A civilization reveals its soul in the way it dresses its bodies. Clothes are not innocent fabric; they are moving architecture around the human form, declaring what we think a human being is, what is sacred and what is expendable, what must be veiled and what may be sold. In the Qur’anic vision, garments are described first as a covering for nakedness and as an adornment, but even more profoundly as a “garment of God-consciousness”. That is: the real clothing is taqwā, and physical clothing is meant to serve it. The Qur’an addresses us and explicitly says that God has sent down clothes to cover our nakedness and as a…