The ruling on the use of hair dye for women

Question : Yes, Shaykh Muhammad, this is a woman on the line with us inquiring about the ruling on the use of dye for women’s hair in her first question.

Answer : If it is black, in order to remove the gray hair, then it is not permissible, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded changing the gray hair and avoiding black. If it is with a dye other than black, we look at it. If this dye is a characteristic of the women of the disbelievers, then it is not permissible to dye with it, because this falls under the category of imitating them, and whoever imitates a people is one of them. And if it is with other colors, there is nothing wrong with it.