Tight, Slim, and Body-Hugging Dress

✍🏻 Muhammad Palan Puri

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It's a strange spectacle that the very Ummah which was called towards the garment of piety, today has made the garment itself a witness against piety. The Quran had said in a simple but decisive tone that the garment of piety is the best, but we hung this verse on the walls and promoted its opposite in the markets. Thinness came into women's clothing, then tightness, then a situation arose where it clung to the body in such a way that the cloth began to reveal the body instead of covering it. The hijab remained in name only, the abaya became a fashion, and the veil became merely a psychological satisfaction. The modesty and shame that the Quran calls the essence of personality gradually became an ornament for the showcase, and the tragedy is that it was given the name of freedom...

But the story does not end here. In a society where shame is snatched away from a woman's dress, a man's dress also does not remain dignified for long. This is the reason why today men too, whose clothing should have simplicity, dignity, and masculinity, have also entered this blind alley of fashion, where the shalwar is no longer a shalwar but has become an apologetic imitation of pants. Tight, fitted, body-hugging shalwars in which the structure of the thighs and calves is so prominent as if it is not clothing but a sketch. Whereas the hadith reminds us that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade such clothing that reveals the shape of the body, even if it outwardly covers the body...

My religious brother! The meaning of covering is not just the presence of cloth, but the concealment of physical features, and when clothing does not do this, then in the balance of Sharia, it remains only and only cloth, not a veil...

The question here is not about women or men, but about the temperament of the Ummah. When men also begin to take pride in the fact that this fitting is modern, and women begin to say that the heart should be pure, what does the clothing matter? Then understand that the problem has now reached the deviation of thought. The Quran commanded to lower the gaze first, and spoke about clothing later, because if the gaze goes wrong, then clothing also remains merely a show. And when clothing goes wrong, keeping the gaze under control remains merely a moral slogan.....

Listen! What you are calling progress, it's the modern age, one has to be modern, then listen! This is not called progress, it is called the retreat of civilization, the decline of modesty........

We have made clothing subservient to the body, whereas Sharia wants to make clothing the guardian of character. The result is that from the courtyard of the mosque to the market and from the market to social media, the body is speaking and the conscience is silent....

In the language of hadith, this is also a fitna (tribulation) of the times with an undesirable appearance. It is such a fitna that comes slowly, smiles, shows mirrors, and then makes a person oblivious to the purpose of their existence. Today, tight clothing is being considered trivial, tomorrow immodesty will be. Today, revealing the body is fashion, tomorrow the display of character will also be considered unnecessary. Decline always comes in this order: slowly, silently, in a civilized tone.

The real question is not who is wearing what, the real question is which direction we are going in. If clothing does not bring us closer to Allah, does not protect the eyes, and does not create modesty in the heart, then whether it is an abaya or a shalwar, it is empty of the purpose of Sharia. And such empty things do not improve nations, they only decorate them, and history is witness that decorated corpses never make living nations........

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