The expression “clothed yet naked” (kāsiyāt ʿāriyāt) has been explained in several ways: it may mean that they are enveloped in Allah’s favor yet stripped of gratitude for it; or that a woman covers part of her body while exposing another part in order to show her beauty; or that she wears a delicate garment so thin that the color of her skin is visible beneath it.
As for “swaying” (māʾilāt), some say it refers to their deviation from obedience to Allah and from what they are obliged to safeguard, while “causing others to sway” (mumīlāt) means they teach others their blameworthy behavior. It is also said that “māʾilāt” describes women who walk with an affected, boastful gait, tilting their shoulders, and that “mumīlāt” are those who induce others to adopt the same gait. Another interpretation is that “māʾilāt” are women who style their hair in the māʾila fashion—the coiffure of prostitutes—while “mumīlāt” are those who style other women’s hair in that manner.
“Their heads like the humps of Bactrian camels” indicates that they enlarge and heighten their hair by wrapping a turban, a cloth band, or something similar around it.
[Explanation]
The compiler al-Nawawī (may Allah have mercy on him) states in his Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn, under the chapter “The prohibition of men imitating women and women imitating men,” that Allah, exalted is He, created males and females and granted each a distinctive nature. Men differ from women in form, character, strength, religious duties, and other aspects, and women equally differ from men. Whoever seeks to turn men into the likeness of women, or women into the likeness of men, has opposed Allah’s decree and His law, for Allah—glorified be He—possesses wisdom in all that He creates and legislates. Hence the revealed texts threaten such conduct with a severe warning: the curse—expulsion and removal from Allah’s mercy—reserved for a man who imitates women or a woman who imitates men. Thus, whoever imitates women is cursed upon the tongue of the Prophet ﷺ, and whoever imitates men is likewise cursed upon his tongue, as in the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them both) in which the Prophet ﷺ cursed