consideration no necessity is seen to elaborate on this subject.
In many traditions prevention is made to wearing clothes that make someone famous and distinguished; The Messenger of Allah"S" is reported to have said:
"Whoever wears fame cloak in this world, Allah will verily cloth him with a similar garment on the Day of Resurrection." 194
The fame garment is that one which being unsociable and incompatible to the common law of society, and should observe a norm or habit that is not being incompatible to the Islamic Shari'ah.
In so many traditions, the Prophet"S" has damned and cursed those men and women who liken themselves to each other, one of them being the following:
"The Messenger of Allah"S" damned those men likening themselves to women and the women who liken themselves to men." 195
This narration prohibits any kind of simile and likening in all fields and grounds. And in respect of covering and clothes what is apparently intended is the public prestige of those women who liken themselves to men or vice versa, as if appeared a resemblance in a piece of clothes there would be no disapproval and prohibition.
Usaamah Ibn Zayd says: The Messenger of Allah"S" has one day clothed a man a white thin garment, and that man gave it to his
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194. Sunan Abi Dawood, vol. IV, p. 44, Ha 4021 and Wasa'il As-Shi'ah, vol. III, p. 354.
195. Saheeh Al-Bukhari. "Kitaab Al-Libaas," vol. VII, p. 205; vol. III, p. 246.