Re: words from the religiously uneducated
I have an uncle like that, I came back from college one day and was praying my Salaah without a cap on my head and after I’d finished he gave me this longggg lecture on how important it is to cover your head in Salaat, I’m like dude prove it with evidence but he wouldn’t have any of it as long as his Mullah in Pakistan said so it must be true, he told me whenever he prayed somewhere and he didn’t have nothing o cover his head with he’d pull the back end of his Kameez up over his head :D, some people, covering the head is not even specifically mentioned in Qur’aan or Ahadeeth, the Prophet (saw) covered his head but I doubt he ordered anyone to.
There’s Shalwar Kameez as well, every Jummah an aunt of mine gives me a lecture about how I should wear our own ‘Muslim Libaas’ Shalwar Kameez to the Mosque, like what’s clothes got to do with religion? In our Prophet’s (saw) days didn’t the polytheist Arabs dress same as Muslims? There’s things that are specifically ordered by Mohammad (saw) such as wearing the garment above the ankles, trimming the moustache short and letting the beard grow and I believe in that and I agree with them because my Nabi (saw) said so (whether I’ve got the strength to obey them or not yet is another question) but lets not invent stuff from ourselves.
Leave Paki culture to Pakistan, when I’m in Britian I’m only a British Muslim. It’s only in Pakistan that I’m a Pakistani and will follow the Paki culture over there.
Try to make a habit of not believing anything radical anyone says about Islam unless you read it with your own eyes in the Quran or in an authenticated Hadith.