Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Living in the West Should We Dress Like Westerners
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The speaker discusses the importance of dressing in a way that covers one's body and its deifications. They stress that wearing a headgear is a modest and panc pride, while others may be criticized for their deifications. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of respecting one's boundaries within mainstream Islam and the broad ranges of religious opinions.
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Living in the west, should we dress like
westerners and take off
our hats, shawls,
etcetera?
Or should we dress?
Okay. It's not
proper manners to mention someone,
specific.
How should one dress? Dress is from the
mat you need from the matters that fall
under the rulings of permissibility.
Dress falls under the rulings of permissibility.
Any permissible
dress is permissible.
Our duty
is firstly
to our duty is firstly to dress
in
a way that covers our. Number 2, that
is
modest. Number 3, that is dignified.
Now how does one do so?
It would depend on different circumstances. There are
so that covers our aura,
is modest and dignified.
Then there are other matters that are
from the sunnahs of habit,
right, such as, for example, covering one's head.
Right? And these things, there is difference opinion
amongst the scholars regarding
how recommended is
wearing headgear for men, for example. There is
difference opinion
because it's from the sunnahs of habit. Some
of the schools have deemed it to be
a general recommendation.
Others
said that's a customary recommendation
and those are matters of judgment.
One should learn one's deen
and practice it
in consultation with qualified scholars. And we should
also
respect
that there are there's a range
of interpretations within the mainstream
that we love and respect. And we don't
judge others by the interpretations that we follow
within that mainstream,
particularly the scholars because they you know, we
have a good opinion of everyone of anyone.
If
an unknown Muslim
walks out of a bar,
it is not permitted for you to think
ill of them that they committed a sin,
that they did something wrong.
So if a learned scholar
of known uprightness
and deen and service
does something that your interpretation might not agree
with.
How can you think ill of them?
That, oh, they don't cover their head.
They're following another interpretation.
You don't have to agree with it, but
you have a duty
to respect
Muslims in general.
Right? Believers
in general.
The upright believers in particular,
the learned most especially,
those who have done good
and served.
That is our the ethic
of the believer
that we are people
of respect and love.
Right? We are people of respect and love.
And we and part of respect is to
respect
within
the broad boundaries of mainstream Islam, the the
ambit of
religious opinions that are mainstream,
k, that are mainstream.