Is wearing trousers imitating the disbelievers, and does the wearer become a disbeliever because of it? What is the ruling on praying in trousers?

The questioner : Is wearing trousers imitating the disbelievers, and does the one who does it fall into disbelief? What is the ruling on praying in trousers?

The Shaykh : There is no doubt that it is imitating the disbelievers; but trousers, as you express it, have another problem. Because if imitating the disbelievers were the only prohibition, that alone would be sufficient to prohibit it, based on his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) in the well-known hadith: And his saying to a man he saw wearing clothing of the disbelievers: So trousers have another problem that our committed brothers, who adhere to the Shari'ah of our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) and the Sunnah of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), must pay attention to. It is a very bad problem, which is that trousers reveal the 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered) and reveal it in the ugliest way when the Muslim wearing trousers stands to pray, bows, and prostrates, and his 'awrah becomes visible. It is not permissible for a Muslim to wear trousers, especially when he intends to stand before Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). This reminds me of something else: it has become widespread in this era among the sons of fathers—I say sons of fathers because the fathers have a share in this matter—that they wear shirts with images on the chest or the back. Often, when we stand to pray in congregation, it happens that in front of us in the first or second row is a young man, may Allah be pleased with him, who is praying, a young man in the prime of his life, but there is an image of a hyena on his back, or an image of a lion, and worse than that, an image of a woman with her hair loose, while he is praying and I am praying like him. So, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , it is not permissible for fathers to buy these clothes, shirts with images, whether on the chest or the back. Because these images first prevent the angels from entering the homes of their owners, then the homes that these people wearing this forbidden image frequent. Then comes the ugliest image when this young man stands to pray and people behind him face this image, which is forbidden, especially if it is an image of a woman displaying her adornment. Yes.