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(Hadhrat Mufti Muhammad Shafi)

Acts which are considered to be signs and salient features of shirk, also fall within the scope of shirk (polytheism). This is borne out by the command of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) when he saw Hadhrat Adi Bin Hatim (radiallahu anhu) with the crucifix around his neck. Hadhrat Adi who had converted to Islam from Christianity, once came into the presence of Rasulullah (S.A.W.) with the crucifix around his neck. Rasulullah (S.A.W.) commanded: "Remove this idol from your neck".

At this time Hadhrat Adi's belief was already purified. He did not believe any longer in the cross. (The wearing of the crucifix was merely by force of habit). However, Rasulullah (S.A.W.) ordered its removal. He considered it important to command abstention from displaying even the external symbols of shirk. But, alas! Today, thousands of Muslims are, in defiance and audacity, donning this very symbol of the crucifix (viz. the necktie), thus making them guilty of shirks.
"In Pakistan and other Muslim countries there appears no justification to hang on to the western dress in utter disregard of our own graceful costumes and derive a false sense of elevation with a rope around our neck (necktie). The necktie is designed by the Christian world as a sign of the Cross symbolizing Jesus' crucifixion and thus is an insignia of the Christian faith". Extract from the Muslims in Alien Society by Muhammad Samiullah of Pakistan.

In the footnotes of this book, the author presents the following information on the necktie: "The practice of the necktie started at the insistence of the Pope in 1790. By 1850 all Christian nations had accepted and implemented this order of the Pope…Necktie in reality is a symbol of the cross"--(Dr. Akhtar Ali, Qaumi Tashakh-khus, pages 5-6).

"Towards the end of the 19th century the Europeans omitted from dictionaries and encyclopedias the introductory phase about the necktie, that it is a symbol of the cross. If one looks at the dictionaries and encyclopedias printed before 1898 one will find clear indication of the cross symbol relationship in the meaning of the necktie" (Ehsan Qureshi Sabri, Daily" (Nawa-e-Waqat).


It is 100% correct.. he necktie, that it is a sign of the Cross symbolizing Jesus...