The Ruling on the Use of Colored Contact Lenses

The questioner : May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on using colored contact lenses, especially if...

The Shaykh : Is the questioner male or female?

The questioner : It is not clear. What was it? There is no connection, we do not know. We do not know the message. He says: The question is, what is the ruling...

The Shaykh : ...men make the sixth... colored? If I said the questioner... Yes. Hmm.

The questioner : He says: The question is, what is the ruling on using contact lenses?

The Shaykh : Yes, the question is good, yes.

The questioner : What is the ruling on using colored contact lenses, especially if they are used by a wife in front of her husband for adornment?

The Shaykh : What we see is that there is nothing wrong with them, subject to two conditions. The first condition is that they must not be harmful to the eye, and this is determined by the opinion of whom? By the opinion of the doctors. If the doctor says they do not harm the eye, that is the condition. The second condition is that these lenses must not turn the eye into something resembling the eyes of an animal. The eyes of an animal. Do you understand? If a woman wore a lens that resembles a cat’s eye, it is not permissible. This is imitating the eye of a rabbit; it is not permissible.
Because imitating an animal has not been mentioned except in the context of blame, criticism, and fault. Allah the Exalted, regarding the one to whom He gave His verses but he turned away from them, said of him: “His likeness is that of a dog.” And regarding the Children of Israel who did not act upon the Torah, He said: . And He the Exalted said regarding those who turned away from the reminder: . And in the hadith narrated by Imam Ahmad: . Therefore, it is a condition that these lenses do not turn the eye into a resemblance of animal eyes.