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Now, clothes serve the obvious function of covering your body, but they also sometimes speak

to distinction and rank.

And most of the distinctions in this world are pretentious and speak to all sorts of

false ideals and constructs of superiority, and that's why there's the saying that expensive

clothing is a poor man's attempt to appear prosperous.

And then, of course, you have the way that clothes have historically been used to define

castes in society.

And that's why, in hedge, the Ahram is a means of removing distinction and equalizing

all people before Allah SWT.

So you have all these people in the same place calling out to Allah, but their ranks are

ideally supposed to be completely unknown to all, but Allah SWT.

So on the day of judgment, what are clothes sewn by?

They're sewn by our deeds, and our distinction is made clear solely on the basis of our

deeds.

And this deeper meaning of clothes in the Qur'an is in multiple places.

So for example, when Allah SWT says,

the Bas-Sut-Takla, the cloth of piety, or wa-Siyab-e-Khafatahir purify your garment, which

many of the scholars said means your deeds, or how Allah SWT describes the spouse as a garment

to the spouse and that they conceal and they beautify.

So the needles with which you sew your garment in the hereafter are the days and hours passing

by in this world.

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