Is wearing trousers for men considered imitating the disbelievers?
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The questioner : The Islamic countries
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The Islamic countries previously
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : ... and its custom, after stability was achieved following the days of colonialism and change, customs spread in some countries other than this one, some of which conform to the state of the disbelievers or contradict it. Do we say, for example, wearing trousers or pants and other such clothes spread, and the youth became... it became their symbol... the head and so on. Based on this, the origin of these clothes came from the disbelievers and swept through much of the land of the disbelievers, except that the Peninsula and the land of the Arabs remained holding on... Do we say this is better, especially since it has become a symbol?
The Shaykh : Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned, as transmitted by the author of al-Fath, that such matters which do not contain a specific prohibition, if they spread and are not specific to the disbelievers, the imitating of the disbelievers is removed from them. And trousers, as you see in many Islamic countries now, they know nothing but them, so the imitating of the disbelievers is removed. If we wanted to return to the original clothing, the most known clothing in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was the izar and the rida. So what I see is that this has now become permissible for men. As for women, it is strictly forbidden, I mean trousers.
The questioner : The apparent and the hidden
The Shaykh : The apparent and the hidden, every name for trousers is not permissible for a woman
The questioner : Under the clothes
The Shaykh : Even under the clothes. Yes, the time is up. We stopped at what? The eighth face
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The Islamic countries previously
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : ... and its custom, after stability was achieved following the days of colonialism and change, customs spread in some countries other than this one, some of which conform to the state of the disbelievers or contradict it. Do we say, for example, wearing trousers or pants and other such clothes spread, and the youth became... it became their symbol... the head and so on. Based on this, the origin of these clothes came from the disbelievers and swept through much of the land of the disbelievers, except that the Peninsula and the land of the Arabs remained holding on... Do we say this is better, especially since it has become a symbol?
The Shaykh : Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned, as transmitted by the author of al-Fath, that such matters which do not contain a specific prohibition, if they spread and are not specific to the disbelievers, the imitating of the disbelievers is removed from them. And trousers, as you see in many Islamic countries now, they know nothing but them, so the imitating of the disbelievers is removed. If we wanted to return to the original clothing, the most known clothing in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was the izar and the rida. So what I see is that this has now become permissible for men. As for women, it is strictly forbidden, I mean trousers.
The questioner : The apparent and the hidden
The Shaykh : The apparent and the hidden, every name for trousers is not permissible for a woman
The questioner : Under the clothes
The Shaykh : Even under the clothes. Yes, the time is up. We stopped at what? The eighth face