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To avoid skin cancer? Sorry... The answer is that it has to do with modesty, as advocated in the Quran.

Modesty as mentioned above but also it's cooler and safer in the desert to be cover by a white coloured cloth White clothes reflects the sun, while black clothes absorbs the light which makes it hotter

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