BinteShafi said:
Asslamu u Alaikum wr wb,
I am originally from Pakistan. I spent 24 years of my life there wearing shalwar Qameez Alhamdolillah. Dress posted in the first post do not represent our routine life dresses at all. I wore this kind of dress just once in 24 years that was wedding of my sister. These are "Really Heavy Dresses" worn on functions. We have got huge huge variety of styles, colors, prints, and fabric in Shalwar Qamiz. 95% of ladies buy un-stiched fabric (7 and half meters at least) from the market and stich them by themselves or get them stiched accrding to their own taste, beliefs, and personality. So it is very much upto the type of the person to make that dress Islamic or Unislamic. If we use 2 & 1/2 meter doppatta/shawl for what it is meant to be used, then it really gives you a peace of mind and sense of protection. (Though many ladies think that it is something to be put around their neck or on shoulders) This is the only dress, we Pakistani ladies have i.e, work dress, wedding dress, sleeping dress, masjid dress, market dress etc etc. So we get that shaped according to the event.
When I came to Australia, it was pretty amazing for me that in Masjids or musallahs, they have got extra abayas, scaves etc so that women can wear them before pray. I saw women wearing them before pray and then taking them off before leaving the masjid/pray room. In my opinion if you are outside of house then your normal dress should be of that kind in which you can offer your pray.
I think I should post photos of my Shalwar Qamiz I just love them. And if someone ask me what is most beloved to you. I would say "My EEMAN and my DOPATTA"
Wa Alaikum Salam,
^LoL BintShafi Baji, your post was funny
"My Eman and my Dopatta" :lol:
If someone asked
me what is most beloved to me, I would say "Allah and his Rasul (SAW)."
And also Baji, if you're Pushto (or even if you're Panjabi, it's alright
D), but if you know about what I was talking about in my first post), can you also try to find a picture of those (LoL in Arabic, it's called a Qamees (with a swaad at the end). I don't understand were the "Kameez" or "Shelwar" came from
) wheat colored clothes that Muslim brothers were in the Northlands (of Pakistan, the Tribal areas you know? Like Karachi...
<Yay! my uncle's from Karachi ).
Since (for two things; One
you're from Pakistan, (two: you're a female) I think it'll be easier for you to find what I was talking about (since to also mention the fact that I had failed due to the fact that I could'nt go on a page were they said "Pakistani Men's Shelwar Kameez!" without having to find a whole page full of pictures of
"young white girls" Gosh some girls seriously don't grow up! :rollseyes: All Praise is due to Allah Ta Alla that none of you Pakistani sisters here are like that, Mashallah sisters, because it takes extreme dedication in Islam to be pure from those evils, and that's what I see in many of you
:ma
.
So anyway, I hope that I was able to put a smile on (almost ) everyone of your faces, Inshallah.
I think the way little kids talk makes someone (older) to feel amused at their words, so Mashallah, I think that's another motive around why I like talking (as if I'm a little kid around all of you sisters especially) because I feel that many of you might smile at my words, which is a blessing in itself from Allah Azza Wajal Wa Ta Alla, Alhamdulillah!
So anyway Bajis, I think I've said everything that I wanted to say (and do what I wanted to do)
So: