's mahram? What surprises does this regime have in store for Muslims?
Have the woman's arm and hair no longer become awrah according to those in charge of this regime? And have the man's shoulder and chest become awrah? Do those in charge of it think that the disbelievers will be pleased with them? Loss, loss and destruction, destruction to everyone who does not take Islam as an intellectual basis for judging things, actions, and behaviors, including contracts and laws.
Allah Almighty has warned of the consequences of what the Muslim rulers are doing, including the rulers of the Land of the Two Holy Mosques, by saying: ﴿Never will the Jews or Christians be pleased with you until you follow their religion. Say, "Indeed, the guidance of Allah is the [only] guidance." And if you were to follow their desires after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have against Allah no protector or helper.﴾; There is no protector or helper for those who follow the desires of people and the disbelievers, but rather it is a clear loss in this world and the hereafter.
Written for the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Nizar Jamal