It is a form of exposure. The writer’s intimate ideas and desire to make them known are comparable to an unveiled woman’s beauty and her longing to be recognized. A writer is comparable to a Muslim woman in a strict Muslim community who dares to remove her veil, and takes the risk of being looked at or criticized the moment she exposes her aurat (or parts of her body that must be concealed from the opposite sex who’s not a member of her immediate family). However, while a writer has his words as weapons in exposing the truth according to his eyes, a woman has her veil to save herself from any exposure to evil glances.
(**This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote in 2005.)
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