What a Woman Is Permitted to Remove from Her Body Hair
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. From Yemen, a sister of ours says: A thousand times, a thousand times, a resident of the Prophet’s City, she asks your eminence, Shaykh Salih, about the ruling on removing the hair that grows on the legs and arms for a woman if she wants to adorn herself and beautify herself for her husband?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that, there is nothing wrong with removing hair from the body, from the chest, from the arms, from the legs, and from the rest of the body. The woman is only prohibited from removing the eyebrows, and there is scholarly disagreement regarding the removal of facial hair. In any case, other than the eyebrows and other than the facial hair, there is no objection to removing hair from the rest of the body, even for men. There is no objection to removing body hair, even for men, other than the beard, other than the beard for the man, and other than the eyebrows for the woman. So the rest, and the head of the woman is also forbidden for her to shave. And other than that, there is nothing wrong with removing the hair of the rest of the body from the hands, the feet, the chest, and the rest of the body. Yes. May Allah reward you with good. Is its removal from the characteristics of the fitrah, such as the hair of the armpits and the hair of the pubic area, and trimming the mustache? Is this from the characteristics of the fitrah for the man?
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. From Yemen, a sister of ours says: A thousand times, a thousand times, a resident of the Prophet’s City, she asks your eminence, Shaykh Salih, about the ruling on removing the hair that grows on the legs and arms for a woman if she wants to adorn herself and beautify herself for her husband?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that, there is nothing wrong with removing hair from the body, from the chest, from the arms, from the legs, and from the rest of the body. The woman is only prohibited from removing the eyebrows, and there is scholarly disagreement regarding the removal of facial hair. In any case, other than the eyebrows and other than the facial hair, there is no objection to removing hair from the rest of the body, even for men. There is no objection to removing body hair, even for men, other than the beard, other than the beard for the man, and other than the eyebrows for the woman. So the rest, and the head of the woman is also forbidden for her to shave. And other than that, there is nothing wrong with removing the hair of the rest of the body from the hands, the feet, the chest, and the rest of the body. Yes. May Allah reward you with good. Is its removal from the characteristics of the fitrah, such as the hair of the armpits and the hair of the pubic area, and trimming the mustache? Is this from the characteristics of the fitrah for the man?
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4790- ما يجوز للمرأة إزالته من شعر جسمها - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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