Face Masks/Face Veils, The Same Thing Comments

'I don't know of any Muslim woman who is coerced into veiling the face, I too wear the face covering veil outdoors of my own accord, by my own choice and out of my personal spiritual preference.' - Appreciate your bold statement. The Quranic instruction is to cover the hairs in full and wear loose dress in so much as to conceal the physical features and body lines. Quran does not ask a woman to dress in a way so that she can move freely and work comfortably both inddors and outdoors.

You have stretched the poem, the 'Footnotes' from Wikipedia and the 'Poet's Notes' far too long, perhaps beyond the readers' normal reading stamina. I am not sure of others, but surely mine. However yet, I would like to quote a few lines from your poem that I loved, with my comments: 'We Muslim women veil half our faces and hair also to protect as well from the germs of, the virus of lewdness and leery stares.' - appreciate the last ten words, which are mostly true.

Right, people segregate over differences though no harm to live in peaceful together. Media and hatred talk to spread but come destiny to stop and educate. Now like or not we all have to without any excuse.

Warmest thanks Susan and Aarzoo for great nice comments. Yes the masks protect from the virus spreading. You can read my footnotes where there is enough evidence for that.

Warm thanks Sylvia for your comment. If by fanatic is meant those who devoutly follow Islam then yes there is no harm or bad in being a fanatic, though both moderates and fanatics wear the face Niqab. And I saw even in videos Hindu women covering their face to protect from dust and sun tan in big cities. Take care.

Quite informative elaborate write up. Veils has a significant role to play in a woman's life. It's a choice she adapts to safeguard her modesty from prying eyes. A grest write up.

Ok hanks got n my reply below as a typo autocorrect addition ah. And thanks also to Lamar for the great feedback!

My warmest thanks Hank's to endearing comments as well by Susan, mjlemon and Sylvia, they don't show yet on my poem but I can read them in my inbox.

Part Three. Again, a huge thank you for the prodigious research on this topic. I wish KNOWLEDGE would equal ACCEPTANCE but people, even friends, can prove to be a disappointment when looked at closer. I shower this presentation with a ton of love and a million 10+++++++++, my friend.

Part two. I know you were looking for a better and more meaningful response to this well-presented poem than an appraisal of a veil's fashionableness. I'm not sure whether its material would block the virus though. Excellently presented facts- hopefully facts might tame racism, anti-religious, expressions.

Part one. WoW! ! ! The wearing of veils has quite a history, thank you for sharing all these interesting facts. On a personal level, I do not judge veils on a religious or race basis. I am more into the fashion of them- -they make just about any woman mysterious and her eyes beautiful. What more could a woman ask for from her attire? ? ? .

Fascinating and thought provoking! You reminded me that only a few short years ago, many countries in the West insisted on no masks....they were sure to conceal criminal intent, if not committed crime. How times change! A terrific work!

my comment replies not going under comments as before as the reply button not working so I'm replying all comments in one response, . My warmest thanks for your heartwarming big hearted comments, dear Leeann, Lyn and Simone as well as the nice open minded comments by poets Kostas, Robert, Tom, Rajnish, Mahtab, Yoonus, and me poet yeps..

Cont.2) In Mumbai reside mostly Hindu believers. So I think you have been in a smaller town when you visited India. In the East (I am born in Jakarta, Indonesia) there are many women wearing veils upon their head for their hair, but also many do not wear. In the Moslem religion you have two groups: the fanatic group wear veil and mask for their faces, and the other group do not wear, just like the Christians nowadays. In Jesus time (Isa's time) the women and men wear too.

Very informative Poet's Note, dear poetess! I THOUGHT I was reading your story(book) about masks and the more.Thank you so much for your invitation to this story feast. According to history, women in East-Asian countries, did wear veils, not their faces, only their hair (for being holy or too much dust so prevent from being dirty) I had been too in India, but in Mumbai BUT I haven't seen many woman wearing veils as you (described) wear your hijab and Niqab veil masks.

Great write about face masks.

WOW..what an imformative interesting read. So well researched with valid reasoning of the importance of covering the face especially in these uncertain times. Thank you for your lovely write.

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Very well written, brought back memories, I lived in India, for a month, in 1988, everyone very kind, mention of different religions very true.

very topical piece with multi-dimensional narratives...depth and message