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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the Hadith of Fitrah (which is a continuation of the previous question).

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The Shaykh : We began by speaking about the hadith regarding fitrah because we say that this is the creation of Allah, and yet Allah commanded its alteration, such as cutting the nails and other things mentioned earlier. However, in contrast to that, He said:
May Allah curse the women who pluck their eyebrows and those who have them plucked, the women who tattoo and those who have tattoos, the women who join hair and those who have hair joined to them, and the women who file their teeth لعن الله النامصات والمتنمصات ، والواشمات والمستوشمات ، والواصلات والمستوصلات ، والفالجات
He explained this severe ruling by saying:
Those who change the creation of Allah for the sake of beauty. المغيرات لخلق الله للحسن
Once we understand this hadith, we return to your question: Is there a dispensation for a woman with thick hair growing on her leg or her arm, is she permitted to pluck and shave this hair? We say: No, because she falls under this hadith:
May Allah curse the women who pluck their eyebrows and those who get them plucked لعن الله النامصات والمتنمصات
As if a questioner were asking: Why, O Messenger of Allah? He said:
Those who change the creation of Allah for the sake of beauty. المغيرات لخلق الله للحسن
Why does she pluck the hair from her arm? Why does she pluck the hair from her leg? For the sake of beauty and adornment. Here, some, I do not say... Yes...
The Shaykh : Here, some of those who study jurisprudence, and I do not say jurists, state that it is permissible for a woman to pluck the hair from her arm, from her leg, from her cheek, from any part of her body, if her husband desires that of her. They even explicitly state that it is permissible for a woman to wear a wig if her husband desires that of her. The one who says this places the obedience of the servant before the obedience of the Lord. And despite the explicitness of the general hadith
A creature is not to be obeyed when it involves disobedience to the "Creator.” لا طاعة لمخلوق في معصية الخالق
Mishkat al-Masabih 3696
This is a general principle, and here
May Allah curse the women who pluck their eyebrows and those who have them plucked, the women who join hair and those who have hair joined to them, the women who alter the creation of Allah for the sake of beauty لعن الله النامصات والمتنمصات ، والواصلات والمستوصلات ، المغيرات خلق الله للحسن
Yet he says if the husband is pleased with it, there is no harm in it. This contains all the harm; it is a contradiction of the explicit, authentic hadith agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
The Shaykh : Therefore, it is obligatory to advise these Muslim women not to fall into plucking what Allah the Mighty and Majestic has not permitted, or shaving it. There is no difference between plucking and shaving except in the sense that the effect of plucking is stronger than shaving. Otherwise, all roads lead to the mill, as evidenced by the fact that the one who shaves the hair on her leg and does not pluck it, has she not altered the creation of Allah? The answer is yes, but plucking may delay the regrowth of the hair more than shaving. This is a non-essential, non-fundamental difference; because in both shaving and plucking, the alteration of the creation of Allah for the sake of beauty is realized. This is the answer to what you asked.
Source www.al-albany.com

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