The Ruling on Wearing Colored Contact Lenses, Plucking Eyebrows, and Placing Wool Under the Hair
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The questioner:
This is a woman asking: What is the ruling on wearing colored contact lenses, and plucking the eyebrows without removing any hair from them?
The Shaykh:
All of this is altering the creation of Allah. Plucking the eyebrows and wearing colored contact lenses without need, where the intention is merely adornment, is not permissible. However, if it is for a need, such as weak eyesight or because the eye has defects that the lens covers, there is no harm. But if the eye is sound, a sound eye with nothing wrong with it, it is disliked to wear the lens; because it is altering the creation of Allah, and it is also deception. Likewise, do not mess with the eyebrows. Allah is the One who colored them, Glorified is He, with a beautiful color. It is not to be changed. And even the eyebrows do not turn white, Glorified is Allah; it is rare for them to turn white, so leave them as they are.
The questioner:
And what is the ruling on placing some wool under the hair to create a style?
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible. One leaves the hair as it is, combs it, cleans it, and leaves it as it is, without adding other hair or raising it so that it is thought to be... This is falsification. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
This is a woman asking: What is the ruling on wearing colored contact lenses, and plucking the eyebrows without removing any hair from them?
The Shaykh:
All of this is altering the creation of Allah. Plucking the eyebrows and wearing colored contact lenses without need, where the intention is merely adornment, is not permissible. However, if it is for a need, such as weak eyesight or because the eye has defects that the lens covers, there is no harm. But if the eye is sound, a sound eye with nothing wrong with it, it is disliked to wear the lens; because it is altering the creation of Allah, and it is also deception. Likewise, do not mess with the eyebrows. Allah is the One who colored them, Glorified is He, with a beautiful color. It is not to be changed. And even the eyebrows do not turn white, Glorified is Allah; it is rare for them to turn white, so leave them as they are.
The questioner:
And what is the ruling on placing some wool under the hair to create a style?
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible. One leaves the hair as it is, combs it, cleans it, and leaves it as it is, without adding other hair or raising it so that it is thought to be... This is falsification. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 03 من 05/ دورة علمية في شرح كتاب الصيام من بلوغ المرام / جماع الصائم/ صالح الفوزان / الفقه — youtube.com (34:02)
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