The Wisdom Behind the Prohibition of Plucking the Eyebrows
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is your view of the one who says that a woman plucking her eyebrows is beautification and adornment, so why is it forbidden?
Answer:
The Shari'ah is from Allah the Exalted. He, Glorified and Exalted is He, is the most Wise and the most Clear, and His Prophet is the one who conveys His message. So it is obligatory for those who are accountable to submit to the ruling of Allah and be content with the ruling of Allah. If the wisdom becomes apparent, praise be to Allah, light upon light. If the wisdom does not become apparent, there is no doubt that Allah is Wise and All-Knowing; He does not command anything except for a wisdom, and He does not prohibit anything except for a wisdom. Plucking the eyebrows is a distortion of the creation. Allah made the eyebrow an adornment for the woman and for the man. Plucking is not beauty; plucking is ugliness and distortion. But Satan makes it attractive to them and makes it seem like beauty, when in reality it is not beauty, but rather a distortion of the creation and an ugliness to it. So the claim that it is beauty is wrong. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, only prohibits something because of the ugliness and harm in it, and He does not prohibit something because of the benefit and good in it. So His prohibitions came regarding harmful things, or His commands came regarding beneficial things. He is the Wise, the All-Knowing in what He decrees and determines, and in what He commands and prohibits. There is no doubt that plucking is a blemish and ugly, and it is not adornment. For this reason, the Shari'ah came with the prohibition of it. The authentic hadith is that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who plucks and the one who has her eyebrows plucked, and he cursed the image-makers.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is your view of the one who says that a woman plucking her eyebrows is beautification and adornment, so why is it forbidden?
Answer:
The Shari'ah is from Allah the Exalted. He, Glorified and Exalted is He, is the most Wise and the most Clear, and His Prophet is the one who conveys His message. So it is obligatory for those who are accountable to submit to the ruling of Allah and be content with the ruling of Allah. If the wisdom becomes apparent, praise be to Allah, light upon light. If the wisdom does not become apparent, there is no doubt that Allah is Wise and All-Knowing; He does not command anything except for a wisdom, and He does not prohibit anything except for a wisdom. Plucking the eyebrows is a distortion of the creation. Allah made the eyebrow an adornment for the woman and for the man. Plucking is not beauty; plucking is ugliness and distortion. But Satan makes it attractive to them and makes it seem like beauty, when in reality it is not beauty, but rather a distortion of the creation and an ugliness to it. So the claim that it is beauty is wrong. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, only prohibits something because of the ugliness and harm in it, and He does not prohibit something because of the benefit and good in it. So His prohibitions came regarding harmful things, or His commands came regarding beneficial things. He is the Wise, the All-Knowing in what He decrees and determines, and in what He commands and prohibits. There is no doubt that plucking is a blemish and ugly, and it is not adornment. For this reason, the Shari'ah came with the prohibition of it. The authentic hadith is that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who plucks and the one who has her eyebrows plucked
and the one who tattoos and the one who is tattooed, and consuming riba (usury or interest) and giving it
والواشمة والمستوشمة، وأكل الربا وموكلاThe presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.
Source
وجوب التعاون على البر والتقوى — islamhouse.com (57:07)
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