Women Wearing Top and Pants When Going Out

Q: What is the position in Sharaih of a woman wearing top and pants when going out?

A: For a woman to wear top and pants outside the home is not permissible. The reason for this is that The Hadith of our beloved Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) clearly states that a woman should not wear garments that reveal the contours and shape of any part of her body. Such dress is almost (though not exactly) as wearing nothing. Trousers with a top reveals the shape or a woman=s rear, as well as her thighs, depending upon how tight the trouser is. In fact, people in the fashion world today have written that one of the reasons why trousers have been designed for women is to display to men the posterior of the woman. Women who wear tight fitting trousers and jeans, etc, consciously wish to attract the stares of men, and feel proud in doing so. All this is totally against Islamic morals and human shame. A columnist of the West, Jess Cartner-Morley writes in The Guardian: Some women prefer not to reveal flesh. Skin-tight clothes are sexy in a slightly different way to skin itself. Tight jeans are as shape-revealing as clothes get - more so, indeed, than a miniskirt. But with the thick, work-wear fabric and stiff, riveted fastenings, you feel somehow protected. "I know men are still looking at my rear," says a friend of mine, "but I don't feel like it's my problem that they are. This proves the haraam motives in wearing such garments.
May Allah protect our sisters from following the fashions of the West.