Examples from the Qur’an showing it is compatible with the faith for men and women to look attractive to the opposite sex

Adnan Oktar: It is pleasant for women to look beautiful. It is good for women to attract attention. What is forbidden to men and women is lewdness and obscene behavior. Illicit sexual relations, in other words. Otherwise there is nothing wrong with women and men looking attractive. Our Prophet (pbuh) liked women. God mentions in one verse that our Prophet meets women and likes them, “even though their beauty might be pleasing to you.” (Surat az-Ahzab, 52) He liked their beauty. “After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you exchange them for other wives, even though their beauty might be pleasing to you, with the exception of any you own as slaves,” He says. You can also take them as concubines, but He says that it is wrong to exchange them for other wives, even if those women are attractive to you. Because our Prophet was always paying dowries. God lifted that obligation. He addressed him directly. God does that to make the Prophet’s lif