Upside down sandals
I used to travel to syria w my family every 2-3 years up until 2009. The building of my grannys house where we stayed had a partially open roof and her house was 2nd floor.
The hallway was basically a long L-shaped balcony out in the open (w rooms along it) so the ceramic floor would be super hot during the day.
(Walking the entire stretch barefoot would force you to start tiptoeing once you reached halfway.)
I found out when i was like 11 that my relatives thought that leaving sandals upside down was haram, because it faced the sky 😂
So one time my granny was mad at me for something and she had me go out barefoot in the hallway and look for upside down shoes/sandals and flip them.
Shit hurt lmao and the worst part is when i got to the end of the hallway i found all the shoes and sandals neatly placed already.
I love my granny tho and when i think back the sight of her on a chair smoking a cigarette while telling me off is comical.
Oh and whistling was also haram because it ”invites the djinns inside your breath”.
Btw my family wasn’t even super strict, we lived in a kurdish damascus suburb while most ”open” conservatives lived on the outskirts lol
Whats weird is after a while it became standard to instinctively flip any upside down sandals.
Ps: ngl i did feel my hasanat increase with each sandal i flipped
Has anyone else experienced this weird rule?
Posted Jan 27, 2021, 1:58 PM UTC · edited
Yes omg whenever my shoes were upside down my dad would yell at me and tell me to flip them over and I was also told to not whistle.