Thank you Anas for your wonderful reply to the brothers comments. May Allah bless you always for your efforts to serve our muslim brothers and sisters. I know it is not nearly as easy as people may think and you must be truly doing this for Allah and the Ummah to make it worth while.

Fee iman illah,

Terry

Thank you for your recent comments. SHUKR is attempting to provide modest, Shariah-conforming clothing appropriate for Muslims living in the West. This is a new enterprise and there are no universally accepted “Islamic” or even sizing standards for such clothing. We are trying our best, hopefully with a good intention, to work with Muslims living in the West, to find standards that are acceptable from a Shariah perspective whilst meeting the aesthetics needs of our customers. We have consulted a number of scholars (conservative Sunni scholars, in fact, who have taqwa and advise us appropriately) and they have generally approved of the clothing, although they have had reservations about some items or photos, which we have then tried to rectify.

A quick point about the trousers: All of our trousers are loose from the just above the knee down to the bottom. However, in order to provide a comfortable, attractive fit, the pants are tighter from the thigh and above. Most of our customers do not show this part of their body because they wear some of our long tunics or blouses hanging over their pants. If you look at the pictures of our tops you will see many photographed with pants and the pants do not appear immodest. However, when photographing pants on their own, we have to show the complete garment to the customer in order for them to fully assess it. We assume that women alone go to these sections of our website.

Finally, it should be noted that many of our customers buy our clothing not necessarily to wear outside in front of non-mahram men, but rather in front of other sisters, their husbands, family, and so on.

If you have specific garments which you find are particularly immodest, then please email us with the details and we will look into the situation.

We look forward to hearing from you with any helpful advice that you can offer.

Wassalam

Anas Sillwood
Managing Partner

It’s a great shame that Shukr online although run by religious brothers use living models and quite TIGHT clothes by Islamic standard.

When are you going to wake up?!