The word · The heart

الحَيَاء

Haya'

A modesty that makes a person shrink from what is ugly, before Allah and before people.

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The meaning

What Haya' means in Islam

The Prophet peace be upon him said modesty is a branch of faith, in Bukhari and Muslim, and that modesty brings nothing but good, in Muslim. It is a restraint that works before the act rather than a regret afterwards. It is not shyness of speech: a person can be modest and still ask a direct question, and the women of the Ansar were praised because shyness did not stop them learning their religion.

Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah