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"Believing women should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; they should not display their zeenah charms, beauty or ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; they should draw their outer garments over their bosoms."
Nancy Graham Holm: Does The French Law Forbidding Full-Face Veils Cover Up the Real Problem? Nancy Graham Holm 2011
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"Believing women should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; they should not display their zeenah charms, beauty or ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; they should draw their outer garments over their bosoms."
Nancy Graham Holm: Does The French Law Forbidding Full-Face Veils Cover Up the Real Problem? Nancy Graham Holm 2011
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Among the texts they have differed over is this Qur'anic verse: [And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their zeenah (charms, or beauty and ornaments) except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof] (An-Nur 24: 31).
MAHAGURU58 2009
jinglebelljosie commented on the word zeenah
"little, quarrelsome brown and red-spotted bird" - from Anna and the King of Siam
August 16, 2008