Yasir Qadhi – Ask Shaykh YQ #107 – How Do We Understand The Hadith Regarding The Prohibition of Plucking The Eyebrows

			In today's q&a, we have sister Israel from Australia, emailing and saying that how do we understand
the Hadith regarding the prohibition of plucking of the eyebrows? And the fact that our last curse
is on this? And is there any exception for this rule?
		

			One?
		

			Send me Kobe, Nick.
		

			No, he him first COO,
		

			coo.
		

			So this Hadith, or this question, actually, I'm actually going to spend a good amount of time
discussing it, not because of the issue itself, but we're going to use this as a case study, because
it's very important that we understand some of the reasons why our scholars differ. And so today, I
will actually be going into a lot of detail to demonstrate the fact that different scholars have
different ways of approaching the tradition and a shallow title whichever position that you follow,
there should be an understanding and an acceptance and a respect and a tolerance for other opinions
out there. The Hadith in question is a hadith that is mentioned or narrated by the Allahu taala and,
		

			and it is reported in behati, and Muslim, and it is a much longer Hadith but the key phrase in it is
that even mushroom rhodiola has been reported that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that
he cursed Lana Rasulullah sallallahu I sent him an washi much while he was still she met when he saw
to Walmart and a massage that the profitsystem cursed the ladies that put on markings or tattoos,
and the ones that asked for these tattoos to be put on. And the ones who enamel soft enamel sought
will just translate it for now as the plucking of the eyebrows, we're going to come back to this
translation, one would tend to miss a lot of those ladies that asked for their eyebrows to be to be
		

			plucked. Those that change the creation of Allah almost a year or two Haleakala they're changing the
creation of Allah and the the liner or the the curse has been mentioned in this case, from the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam Lana Rasulullah. And then it has also been narrated is Latin
Allahu Allah himself has cursed. So both of these narrations are found. And it isn't authentic
hadith because it is mentioned in the Sahih hain. Now, as I said, Today, I'm actually going to go
into quite a lot of detail because I really want to use this as a case study so that we broaden our
horizons and so that we understand why and how we, our scholars have looked at these texts, and why
		

			there is a spectrum of opinion. In a nutshell, what we see is that really and again, I'm being a
little bit simplistic for now in a nutshell, we see that there's different ways or paradigms to look
at these traditions. And we can say for the purposes of our talk today, that we can categorize the
scholars who looked at this tradition into two categories. The first category were those who took it
at face value, who took it at its literal value, and they didn't really think about the causes, or
the concerns or the reasons behind this tradition. And they simply took this and that's a valid
paradigm, and they applied it without any, you know, conditions without any circumstance it is
		

			applied unconditionally, across the board, and this is the position that is well known. And you will
find this very common on most q&a websites that answer Islam, Islamic questions and other you know,
you know, scholars of that are, you know, well established in social media and and well known, it's
very common to hear this position that it is completely unconditional, and there are no exceptions.
And at the same time, you have another group of scholars, from the beginning of time, who looked at
these traditions and they try to understand well, what is the cause or what is the reason such that
we will apply this hadith one that cause exists when the reason is the same, we will apply that
		

			Hadith, but when the reason does not exist, then maybe the Hadith or the ruling narrated in this
hadith is not going to apply. And in fact, you see this this, this tension, you see this two
different paradigms. You see it even from the beginning of time. In fact, you see it in the famous
incident of the Sahaba themselves. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told the Sahaba to
pray salata acid in the place, or the lands of the Bernal oredo. Now, this is a very interesting
Hadith that really demonstrates this. I don't want to call attention because that's how it did not
quite have attention amongst them. But it is a tension of understanding there wasn't an actual
		

			tension between them. There was a tension of understanding and it's a very, very eye opening episode
in the lifetime of the prophets of the lahardee. He was sent him that demonstrates that texts
		

			can be understood differently. And the question of how literal Do you want to be? Or how much
rationale Do you want to be that this is actually it's a very natural tension. There's nothing on
Islamic, there's nothing modernistic, there's nothing that goes against our Eman in a line is
messenger both of these camps equally believe in Allah and His messenger and we find them amongst
the Sahaba. Now what is this story and it is a very important story. The story is that or the the
incident is that
		

			the day that Allah subhana wa tada the same day that Allah subhana wa tada miraculously caused the
Confederates to scatter Helter Skelter, the army of the Confederates, the Battle of the sub, right
as you know that sandstorm came, and the morning that they woke up and they praise allotted budget
and lo and behold, the entire camps have cleared 10,000 have disappeared Mashallah to botica law
because Allah subhanho wa Taala has miraculously destroyed or sent the winds and caused them to
disperse. So the Sahaba came back, elated, overjoyed, and they took their armor off and they went
back home after one month of a siege, obviously, they need to relax, they need to recover they need
		

			to recuperate. Now govt and came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he said to the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, if you have taken your armor off, realize the angels have not
taken their armors off, we still have to deal with the treachery of the bundle orienta now there was
a treacherous incident that they betrayed the Muslims backstab the Muslims, and they needed to be
dealt with that had it not been for the miracle of Allah subhana wa Tada. The treachery of the
Bernal corridor might have been fatal for the entire community. So those traders have to be dealt
with. So God came and said to the Prophet sallallahu I you said them, we have not taken our armors
		

			off we have to deal with those people. And therefore the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wore
his armor again. And he went out and he prayed a lot to keep the chronology in mind. He prayed the
Lord prayer. And he announced to the gathering that basically Hurry up, go back home, change your
into your your your your your military gear again, and then hasten to get to the lands of the bundle
corridor, which was around an hour, two hours, let's say a walk or two hours from the message of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he gave that command larrieu solian hydro como la sala
elaphiti benue karela. None of you should pray the answer prayer until you get to the bundle. All
		

			right, okay, you understand what's going on. He has prayed for her sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
he's basically saying get to Bernal Cordova before selected Muslim I want you to pray you're also do
not pray also with me. Do not practice it in your homes, get back home, hey sent up, arm yourself
back, get on to your your camels in your horses, and you march to the new Corolla such that the goal
being you arrived there before slaughter Muslim. So you will pray us sir in Bernal Corolla. And then
we will deal with the traders now the announcement was made and it caused a little bit of a panic
and chaos. People have to go home and tell their families and pack and you know everything has to
		

			happen. And by the time so the prophecies immediately left. He's ready. He's already put put his arm
around him and his entourage Hello, Sam, they have left. And they're going to get to the bottom of
the way before the rest. And he's waiting for the rest of them to come. Now what happens? So the the
batch that leaves, right, they leave too late. They leave too late. They weren't able to get ready.
They weren't prepared. It took a while. I mean, it's understandable. It took a while. And so by the
time they leave, it's already past the time. It's already past awesome. And they're going towards
the bundle karela. And the sun is about to set. And they're not going to catch the mother Upsala,
		

			sorry, they also saw that if they delay it all the way to the bundle corridor. Okay, so understand
what's going on here. Let me give you a hypothetical example. Suppose the sunset was at 6pm, let's
say right? And they would arrive at 7pm. It's already 530. And there is no way that they're going to
be able to pray answer unless they delay it. Right. So now they have a clash. What should they do?
Should they take the verbatim literal meaning of the Hadith? Do not pray answer until you reach
Bernard parrilla. And so they will watch the sunset. And they will not stop for sada and they will
allow their also to become other right? Because the Prophet system said do not pray until you get to
		

			the bottom quarter. Or do they understand the rationale? Do they understand that you know what was
intended was to hurry up and to make haste and to try to get there before also, now that we were not
able to do that, well then obviously we should pray outside now and then we'll pray over it when we
get to the bundle Corolla. You understand this open shoulder the two scenarios right? Once again,
the issue is how literal Do you want to be? Do you want to take it at face value or will you
understand
		

			The rationale and then where the rationale does not exist, you will not apply the ruling. So, the
Sahaba began to talk amongst themselves. One group said he said, we should only practice that and
Bono, parada, therefore, we're not going to pre select the law. So right now, we're going to watch
the sunset, and we have the opportunity to pray, but we are obeying the messenger. So the law it was
set up, and we're gonna get to the Burnham corridor, and we will pray officer after market of time,
right. We'll pray also, after motive time, we're going to pray awesome. And then we're going to pray
for him. And the other group said, No, but that's not the intent. That's not the goal. You know,
		

			that's not the point of saying this. And there is a rationale. And now that that rationale is not
being met, we're supposed to pray, answer, and then work our way there. Guess what happened, the
Sahaba could not figure out amongst themselves one united plan, and therefore, some groups of people
decided to not pray awesome. And they continued, marching on words, delaying us or until after
motive. And another group they stopped and they prayed also right then and there, and they finished
answer and they prayed it on time. And then they marched onwards, when both groups arrived, the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam rebuked neither of them, he did not make this an issue, it was
		

			not something that was a big deal. Oh, my God, you guys are following the sun against the sun? No,
the both of them tried their best. And the both of them examine the tradition, and they reach
different views. Now, this same, if you like tension, in terms of understanding the text, the same
tension, it has trickled down to many of our rulings as well. Okay, the same philosophy of Okay,
should we just take this and then verbatim apply it? Which is what you know, many groups do? Or
should we think about the rationale. And the issue comes? Of course, you know, my position is that,
that both of these groups are humbled or respected aroma, and that we should at least allow them to
		

			discuss and engage. The main issue comes unfortunately, which is I am opposed to this is that one of
these two strands one of these two paradigms has essentially taken over or eclipsed, if you like the
fatwa scene, and especially social media, especially, you know, Islam websites that are answering
q&a about Islam, these types of websites, they they give positions, that they are respected in their
own in their own mind. But what has happened is that a very literal sense comes that does not allow
for any type of thinking through any type of rationale that in fact, even some of those scholars
have that trend themselves have criticized others, one of my own teachers, chefs of entertainment a
		

			lot more that he would say many times he would publicly complain about the rise of literalism,
divided ism is called Vahidi, the rise of literalism and the diminishing of, of understanding. And
the problem comes the issue is not that one group holds this. The issue is that unlike the Sahaba,
who allowed for two opinions, this group does not allow the possibility of any other view being
legitimate. And this is really the problem, the problem of intolerance. The problem of if you don't
agree with my literalism, you're rejecting the sooner you are against the sooner and therefore you
are somebody who's going to be doomed, or Atlanta to LA or something of this nature. And another
		

			major problem that comes is that this group, even though they're small, and they're relatively
modern, despite the fact they claim to go back to the earliest of times, the fact is that undeniably
that they jump over they bypass bypass 14 centuries of scholarship, and they restrict the
understanding of Islam to a small group of modern scholars have one particular land of one
particular mindset that are self replicating their own views over and over again. And the problem is
not in them holding the views, that's perfectly fine. The problem is them imposing that one view on
the entire globe, such that anybody who contradicts their narrative is deemed to be somebody who is
		

			always a villa against the son of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And this is extremism. And
this is a type of narrow mindedness and dangerous mentality that, in fact, does cause a fanaticism.
And it does lead to many problems of the of the oma. And then the net result, therefore, of all of
this is that you do get a group of people that are very literalist, very, you know, very committed
and dedicated to the interpretations of their own Ummah, and anybody who disagrees with them is
deemed to be not worthy of their love or attention. And this is not good for the oma. And one of the
main points in me going into this detail and talking about all of this. And in fact, my entire
		

			philosophy when I do these q&a, is to preach tolerance and respect of our tradition. I might have my
views and I maybe will try to prove my views, you know, you know, in with passion, but if respected
or the amount of other views handed the law, no problem. That's their, you know, methodology and he
had
		

			Allah azzawajal reward them for their sincerity. Now with all of this was a prelude to this question
because again, you have to understand that this group of scholars because of socio political
factors, economic factors, they do dominate the waves, if you like they dominate social media they
dominate, they have influenced modern discourse to the point that many Muslims don't really even
know that this is a very small minority. And we have hamdulillah a very beautiful heritage and
history of Islamic scholarship. So, today, I will demonstrate for you that in fact, there have been
diverse opinions from the very beginning of time and the greatest Roma have actually given
		

			exceptions to this Hadeeth is nothing that is new, that is that is coming here. So we look first and
foremost at the evidence and how it was understood in the earliest of times. Now, in this particular
case, it had been Miss rhodiola one, the one who narrated the Hadith, it is very clear that he would
not allow his own women to practice this, these types of things. And so he was of those basically
saying the Hadith says it, let's let's just let's just practice it. Interestingly enough, our issue
our mother rhodiola, why and how she is also one of the narratives of this hadith. She's also
narrating this hadith as well, in one of the versions, and yet we have reported from her that she
		

			would allow women to pluck hair from their faces. So again, very interesting over here, it is
reported in a number of earlier books, including the book of a cadet Baba will use of the student of
hanifa. And also even bought all the commentary with Bahati. He mentioned this, that Buddhists have
mentioned that my wife visited our Asia about the love wine half. And she asked her and my wife was
a lady who loved to beautify herself. So I was how can I really this that my wife was the lady who
love to beautify herself, we were newly married, she's a young lady, she wants to beautify her love
herself, and she asked her to show the loved one. That is it permissible for a woman to pluck her
		

			eyebrows. And our issue our mother says a meal to other must authority, you may remove anything that
irritates you, you don't like it as much as you want, right? You may beautify yourself as much as
you want. It is also reported in the Muslim the fab the result that a woman was without a shadow of
the law, why and how. And she said, a woman woman or mother of the believers, there are hairs in my
face that I don't like May I plug them in order to beautify myself for my husband and our Asia once
again said to her that you may get rid of anything that irritates you, and prepare for your husband,
as you prepare when guests come to visit you one other ladies come and you make yourself look good.
		

			So then you should prepare yourself for your husband as well. In other words, you know, when you
have visitors and guests coming, ladies are coming to visit you then you will look you know
dignified and nice and whatnot. So I showed the love wine is saying that yes, of course you make
yourself look good, and you beautify yourself for your husband. Now, here we have a very important
if you like two different paradigms from the very beginning that even Massoud would not allow his
own wives to do any of these things. And he is taking the basically that the literal version, which
is completely allowed as we said, this is something that does exist from the time of the Sahaba and
		

			we have a Chateau de la Juana and she is the lady by the way and she should know better and she is
the one this the the the rulings are pertaining to her and all the law that she is giving this fatwa
that the lady is literally saying that I want to basically shave off or trim my eyebrows. Am I
allowed to do that? And she is saying you may do that. So we find this tension, if you like, again
from the there was no tension between the ocean episode or the lower? No, but I'm saying the tension
in understanding this narration also from the earliest of times, a number of our scholars were
wondering that the Hadith here we do need to think about this is a overall it's something that would
		

			not be considered let's say if the Hadith had not come about eyebrows, that generally speaking
nobody would assume this to be a sin. You beautify yourself a woman is allowed to shave anybody here
she wants to in fact, she's uh, she is mandated to shave, as you know certain parts of her body the
man man and the woman and she may keep her hair as long or as short as she wants. She may put on any
type of bangles or beautification for her husband dress up for her husband. So the question about
the land of a law coming upon something like an eyebrow right and generally speaking, a last line is
a very, very big deal. Unless Don is huge. Allah xojo his his eyes upon those who reject him, his
		

			land is upon the idol worshippers his line is upon the one who murders is in the Koran right that
the one who murders that while people love Allah who Allahu Allah is on. So if we look at the sins
that Allah has given the learner, these are major sins now to add eyebrows to the list. One wonders
what is missing
		

			On, and I'm not the first one to wonder. You have, for example, the famous the great animal qaddafi,
one of the great aroma of the Maliki method. He writes in his book, The hero that he mentioned this
hadith. And he says that, you know, I haven't seen the scholars of the Maliki Sunday shaffir is
discussing the reasons or the causes of why there is Lana in this in this situation, I don't
understand why. Because he says that I understand that if this is a woman who is deceiving her other
people in order to basically pretend that she is somebody that's more beautiful than she is when the
suture comes when somebody proposes for then I understand, however, if it is for the wife for her
		

			husband, then there is no deception going on. And so he's like questioning that what is this? How
can we understand the the liner, and another great scholar of our tradition, the great manifested in
our shoe had been ashore, wrote one of the most original and amazing commentaries of the Quran,
called the Hadith. And then we have an actual he writes that, as for this Hadith, of Allah's liner
on these on these categories of women, he says, For me, mesh color wielu, it is something that is
difficult to interpret or understand like, I don't understand why there's Latina on these things.
And he says, the only interpretation that I find to be reasonable is that these characteristics were
		

			the characteristics of the ladies of ill repute, ie the prostitutes of that time, the ladies of ill
repute of that time, and they would use these characteristics to advertise their profession that
way. And
		

			the the famous scholar, when I showed he says that, even if the Shetty were to forbid these things,
for whatever reasons, it should not reach the level of land in and of itself, this is a natural
thing here. So he is basically saying that the reason why these things have been prohibited is that
in those days, when a lady practice that evil profession, in order to advertise that she is that
type of lady, she would have certain characteristics and of them is that she would remove her
eyebrows, let's say or have them is that she would do the other things I mentioned in this Hadith,
and therefore it now makes sense. ullas liner is on those ladies that are selling themselves to this
		

			matter, because obviously that is destroying society, destroying the moral fabric of society, that
now we understand the line are coming because the liner is not on plucking a hair, the liner will be
on the women that are doing that for the sake of this evil, you know, profession. So this is
something that I thought had been assured says, and even though Josie also mentioned a similar
comment, the famous humble is called Josie. He also mentioned something similar in this regard. And
therefore we find these minima. They're trying to rationalize like, why is this thing that that has
been prohibited? Again, like even as you said, If Allah had made it how long we understand, okay,
		

			he's how long it's his right to make it How long? Nobody can question. But then one wonders,
something like this, to have the learner on it. What is causing the learner that must be something
more than just plucking the eyebrow. And that's why these are odema say that the interpretation is
that the learner was for this profession. And these characteristics were symbolic of that
profession. This makes a lot of sense. Now, what did the fuqaha What did the scholars have to say
about this issue of women plucking their eyebrows? Well, again, the men that have have different
over this issue, and yes, there is no question that many odema took this hadith and they considered
		

			to be copy and paste and literal. And this is this is what it is. And there's no problem with that
opinion. And as I will conclude there is there is no doubt there is no doubt that that is the safer
opinion. There is no doubt that you're getting out of any controversy. But there have been
alternative voices from the very beginning of time our mother should only allow one is the first one
to set this entire paradigm. And are we going to accuse her of not following the sun in this regard.
And again, the point being that we have this controversy from the very beginning of time, even if
you don't agree with it, at least respected at least know that it exists, and understand that there
		

			are many other men who have held the other view. In fact, the great scholar, Mr. Mohammed, he had a
very interesting view in this regard. Imam Ahmed said that what is prohibited is the plucking of the
eyebrow, in his opinion. He said if a woman shaves it or later somebody scholar said that if she
dies it, for example, says that it's no longer seen, you know, then it would be permissible so that
Mr. Mohammed was asked about this as even as a halaal says, incredible. We'll go for whatever
		

			Mr. Mr. Mohammed that Mr. Hunter was asked that should a lady remove the hair of her eyebrows. And
Mr. Mohammed said, I don't like that she plucks it. But I don't have a problem if see if she shaves
it. This is the Imam of the school. Many of the later people who follow this Imam in our times they
disagree or they don't mention this very fatwa from Mr. Muhammad, himself and other great humbly
scholars even allowed more than this even allowed more than this. Of course even Kodama, the famous
any of the great author of Mohini April quidam also mentioned that the prohibition in the Hadith is
for plucking, not for shaving he says somebody if a woman wants to shave This is Allah by the way
		

			have to make the disclaimer here that we're talking about just the eyebrows as for any other facial
hair, there should be no problem with that. So if there's any hair growing because it is not the
natural default of woman is to grow isn't to not grow hair in the chin area or above the lips or
what not that hair Of course it can be removed. The Hadith comes about the enamel salt, and the
interpretation is that numbness is to remove the hair to pluck the hair of the eyebrows. That's how
we met understood that the brain mission is to pluck the hair. And he goes this is a type of
basically mutilation or whatnot and he allowed the shaving of it. Now this is Mr. Palmer's position.
		

			Some humbly roadmap actually allowed for more than this and of them is the great alum and the chef
and the Zahid and the saint Abdul Qadir al Gilani, you've all heard of Abdul Qadir jilani what many
people do not know was that he was a great on him and he was a humbly as well. And in his hernia. He
says that as for the lady, then the method basically is that that she should not remove her eyebrows
she should not shave her eyebrows. And then he says well tailor your jeweler her daddy Kelly zoji
her hos and others have argued that it is allowed for the lady who is married to shape her eyebrows
for her husband, if her husband wants her to do that. And also if that she feels that you know if
		

			she doesn't do so that her husband might you know turn away from her or find interest in other maybe
another marriage or something and she's gonna have issues or problems in this case he says for your
Judah lick the mfe human and masala hottie it is allowed for her to beautify herself by shaping her
eyebrows because there is a clear benefit to be gained over here. Just like this is still this is
still called a journey. Just like it is allowed for her to wear beautiful clothing and to wear good
perfume and to wear the most expensive garments or primary or whatnot and to be playful and to be
jesting and joke for joking with her husband. All of these are encouraged for her. And therefore
		

			this type of the Father Gilani father had landed on the base of the law while he was sending them
Almudena massage. I don't know what the Aradhana botanical layer is, why'd you hint a little fool
Judy be in? Well, maybe they hint. The learner in the Hadith is for the ladies that are doing it,
for prostitution for other men to come to them that are not their husbands. Notice, this is the
rationale we talked about right from the time of the Sahaba, right word of prayer, also looking at
the reasoning and then saying, okay, the reasoning is the prostitution. And therefore when it's not
done for that, because it's no longer assigned. That was something that was assigned back then these
		

			days. As you are aware, it is no longer assigned just for one class of ladies. And so I will
Cardinal Janani says if a woman does it for her husband, the learner cannot be upon this lady. And
it's not just Abdulkadir Gilani, one of the greatest humble Ulema of his era, the great Adam and the
great scholar infinite Josie, he also has this same position. In fact, you shouldn't even know Josie
actually has the largest book ever written in the humbly school about women overall, he has commonly
said the rulings about women it's like 400 500 volumes, the edition that I have, and it's all about
the rulings of women and the blessings of women and you know how to treat women that Hadith about
		

			women. It's a very interesting book as a whole book about basically the treatment or the common miss
out and he himself he has a section obviously in this book about this idea, and even a Josie and
again I ask those brothers that are in their eagerness they want to just refute by quoting some
modern scholars of one land, would you would you consider Ave Josie to be somebody who rejects
Hadith to be somebody who's a modernist or progressive even though Josie This is of no Josie Edna
Josie writes this, listen to this. That's the apparent meaning of these ahaadeeth seems to be that
the the prohibition of these things is unconditional. That's the apparent meaning. He says that it's
		

			very clear. And that unconditional understanding is what even Masood himself derived from this. So
he admits there is an opinion out there. And that opinion is that there are no circumstances where
this is allowed. And that's a win win solution.
		

			Have you excellent. Then he goes and it is also possible to interpret this hadith in one of three
ways. Okay, there's another opinion as well. This is no Josie The first of them that this was a sign
for prostitutes. This is Josie saying I think that ghannam inshallah, if I get off this was a sign
for those that are seeking to seduce men, so the law is for them, not for the action, but for the
deed the lifestyle what they are doing, number one, number two, he goes one can also interpret that
this is for ladies now again you have to remember back then, you know the veil sometimes even the
face covering would be put. And so women when they're single, they might want to portray themselves
		

			to be other than how they look. And so the second is that there is a type of deception that is being
done. The lady should be who she is when the suture comes to see whether she wants to propose or not
The both of them should know how they are. So this is the second thing that there is a type of
deception he goes that is also not allowed. Number three, he said for the tattoos This is not for
the number that number three is that there is a permanent change to the creation of Allah like in
the tattoos, this is not has nothing to do with the finger. So it goes as for the the the eyebrow
thing, so we must interpret it for your kuno Heidi to know more than I had the other word Hainan
		

			overlain, the Hadith of the plucking of the eyebrows, we should understand it and one of the first
two categories either it was meant for women of ill repute, or it was meant for those that are
trying to deceive a suitor when they are single, and they want to deceive somebody that they look
different than they actually look then no, Josie says my own teacher and then multi, he would say
and this is the humbling method, he would say that if a lady takes from her hair of her face for in
order to beautify herself for her husband, right, the zoji her father back surgery he there is no
problem for that. The problem comes when a person comes to propose and he doesn't know what the lady
		

			looks like and she tries to deceive him. You know what they might be covering or what not sure she
tries to deceive him in that manner that would be problematic. Now again, this is yBnL Josie What
are you going to do about this? This great scholar Edna Josie that is in the hanbali method. The
Shafi school was much more explicit actually this is the photo of the shadow fairy school, the sharp
fairy school, they understood this idea by and large to apply to single ladies that are trying to
deceive or trying to portray themselves other than they are they explicitly allowed married ladies
to beautify themselves for their husbands and they said this is the goals of the Sharia. Why
		

			wouldn't we want to lady to beautify herself for her husband, and one of the great icons of the
Shafi school. What are the who died 450 hedgerow, of course he is the author of how we will be one
the encyclopedias of shaffir. If he explicitly says that if the lady is that is oh Jin, follow the
article is Zenith in the zoji ha, that for her desire to harm in if a lady does this to beautify
herself for her husband, this is not how long why he says the end Mr. Murata. The Zenith literally
is OSHA, the woman is required, she is obliged to beautify herself for her husband. This was also
the position of Imam Al ghazali. Also the shofar is called the famous Silicon Valley and other
		

			scholars as well. Now again, you will find some of the show very messed up that they did not they
did not allow this so that's fine as well. But this is the default of the of the position and in
fact, in half of them unhedged himself the great shafr authority in the Patel body, he basically
says that, if the husband allows this and approves this, then it is something that is allowed to do
it is something that is allowed to do therefore, you now have the shuffling method as well allowing
this and as for the Maliki's, again, you have a number of Maliki's allowing this as well, I'll call
the reality himself mentioned the narration of our issue about this issue of allowing some people to
		

			pluck and the the the medicus color either way, he says if I were to call him that when you moron
Alma Tillman he at Anniston, Alabama, Xena to LA Kalamata fan, one more food is owed to her. He says
this prohibition, it will apply to those ladies only those ladies who are not allowed to beautify
themselves, right. So women who are married to their husbands, they are obliged to beautify that
navigation will not apply to them. Now, this and the same applies in the Hanafi school you will find
a number of authorities again the fatawa Hinduja of the Hanafi school it allows the married lady to
beautify herself, her husband in this regard, and yes, you will find some nephews who also follow
		

			even Mr. Woods fetch word that doesn't allow it unconditionally. Now therefore
		

			to to to conclude our quote you the modern encyclopedia, the most who I feel clear, which is a
modern encyclopedia written by a group of lemma that volume 15, page 69. They say
		

			the majority of scholars have a pined that this prohibition of the Hadeeth is not universal, it's
not unconditional, and even Mr. Rude and authority and others, they said it is unconditional. And
they said that it is held on in all circumstances. However, the majority said that it is not allowed
for a single lady to beautify herself in this regard. As for the married lady, or any lady that
requires any type of you know, if some type of issue has happened, medical issue or whatnot, then
there is no problem in her doing that. And they say this is Jim Horrell fukada majority of scholars
have allowed this because the lady is required or obliged to beautify herself for her husband.
		

			Therefore, to conclude, this first question to conclude all of this we state
		

			the concept of beautification overall, is something that without a doubt is allowed for a lady
within the confines of the shed era had to beautify herself for her husband is one of the most
important, you know, characteristics of women, they want to beautify themselves, and they should
beautify themselves, and the goals of the Shetty, I would indicate that a woman is beautiful for her
husband, and the husband is, you know, looking good for her for his wife and taking care of her, the
two of them should have, you know, that love and that care and that comfort with each other. Now,
the shediac, of course, has prohibited certain types of things that are held obviously, you know,
		

			you cannot do things that would be permanent, such as a tattoo because that's a complete change.
However, generally speaking, a woman's personal preferences have hair and makeup and jewelry and
clothing and style, generally speaking, the shadow is silent on that. And so the shed er has allowed
the lady to dress up especially in the privacy of her house in a manner that is pleasing to her
husband, and vice versa, the husband should do the same. Now this hadith comes along. And our
scholars from the very beginning of time will call Bobby Abner, Josie, you know, a little bit now
Sure. They're trying to understand that. Even if sometimes we don't understand Allah's wisdom,
		

			that's definitely not not a problem. We don't know why we do throw off seven times we just sit here
now. Well, Aparna, totally understandable. But here we have something that as our scholars say, when
the reward or the punishment doesn't fit the crime, we have to think a little bit more. Why would
the Latin Come on plucking some hair from the face? And that that question has been asked by many
great aroma of the past. And the response seems to be very obvious to many rula. I just quoted you
some of them in today's lecture. And that is that the learner or the curse of Allah was not on the
action of plucking the eyebrow, it was on its association with that lifestyle that was well known,
		

			and everybody who did that was known to be of those who practice that lifestyle. And that's why the
nine that came now, that makes complete sense. Therefore, when the cause does not exist anymore,
when a lady is doing it, not for that reason, and she's doing it in a halal manner to satisfy her
husband does this same ruling apply. This is where we now see so many great Roma have difference of
opinion. And we have the shaft very method. And we have no Josie and we have called the reality of
the Maliki's. And we have some of the enough and we have Ahmed himself. By the way, of course, he
did not. To be clear, as I said, Mr. Mohammed allowed the shaving, which is again, if you want it to
		

			be humbly, then you may fall to that position, that don't pluck it, the shave at the point that you
will get the same thing done. his point was just to any we don't know why he just Allah has, you
know, curse the plucking, so then don't pluck but do anything else that you want. So, again, if you
want it to fall to that position. Now, the other position, which is urban Mr. Woods position is of
course dominant in one strand of modern Islam that claims to follow the self. And that's not a
problem. There's no problem following that trend, that strand or that interpretation, because even
Massoud was also the one who followed it. My issue or my complaint or my criticism is in the
		

			condemnation of the other opinion as having no merit whatsoever. And this is the problem of
basically fanaticism and intolerance. I've just quoted you great dilemma from the past these were
not you know, modern people who are liberal and Western or taking from the KU Fars or America,
England These are great wrote them up, even though Josie as I said, from within the humbly tradition
and all of these are in America and again as usual, this is a smaller lecture. And So bottom line,
if you wish to follow the shaft very position and many other odema at for the married lady to
beautify herself for the city.
		

			Have her husband, then inshallah you have great precedents and there should be no problem in that.
And if you wanted to follow the more conservative opinion, and you wish to be on the safer side and
err on the side of caution and follow a business rules position in this regard rather than I should
not be allowed in this position, you definitely have precedents and that's something that definitely
again, no problem in doing that, but they respect the other position, understand the other position
is there. Now that having been said, none of the scholars allowed it for the lady that was not doing
it for her husband. So please understand this point, let us stick with our tradition and not, you
		

			know, completely changed rapidly, no reason. None of the scholars allowed it for the lady to
beautify herself for people that are not in basically her husband. So you understand this point
here, that we're not going to open that door. We're talking about married women to beautify
themselves for their husbands. Then in sha Allah there is concession from the time of I should have
the law of wine, and other than that, definitely, we should stick with the traditions as much as
possible and Allah subhana wa tada knows best