The Ruling on Bleaching the Eyebrows
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The Shaykh:
May Allah greet you and bless you.
The questioner:
This questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, we are preparing for the festival by beautifying ourselves, and that includes plucking the eyebrows instead of shaving them. Is this permissible for me?
The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions. To proceed: It is not permissible for a woman to tamper with her eyebrows; rather, she should leave them in their natural state without subjecting them to bleaching, cutting, plucking, or shaving. All of this is not permissible. However, removing the hair in this manner is known as *namus*. Yes. And *namus* is cursed; the one who does it is cursed. Likewise, tampering with the eyebrows in any form of alteration. Indeed, this is a matter with no need for it and no necessity. Allah has made beauty in the eyebrows by their nature without human intervention. This is only a temptation from Shaytan for the children of Adam, as Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said about him:[An-Nisa 4:119] Yes.
May Allah greet you and bless you.
The questioner:
This questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, we are preparing for the festival by beautifying ourselves, and that includes plucking the eyebrows instead of shaving them. Is this permissible for me?
The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions. To proceed: It is not permissible for a woman to tamper with her eyebrows; rather, she should leave them in their natural state without subjecting them to bleaching, cutting, plucking, or shaving. All of this is not permissible. However, removing the hair in this manner is known as *namus*. Yes. And *namus* is cursed; the one who does it is cursed. Likewise, tampering with the eyebrows in any form of alteration. Indeed, this is a matter with no need for it and no necessity. Allah has made beauty in the eyebrows by their nature without human intervention. This is only a temptation from Shaytan for the children of Adam, as Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said about him:
and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allah
وَلَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللَّهِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 25 من 27|أحكام المرأة في الصيام|المرأة واستعدادها للعيد|صالح الفوزان|فقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (0:41)
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