Why are women fitnah based on their social status? Are free women better looking lol. What’s going on? I thought women were fitnah due to men biologically being attracted to them but it seems for jurists men are only impacted by women’s social status.
O Prophet! Ask your wives, daughters, and believing women to draw their cloaks over their bodies. In this way it is more likely that they will be recognised (as virtuous) and not be molested. And Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful. [33:59]
The part in brackets according to them refers to free women, and that the hijab protects believing free women and the wives, daughters of the prophet from being molested but slave women are excluded.
The Quran elaborates in the verse before:
And those who harm believing men and believing women for [something] other than what they have earned [i.e., deserved] have certainly borne upon themselves a slander and manifest sin. [33:58]
So the Muslims were being persecuted, by whom?
If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts there is a sickness, and the scandal mongers in Madinah do not desist from their vile acts, We shall urge you to take action against them, and then they will hardly be able to stay in the city with you. [33:60]
The Muslims were persecuted by the worst of people, the scandal mongers in Madinah, the hypocrites, those with sickness in their hearts. And the hijab was to help protect believing women, who were being abused and molested by them. But not slave women who believers? Don’t they deserve to be protected as well? Just because of their social status, they can be targeted by these evil people? Is this what they believe would be the actions of our God?
Ibn Hazm: