Is it permissible to shave the armpits instead of plucking them?

Question:
He says: In a hadith, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said that plucking the armpit hair is part of the fitrah (the innate natural disposition). So what about shaving the armpits? Is it permissible or not?

Answer:
May Allah reward you with good. The requirement is to remove the armpit hair, whether by plucking, shaving, or cutting. This is what is required, and it is among the sunnah (recommended practice) of the fitrah, among the sunnah of the fitrah, and among the sunnah of the Prophets (peace and blessings be upon them all): cutting the nails, trimming the mustache, letting the beard grow, cutting the nails, shaving the pubic hair, and plucking the armpit hair or removing the long hair from the armpits. This is among the characteristics of the fitrah, because these things—nails, armpit hair, pubic hair, and mustache hair—when they grow long, they disfigure the human creation, collect dirt and bad odors, and have many harms, and may even cause health problems. Therefore, removing them is among the characteristics of the fitrah that the Prophets (peace and blessings be upon them) brought, and our Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged it.
As for letting the beard grow, this is beauty, and it is perfection and manliness, because it is one of the parts of the human body, and Allah made it a beauty in it. And with this, it is obligatory to clean it from dirt and bad odors and to wash it. There is no doubt that caring for a person’s hair, the hair of the head and the hair of the beard, cleaning the body, removing bad odors, and using perfume, these are matters required in Islam, and this is the prescribed adornment in Islam. A person does not neglect himself by leaving what he was ordered to remove and removing what he was ordered to leave, because some people are afflicted in that they remove the hair they were forbidden to remove, like the beard, and they leave the hair they were ordered to remove, like the mustache. They let the mustache grow and shave the beard, contrary to the fitrah. And some of them, especially the youth and women, lengthen their nails and consider this to be perfection, because Shaytan made this attractive to them, and they imitated those who have no good in them by lengthening their nails, and other defects and shortcomings. All of this results from ignorance of the rulings of the religion, or from blind imitation, and imitating those whom we are forbidden to imitate, imitating also the beasts of prey, imitating the animals. The Muslim is forbidden from that. Yes.