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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Ruling on a woman removing hair from her eyebrows

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This message reached us from the sender, who says: Sister (K. M. B.) asks: Is it forbidden for a girl to work on her eyebrows? I have presented this question to several scholars, some of whom say it is forbidden, and some say it is not forbidden. They cite the following hadith for me:
May Allah bless the woman who is smooth and hairless, and the man who is hairy, and may Allah not bless the man who is bald and hairless, and the woman who is hairyبارك الله في المرأة الحلساء الملساء اللا شعور، والرجل الشعور، ولا بارك الله في رجل أملس لا شعور وامرأة شعور
Please advise us, may Allah grant you success?
Answer: This hadith has no basis:
May Allah not bless the smooth, hairless womanلا بارك الله في الحلساء الملساء
and so on. We do not know any basis for it. This hadith has no basis, and we do not know any basis for it from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). As for the eyebrows, she is not permitted to remove anything from them, because
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the *namisah* and the *mutanammisah*النبي ﷺ لعن النامصة والمتنمصة
. The *namisah* is the one who removes hair from the eyebrows or from the hair of her face. The scholars have explained *namus* as removing hair from the eyebrows and the face... the hair of the face. So she is not permitted to remove the hair of her eyebrows or the normal hair of her face. She is not permitted to remove that, neither with tweezers nor anything else, in accordance with the hadith. She is not permitted to alter her eyebrows; rather, she must leave them as they are and beware of altering them. However, if it happens that she grows a beard or a mustache, something that is abhorrent and contrary to the norm, there is no harm in removing it, because it is mutilation and a trial. As for the normal hair... her normal eyebrows... the eyebrows and the like of that, nothing is to be removed from them, because
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the *namisah* and the *mutanammisah*الرسول ﷺ لعن النامصة والمتنمصة
. And *namus* is the removal of hair from the eyebrows. It is also explained as the removal of facial hair with the *munmaas*, which is the tweezers, because it causes disfigurement and ugliness in the face, and for other rulings that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best. The conclusion is that we must obey and submit to Allah and His Messenger, and beware of what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden. Yes.
Source binbaz.org.sa

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