Dress Code

Understanding the Islamic Dress Code for Women:

Human beings are conditioned by the society in which they live. When you see a woman scantily dressed and revealing her physical features, waiting at the road side in the early evening for someone to approach her for physical favors, what is the first impression that will come to your mind? Will it be that this lady is a very religious, pious, and God fearing woman, seeking the blessings of God?

Again, when you see a nun, modestly dressed in a long robe and covering her head, not revealing any of her physical features, what impression will come to your mind? Will it be that this lady is a sex symbol, waiting for someone to hire her, or to date her, or to invite her to a dinner and then take her home? Certainly not! This dress represents her modesty, and through it she commands the respect of society.

Reason for covering:

* Obedience (to please All-Mighty God)

Reason for having a dress code:

* Believers would be recognized (identified)

* That they would not be molested (physically or by someone's eyes)

Benefits for having a dress code:

* Protection

* Modesty

* Self-respect & Identity

* Self-esteem as a person not an object

THE HOLY QUR'AN (33:59)

"O prophet! Tell your wives & your daughters & the women of the believers to draw their cloaks all over their bodies, that will be better that they should be known so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful"

Exodus 28:40, "And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty."

Leviticus 8:2, "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;"

Leviticus 16:4, "He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen...