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ing to quarrels and murders and the ruin of reputation and the spread of numerous diseases both spiritual and physical.
At times, certain types of dress which reveal certain parts of the body, come under the category of nakedness because the libās (dress) is not in accordance with the requirements of Sharī'ah e.g. the tightly fitting or see through clothes which delineate various curves of the body, especially those parts which are sexually attractive. Abu Hurairah narrates that the Messenger of Allah said:
"I will not be a witness for two types of people who are destined for the fire: people with whips, like the tails of cows, who beat the people (i.e. tyrants who are the enemies of their own people) and women who, although clothed, are yet naked seducing and being seduced, their hair style like the tilted humps of camels. These will not enter the paradise nor will its fragrance reach them although its fragrance reaches a very great distance
Allah has stressed in the Qur'ān and asked the Prophet to declare:
"Tell the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their sexual organs: that is purer for them. Indeed Allah is well acquainted with what they do. And tell the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their sexual organs."
Allah also says in the Qur'ān:
"And not display their adornment, except that which is apparent of it, and they should draw their head coverings over their bosom, and not display their adornment except to their husbands or their fathers or their husband's fathers, or their sons or their husband's sons or their brothers or their brother's sons or their sister's sons or their women, or those whom their right hand possess, or male servants who lack sexual desire, or children who are not aware of women's nakedness: and that they should not strike their feet in order to make known what they hide of their adornment."
Nakedness in respect of man has to be covered from another man is from the knee to the naval. It means that man is prohibited to look at the 'awrah of another man between the knee to navel. In a Hadīth the Messenger of Allah said:
"Parts of the body from the knee are 'awrah, and what is below the navel is 'awrah too."
However according to Imām Mālik, thighs are not part of the 'awrah and there is no harm in exposing it. The majority of the jurists differ with him and say that thighs are part of the 'awrah as mentioned in the following Hadīth:
Once we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah and my thigh was not covered and the Messenger of Allah said: "Don't you know that thigh is part of the 'awrah?"
In another Hadīth, the Prophet (S.A.W.) said as narrated by 'Alī:
The Prophet said to him (Ali): "Do not expose your thighs
Another Hadīth, the Prophet (S.A.W.) said:
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