and about our clothes

Imagine, in the old days, people don't change clothes as often as we do, morning, day and night. In the old days, people wear the same clothes at home, when they go out, and when they sleep.. they change only when the clothes are dirty. People nowadays can have 4-5 different set of clothes just for one day. Clothes for sleeping, clothes for the office, clothes for staying home, clothes for ceremonies, clothes for jogging, clothes for swimming.. It's no wonder our closet space is never enough.

One thing I'd like to do away with is 'house clothes' or 'baju rumah'. House clothes are normally the ugliest or the most selekeh of the lot, because we are of the idea that 'people' don't see us at home. We need to change this distorted perception. Especially so for us, wives. We should be looking our BEST, not at work or when we go out, but at home, in front of our husband and family.

AND we should also be in our nice clothes when we face our Lord, when we pray. I've never heard about this being mentioned before, but I found it there in the Quran..

O Children of Adam! wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: eat and drink: But waste not by excess, for Allah loveth not the wasters.
Say: Who hath forbidden the beautiful (gifts) of Allah, which He hath produced for His servants, and the things, clean and pure, (which He hath provided) for sustenance? Say: They are, in the life of this world, for those who believe, (and) purely for them on the Day of Judgment. Thus do We explain the signs in detail for those who understand.

Al Quran, Al-A'raf 7:31-32

MasyaAllah, This Book, never fail to amaze me... I find that everytime I read it (even if I've read the passage before), I discover something 'new', that I was not aware of before.

So you see.. you can wear and should wear beautiful clothes.. but waste not Erni!, until there's not enough closet space.
This raya.. i think I have no need (and no space) for new raya clothes.