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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Let women go hungry, but not enough to harm

them, and with only few clothes, though do not
go to extremes in that. That is because if

women can eat their fill and dress well, there is

nothing they like more than going out and

walking around. But if they are relatively hun-
gry and naked, there is nothing better for them

than sitting at home. (Ibn al-Jawzi, Maw-

du'at, II/282283; Suyuti, al-Laali, II/154 Ibn

Arrak, Tenzihus Sharia, II/212213)

Strengthen your control of women through

(providing them with) insufficient clothing, for

when a woman comes to have excessive dress-

es and ornaments, she tends to roam outside

home. (Nahj al-Fasahah, p. 216)

A man may have lost his teeth and become

ugly while his wife happens to be young and

very beautiful. It is possible that such a

woman, who may have gone out to the market
or to other places where she may have been

invited, sees handsome men and upon her

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