Niqab : an introduction of later days ?

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@Aliyish

I read some where that Niqab was used as a symbol /sign to distinguish between Muslim women and slave girls ……

Salve women weren’t allowed to do paRdah or Niqab ……

Cant recall the source …..

@MatineeSiren

Desert=sand=needing a way to keep sand out of the face=niqab. Men and women covered their face in the desert for necessity. Only now has it become “identified,” with a “chaste,” woman.

It’s all silly hogwash.

I tend to Partially agree with the reasoning of above two respected members.

Niqab was a need as well as a fashion in Arabia.

Just like All around the world men cover their head with various type of hats and caps. Somewher it is dictated by fashion and somewhere is weather. If Islam prescribed covering head then there is nothing new in it.

But if some scholar says that my traditional Indian Pagri is less noble than any other type of head covering then surely i have a right to question its reasoning.