In this specific corner, we will be discussing and discussing questions that you ask us and we pose them to the people of knowledge, Sheikh Uthman inshallah and Sheikh Tarawna. In this corner we will discuss the clothing of women and men, the private area of the knee, the belly button, and the waist. We will also cover some of the principles that the majority of the fuqaha agree upon, but there are differences of opinion within some of them.
00:00:30.000Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends welcome to the knowledge corner as you guys can see there is a corner and inshallah we do have some knowledge one of my dead dogs I always try my best and that's what I'm known for but anyways brothers and sisters welcome to this corner inshallah we're here with Sheikh Mohammed Uthman inshallah
00:00:59.800and also we'll have Sheikh Mohammed Tarawna as well in this specific corner where we will be discussing and talking about your questions that you ask us and we pose that to the people of knowledge and this is something very important for us to do as laymen like myself to not talk about matters that I'm not qualified to and stick to my lane it's very important because a big problem within the ummah a lot of youngsters be it myself you know sometimes I have to correct myself as well and say look know your limits stay to your limit and this is the reason why we have the knowledge corner because we can come to the people of knowledge
00:01:29.780ask them and let them tell us what we should know rather than the opposite way inshallah so Sheikh Mohammed Uthman may Allah bless you welcome
00:01:38.220actually this is your show I don't really welcome you
00:01:42.700so what we're going to do is inshallah we have we're going to go through a few things yeah we want to be structured we like to be structured inshallah yeah
00:01:49.140so what we're going to go through is the clothing for men and women we're going to discuss obviously we'll start with the men's
00:01:56.520we'll start with the men we'll mention a few principles to do with the that affect the men directly and then after that we can mention a few principles concerning clothing of the women inshallah and there's a lot of today there's a lot of you know certain things apply to both and we'll mention it with examples as well inshallah no problem so what we're going to do is we're going to talk about briefly about men's clothing how it should be women's clothing how it should be and then we're going to inshallah talk about more about maybe branding
00:02:17.960we might even mention it within the examples inshallah the best way of understanding the principles is to give examples for that inshallah
00:02:24.920so we're going to save you know that bit inshallah maybe in it it's going to be in it yeah hopefully
00:02:29.200okay no problem inshallah so let's go for it I'll leave it to you
00:02:32.780so we'll mention a few principles to do with men inshallah and this is principles that I will mention inshallah are principles that the majority of the fuqaha the majority of the school of the fiqh agree upon
00:02:42.660and there are khilaaf there are difference of opinion within some of them and I will mention that inshallah very briefly
00:02:47.520the first principle is to do with silk and gold obviously for men and these are principles concerning men for men it's haram for them to wear clothing that has silver and gold in it whereas for the woman it's permissible for them to wear this
00:03:00.680some of the fuqaha the scholars of fiqh such as the hanabilah and this is the main opinion of hanabilah and others state that there are certain exceptions for men such that if there are four fingers worth of
00:03:09.720silk then it's permissible for them to wear that in their clothing there could be a medical reason for this etc as was done by some of the sahaba
00:03:16.980and so that principle is clear inshallah yeah so basically if someone can have a medical condition to wear it as well
00:03:23.620yes if they have to wear like a clothing purely of silk then for a medical reason or for a haja a need an extreme need then they can do so
00:03:31.480other than that then it's permissible to have it within you know four amounts of silk regarding about this much
00:03:38.000okay and some sahaba worry some sahaba worry some sahaba worry due to medical reasons
00:03:41.600oh okay that's interesting I didn't know that that's something new we learnt today okay all right let's just clear
00:03:45.740the second principle is to do with covering the awrah covering the awrah now I mentioned specifically four things to do with this the first thing is the awrah or the private area of men
00:03:55.040now the former dahib agree that the private area of a men is from the belly button to the knee from the belly button to the knee
00:04:01.840now this is due to the hadith and it is so authentic but some of the fuqaha especially specifically the Hanafiya they state that the knee is not included within it the knee is not included within the rakbah
00:04:15.280now of course the difference of opinion amongst us regarding the belly button and regarding the knee etc etc we believe that there is no need to go through that inshallah ta'ala
00:04:24.640second thing is to do with the thighs now that's a very popular question are the thighs part of the awrah or not are the thighs part of the awrah or not
00:04:35.140now the four madhahib generally agree that the thighs are part of the awrah part of the awrah you have a riwayah narration from Imam Ahmed the mathhab is not this narration it's the other narration that says it is but there is a riwayah from Imam Ahmed that says the fakhi the thigh is not from the awrah
00:04:52.640okay and some of the fuqaha within most of the madhahib have chosen these specific or chosen this specific opinion such as Ibn Arabi Maliki the qadi the famous judge may Allah have mercy upon him
00:05:03.140he chose this opinion and others Shaykh Uth Ameen nowadays he mentioned this is his favorite opinion as well so that is best to be safe inshallah ta'ala
00:05:13.140it's best for us to always err on the side of caution and that something is safer for us especially with concerns our deen
00:05:20.640so the third issue concerning the principles for men is the issue concerning clothing that is tight now some of the fuqaha said it's haram to wear clothing that is tight for a man
00:05:31.140okay for a woman there is agreement in this to do with a janib non-relatives okay but as for a man there is a difference of opinion some say that it's completely haram if clothing is tight like for example these trousers that you're wearing it accurately describes your leg
00:05:43.640the Maliki on the other hand they have quite a middle part is this tight this would be because I'm sitting down so for example if I just stand up if I can show you
00:05:54.140as you can see it's it's tight but when I'm sitting down for example and this is a question I was going to ask you Shaykh
00:05:58.140when I'm for example when I'm sitting down because this folds underneath or something it looks like that so when I'm standing
00:06:03.640it's it's it's it's it's quite loose then essentially yeah so so how do I go about that because it's
00:06:07.140so according to the Malikiya their opinion that it is it it it is rather than being haram it's karaha now this is for clothing that does two things
00:06:13.640it accurately describes the aura but specifically and this is the second thing it describes the private parts okay now many of the fuqaha said this is haram completely
00:06:22.140the Malikiya said that it is karaha it is particular case and it's better than on the side of caution inshaAllah
00:06:28.140the fourth thing is the issue of whether or not clothing is they call it shaffafa meaning see-through or not okay now the fuqaha the majority of them if not all of them
00:06:40.140state that if clothing is see-through then it's haram because obviously we describe the aura so that's clear inshaAllah
00:06:46.140these are the main things to do with the aura of a man okay the second or third principle which I think one that you know caused a lot of confusion recently is the issue of tashabba
00:06:56.140the issue of wearing clothing that either resembles the kuffar yeah or resembles woman now woman is clear
00:07:03.140Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam prohibited wearing the clothing that or that resembles the clothing of a woman so that a man imitates a woman and likewise the reverse that a woman imitates a man
00:07:13.140yeah so that's clear but the issue of tashabba or wearing the clothing of the kuffar is an issue in which yes there is a lot of I would say a lot of confusion about
00:07:22.140a lot of confusion of course we know the message of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said from the hadith of Ibn Umar
00:07:33.140It's important to understand that this resemblance is to do with their religious clothing their religious clothing clothing that is specific to them so for example if you put on the religious clothing of a certain group of non muslims then that is tashabba and that is haram
00:07:47.140So is there a difference or for example let's say what a nun wears what a nun or a priest or a Jewish person a Buddhist person a Hindu is this the same thing as someone wearing an England shirt which has a cross on it something that relates to a deity that was worshipped before are these two same things or are they separate
00:08:09.140So as we said wearing clothing specific to a specific religious group that identifies them and is specific to them for their religion is haram specifically wearing a cross now there is a near consensus amongst the fuqaha that wearing a cross is haram some have even gone further to state that it is an act of major kuffar and you find this in Qawad al-Islam and you find many of the strong discussion on this by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami who is a famous Shafi'i scholar and others okay
00:08:36.140So now the question would be to do Qiyas analogy on the cross and other religious symbols as well that are specific again to religious groups if this symbol is again something specific to them and it clearly identifies their religion then that will take the same ruling that will take the same ruling however I think what you are getting at are things that are not specific to their religion anymore anymore it's not identifiable as being something specific to their religion anymore okay which is subject to the Urf that goes back to the Urf that goes back to the customs and understanding of the people
00:09:06.120Urf and customs okay and we have a principle a major principle in the Sharia which says that we take into consideration the customs of the people where the Sharia has allowed it to take into consideration okay not every issue but a certain issue the Sharia has allowed it why because it hasn't defined it it's left it open okay Islam didn't come to destroy the cultures of people it came in fact to realign the cultures with what Allah intended with
00:09:33.120Okay now if and I was going back to what Ibn Hajjir mentioned Fatul Bari he discusses the hadith of Barab Ibn Azim in which the Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam commanded them with a certain number of things and he prohibited them with a certain number of things and one of the things is Al-Maytharatul Hamra now Al-Maytharatul Hamra is literally like a cushion a red cushion that would be placed underneath the saddle you know not top of a horse it would be placed underneath
00:10:03.120And he said it would be prohibited and he said it could be prohibited due to a maslaha dunyawiya something that's specific to this world okay not necessarily the religion okay and he mentioned a number of things or he said it could be due to a religious reason a religious reason and he mentions that that religious reasoning does not necessarily apply now so therefore therefore if we take that then this was something specific to a certain religious group of the past
00:10:33.120It is not makrood at all to use this okay so it's something that is specific to a person this is what I want to highlight here okay okay specific to a religious group and this changes from time and place and person as well and it changes them basically depending on the culture okay okay so say for example we have a clothing and it has a certain symbol on it okay now there'll be two questions to ask here
00:11:03.120Is it an actual symbol of an actual symbol of an actual symbol of a religion of old or not if it is then we could say yes it is haram why vaqiyas or analogy on the cross yeah okay but if we say the symbol there is no specific symbol to actually relate this back to for example the cross or any religious group okay then we would say it depends on the urf it depends on the culture okay it could be that something may have religious connotations to it in the past but it no longer has any religious connotations to it
00:11:32.620anymore therefore uh it is uh it is not haram to wear it is it is not counter resemblance to the kuffar say for example nike nike and this what i mentioned about the symbol applies there okay and this is not my to really investigate these things at all this goes back to the people for example the founders of the company etc however if we say that if there was a clear symbol for example of the goddess of victory yeah nike or something i'm not sure there was a clear symbol of her and this is what was used in the past
00:12:02.400and we would say yes you can do analogy on the cross to make it haram and this is a valid opinion yeah but if you say there is no clear symbol of it okay then therefore subject to our condition it is not associated with any particular religious group yeah so therefore to say it's haram is very difficult to say that but i must say ali uh that my my dear brother may bless you jannah that this is an opinion that in which there is valid difference of opinion
00:12:32.400jah is permissible jah is permissible to wear it due to what i have just mentioned we have to respect that as well and this is very important why because we utilize a principle
00:12:40.100which the usuliyun the scholars of the principles of fiqh have a agreement on yeah which is la inkar fi masail l-ajtihad what does that mean