Sunday, February 13, 2022

Interesting dialogue between a great Sahabi and an educated woman who challenged his fatwa on women's cosmetic procedures:

Interesting dialogue between a great Sahabi and an educated woman who challenged his fatwa on women's cosmetic procedures:

Hazrat 'Abd Allah bin Mas'ud said:
Allah has cursed the woman who tattoo and the women who have themselves tattooed, the women who add false hair and the women who pluck hairs from their faces, the women who spaces between their teeth for beauty, changing what Allah has created.

When a woman of Banu Asad named Umm Ya'qub, who read the Qur'an heard it, she came to him and said: I have heard that you have cursed the women who tattoo, those have themselves tattooed, those who add false hair, those pluck hairs from their faces, and those who make spaces between their teeth, for changing what Allah has created.

He said: Why should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had cursed and those who were mentioned in Allah's Book?

She said: I have read it from cover to cover and have not found in it.

He said: I swear by Allah, if you read it, you would have found it. He then recited: "What the Apostle has brought to you accept it, and what he has forbidden, refrain from it."

She said: I find some of these things in you wife.
He said: Enter (the house) and see.
She said: I then entered (the house) and came out.
He asked: What did you see ?
She said: I did not see (anything of that sort).
He said: Had it been so, she would not have been with us. 

-Sunan Abi Dawud 4169 (graded Sahih)

Subhan Allah, even today people argue similarly if they don't like a shariah ruling.