Originally posted by: ---Nisha---
Yes but what the royal family does it not the norm in the West. And I am not British so I can't comment on anything else.
Butterfly- so what are the boundries? i mean whats different between how you are supposed to treat your brother and cousins?
Well generally how you behave and how you dress.
In Islam there are people who are Mahram and those that are Non-Mahram.. To cut a long story short Non-Mahram's are those you can marry, and therefore contact with these people should be less and you are meant to cover up more. You're not even meant to touch these cousins. Also you don't have to wear hijab in front of your Mahram's, you can go wherever you want with them, you can hug them etc. but you shouldn't really do that in front of/with Non-Mahram's. There's problem a list on the internet somewhere lol.
These rules apply to both males and females.
But to be honest these days not many families that I know of are like this, as people generally act the same with both their cousins and their own siblings, and this is usually because they would never think of marrying these people. I think the rules are more strictly followed by those that aren't close to their cousins.
Edited by butterfly15.. - 10 years ago
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