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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

What does "hidden ornaments” mean?

The Koran instructs Muslim women to dress modestly and cover their hair and bodies. The following verse (Koran 24:31) expresses this requirement: 


“And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments.”


Does this verse allow Muslim women to go naked in from of:  
"their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of shame of sex"?


Does this mean that Muslim women can display their Breast and private parts to their family members? Isn't this called incest of the Muslim kind? Now is that what the prophet had in mind for himself and the rest of his family?

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