If a woman has hair on her face, should she remove it or not?

The questioner : In our country, there is a woman who has a beard exactly like a man's, and we have seen her, I mean. Is it permissible for this woman to shave the beard, or should she leave it as is?

The Shaykh : It is not permissible.

The questioner : It is not permissible, because this appearance, for a woman, no, by Allah, truly, in our country.

The Shaykh : By Allah, it is true, I am saying: that there is a woman with a beard like a man's, there is no difference for me at all between there being a man like a woman, having no beard.

The questioner : But this does not harm the man. This harms the woman.

The questioner : Smooth-faced

The Shaykh : Your saying it does not harm the man—do not eat with your left hand, Professor—this does not harm the man, there is a consideration here, let us, as they say, let us, let us say, let us investigate why it is said that it does not harm the man?
The student : ...

The Shaykh : No problem, he did not mean it, he is just saying it, most of his questions do not come from himself, rather he is repeating what people say. Why does it not harm the man? Because imitating women is the norm for men, in fact, this pleases the man, why? Because it saves him the cost of shaving, the fee, and the time, and so on. Allah has relieved him of the problem, and He created him smooth-faced, therefore he is not affected. But be absolutely certain that the smooth-faced, beardless man, if he lives in an Islamic environment, living among bearded men, will find a sense of discomfort in himself, because he says: I am as if I am not a man. But here, faith intervenes; he will return to his faith and say, this is the creation of Allah, and I am content with what Allah has created. Do you see? If we speak and talk about people because they are like this, meaning they are not bothered by it, we must reveal the source of the discomfort, for it stems from a lack of satisfaction with the divine decree and destiny on one hand, and from the fact that people have become accustomed to shaving. Likewise, when Allah creates a woman with a beard, what is wrong with that? Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) wants to make it clear to people, especially the disbelievers among them, or those influenced by them, from some of the civilized or educated, who claim that the matter is not a mutation or a random throw, as they say, nature, but rather it is by a Wise Creator, One who Wills and does what He wills. So, originally, He created men with beards and created women without beards. It may be said, and these disbelievers say, that this is nature. Our Lord places them under the command of reality: this is a man with no beard... and He created this man without a beard. Who created women without beards and created this woman with a beard? It is Allah, One who does what He wills, .
The Shaykh : The important thing is that the smooth-faced man accepting his reality, and the bearded woman not accepting her reality, both of them, both stem from the deviation of the Muslim society from believing in the Shari'ah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic).

The questioner : Does this apply to the hair on a woman's legs and arms?

The Shaykh : The answer to this was given previously when I said: any alteration of Allah's creation by plucking or shaving, without a Shari'ah permission, falls within the generality of the operative cause.