Why do Muslim women cover their heads and sometimes nose and mouth?
Muslim women cover their heads because God so directed in His final book, the Glorious Qur’an. The head cover is specifically mentioned in 24:31 Another measure is that men and women should cover the specified areas of their bodies which may arouse sexual desire in others (see Qur’an {7:26;} 33:59). Yet another measure is that men and women should lower or turn their gaze away from looking at a person of the opposite sex (see Qur’an 24:31). The idea that the head covering is a sign of subjection of women is found not in the Qur’an but in another religious book with which the Qur’an does not always agree. That other book teaches that women should have a sign of authority over their heads because man was not created from woman,but woman from man. The same book says that a man should not cover his head because he is the image and glory of {God;} and a woman should cover her head because she is the glory of man. The Qur’an does not identify with these ideas. The Qur’anic prescription of he
