Why do imams in the West wear 'Islamic' robes?

you're doing it much love for the super chat. Why do shikhs in the west wear Islamic clothing amongst the people? I feel that is created a barrier with the people not just the non-Muslims but Muslims as well. It comes off as very intimidating status uh differentiation thoughts. I absolutely agree uh it's something I've said time and time again.

There has never been this is all fake. It is all um artificial is a better word. There was never an Islamic clothing to begin with. The prophet did not walk around in this kind of a th and wearing this kind of a hat and wearing this is not from the prophet. This is just part of you know maybe a few centuries ago uh Muslim territorial uh appperal you know just Muslim clothing garments that were worn in certain parts of the world that were Muslim not all parts of the world so you know Islam's been in China for so long

Islam's been in you know central Africa for so long but it's not their clothing a particular type of clothing that just has dominated Ed. Um, so people have assumed that that's somehow Islamic and they've given it this label and really the clergy have used it as a symbol of power to kind of it's to demonstrate.

It's kind of like, you know, I hate to say it, but it's, you know, [laughter] but this is how they use it. You know, I it's ultimately just a kind of pissing contest. You know, they're just, you know, I I'm so much holier than you are. Look at me. You know, I wear this. I, you know, why this is what I do. I do this. I do that. What?

Why? You know, the prophet never wore what you you got to be dreaming if you think this these ths they wear today in in Saudi and what were what the prophet wore. The clothing back then wasn't like this. They used to, if anything, it was a much shorter um and it was they used to have a suit, a halah and the uh and sorry, this haha and the haha would be to this was their kind of like their good attire and it would be a kind of sarong uh isar that they wore beneath and they would have a kind of their version of a shirt which

did not necessarily resemble the shirts today except in maybe obviously the obvious parts but they didn't have this kind of style to them or this kind of these are things that came much later. Many of the companions didn't even wear a shirt. They used to just that was part of their culture. They just sometimes just wore a cloth a shawl and just had a bit like the Hajj thing. Many of them just dressed like that. And many of them just wore the thing underneath and just wore nothing on top.

They used just be like barechested and ah when men were men huh [laughter] and today you would never they wouldn't even allow those companions in the mosque. You got to be dreaming if you know this thing that oh yes they did wear they did have their version of a turban but their version of a turban didn't look like this turban today. It's interesting, you know, if you look at their kind of style turbons, the Arab turban was one that they would wrap it around here.

They would bring and this is why the nikab was something that men would do as well. They their turbons used to kind of come round around here as well. And it was like that because it was really something to do with the sand that the sand they never wanted the sand in their hair because the Arabs used to have long hair. The men prophet had long hair, prophet had hair. You know, obviously we can't see the prophet, but if people saw the prophet today, most of these clergy men, obviously, if they didn't know it was the prophet, you think they would allow the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam on the mimba.

No way. Not with that kind of hair that they would be like, "What the hell is this?" And the prophet, he on some occasions platted his hair. But many of the companions would they would braid and plat their hair and they would tie it at the back and they would have little braids as well. And some some of the Salv had ponytails the men they would kind of like tie their hair together at the back and basically they were a different it was it was a natural Islam.

It wasn't about attire. They would not today be allowed by the clergy like they would be deemed uh unworthy [laughter] to have any religious position. This clothing uniform came hundreds of years later. This became part of what the clergy introduced that we are separate the priesthood you know look we wear a particular attire we distinguish ourselves from the commoners.

this was all about status about you know about being something and then obviously later on they change that as well according to wherever they live so uh if it's for example Pakistan the common people wear shawwar kamse and the mulvies wear shawwar kamse but the mulvies will say okay we're not going to wear the collars and we're going to wear a turban because okay some common people do wear turbans in the villages but many don't so they took it as their symbol Um, in Saudi to be fair, uh, what they might do is because the commoners will still wear the same ths

wear, but what they might do is wear that kind of forgotten the name of that kind of u they have an outer layer kind of it's not a cloak, but it's like it's like a coat cloak kind of thing that they wear, which distinguishes them from either royaltywary or they want to be like royalty. This is it. They just want it's all about power, you know. I say this time and time again.

It's all about power, people. You know, and it draws huge kind of barriers between the regular person who who's too scared to even ask them something. [laughter] Yeah. So, let's go down to the next question. Somebody said, "The god of the cosmos." Va va. Uh Ab Hamza Abdul Malik is a an African-American Quranist brother.