What is the ruling on women using cosmetics, and what is the ruling on selling them?
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Al-Huwaini: Good, a question, O our Shaykh. Regarding cosmetics, first: is it permissible to sell them? And second: is it permissible for a wife to use cosmetics for her husband?
The Shaykh : If you had reversed the order, it would have been better; because buying and selling is based on the permissibility of use. If use is permissible, then buying and selling are permissible. If it is not permissible, then they are not permissible. And I see that selling the cosmetics known today is not permissible, because that is the custom of disbelieving women or open sinners among the Muslims. Based on this, and on the texts you know regarding the prohibition of imitating the disbelievers, and what is included in that of changing the creation of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), I do not see the permissibility of use. Consequently, I do not see the permissibility of selling or buying.
Al-Huwaini: Good, if this is what the husband requests, and it encourages affection and intimacy between the two spouses.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The Shaykh : Laughter.
Al-Huwaini: I mean, he told her that he loves for her to do such and such.
The Shaykh : He has the right to ask her for what the Shari'ah permits; and what the Shari'ah does not permit, he does not. He has the right to ask her for what the Shari'ah permits.
Al-Huwaini: If she is coerced into the matter, meaning if she does not do it, there will be marital discord and the like, is it permissible for her, knowing that it is forbidden, to do it out of fear that her life will be destroyed?
The Shaykh : Of course, the answer is known to you, but you want to record it.
Laughter.The Shaykh : and the students
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Al-Huwaini: A final question, O our Shaykh.
Abu Layla : My professor, specifically regarding cosmetic materials, in things that do not have colors, as if we had discussed this.
The Shaykh : There is no objection if it does not display the European appearance. There is no objection.
Al-Huwaini: A final question regarding a doctor's clinic. How do we pay zakah on it, even though the lunar year passes over it?
The Shaykh : A doctor's clinic?
Al-Huwaini: I mean, a doctor who has...
The Shaykh : If you had reversed the order, it would have been better; because buying and selling is based on the permissibility of use. If use is permissible, then buying and selling are permissible. If it is not permissible, then they are not permissible. And I see that selling the cosmetics known today is not permissible, because that is the custom of disbelieving women or open sinners among the Muslims. Based on this, and on the texts you know regarding the prohibition of imitating the disbelievers, and what is included in that of changing the creation of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), I do not see the permissibility of use. Consequently, I do not see the permissibility of selling or buying.
Al-Huwaini: Good, if this is what the husband requests, and it encourages affection and intimacy between the two spouses.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The Shaykh : Laughter.
Al-Huwaini: I mean, he told her that he loves for her to do such and such.
The Shaykh : He has the right to ask her for what the Shari'ah permits; and what the Shari'ah does not permit, he does not. He has the right to ask her for what the Shari'ah permits.
Al-Huwaini: If she is coerced into the matter, meaning if she does not do it, there will be marital discord and the like, is it permissible for her, knowing that it is forbidden, to do it out of fear that her life will be destroyed?
The Shaykh : Of course, the answer is known to you, but you want to record it.
Laughter.The Shaykh : and the students
The Shaykh :
A creature is not to be obeyed when it involves disobedience to the "Creator.”
لا طاعة لمخلوق في معصية الخالقAl-Huwaini: A final question, O our Shaykh.
Abu Layla : My professor, specifically regarding cosmetic materials, in things that do not have colors, as if we had discussed this.
The Shaykh : There is no objection if it does not display the European appearance. There is no objection.
Al-Huwaini: A final question regarding a doctor's clinic. How do we pay zakah on it, even though the lunar year passes over it?
The Shaykh : A doctor's clinic?
Al-Huwaini: I mean, a doctor who has...
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