The Quranic commands on modesty address men before women, and in both cases begin with the gaze rather than the garment — the sequencing is frequently noted by Muslim scholars against a public discourse fixated on women's clothing. What follows is genuinely contested: schools differ on face covering, on whether the requirements vary by society, and on how the virtue survives when the state either mandates or bans the practice. Coercion in either direction is criticized from within.