Wearing Colored Contact Lenses and Altering Allah’s Creation

The questioner:
The Shaykh’s issue: Can one buy from the boys’ market? An hour from here, then over there behind, in an hour, an hour.

The Shaykh:
Contact lenses, like glasses, are worn out of necessity; if one needs them, he wears them. But if he does not need them and wears them for the sake of beauty, then beauty lies in keeping the eye as it is, and this is frivolity. In fact, it is mentioned that women mess with their eyes and wear lenses that match the color of their clothes, or lenses that resemble the eyes of disbelieving women, because they see disbelieving women in newspapers, magazines, and films, and they see their eyes are blue or red, and they imitate the disbelieving women with blind imitation. This is not permissible if it is for the sake of imitation and resembling them, or for the sake of frivolity; this is not permissible. The eyes should remain in the creation Allah gave them, and this is more beautiful and better. Allah is Wise and Knowing; He gives every body what suits it.
As for altering Allah’s creation, a severe warning has been issued regarding it. We will surely make them change Allah’s creation through tattooing, piercing, and filing the teeth. Filing the teeth is all part of altering Allah’s creation, as is plucking the eyebrows, which is cutting or shaving the eyebrow hair. All of this is altering Allah’s creation, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who does it.

Another questioner:
About something.

The Shaykh:
This is permissible: taking a lens that corrects the color of the iris, because the iris being a certain color is a type of defect or a type of disfigurement. But the healthy eye that has no such issue.