Re: Islam and "Pants Shirt"
All my childhood I was told to wear pant shirt by my parents and teachers and it was not allowed to wear shalwar kameez in my school. In parties etc... I was told that pant shirt looks more cool.
When I visited Pakistan I was reluctant to wear shalwaar kameez because I was not used to it. At times during eid and other occasions some of my relatives encouraged me to wear shalwaar kameez but I told them that I am not used to it thus it makes me uncomfortable. But when I visited my village and other cities of Pak and saw everyone wearing SK I realized that if not officially at least unofficially we can call it a national dress of Pakistan as even at times in UK and other countries if a person is wearing SK, people would think of him to be a Pakistani or afghani.
Now years later, I no longer accept the pressure of my parents, bosses....etc. to prefer pants shirts over SK while attending a meeting, or going to any gathering. Who on earth has told the boss that wearing suit and tie makes a man more gentleman than wearing a SK. And ofcourse all those years in my school and college I never came across a situation where the principles showed any flexibilty in allowing anyone to wear shalwaar Qameez, even in PAF schools in Pakistan.
And yeah! whatever shah ze ziyada shah ke wafadar means, I never attended a madrasa or was taught by any maulvi to prefer SK. It is my personal choice and ofcourse Alhamdulillah I don't suffer from an inferiority complex (not all but some do suffer from it) that if I wear SK in an official meeting it would lessen my honor.
Yep, the rules are to be twisted in madrassas, but in schools and colleges I haven't seen a single person showing courage and standing against the imposition of pant shirt and tie and banning SK in PAF schools that I went to. What a pity, living in Pak and the most common dress of common people not allowed in a lot of schools. I heard from elders that such rules used to exist at the time of British rule before "independence"
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If I allow my son to wear whatever he likes in madrassa, but follow strict dress codes in school, judo, boxing, football....etc. then it might be sending this message to his little mind that if your madrassa teachers wants you to do anything, you may object and disobey, but not in case of teachers of other institutions. Either such a rule should be for all institutions or for non of them.*