Purpose Of Khimar, Hifz-e-furuj And Difference Between Khimar And Sayyab
https://quran.com/24/60?translations=19,20,21,22,31,95,84,101 The translation says that the old women can remove theirثیاب on the condition that they don’t display their adornments. Doesn’t it mean that old women too aren’t allowed to display their adornments, whatever their inner desires maybe? And if that’s the case, wouldn’t it mean that young women have to wear these ثیاب/خمر even if they haven’t adorned themselves?
It is the second possibility as mentioned by you. Because when you follow the flow of verses from verse 27 onward of Surah Nur (Chapter 24), then after establishing principle of Khimar for women wearing embellishments, the later exception (verse 60) for older women could only mean “ not showing adornments/not displaing adornements ” in the sense of not showing them off or have no intention of displaying them to others the way younger women do. The translation here can have both possibilities as mentioned by you, but the possibility number 2 becomes clear when read in light with principle of Khimar established in previous verses i.e. verse 27 onward.