At the insistence of friends, Maulana Maududi offers another analysis. Maulana says:
"The obvious proof of the mental confusion of the sense of inferiority is that Western women wear men's clothing with pride. However, no man can think of coming out in public wearing women's clothes. "
It is impossible to find an example of the mental and intellectual "inferiority" and narrow-mindedness and moral crisis expressed by Maulvi Maududi in his own words. Maulana has talked about a woman wearing 'pants', jeans etc. And I wonder how ignorant Maulana is of Western culture. In the West, men wear jeans and women also wear jeans (regardless of the fact that government employees cannot wear jeans). As much as there is a difference between men's and women's shalwar kameez in Pakistan, there is also a difference between men's and women's jeans in the West. Go to any big store, there will be a separate section for men's and women's clothing.
Maulana would also object to women's participation in sports only because of the dress, because in every sport in the world, trousers etc. have to be worn. Now cricket or football cannot be played by wearing shalwar kameez. Maulana will not even know that you can't even go to nightclub wearing jeans here. Maulana's real problem is that woman has slowly broken the orthodox chains of religious ignorance through her struggle. It was deliberately burned alive.
And the same woman today is teaching thousands of idiots like Maulana sitting in the top universities of Europe and Britain. There are people like Maulana who are captives of the religious ideology of the Age of Ignorance. If they are doing research to make it, then those boys and girls will understand that this person must belong to the "age of consciousness". These are the people who say that their religion has given "rights" to women, such "rights" that they cannot even wear the clothes of their choice.
Iqbal was right:
"Islamic thought has been stagnant for the last five hundred years. There was a time when the world was enlightened by Islam. The most remarkable manifestation of modern history is that the Islamic world is rapidly moving towards the West spiritually. There is nothing wrong with this movement, because the rational aspect of European culture is the expansion of some very important levels of Islamic culture. We are just afraid that the dazzling light of European culture will catch our feet and we will not be able to reach the inside of this culture. "
Intellectually handicapped people like Maulana Maududi had fallen prey to the "dazzling light of European culture", which is why their eyesight was limited to appearances. Has any of the world's great philosophers ever talked about men's or women's clothing?
Never! But Iqbal was well aware of the philosophical aspects developed by the philosophers, and was convinced of the "spiritual" power of Western society based on their intellectual achievements, which also makes it clear that "spirituality" Has nothing to do with religion and the concept of "dress" by fools like Maulana. What could be more intellectual backwardness of any thinker than to start objecting to the dress of women, when dress is related to culture, and culture grows by its own internal force, breaking the stalemate? It starts with changes in every aspect of culture, not just clothes.
