Dyeing gray hair black

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Question:
Is it permissible to change the color to red, since I have forbidden some people from doing so? He said that he had asked some scholars, and they gave a ruling.

Answer:
Some scholars have issued a fatwa permitting it, but the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade it and issued a warning against it. So whose words do we take, the words of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) or the words of some people? We take the words of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). He said,

Change this gray hair and keep it away from black; keep it away from black.

غيروا هذا الشيب وجنبوه، جنبوه السواد

in a hadith narrated by Abu Bakr, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in

People will come in the last of time who dye their hair black like the crops of pigeons; they will not enter Paradise.

أناس يأتون في آخر الزمان يخضبون بالسواد كحواصل الحمام لا يدخلون الجنة

, "or they will not smell the scent of Paradise." This is a warning that indicates that this is forbidden and a major sin among the major sins. The fact that some scholars said it is permissible is a mistake; it contradicts the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). But if a person has a desire, he seeks out things that agree with his desire. And it has passed you by his saying (peace and blessings be upon him),

None of you will have faith till

لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى

Sahih al-Bukhari 13

, "his desire will follow what I have brought." Yes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 15 من 15 / شرح أصول الإيمان / التجوز في القول وترك التكلف والتنطع/ صالح الفوزان / العقيدة — youtube.com (57:58)

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