MANNERS OF CLOTHING - PART 1 Many people are not going to like this post, but this has to be said nevertheless. Shaykh Fazal Elahi had a lecture at Youth Club Lahore today and he explained the manners of clothing. I am going to summarize it and put it up for everyones benefit in shaa Allah. MANNERS THAT ARE COMMON BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN 1. You should not be extravagant in your clothing. 2. You should not be proud because of it. Imam Ahmad, Nisai and Ibn e Majah narrated this Hadith that the Prophet PBUH said that eat, drink, and give charity, as long as these three things are free from two things: a. Extravagance. b. Pride. 1. Extravagance: What is Extravagance? It involves 2 things: i) Extravagance is that a person spends more than he can bear. For example, a person can only afford to buy a 1000 rupees suit every 2 months. But his son, his wife or daughter insists on buying a 2000 rupees suit every month. The buying of this sort where you overburden yourself is Haram in Islam. ii) You should be moderate. For example, a person can buy a suit everyday. Does he buy new clothes everyday? Every person should notice this in his home. Do you have clothes in your wardrobe that the whole season passes but you dont even wear those clothes? It is Haram for such a person to buy more clothes. This is a blessing from Allah. What will you answer Him on the day of judgement, that O Allah I bought clothes that I didnt even wear? I didnt even need them but I bought them? Be grateful and spend only that you need! This is extravagance and extravagance is Haram in Islam. 2. Pride: When you start thinking that because of your better clothes, you are superior than others. Or that you look better than someone because of your clothes. Or any such feeling, then know that you are walking on a path of destruction. 3. A person should not wear clothes to deceive people. What does this mean? Lets look at a Hadith. A woman came to the Prophet PBUH and said that she tells people that her husband has gifted her with such and such a thing. Whereas in reality her husband has not gifted her those things. The Prophet PBUH said that whoever shows that which he does not have, then he is wearing 2 clothes of Lie. My sisters should ponder over this point very carefully. Usually in functions, a woman borrows clothes from her sister, her brothers wife, her husbands sister, her friend. On every function she wears new clothes showing people that she is so rich that she can wear new clothes every time. The Muhaddiseen (scholars of hadith) interpreted this in two ways: i) The person is spreading 2 lies. One lie that hes telling others that these are his clothes. Second lie that hes telling people that he is so rich that he can afford such clothes. ii) This person is wearing 2 clothes of lie, the upper cloth and the lower cloth. Meaning that this person is a liar from head to toe. A single lie is a very grave sin. How about the person whos spreading 2 lies? This habit has destroyed many families, and is still destroying them. A woman who has 10 other woman in her family can manage to wear different clothes by borrowing every time and showing off to other people as they are her own clothes. But what about the woman who is the only woman in family? What would she do? She would curse her husband what else :) Part 2 coming up in a while in shaa Allah (thats a bit more intense). Bear with me people (specially sisters).
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:07:02 +0000
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