If we say that dyeing with black is a form of ostentation, does that prevent it from this angle?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you. I say, if this is ... ostentation ... from this perspective?
The Shaykh : By Allah, the issue of ostentation is that anything new becomes ostentation. Anything new, even if someone comes, for example, with a new garment, and it is said, "By Allah, we saw so-and-so wearing such and such a garment." If we adopt this principle, we would prohibit every new thing. But I do not know, by Allah, whether this holds up or not.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : My brother, some people adorn themselves. What is it? Kohl in the eye is not good; it is adornment that beautifies the eye. Now they have started using plaster for kohl. The eye is kohl'd with plaster. If you look at his eye, it is white. This blackness that Allah the Exalted placed in the eyelids to beautify them, they now make it white. If you look at it, it is ... like a child who has just woken up, with all his eyes squinting. I seek refuge in Allah. Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The Shaykh : By Allah, the issue of ostentation is that anything new becomes ostentation. Anything new, even if someone comes, for example, with a new garment, and it is said, "By Allah, we saw so-and-so wearing such and such a garment." If we adopt this principle, we would prohibit every new thing. But I do not know, by Allah, whether this holds up or not.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : My brother, some people adorn themselves. What is it? Kohl in the eye is not good; it is adornment that beautifies the eye. Now they have started using plaster for kohl. The eye is kohl'd with plaster. If you look at his eye, it is white. This blackness that Allah the Exalted placed in the eyelids to beautify them, they now make it white. If you look at it, it is ... like a child who has just woken up, with all his eyes squinting. I seek refuge in Allah. Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.