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And tell the
believing women to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden
things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual
acts, etc.) and not to show off their adornment except only that
which is apparent (like palms of hands or one eye or both eyes
for necessity to see the way, or outer dress like veil, gloves,
head-cover, apron, etc.), and to draw their veils all over Juyubihinna
(i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bosoms, etc.) and not to
reveal their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers,
their husband's fathers, their sons, their husband's sons, their
brothers or their brother's sons, or their sister's sons, or their
(Muslim) women (i.e. their sisters in Islâm), or the (female)
slaves whom their right hands possess, or old male servants who
lack vigour, or small children who have no sense of the shame
of sex. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what
they hide of their adornment. And all of you beg Allâh to
forgive you all, O believers, that you may be successful[]. |