Page 458 - Learning from the Qur'an

THE WAY WOMEN MUST DRESS
Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments—except
for what normally shows—and draw their head-coverings across
their breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands' fathers, or their sons
or their husbands' sons or their brothers or their brothers' sons or
their sisters' sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women's private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (Qur'an, 24:31)
Remain in your houses and do not display your beauty as it was
previously displayed in the Time of Ignorance. Perform prayer
and give alms and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah desires to
remove all impurity from you, People of the House, and to purify
you completely. (Qur'an, 33:33)
O Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their outer garments closely round themselves.
This makes it more likely that they will be recognised and not be
harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Qur'an, 33:59)

TO GIVE ORPHANS THEIR PROPERTY
Give orphans their property, and do not substitute bad things for
good. Do not assimilate their property into your own. Doing that
is a serious crime. If you are afraid of not behaving justly towards
orphans, then marry other permissible women, two, three or four.
But if you are afraid of not treating them equally, then only one,
or those you own as slaves. That makes it more likely that you
will not be unfair. (Qur'an, 4:2-3)

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