You can’t cover up at a young age; you can cover up when you get older!

Youth is a great blessing that includes health, vitality, and energy.  Don’t think that you will be deprived of this blessing when you cover up. On the contrary, you will feel in your heart the indescribable pleasure of spending that blessing of youth with chastity and righteousness, and surrendering to your Lord. It is such a pleasure that it cannot be compared to any illegitimate, fleeting pleasure of youth. Youth is like sleep. It passes quickly and in a state of heedlessness.

It is our feelings and desires that make us say that we can’t cover up in youth. Youth heeds the emotions rather than reason. Emotions and desires are blind; they do not consider the consequences. They prefer one ounce of immediate pleasure to tons of future pleasure.  

You can’t cover up at a young age... When you get old, inshallah! Well then, how many years do you think you will live in this world? Is there any guarantee that you will live to old age? What if death comes to you before you reach old age? Every day, 350,000 people leave this world; and except for those who were sick and waiting for death, thought, like you, they would live for years. They had dreams, desires, and ambitions. But look, death came to them before they could achieve their dreams.

Don’t think that only the elderly die! Don’t you see that while fathers are still alive, graves are dug for their children, and while grandfathers are still alive, graves are dug for their grandchildren. Even if a person cannot accept their own death, death will come to them one day, but it will be too late. Don’t let your soul deceive you in this way. Come, resist the desires of your soul for the sake of Allah. Feel the indescribable joy of servitude in your heart and sell your youth to Allah, not to your soul, so that you may gain eternal youth.

Yes, women have both the desire to show their beauty and the desire to conceal their ugliness and flaws. Will you show your beauty in your youth and then cover up when you grow old and ugly, when your skin begins to wrinkle and crease? Of course, this is also good, but isn’t it best to do it while you are young? Suppose that you reached old age. How will you do in old age what you cannot do now? Do you think you will do it when the tree of your soul has taken root and gained strength, and you have lost your strength and vigor?

You see that your soul and Satan are distracting you with these excuses. How long will you console yourself with their excuses? Is it really as heavy a burden as you make it out to be? You know that your Lord will not burden anyone with more than they can bear. So do not act as if you will remain in this world forever; listen to your Lord’s words and obey him.