1 | O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Azim; |
2 | The Magnificent; |
3 | And the sixty-third name of Allah, the Infinite, the Unique, the All Knowing. |
4 | Modesty of dress is pleasing to Allah. |
5 | The merchants and moneylenders love to flaunt expensive and rare silks and embroidery, |
6 | As an outward sign of their extravagance and love of materiality. |
7 | These same merchants and moneylenders then force their women slaves to be dressed as prostitutes; |
8 | Yet their many wives and daughters are forced to wear rough and plain clothes from head to toe, |
9 | With only a opening for their eyes and mouth. |
10 | These thieves and defrauders say that such custom is for fear of someone seeing and then desiring one of their female wives and daughters, |
11 | So they sometimes also dress their private guards in the same dressing. |
12 | Yet they deprive women held against their will as slaves of the modesty of dress, as if prize cattle or goats. |
13 | Allah finds such cruelty an abomination of respect. |
14 | A man is a man and should dress in a manner that he may engage without needing to be carried. |
15 | A woman is to be respected and in manner of modesty has right to show her face and hair, |
16 | And to wear dresses and comfortable cloth. |
17 | Do not listen or believe the moneylenders and merchants who believe not in Allah, |
18 | But their own present pleasures in matters of dress. |
19 | True modesty as humility is the source of all virtues. |
20 | Modesty and chastity are parts of the Faith. |