Ruling on Performing Salah wearing tight clothes that display the shape of one’s private parts

 

Wearing tight clothes is something religiously Haram [forbidden] and medically not recommended for its negative effects on the body. Some of those who wear them are not even able to prostrate themselves in Salah. If such clothes lead a muslim to abandon Salah then wearing them is totally forbidden. It is indeed proved that most of those who wear tight clothes do not perform Salah. And if they do, they perform it in the way the hypocrites do!!!

 

Many muslims of today do their Salah wearing tight clothes that shape their private parts or even display a part of them.

 

Al-Hafith Ibn Hajar related from Ashhab that the later held the opinion that

if a person performed his salah wearing trousers and was able to wear something else, he should repeat it [for the one he did wearing trousers is invalid] within its time unless these trousers are thick. Some hanafis held the opinion that doing Salah wearing trousers is something detested.

[ Fath Al-Bārī (vol. 1 / p.476).]

 

 

Those reverend ‘Ulamah delivered such rulings concerning wide trousers, what would they have said had they seen the tight ones with which muslims of today do their Salah??

 

The eminent scholar Al-albani said:

‘Trousers have two main hedious things;

the first; those who wear it are actually imitating the disbelievers. Muslims of old days used to wear wide trousers [Sarāwil], like those [wide ones] some Syrians and Lebanese still wear. Tight clothes is one of the things the colonizing nations left behind in the colonized nations which the later adopted easily because of their ignorance [in religion] and simple mindedness.

 

The second is that this kind of [tight] trousers shapes one’s private parts- which extend from the knees up to the navel for males. The praying person should be far away from such disobedience especially when he prostrates himself to Allah .

 

The private parts of those who wear such clothes are clearly displayed (when they prostrate themselves in Salah)!! what kind of Salah is this before the hands of the Rabb??

 

Many young muslim men forbid women from wearing tight clothes because it displays the size of their bodies but they forget to apply the same rule on themselves. There is no difference between men and women concerning wearing tight clothes which display the size of one’s private parts. Young muslims should be aware of this. Few are those who know and apply this rule on themselves’ [1]

 

If a muslim performs his Salah wearing wide trousers, the Salah is valid and correct. It is better thought to wear a Qamīs that covers the part of the body between the knees and the navel.

 

If it is longer to cover half of the legs or even the heels, it would be even better.[2]

 

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(1) This is an answer to a question raised by Abū Ishāq Al-Huwainy from Egypt, and it was recorded in Jordan, on Muharram 1407 Hijra. Refer to Al-Albānī’s book “Hijāb Al-Mar’ah al-Muslimah Fil Kitab Wa Asunnah”, the fourth condition of the muslim woman’s Hijāb which is “It should be very wide so as not to display the size of her

body or any part of it” (p.59..).

 

Muslim men and women share the same ruling, but it is widely violated by men of these days; most of them do their Salah wearing tight trousers. There is no might but with Allah .

The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said:

“Forbade that a muslim performs Salah wearing tight trousers with no Rida’ over it”.

This hadīth was narrated by Abū Dāwūd and Al-Hākim. It is a sound hadīth as is mentioned in “Sahīh Al-Jāmi’As-Sagīr” (no.6830), At-Tahāwī in “Sharh Ma‘ānī Al-’Āthār” (vol.1 / p.382). Refer to Shaikh Hmūd Tuwaijir’s book “Al-Idāh Wat Tabyīn Limā Waqa‘a Fihī Al-Aktharūn Min Mushābahat Al-Mushrikīn” (pp.77-82).

 

 

2) Taken from Shaikh Abdul Azīz Ibn Baz “Fatāwā” (vol.1 / p.69). This is also the ruling which the Permanent Committee for Scientific Researches and Religions Rulings delivered for a question raised about performing Salah wearing [tight] clothes.

The question is registered in the Department of Research (no. 2003). The answer for this question was as follows:

‘If these trousers do not display the size of the private parts due to their widness, nor are they transparent but thick, one’s Salah is valid.

If the case is the opposite; i.e. the trousers are tight or transparent that the private parts are displayed, then one’s Salah  is null and void.

If only the size of one’s private parts is clear when wearing such clothes, then one’s Salah is detested except if one has no other alternative but wearing them. May Allāh  guide us to the right path.

 

[Source:  The Clarified Ruling Of Mistakes Done In Salah  By: Mashhūr Hasan Āl Salmān, pg20-21]

 

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