A person has a tattoo on his arm and has repented to Allah; should he remove the tattoo with fire?

Question : A person says that he has a tattoo on his arm and has repented to Allah regarding it. Will it be removed? Will it be removed? Is there a thousand [in it]? Will this tattoo be removed with fire, or should he leave it? If there is no harm in it for him.

Answer : Let him remove it. If there is harm in it such that it disfigures the area, then he owes nothing, because, as it appears to us, the one who did it was someone else who did it to the person when he was a child. However, if he is the one who did it, he should remove it in all cases. The difference is that in the first case, he is like one who is coerced, and in the second case, if he is the one who made it himself, he is the one who placed it by choice.