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Can anyone confirm why a muslim man after loosing his wife would change from wearing all white clothes to now all black...
I understand that black would be the colour for a funeral here in the Uk but my guess is that this in egypt is not the reason... ie culture or religion reasons or just a change of life.
Sorry if i should now this but i dont.
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Muslim Man change his clothing?! In Egypt ,it is women who do that !! It is an Ancient Egyptian culture(probably) and has nothing to do with Islam,but only denotes that the woman in deep grieve.
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Sorry to say in this case the man always wore white clothes....every day.. His wife died and now he wears all black and wont go back to white...
i just wondered anyway.
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quote:Originally posted by egypt 2007: Sorry to say in this case the man always wore white clothes....every day.. His wife died and now he wears all black and wont go back to white...
i just wondered anyway.
May be he is so sad,but this is the first time to see something like that! A man changes changes to black!! How loyal !!
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I also think that's a sign that he's heavily grieving. Are you close to this man? I hope he receives enough support in this very difficult time.
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Well hubbys mother died in December just as he arrived here to be with me, he went home for the first time last week and has noticed his father doing weird things and one of those is the changing his clothes from always wearing white to now black.... hubby told me this as if this was a bad thing ...never wanted to ask him if it was cos he is griefing for his mother.
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Well, I think its also odd to wear white clothes all the time, so really its not a huge change. Maybe he just feels significantly different now that she is gone and perhaps that is why he has changed the colour of his clothes. I wouldn't think its something to worry about, probably just reflecting the way he feels. Of course it could as easily be innocent, or nothing to do with how he is feeling inside. We associate black with grief but many people wear black just because they like it. I worked with someone who wore black every day. Did your husband ask why he was wearing black? What was his answer?
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He never commented on if it was good or bad... i thought cos he was telling me and that the way he said it was bad also his father always, always wears white .....
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Well your hubby might feel its bad because its such a change from what he is used to. But what I mean is, if someone habitually wore one colour, white, its not so strange to change that colour to black. It would possibly be more strange if he wore different colours, do you see what I mean?
Anyway, it would seem to fit with the loss of his wife, so perhaps it is part of him expressing his grief. I think everyone acts different following a loss and in the grand scheme of things its not anything to worry about.
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Maybe she did all the laundry..... You can only wear white for one day.... but you can wear black until it stinks!! Posts: 4238 | From: USA | Registered: Jul 2004
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