The inclusion of men in the ruling on plucking eyebrows and tattooing mentioned in the hadith: (May Allah curse the women who pluck their eyebrows and those who have it done, and the women who tattoo themselves and those who have it done . . . )?

The Shaykh : I said: Men are more deserving of this ruling than women, meaning this curse, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke of the women who pluck their eyebrows and those who have it done, up to the end of the hadith, without mentioning men, for a specific reason. This hadith follows the legal principles of a fortiori reasoning (qiyas awla). A fortiori reasoning is like when Allah the Exalted said to the child: , He did not say, for example, "do not strike them," because if it is forbidden for the child to say "wretched" to either of his parents, it is even more forbidden for him to strike them with his hand. Similarly, if the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade women from adorning and beautifying themselves through such alteration, and they were created for adornment... He permitted them things He did not permit for men, such as silk, for example, and gold, as detailed in the known books of the Sunnah, which I compiled in my book *Adab al-Zafaf fi al-Sunnah al-Mutaharah* (The Etiquettes of the Wedding in the Pure Sunnah). He (peace be upon him) said, for example, as a general principle regarding gold and silk: , so He permitted gold and silk for females so that they may adorn themselves for men. Despite this, we find that the Messenger (peace be upon him) did not permit them to pluck their eyebrows, so it is even more forbidden for men. What some men do, even those whom Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has guided and who follow the way of the Book and the Sunnah and act upon them, is either shaving their cheeks while having a blessed beard, or shaving the hair that grows on the cheek, or plucking it with a thread. This is not permissible because it is also an alteration of Allah's creation. If the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the woman—and we know she was created for the man for adornment—from plucking any part of her eyebrow to refine it or separate what is between them, such that she becomes cursed by that action, then it is even more so that if a man plucks the hair growing on his cheeks, this ruling includes him. Finally, men who shave their beards and radically alter Allah's creation are even more deserving of this, and they do not realize at all that such a curse mentioned in the hadith, although it came regarding women, we have mentioned that it was attributed to a legal cause, so he said: If a man alters his appearance and the creation with which Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) created him for the sake of adornment, he is more deserving of this severe ruling that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) imposed on Muslim men and women so that they may maintain obedience to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and stay away from obeying Satan.