What is the ruling on plucking white hair?
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The questioner : The questioner asks: What is the ruling on plucking white hair?
The Shaykh : Plucking white hair, if it is on the face, is one of the major sins, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who plucks the eyebrows and the one who has her eyebrows plucked. The scholars said: and plucking the eyebrows is plucking the hair of the face.
As for hair other than that on the face, such as the white hair on the head, the scholars of knowledge disliked it, and they said that plucking white hair is disliked. And I do not know what this old man will do if, whenever a hair turns white, he plucks it; he will end up destroying his entire head, because white hair is like fire that blazes on the head, as Zakariyya (peace be upon him) said:[Maryam 19:4].
The Shaykh : Plucking white hair, if it is on the face, is one of the major sins, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who plucks the eyebrows and the one who has her eyebrows plucked. The scholars said: and plucking the eyebrows is plucking the hair of the face.
As for hair other than that on the face, such as the white hair on the head, the scholars of knowledge disliked it, and they said that plucking white hair is disliked. And I do not know what this old man will do if, whenever a hair turns white, he plucks it; he will end up destroying his entire head, because white hair is like fire that blazes on the head, as Zakariyya (peace be upon him) said: