Can hormones be used to strengthen hair or remove it?
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The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : What hair?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This has already been answered.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Professor, when a disease appears, it is an incidental matter. But when a man is created with a bald head and a woman is created like this, this is not a disease; this is not an incidental matter. I understand disease to be what befalls a person; this is permissible to treat, and sometimes it is obligatory. But what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created a person with, that is not a disease.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : What I am saying is: if it is an incidental matter.
The questioner : ... .
Eid Abbasi : Meaning, he lived for a period with hair, and then it disappeared?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : You mean in the case of a woman?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay; and in the case of a man?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This, Professor, if the beard and its absence were a custom that grows before puberty... your words do have an effect. But all men do not have beards appear in them except with the age of puberty, and likewise women do not have beards appear in them after the age of puberty; this is the system. So your saying: it appears with the age of puberty; this is the natural thing, it is the divine system. So here there is nothing you can call an incidental matter. When is it an incidental matter? Imagine, for example, a man who lived, let us say, forty or fifty years, and his beard was thick, and then it started to fall out due to a disease; this is an incidental matter. I say in this case: there is no harm in taking treatments that may be beneficial for it to return as it was; this is called an incidental matter. And conversely, I give an example now, for instance, a woman who lived forty or fifty years very normally, and then this hair started to appear in her, or a beard grew on her; this is an incidental matter. I say it is an incidental matter. But from the time she started reaching the age of accountability, hair started to appear in her more than her sisters and peers; this is not called an incidental matter. And therefore I adhere to this in terms of understanding the religion: the incidental matter is treated, but the thing we believe Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created and willed it to be like this, such as the hair on the legs completely; this is how Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created it.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : What has no treatment does not need treatment now in the research; because it is not possible; so the research on it is closed, what has no medical treatment.
The questioner : ... this is a known matter, but in things like diseases and tumors ... ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, how do you understand this hadith if you want to expand on the topic and want to philosophize the topic with modern medicine today? How do you understand that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created the man like this and created the woman like this? Then a person comes and wants to change the creation of Allah? Is this a rupture? Meaning a rupture from the ruptures of nature as those who do not believe in Allah (Mighty and Majestic) say? Or is this not the will of Allah?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Treatment for what? With what do you treat?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Listen, my brother, what are you treating?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I say: if it happened after Allah created it, then it is treated. But if Allah created it like this, then it is not treated. And this settles the matter, and the discussion does not end.
The Shaykh : What hair?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This has already been answered.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Professor, when a disease appears, it is an incidental matter. But when a man is created with a bald head and a woman is created like this, this is not a disease; this is not an incidental matter. I understand disease to be what befalls a person; this is permissible to treat, and sometimes it is obligatory. But what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created a person with, that is not a disease.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : What I am saying is: if it is an incidental matter.
The questioner : ... .
Eid Abbasi : Meaning, he lived for a period with hair, and then it disappeared?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : You mean in the case of a woman?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay; and in the case of a man?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This, Professor, if the beard and its absence were a custom that grows before puberty... your words do have an effect. But all men do not have beards appear in them except with the age of puberty, and likewise women do not have beards appear in them after the age of puberty; this is the system. So your saying: it appears with the age of puberty; this is the natural thing, it is the divine system. So here there is nothing you can call an incidental matter. When is it an incidental matter? Imagine, for example, a man who lived, let us say, forty or fifty years, and his beard was thick, and then it started to fall out due to a disease; this is an incidental matter. I say in this case: there is no harm in taking treatments that may be beneficial for it to return as it was; this is called an incidental matter. And conversely, I give an example now, for instance, a woman who lived forty or fifty years very normally, and then this hair started to appear in her, or a beard grew on her; this is an incidental matter. I say it is an incidental matter. But from the time she started reaching the age of accountability, hair started to appear in her more than her sisters and peers; this is not called an incidental matter. And therefore I adhere to this in terms of understanding the religion: the incidental matter is treated, but the thing we believe Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created and willed it to be like this, such as the hair on the legs completely; this is how Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created it.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : What has no treatment does not need treatment now in the research; because it is not possible; so the research on it is closed, what has no medical treatment.
The questioner : ... this is a known matter, but in things like diseases and tumors ... ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, how do you understand this hadith if you want to expand on the topic and want to philosophize the topic with modern medicine today? How do you understand that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created the man like this and created the woman like this? Then a person comes and wants to change the creation of Allah? Is this a rupture? Meaning a rupture from the ruptures of nature as those who do not believe in Allah (Mighty and Majestic) say? Or is this not the will of Allah?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Treatment for what? With what do you treat?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Listen, my brother, what are you treating?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I say: if it happened after Allah created it, then it is treated. But if Allah created it like this, then it is not treated. And this settles the matter, and the discussion does not end.
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