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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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A word about changing the creation of Allah.

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The Shaykh : And another noble Companion narrated this hadith with an addition, and he is 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), saying:
Seek medical treatment, O servants of Allah, for Allah has not sent down a disease except that He has sent down for it a cure, knowledge of which is with those who know it and ignorance of it is with those who do not know it. تداووا عباد الله فإن الله لم ينزل داء إلا و أنزل له دواء علمه من علمه و جهله من جهله
So there is no objection to seeking medical treatment thereafter, but there is a condition here that must be observed, which is that the treatment must be for a condition that has befallen this child. That is, it is not permissible to change the creation of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has related in the Noble Qur'an that the accursed Shaytan challenged the will of the Lord of the Worlds (Mighty and Majestic) specifically regarding Adam and his descendants, saying:
and I will command them so they will slit the ears of cattle, and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allah و لأمرنهم فليبتكن آذان الأنعام و لأمرنهم فليغيرن خلق الله
[An-Nisa 4:119]
So it is not permissible to change the creation of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And there are examples of this, many and very many. For example, a child is born with a flat nose; it is not permissible to perform an operation, as they claim today, a cosmetic operation to raise the tip of the nose and remove the flatness. No, because as we said earlier, this is the creation of Allah. And by that, infer the rest. And it is very important for me to mention that many people today in the modern era are afflicted with changing the creation of Allah without realizing it, while some of them know it and yet they persist. This is men imitating women in shaving their beards. This is a widespread affliction that has encompassed many of the young Muslims, indeed most of the young Muslims today live this ungood life, because the good life is that which responds to the rulings of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and His Shari'ah, and does not respond to the desires of the accursed Shaytan, whom I mentioned earlier, quoting from the Noble Qur'an, that he said:
and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allah و لأمرنهم فليغيرن خلق الله
[An-Nisa 4:119]
So did Allah (Mighty and Majestic), as He said, create the male and the female in vain? Far be it from Allah (Mighty and Majestic). There are known differences between men and women, some of which are apparent and some are hidden. What concerns us now is the apparent part. The woman has no beard; that is the decree of the Almighty, the Wise. As for the man, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) created him with a nature that distinguished him from the woman with the mustache and the beard. And therefore he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the authentic hadith, emphasizing the prohibition... in what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) related about the Shaytan:
and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allah و لأمرنهم فليغيرن خلق الله
[An-Nisa 4:119]
And it is certain that obeying the Shaytan is disobedience to the Most Merciful, and obeying the Most Merciful is disobedience to the Shaytan. And therefore the person is saved from the painful punishment in the Hereafter. He (peace and blessings be upon him) affirmed this meaning regarding the obligation to oppose the Shaytan in what was mentioned about him:
Allah has cursed the women who pluck out their hair, the women who remove it, the women who tattoo, the women who get tattooed, and the women who file their teeth, who change the creation of Allah for beauty. لعن الله النامصات و المتنمصات و الواشمات و المستوشمات و الفالجات المغيرات لخلق الله للحسن
Look now at this hadith so that you may understand from it the danger of obeying the Shaytan in changing the creation of Allah. We all know that the woman was created in that state we referred to so that the man may enjoy her in a lawful manner. So He created her in the state I described earlier. If she wanted to adorn herself with adornment beyond what our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) created her with, she would thereby have incurred the curse mentioned in this hadith:
May Allah curse those who pluck their eyebrows لعن الله النامصات
The women who pluck out their hair, the women who pluck out their hair from any part of their bodies. The answer is yes, except for what is in accordance with the fitrah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Five things are of the fitrah خمس من الفطرة
And he mentioned among them plucking the armpit hair and shaving the pubic hair. So this plucking and that shaving, like cutting the nails, all of this is from the fitrah, like cutting the mustache. That is from the fitrah. As for the woman adorning herself by plucking her hair from her arms, for example, from her legs, from her cheeks, all of this is in this hadith. You must know the truth, and often the truths are bitter, especially for those who have become accustomed to a custom in which they opposed the Shari'ah and lived it, and perhaps it never reached their ears in their whole lives that they are disobeying their Lord in such a custom they have become accustomed to, whether the ones accustomed to it are men or women. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) says:
May Allah curse those who pluck their eyebrows لعن الله النامصات
Do you see that if the woman, who is a place of adornment, is forbidden to pluck the hair from her cheeks or the hairs that grow on her face, do you see what the ruling for the man would be? Without a doubt, it is even more so. O our Muslim brothers, if he (peace and blessings be upon him) curses the woman who plucks any of her hair without the permission of her Lord or her Prophet, on the basis of those who change the creation of Allah for beauty, then it is not permissible for men to change the creation of Allah for beauty, because in that is obedience to the Shaytan and disobedience to the Most Merciful.
May Allah curse the women who pluck their eyebrows and the women who have their eyebrows plucked لعن الله النامصات و المتنمصات
The woman who plucks out her hair is the one who adorns herself, and the one who plucks out her hair is the one who removes it. Let us say the women who pluck out their hair and the women who remove it, and the women who tattoo, who tattoo her sister, and the women who get tattooed, who do the tattooing on their bodies. This is from the very clear proofs that the fitrah of these people, males and females, has become corrupt, because they considered beautiful what the Shari'ah considered ugly, and they considered ugly what the Shari'ah considered beautiful. For example, a woman has a beautiful white arm with no hair, so she does not like the creation of Allah, and she comes and tattoos it. This... in the tattoo, in her opinion, is more beautiful than the whiteness of her skin. This is the corruption of the mind and the corruption of the fitrah. And therefore, it is obligatory upon all Muslims, women and men, to submit themselves to Allah, because we are the servants of Allah. We do not possess for ourselves any harm or benefit except what Allah wills. We do not possess making lawful or making forbidden. If the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) makes something lawful or forbids something, it is only by revelation from Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). And it must be known on this occasion that making lawful and making forbidden may be a belief and knowledge, and this is not permissible for any Muslim to fall into, because he falls into shirk (associating partners with Allah), because Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:
Or have they other deities who have ordained for them a religion to which Allah has not consented أم لهم شركاء شرعوا من الدين ما لم يأذن به الله
[Ash-Shuraa 42:21]
Source www.al-albany.com

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