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Question: bleaching eyebrows?
I know a female is not allowed to puck her eyebrows but can she bleach part of them, to shape them?

(bleaching: dyeing hair the color of skin)
 
 
Answered by: Ulamaa ID 01 ()
Date: 15/05/2005 16:59pm

bismihi Ta'ala

Mullah Ali Qari (R.A) has commentated that plucking of the facial hair is haraam (prohibited) for a woman with the exception of moustache or beard hairs, if any woman is unfortunate enough to be troubled by these. (Mirqaat Vol.8 Pg.295; Ashrafiyyah).

However, if the eyebrows have become so dense that it is unseemly for a woman and incites abhorrence in her husband, it is permissible to trim it to a more appropriate and normal size. (Ahsanul Fataawa Vol.8 pg.76; Zakariyya Book Depot)

This means that in general circumstances it will not be permissible, nor plucking, nor bleaching.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best


Mufti Yaseen Shaikh
 
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