In our last video in this series, Dr. Shabir Ally defined the terms used in Quran 24:31. Now he explains its instructions. He says the verse does not offer a clear definition of what Muslim women should cover and leave exposed, which means God intended it to be vague. He explains that the earliest Muslims drew inferences from the verse based on how they already dressed and saw others dressing, and eventually their inferences became law. He cautions that what we have as Islamic law came to be codified in the 2nd and 3rd centuries of Islam, so we should not assume that Islamic law is reflective of how the earliest Muslims understood the verse. In this case, the verse in its plain meaning does not match up with the clothing uniform that classical Islamic law prescribes for women.

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