The student's remarks on Albania regarding the presence of intoxicants, women's display of adornment, and fashion
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The Shaykh: Are there intoxicants, such as alcohol, or not?
The student: Yes, of course. It has started now, and this was not present among the Albanian people previously. Now, nightclubs are beginning to spread.
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The student: And fashion has started to spread. They say that in Albania, people did not know about women wearing short clothes until six or seven months ago.
The Shaykh : Strange.
The student: Yes, and now it has become a very strange phenomenon, which is wearing very short clothes, especially from Italy. I do not know if it is exaggerated or not, but they say Italy floods Albania with these clothes at relatively low prices. So now, there is something tangible in Albania: people have started to adorn themselves and clean up, and people are now thinking about changing their furniture and carpets. They have started thinking about moving out of their homes and renting them to international organizations. So now, there is a great effort and diligence from the people of Tirana to improve their lives, because the previous life consisted of, if you came to the residential areas, they were huge residential complexes like boxes, for example, with narrow spaces.
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The student: Yes, it reached that point, yes, and the spaces were narrow. Yes, every, yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh: I mean, in our time, there was no house, not even the poorest house, that did not have an internal courtyard like a garden and multiple rooms. Our house was the poorest of the houses, and yet it had a very large courtyard with fig trees, grape trellises, and similar things. Things have changed as you have heard; they call them sardine cans, yes.
The student: And if you saw the people and the residential complexes, you would find them in this pattern in all the cities I passed through. The government established them, of course, these dwellings, because the state undertook the construction, as the state was communist.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: This is from the aspect of very narrow, limited, and small dwellings, and there was no degree of the civilized life that we see now.
The Shaykh : ...
The student: No, you would find, for example, the light bulb was old, for example, you would find the paints were used from old types, and the chairs also had no pattern of modern life. But people have now started to think, and there has started a change. Now, they start buying carpets, they start buying, whatever money comes to them, they buy carpets, they buy new clothes. Some of them, I heard that a woman buys a suit, meaning, and prepares it only for going out, and then you might not find anything in her house.
The student: Yes, of course. It has started now, and this was not present among the Albanian people previously. Now, nightclubs are beginning to spread.
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The student: And fashion has started to spread. They say that in Albania, people did not know about women wearing short clothes until six or seven months ago.
The Shaykh : Strange.
The student: Yes, and now it has become a very strange phenomenon, which is wearing very short clothes, especially from Italy. I do not know if it is exaggerated or not, but they say Italy floods Albania with these clothes at relatively low prices. So now, there is something tangible in Albania: people have started to adorn themselves and clean up, and people are now thinking about changing their furniture and carpets. They have started thinking about moving out of their homes and renting them to international organizations. So now, there is a great effort and diligence from the people of Tirana to improve their lives, because the previous life consisted of, if you came to the residential areas, they were huge residential complexes like boxes, for example, with narrow spaces.
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The student: Yes, it reached that point, yes, and the spaces were narrow. Yes, every, yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh: I mean, in our time, there was no house, not even the poorest house, that did not have an internal courtyard like a garden and multiple rooms. Our house was the poorest of the houses, and yet it had a very large courtyard with fig trees, grape trellises, and similar things. Things have changed as you have heard; they call them sardine cans, yes.
The student: And if you saw the people and the residential complexes, you would find them in this pattern in all the cities I passed through. The government established them, of course, these dwellings, because the state undertook the construction, as the state was communist.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: This is from the aspect of very narrow, limited, and small dwellings, and there was no degree of the civilized life that we see now.
The Shaykh : ...
The student: No, you would find, for example, the light bulb was old, for example, you would find the paints were used from old types, and the chairs also had no pattern of modern life. But people have now started to think, and there has started a change. Now, they start buying carpets, they start buying, whatever money comes to them, they buy carpets, they buy new clothes. Some of them, I heard that a woman buys a suit, meaning, and prepares it only for going out, and then you might not find anything in her house.
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