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What is the ruling on removing
body and face hair.

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excluding the eyebrows by laser
for women?

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And removing hair that one is
commanded to remove.

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For men as well, by laser.
Such as underarm and pubic hair?

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First: Is it permissible for a woman.

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To remove facial hair and body hair?

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We say: as for eyebrow hair.

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It is not permissible for a woman
to remove it or even thin it.

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Rather, she should leave it
as Allah ﷻ created it.

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So long as it does not go beyond
the normal form.

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But if it goes beyond the normal form.

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Such as growing so long
that it falls into the eye.

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Or becomes disfiguring to the face.

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And this is not natural for women.

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Then a woman may remove
what goes beyond the normal form.

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because this is not altering
Allah's creation for beauty.

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Rather, it is restoring
the form to its original state.

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As for facial hair other
than the eyebrows, scholars disagreed.

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Some scholars say the cursed plucking
means removing facial hair entirely.

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But the sounder scholarly view
is that a woman may remove facial hair.

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This refers to hair growing
outside the eyebrows.

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A woman's natural state
is that hair does not grow on her face.

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So if it does grow, she may remove it.

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As for the rest of the body hair,
she may remove it. One question remains.

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And that is: may she remove
this hair before other women?

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The answer is: as for hair in areas
a woman may uncover before another woman.

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There is no harm in asking her sister
or a female doctor to remove it.

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As for hair that grows in places
she may not uncover before other women.

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It is not permissible for her
to seek someone to remove this hair.

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Because this is not medical treatment
that permits exposing the private area.

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Rather, this is a matter of
beautifying the appearance.

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And beautifying the appearance
is not medical treatment.

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Therefore, we say it is not allowed
for a woman to remove hair.

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that grows on parts she may not expose
before other women, using laser.

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Because laser hair removal can only
be done with someone else's help.

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I have heard from doctors that
so-called home laser is harmful.

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It causes damage and burns.

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Therefore, it may not be used.

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As for hair that grows on areas
a woman may uncover before women.

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There is no harm in seeking help.

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By a woman who removes this hair
for her by laser in clinics and such.

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As for men, a man may not shave his beard.

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Nor may he trim anything from it.
Even if it exceeds a fistful.

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According to the sounder scholarly
view.

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Because the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
said.

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"Honor the beards, let them grow,
and let them hang."

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As for the rest of the hair for which
no command to remove it was given.

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It seems to me—and Allah ﷻ
knows best—that it is not allowed.

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for a man to remove it
to resemble a woman.

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Unless it grows so much
that it harms him.

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Then he may trim
what harms him.

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May a man remove his
armpit hair with laser?

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Yes, if it is established
that it does not harm him.

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As for pubic hair, it is not
permissible to remove it with laser.

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For the reason we mentioned
concerning women. Allah ﷻ knows best.