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How an attire shows professionalism, competency and authority on one side to a full blown violence as blasphemy on other?
Clothing often serves as a marker of religious identity along with cultural life and as a sign of commitment to spiritual and sacred life.Sikh turbans, Buddhist monk robes, nun robes,jewish kippah shows solidarity to their community and religion.
Does it help to separate the sacred from the mundane?
Enclothed cognition :Psychologist refers this concept as how clothes affect our mental and emotional state.For example a study on participants with lab coats performed better on given tasks than those without lab coats. Its not that lab coat has some magic but the association it carried, the way it changes not just a person's own perception but other's as well,a mean of non -verbal communication.
Study shows more than 90% of Pakistani population wears shalwar kameez as cultural & Islamic dress.Stepping into the mindset that comes with it,wearing shalwar kameez in Pakistan places the person at higher level of religious and spiritual pedestal.
The incident of a woman dupatta printed with arabic word 'Halwa' meant 'sweet' ,caused so much chaos and violence that let people labelled her action as blasphemous.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah,a well dressed man who mostly wore Savile Row suits before partition,a western-style dressing accused by his opponent as classist and ridiculed for having so much faith in English history and British institutions.
The minds that are conditioned on believing a specific attire as un-islamic, although whole body is covered with satar(awrah) according to Islam, needs to be addressed and educated. Moral policing of individuals by cognitive biased minds not only shows hypocrisy but also causes violence and chaos when handed over by mob.
