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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on removing eyebrow hair for the sake of adornment

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. A message was sent from Buraydah in the Qasim region by one of the sisters from there. Your sister in Allah, Hana, our sister, asks and says: Is it permissible for a woman to remove some of her eyebrows for the sake of adornment? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Adorning oneself by leaving the eyebrows as they are is fine, but removing them or removing any part of them is plucking the eyebrows, for which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who does it or the one who asks another to do it for her. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “May Allah curse the one who plucks the eyebrows and the one who has them plucked.” The one who plucks the eyebrows is the one who removes the hair from her eyebrows, and the one who has them plucked is the one who asks another to do that for her. Cursing is not for anything other than a major sin among the major sins, and its meaning is being driven away and kept distant from the mercy of Allah. This is part of changing the creation of Allah, which Satan pledged to command the children of Adam to do. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, mentioned that he said:
and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allahوَلَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللَّهِ
[An-Nisa 4:119]
It was reported that this refers to tattooing, plucking the eyebrows, and other actions of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4866- حكم إزالة شعر الحاجبين للتجمل - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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