📘 ❞ The Muslim Woman 039 s Dress According to The Quran and Sunnah ❝ كتاب ــ جمال بدوي

عن كتاب The Muslim Woman 039 s Dress According to The Quran and Sunnah:
Requirements in Dress
The First Requirement
Extent of Covering
The dress must cover the whole body except the areas specifically exempted. The Qur’an
states:
“Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that w
ill
make for greater purity for them: And Allah is well acquainted with all that they do.
And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that
they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must
ordinarily) appear
thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except
to their husbands, their fathers, their husband’s fathers, their sons, their husband’s sons, their
brothers, or their brother’s sons, or the
ir women, or their slaves whom their right hand possess,
or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of
sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden
ornaments. And
O you believers! Turn all toward Allah that you may attain bliss.” (Surat
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Nur 24:30
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31)
These ‘ayahs contain, among other things, two main injunctions:
1. A Muslim woman should not display her beauty and adornment (zeenah) except for ‘that
which m
ust ordinarily appear of it’: (ma dhahara minha), or ‘that which is apparent.’
The word zeenah lends itself to two related meanings:
a) natural or bodily beauty, and; b) acquired adornment such as a ring, bracelet’s, and
clothes.
The part of zeenah,
exempted from the above injunction, was interpreted in two ways:
a. The face and the hands. This is the interpretation of the majority of the jurists, past and
present. This interpretation is confirmed by ijma (consensus) that a Muslim woman is allow
ed
by Islam to uncover her face and hands during pilgrimage and even during the prayers, while
the rest of her body is regarded as ‘awrah (that which should be covered). This interpretation is
based on the authority of Prophet Muhammad (Allah’s blessin
gs be upon him), especially the
hadith in which he says:
“‘...If a woman reaches the age of puberty, no part of her body should be seen but this’
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Book The Muslim Woman's Dress According to The Quran and Sunnah author : Jamal A. Badawi