What is the ruling on a married woman removing the hair from her face?
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The questioner : Regarding the removal of a woman's arm hair, if she is married, Shaykh, and her husband might be disgusted by the appearance of the hair?
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you, may Allah forgive you. This question, as the linguists say, has no place in grammar. What is this talk?
The questioner : This is reality, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : It is reality, but did you not hear the lecture?
The questioner : Yes, I heard it.
The Shaykh : Fine. Is the husband to be obeyed and Allah disobeyed? What is this question?
The questioner : They said that hair falls into three categories: a category that is commanded to be removed, a category that is forbidden to be removed, and a category about which silence is kept. This is from the category about which silence is kept.
The Shaykh : So the lecture went to waste.
The questioner : Far from it, Shaykh. We benefited from you. May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good. But now you are saying: "They said so." I said: Every alteration of Allah's creation without permission from the Lawgiver falls under the text: and it is obedience to Satan and disobedience to the Most Merciful. Did you hear this?
The questioner : Yes, I heard it.
The Shaykh : What is the benefit of your saying that there are three opinions, one of which is that it is left unaddressed? There is nothing left unaddressed. Either it is commanded to be removed, like plucking the armpit hair, for example, and similar alterations such as cutting the nails, and so on. Or it falls under the general prohibition of altering Allah's creation and the general verse there:[An-Nisa 4:119] There is nothing left unaddressed, unless we ignore that Qur'anic text and this Prophetic hadith. And I know that many people ignore it, either out of ignorance or deliberately to justify this reprehensible matter that is rampant among people today, or because they do not know. So their affair is with Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He.
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you, may Allah forgive you. This question, as the linguists say, has no place in grammar. What is this talk?
The questioner : This is reality, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : It is reality, but did you not hear the lecture?
The questioner : Yes, I heard it.
The Shaykh : Fine. Is the husband to be obeyed and Allah disobeyed? What is this question?
The questioner : They said that hair falls into three categories: a category that is commanded to be removed, a category that is forbidden to be removed, and a category about which silence is kept. This is from the category about which silence is kept.
The Shaykh : So the lecture went to waste.
The questioner : Far from it, Shaykh. We benefited from you. May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good. But now you are saying: "They said so." I said: Every alteration of Allah's creation without permission from the Lawgiver falls under the text:
Those who alter the creation of Allah for the sake of beauty
المغيرات لخق الله للحُسنThe questioner : Yes, I heard it.
The Shaykh : What is the benefit of your saying that there are three opinions, one of which is that it is left unaddressed? There is nothing left unaddressed. Either it is commanded to be removed, like plucking the armpit hair, for example, and similar alterations such as cutting the nails, and so on. Or it falls under the general prohibition of altering Allah's creation and the general verse there: