Salaams, Thank u for ure detailed explainations, personally i dont wear my clothes below my ankles or allow it to drag becuase of the same reasons u give, - for fear that there may be conciet in my heart.
However I cant judge another person heart to tell him that it is HARAM to let his pants drag. What i can tell him is that he Shouldn't do it and the reasons y and quote the complete hadith - but i wont say it is HARAM..beacuse it isnt. If it was Haram then Abubakr would have been commiting a sin and since the state of cociet did not apply to him, then it wasnt a sin. I dont like to say things are plain haram when there are Conditions that makes it haram.
Is it possible to wear a pants cut short above the ankles and still walk with more pride than that of the man with his pants longer than his ankles? In this case, who have commited the sin? Have we missed the real point of this hadith. Salaams bro.
No offense intended brother, but you are bringing a wrong Hujjah here.
Overall we say that wearing the pants below the ankles is "HARAM" and our Daleel will be as stated.
Your claim that if it was Haram then Abu Bakr would be doing haram is incorrect, why? Because if you look at the explanation given we see that Rasulullah told Abu Bakr that he is not dragging his clothes out of conceit because it was a situation that
couldn't be helped. In islaam this is called a
Rukhsah, i.e. something which is haraam may be excused for certain situations.
We can take an example, the hadeeth in which Rasulullah took up a piece of silk in one hand and a piece of Gold in his other hand and said
" These two things are haraam for the men of my Ummah but Halaal for the women of my Ummah "
And in another hadeeth Rasulullah stated that the only amount of silk allowed for a man to wear is that which is 4 fingers broad...
So clearly we know that it's haraam for men to wear gold and silk , BUT there has also come ahaadeeth in which Rasulullah allowed a few men of his Companions to wear Silk garments because they had a skin irritation. And we also know of another instant in which a Companion whose nose got cut off and so Rasulullah ordered him to replace it with one of Gold.
For one who doesn't have much knowledge it will look as if these hadeeths contradict each other, but in reality they do not, BECAUSE the ONLY instants in which a man can wear silk or Gold is in the state of
necessity. And this is what is called
Rukhsah.
So Isbaal (lengthening below the ankles) IS haraam for men unless there is an excuse for it, like how Abu Bakr had an excuse.
And no it is not for you or anyone to judge whether a person is dragging his clothes out of conceit or not, because we do not know what's in their hearts, but the main thing is that they are doing something which Rasulullah prohibited, and so we advise them according to that.....Wallahu A3lam, I hope you understand
