The Quran On Nudity In Eden

Right after detailing the Quranic version of Satan's betrayal of God, Surah 7 says that Iblis, called Satan after being banished for his arrogance, turns his attention to trying to drive humans away from Allah's path.  As with the Biblical story of human creation, the first people are in a state of divinely approved nudity and are told not to eat from a tree (7:19).  Satan wants to expose the humans' nakedness (7:20) as a sort of retaliation against God for what he perceives as "unjust" treatment, nudity being something that Adam and Eve are not fully aware of until after their sin in both the Quran and Bible.  Once they eat from the tree, they assemble leaves to cover themselves (7:22).

Allah soon says that he has given the descendants of Adam garments as clothing is compared with the superior "covering" of righteousness.  It is symbolic of something greater than itself here and is contrasted with uprightness or "God-consciousness" (7:26).  Now, nudity would not be evil if clothing is just a situational, non-literal representation of moral uprightness.  Surah 7:28 afterward condemns "disgraceful deeds" yet does not list nudity as a sinful thing.  In fact, it does not give immediate examples at all.  Also, verse 31 says to dress well whenever you are at worship, but, again, does not call a mere lack of clothing in other contexts sexual or sinful or equate either sexuality or sensuality with sin by default.

As for what the Quran says about Satan's actions in trying to bring the "nakedness" of the first humans to their attention, the fallen angel never strips them of their garments despite the wording of Surah 7:27, and could not have, since the first humans were already created naked and remained in this state according to the Quran itself; Satan convinces them to give up their moral innocence in the Quran's story by disobeying Allah, which has nothing inherently to do with being clothed or naked.  They were naked beforehand as Allah created them and what is good is not altered into something evil just by humanity entering a morally fallen condition.

This Quranic story somewhat mirrors the more famous (in the West) version in Genesis, a book of the Bible that is supposedly affirmed by the Quran itself along with the other books of the Torah (Surah 2:53 and 5:46, for instance), which adds additional layers to why Surah 7 would not mean nudity is or became intrinsically evil unless the Quran contradicts the Torah.  The Genesis creation and fall account does not teach that nudity (2:25) is sexual or that sexuality or nonsexual nudity are evil.  These things are very good (1:31), as the rest of God's physical (including the human body) and nonphysical creations (the capacity for sexual feelings) are.  Mosaic Law does not condemn nudity either (Deuteronomy 4:2 applies here as well), and this is the single most concentrated, plain moral revelation of Yahweh in the Torah and the entire rest of the Bible.

As Yahweh is equated with the Islamic Allah by the Quran over and over, though the two different versions of the uncaused cause have contradictory qualities, this adds additional context to how Surah 7's telling of the original human sin does not mean that the naked body is immoral.  The stories of humans making clothes for themselves and being clothed or allowed clothes by God does not mean that God in either case prescribed clothing as morally mandatory.  No, he created people without clothing!  The Quran is in this way not anti-body in a passage that many might imagine would reek of prudery.  This is something it shares with the Bible when it comes to the more elaborate description of Eden and the introduction of human sin in Genesis.  Any condemnation of nudity in the Quran would have to come from other verses.