Assalamualaikum
Warahmatullah Wabarakatuh
How
are you doing dear sisters?
Hope
you are all doing great insha Allah.
My
dear sisters,
As
women, we certainly love to look beautiful. It is natural because Allah is beautiful
and loves beauty as well. But don't let our desire to beautify ourselves and
violate the provisions of Islamic Shari'a. Some of women like to pluck their
eyebrows for the sake of beauty. But wait… is it permissible?
Let’s
take a look at the following explanation by Islam QA:
Firstly:
With
regard to removing hair or not removing it, the scholars divide hair into three
categories:
1
– Hair which we are commanded to remove or shorten. This is known as Sunan
al-Fitrah, such as removing the pubic hairs, trimming the moustache and
plucking the armpit hairs. That also includes shaving or cutting the hair of
the head during Hajj or ‘Umrah.
The
evidence for that is the hadeeth of ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her)
who said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
said: “Ten (actions) are part of the fitrah [natural inclinations of man]:
trimming the moustache, letting the beard grow, using the siwaak (tooth-stick),
rinsing the nose with water, clipping the nails, washing the finger joints,
plucking the armpit hairs, shaving the pubes and washing oneself with water
after relieving oneself.”
Zakariyya
said: Mus’ab said: And I forgot the tenth but it may have been rinsing the
mouth with water.
Narrated
by Muslim, 261
2
– Hair which we are forbidden to remove, which includes the eyebrows. The
action of removing the hair of the eyebrows is called al-namas. It is also
forbidden to remove the hair of the beard.
The
evidence for that is the hadeeth of ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Mas’ood (may Allaah be
pleased with him) who said: I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “Allaah has cursed the woman who does
tattoos and the one who has them done, the woman who plucks eyebrows
(al-naamisah) and the one who has it done (al-mutanammisah), and the one who
files her teeth for the purpose of beauty, altering the creation of Allaah.”
(Narrated
by al-Bukhaari, 5931; Muslim, 2125)
And
it was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar said: I heard the Messenger of
Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “Be different from the
mushrikeen: let your beards grow and trim your moustaches.”
(Narrated
by al-Bukhaari, 5892; Muslim, 259)
al-Nawawi
(may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
The
naamisah is the woman who removes hair from the face and the mutanammisah is
the one who asks to have that done. This action is haraam, unless a woman
develops a beard or moustache, in which case it is not haraam to remove it,
rather that is mustahabb in our view.
Sharh
al-Nawawi li Saheeh Muslim, 14/106
3
– Hair concerning which the texts are silent and do not say whether it is to be
removed or left as it is, such as hair on the legs, hands, cheeks or forehead.
There
is some difference of scholarly opinion concerning this.
Some
said that it is not permissible to remove it, because removing it implies
changing the creation of Allaah, as Allaah tells us that the Shaytaan said:
“
‘and indeed I will order them to change the nature created by Allaah’”[al-Nisa’
4:119 – interpretation of the meaning]
Some
said that this is one of the things concerning which nothing was said, so the
ruling is that it is allowed. It is permissible to leave it or to remove it,
because whatever is not mentioned in the Qur’aan or Sunnah is permissible.
This
was the view favoured by the scholars of the Standing Committee and by Shaykh
Ibn ‘Uthaymeen. See Fataawa al-Mar’ah al-Muslimah, 3/879
It
says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah:
(a)
There is no
sin on a woman if she removes hair on her upper lip, thighs, calves
and arms. This is not part of the tanammus
(plucking) that is forbidden. (Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 5/194, 195)
(b)
The Committee
was asked: What is the Islamic ruling on plucking the hair between the eyebrows?
They replied:
It is permissible to pluck it, because it is not
part of the eyebrows.
(Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 5/197)
The Standing Committee was asked:
What is the ruling on a woman removing hair from
her body?
They replied:
It is permissible for her to do that, apart from
the hair of the eyebrows and head. It is not permissible for her to remove the
hair of her head or to remove any part of the eyebrows, whether by shaving or
any other means.
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 5/194
As
for plucking the eyebrows, this is haraam and is a major sin, because the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cursed those who do it.
But
as for removing facial hair, there is a difference of opinion among the
scholars as to whether it is permissible to remove it. This is based on their
various understandings of the word al-namas.
Some
scholars said that al-namas means removing any facial hair, and they did not
limit it to the eyebrows. Others were of the view that al-namas refers to
removing the hair of the eyebrows only. This was the view favoured by the
Standing Committee as is clear from the fatwas quoted above.
It
says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah:
Al-namas
means plucking the hair of the eyebrows, which is not permissible because the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cursed the woman who plucks
eyebrows (al-naamisah) and the one who has it done (al-mutanammisah).
Fataawa
al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 5/195
And
Allaah knows best.
Islam
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