Thank you MMI for that useful post. But lets not forget that its not only the women under some form of religiously orientated moral imperative...the men are just as beholding to their god equally.
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Thank you MMI for that useful post. But lets not forget that its not only the women under some form of religiously orientated moral imperative...the men are just as beholding to their god equally.
The Qu'ran says that women must; '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" and a few others. (Qu'ran 24:31)
Muhammed was more specific when Asma, daughter of one of his leading companions (and first successor Abu Bakr, came to see him while "wearing thin clothes." "O Asma," exclaimed the Prophet, "when a woman reaches the age of menstration, it does notsuit her that she displays her parts of body except this and this, and he pointed to her face and hands." (Abu Dawud, book 32, no. 4092)
It is possible from this to conclude that the Qu'ran says one thing and Muhammed another!
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Originally Posted by MMI