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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

the verse, they wrapped them round their heads. In order to agree
with the mistaken interpretation of "draw down their head-cover-
ings," the pieces they cut from their skirts must have been so large
that they were able to cover their heads and also descend to their
chests.

• According to this account, the women's chests are exposed,
but they have covered their heads twice. Yet as we have seen with all

the evidence, verse 31 of Surat an-Nur was revealed "only" to tell
women to cover their breasts.

• We have already seen how some commentators interpret the
term "draw down their head-coverings" in such a way as to justify
their idea of an "already existing head-covering." They make that
claim in order to justify the idea that the verse contains the word
"head-covering" and maintain that the women addressed by the

verse are already wearing head-coverings. The fact is, however, that
the false hadiths in question claim that the women made head-cov-
erings for themselves by cutting up their skirts when the verse was
revealed. How it is that these false hadiths, which the commentators
in question regard as their main support, conflict so much with their
own accounts?

They conflict with their own accounts because the faith of those
who wish to add false commandments to Islam other than the true
commandments found in the Qur'an are full of profound flaws of
logic. All superstitious accounts clash with the Qur'an, and they all
involve great contradictions. The deceptive interpretations produced
solely in order to justify the idea of the head-covering in verse 31 of

Surat an-Nur, even though the verse is perfectly clear and easy to
understand, show the scale of what is happening. The interpreta-
tions made in the light of the false hadiths in question and the con-
clusions produced from them are all quite terrifying:

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