God, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful, insists on making His religion easy, practical and enjoyable for His true believers.
 God also told us that those who reject Him or His books are making life miserable for themselves and for their loved ones
 who follow in their footsteps. He reminds us in the Quran that He has placed no hardship on us in practicing our religion

"You shall strive for the cause of GOD as you should strive for His cause. He has chosen you and has placed no hardship on you in practicing your religion - the religion of your father  Abraham. ................................" 22:78

God established also several rules in His book, the Quran, for His TRUE believers. Breaking any of His rules or refusing any of them
 means loss, misguidance, misery and eternal suffering. To understand a topic like the DRESS CODE for Muslim Women, we need to
review quickly some of these rules established by our Creator, God Almighty, to whom we will be responsible for our deeds. Every rule
 is important and every rule is meant to be.

                   (1) Quran is a complete book, See 6:19,38,114, 115, 12:111 and 50:45.
                   Remember that when God says that His book is complete, it means 100%
                   complete.

                   "..........We did not leave ANYTHING out of this book." 6:38

                   "The word of your Lord is COMPLETE, in truth and justice.  Nothing shall abrogate His words. He is the Hearer, the
                 Omniscient." 6:115
 

                   (2) Quran is perfect; no mistakes, no falsehood, no nonsense.

                   "No falsehood could enter it (Quran), in the past or in the future;  a revelation from a Most Wise, Praiseworthy." 41:42

                   ".......All ruling belongs to God, and He has ruled that you shall not worship except Him. This is the PERFECT RELIGION, but most
                   people do not know.: 12:40 (see also 30:30, 30:43 and 98:5).

                   (3) Quran is detailed, and when God says He detailed His book it
                   means FULLY detailed. God does not do half jobs.

                   (4) God does not need any addition to His book. God teaches us in  the Quran that He does not run out of words and that if He so
                   willed He could have given us hundreds, thousands or millions of books besides the Quran (see 18:109). Since the Quran is complete,
                   perfect and fully detailed, God did not give us any more books.

                   (5) God calls His book, the Quran, the BEST HADITH. HE called on His true believers to accept no other hadiths as a source of this
                   perfect religion . See 7:185, 31:6, 39:23, 45:6, and 77:50.

                   "Have they not looked at the dominion of the heavens and the earth,  and all the things God has created? Does it ever occur to them that
                   the end of their life may be near? Which HADITH, besides this  (Quran) do they believe in?" 7:185

                   (6) God calls on His true believers to make sure not to fall in the trap of idol-worship by following the words of the scholars instead
                   of the words of God (see 9:31).

                   (7) God calls those who prohibit what He did not prohibit, agressors, liars and idol-worshipers. Idol-worship is the only unforgivable sin, if
                   maintained till death. See, 5:87, 9:37, 7:32, 6:119, 6:140 and 10:59.

                   "O you who believe, do not prohibit good things that are made lawful by God, and do not agress; God dislikes the aggressors."
                   5:87

                   "Say, "Did you note how God sends down to you all kinds of provisions, then you render some of them unlawful, and some
                   lawful?" Say, "Did God give you permission to do this? Or, do you fabricate lies and attribute them to God?" 10:59

                   (8) Muhammed is represented only by the Quran. The Prophet Muhammed was the last Prophet and a messenger of God (33:40).
                   He was not the messenger of God because of who he (Muhammed) was, but because he was given the Quran (the message) to deliver
                   to the world. The religion of Islam is a religion of God, not about Muhammed, who was blessed by God with the delivery of the
                   message of the Quran. He did not have an agenda of his own.

                   His job was to deliver to the world what God was giving him, the Quran. See 42:48, 13:40, 5:99-100, Muhammed cannot prohibit
                   things, or make lawful things on his own. When he tried to do that God  admonished him publicly, 66:1, 66:1 reminds us that God is the only
                   ONE to prohibit or make things lawful.

                   NO ONE can attribute to Muhammed a prohibition that God did not  give him in the Quran. Anyone who tries to do so is admitting his/her
                   refusal of God's words and commandments in the Quran.

                   (9) The TRUE believers KNOW that when God says something, He means it, and when He does not, he means it as well. Everything
                   given to us in the Quran was done deliberately and everything left out was also left out deliberately.

                   (10) God does not need us to improve on His book, the Quran, but we  very much need Him for every aspect of our lives.
                     Those who think  they have some improvement on the Quran are but asking for   recognition of their idols as gods besides the ONE and ONLY GOD.    Fabricated hadiths tried to add to Islam (Submission) what the disbelievers thought God forgot to mention in the Quran.

                   (11) God calls on His TRUE believers to verify every piece of  information they see, hear or read, see 17:36.

                   THE BEST GARMENT, FIRST RULE :

                   [7:26] "O children of Adam, we have provided you with garments to
                   cover your bodies, as well as for luxury. But the best
                   garment is the garment of righteousness. These are some
                   of GOD's signs, that they may take heed."

                   This is the BASIC rule of DRESS CODE in the Quran. This is the
                   first rule in WOMEN DRESS CODE in Islam (Submission).
 

                   SECOND RULE, COVER YOUR BOSOMS:

                   The second rule can be found in 24:31. Here God orders the women
                   to cover their bosoms whenever they dress up. But before quoting
                   24:31 let us review some crucial words that are always mentioned
                   with this topic, namely "Hijab" and "Khimar"

                   THE WORD "HIJAB" in the QURAN

                   "Hijab" is the term used by many Muslims women to describe their head cover that may or may not include covering their face except their eyes,
                   and sometimes covering also one eye. The Arabic word "Hijab" can be  translated into veil or yashmak. Other meanings for the word "Hijab"
                   include, screen, cover(ing), mantle, curtain, drapes, partition, division, divider.

                   Can we find the word "Hijab" in the Quran??

                   The word "Hijab" appeared in the Quran 7 times, five of them as  "Hijab" and two times as "Hijaban," these are 7:46, 33:53, 38:32,
                   41:5, 42:51, 17:45 & 19:17.

                   None of these "Hijab" words are used in the Quran in reference to  what the traditional Muslims call today (Hijab) as a dress code for the
                   Muslim woman.

                   God knows that generations after Muhammed's death the Muslims will  use the word "Hijab" to invent a dress code that He never authorized.
                   God used the word "Hijab" ahead of them just as He used the word  "Hadith" ahead of them.

                HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:

                   While many Muslims call "Hijab", an Islamic dress code, they  completely ignore the fact that, Hijab as a dress code has nothing
                   to do with Islam and nothing to do with QURAN.

                   In reality "Hijab" is an old Jewish tradition that infiltrated into  the hadith books like many innovations that contaminated Islam
                   through alleged Hadith and Sunna. Any student of the Jewish traditions or religious books will see that head cover for the Jewish
                   woman is encouraged by the Rabbis and religious leaders. Religious Jewish women still cover their heads most of the time and
                   specially in the synagogues, weddings, and religious festivities. This Jewish tradition is a cultural not a religious one. Hijab was observed
                   by the women of the civilizations that preceded the Jews and was passed down to the Jewish culture.

                   Christian women cover their heads in many religious occasions while the nuns cover their heads all the time. This practice of
                   covering the head was established from traditions thousands of  years before the Muslim scholars claimed the Hijab as a Muslim
                   dress code.

                   The traditional Arabs, of all religions, Jews, Christians and Muslims used to wear "Hijab," not because of Islam, but because of
                   tradition. In Saudi Arabia, up to this minute most of the men cover their head , not because of Islam but because of tradition. Thank
                   God this tradition has not been counted as Islamic dress code (yet.)

                   North Africa is known for its Tribe (Tuareg) that have the Muslim  men wearing "Hijab" instead of women. Here the tradition has the
                   hijab in reverse. If wearing Hijab is the sign of the pious and  righteous Muslim woman, Mother Teresa would have been the first
                   woman to be counted.

                   In brief, hijab is a traditional dress and has nothing to do with  Islam or religion. In certain areas of the world, men are the ones
                   who wear the hijab while in others the women do.

                   Mixing religion with tradition is a form of idol-worship, because  not knowing (or not trying to find out) what God asked you to do in His
                   book, the Quran, is a sign of disregarding God and His message  When tradition supersedes God's commandment, the true religion
                   takes a second place. God never accepts to be second, God has to be  always the FIRST and to HIM there is no second..
 

                   THIRD RULE OF DRESS CODE FOR WOMEN:

                   The first regulation of DRESS CODE for Muslim women is in 7:26, the second is in 24:31 and the third is in 33:59.

                   "O prophet, tell your wives, your daughters, and the
                   wives of the believers that they shall LENGTHEN their
                   garments. Thus, they will be recognized and avoid
                   being insulted. God is Forgiver, Most Merciful." 33:59

                   In 33:59, God sets the other regulation for the dress code for the Muslim   women during the prophet's life. Although the verse is talking to the prophet
                   which means this regulation applies to the time of the prophet, just like the order  in 49:2, the description fits the spirit of Islam (Submission in English),
                   and can teach us a great deal.

                   If you reflect on this verse and how God ordered the prophet to tell his  wives, his daughters and the wives of the believers to lengthen their
                   garments, you would understand the great wisdom of the MOST WISE,    the MOST MERCIFUL. In this verse, God, DELIBERATELY, (and all
                   the TRUE believers know that everything GOD says, does, or did is DELIBERATE)  said, tell them, to lengthen their garments, and never
                   said how long is long.
 

                   It is clear from the above verses that the DRESS CODE for the Muslim   women (Submitters) according to the Quran is righteousness and modesty.
                   God knows that this modesty will be understood differently in different  communities and that is why He left it open to us to decide for ourselves.

                   Decide, after righteousness what is modesty. Modesty for a woman who    lives in New York may not be accepted by a woman who lives in Cairo
                   Egypt. Modesty of a woman who lives in Cairo, Egypt may not be accepted  by a woman who lives in Saudi Arabia. Modesty of a woman who lives in
                   Jidda in Saudi Arabia may not be accepted by a woman who lives in a  desert oasis in the same country.
 

                RELAXING THE DRESS CODE:
 

          In the family setting, God put no hardship on the women, and permitted them to relax their dress code. If you reflect on the verses, 33:35 and     24:60, you will see that God did not give details of what this relaxation is, because every situation is different. A woman may relax her dress code in front of the  four-year-old son of her brother but not as much in front of the 16 year old  son.

                   [24:60] "The elderly women who do not expect to get
                   married commit nothing wrong by relaxing their dress
                   code, provided they do not reveal too much of their
                   bodies. To maintain modesty is better for them. GOD is
                   Hearer, Knower."

               DRESS CODE FOR THE MOSQUES (MASJIDS):

                   [7:31] "O children of Adam, you shall be clean and
                   dress nicely when you go to the masjid. And eat and
                   drink moderately; Surely, He does not love the
                   gluttons."
 

God, the Most Merciful, gave us three basic rules for the Dress Code for Women in Islam

                   (1) The BEST garment is the garment of righteousness.
                   (2) Whenever you dress , cover your chest .
                   (3) Lengthen your garment.

                   STAY WITH GOD, that is where the winners go.

                   May God bless us with His mercy and guidance.