Overall meaning : The Almighty says: Prophet, enjoin your wives, your daughters and all believing women to draw their outer garments over themselves when they go out. This makes it more likely that they will be recognised as decent women and not be abused by immoral men. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Merciful.
If the hypocrites who feign faith and conceal unbelief, the like-minded who have doubts in their hearts and those who spread false rumours in Madinah to cause disturbance and create alarm among the believers do not desist from their vile acts, We will set you on them, and then they will not be your neighbours in Madinah except for a little while. They are excluded from Allah’s grace; and wherever they are found, they should be seized and put to death without mercy because of their hypocrisy and their spreading corruption in the land. Such has been Allah’s way in dealing with hypocrites in the past nations; and never will you find any change in Allah’s way.