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How can one respond to a question that argues that nudity is part of human nature, citing primitive peoples who live unclothed, in contrast to the Islamic concept which considers covering (ستر) to be part of human nature?

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The fitra (innate disposition) is what Allah created man upon, which is modesty, as mentioned in the story of Adam and his wife. Primitive peoples are not upon the fitra of Adam and Eve (peace be upon them). The claim that the reason for their nakedness is a narrow lifestyle is untrue, because they only agree with these peoples in their nakedness, and they differ from them in their other life affairs. These backward peoples represent an anomalous state of humanity that has declined in its fitra, which is a relapse into the animalistic fitra and an expression of a miserable state of backwardness and degradation.

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