The function hall was crowded with guests. But all eyes were set on two youth; people exchanged meaningful glances and smiles and started whispering when they looked upon those guys. All were feeling embarrassed to see those young boys. The fact was one of the guys had done weird haircut and had coloured different parts of the hair with different colours; he looked very funny. He had also cut his beard in a weird manner. The other guy was perfectly looking like a man, except for the ear-tops he had worn in his ears. He had adorned his ears with tops and earrings made of precious stones. His ear tops were sparkling in the bright lights of function hall. Someone was heard asking ‘Who is he?’ the other replied ‘He is she’.
Both the guys were the centre of attraction and target of comments passed by the guests. The most lamentable part of the event was they were happy that they had been the centre of attraction in the entire gathering. The guy with weird haircut disclosed that he had to shell out Rs. 900 to have this haircut. He told that he was doing graduation and his father works abroad. This is the latest fashion he told excitedly.
It is very surprising that how can parents and other close relatives ignore, long plait, colourful hair, bracelets and earrings worn by these guys? Every Muslim knows that Islam forbids men to imitate women and women to imitate men. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) declared, “Allah curses men who imitate women and women who imitate men.”(Bukhari)
Abu Aimal