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28.
And if you find no one therein, still, enter not until permission has
been given. And if you are asked to go back, go back, for it is purer for you.
And Allâh is All-Knower of what you do.
29.
There is no sin on you that you enter (without taking permission)
houses uninhabited (i.e. not possessed by anybody), (when) you have any interest
in them. And Allâh has knowledge of what you reveal and what you conceal.
30.
Tell the believing men to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden
things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts). That is
purer for them. Verily, Allâh is All-Aware of what they do.
31.
And tell the believing women to lower their gaze (from looking at
forbidden things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts)
and not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent (like
both eyes for necessity to see the way, or outer palms of hands or one eye or
dress like veil, gloves, head-cover, apron, etc.), and to draw their veils all
over
Juyûbihinna (i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bosoms) and not to
reveal their adornment except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their
husband’s fathers, or their sons, or their husband’s sons, or 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 feminine 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.
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(V.24:31) "And to draw their veils all over Juyûbihinna (i.e. their
bodies, faces, necks, and bosoms) and not to reveal their adornment..."
Narrated ‘Âishahرضي الله
عنها: ‘May Allâh bestow His Mercy on the early
emigrant women. When Allâh revealed:
"And to draw their veils all over Juyûbihinna (i.e. their bodies,
faces, necks, and bosoms)" - they tore their Murût (a woollen
dress, or a waist-binding cloth or an apron, etc.) and covered their heads and
faces with those torn Murût’
Narrated Safiyyah bint Shaibah: ‘Âishah used to say: ‘When the Verse:
"And to draw their veils all over Juyûbihinna (i.e. their bodies,
faces, necks, and bosoms)" (V.24:31) was revealed, (the ladies) cut their
waist sheets at the edges and covered their heads and faces with those cut
pieces of cloth.’ (Sahih Al Bukhari, Vol.6, Hadith No.282).
