decorations [in Sal?t] , then hearts and souls that are less in purity and nobility than the former [will be more distracted from it]’. (1)

’Anas ( - ) said: ‘Aishah used to have a Qir?m with which she used to screen one of the walls of her home. The prophet ( - ) Said: ‘Take this Qir?m away form me; it’s pictures distracted me in my Sal?t’. (2)

This had?th seems to contradict the one narrated from ‘Aishah that ‘the prophet ( - ) did not enter the house in which there was a decorated curtain’. (3) The pictures, however, in ‘Aisha’s had?th must have been of living creatures, unlike the pictures of the Qir?m in Anas’s had?th; they must have been just decoration or Arabesque. (4)

Anas’s had?th indicates that if doing Sal?t is detested in a place full of pictures, it is then more detested to do Sal?t wearing clothes that bear pictures or decorations.

Al-Kastall?n? said: ‘If the pictures distract one in his Sal?t - especially when they are in front of him - they will distract him even more if they are on his clothes’. (5)

Al-Bukh?r? titled one of his “Sah?h’s” chapters with: “Doing Sal?t wearing something that bears pictures is detested”. Al-‘Ainy commented on this title saying: ‘It means that this chapter is dedicated to clarify that doing Sal?t in a house whose curtains or cloth sheets are decorated with pictures is detested, and it is even more detested if one does Sal?t wearing clothes full of pictures’. (6)