Tuesday, August 9, 2011

But my eyebrows! Oh I give up

In al-Saheeh, it was reported that Ibn Mas'ood (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: "Allaah has cursed the women who do tattoos and those who have this done, the women who pluck eyebrows and those who have this done, and the women who file their teeth and change the creation of Allaah."

The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said:
Allah has cursed those women who modify their eyebrows or ask others to do it for them (Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim).
I recently found myself arguing over this issue, I like to clean the top and bottom of my eyebrows as well as in between but not thinning or shaping (I guess cleaning is somewhat shaping). I once saw this group of Saudi girls and my eyes went straight to their eyebrow! Oh how beautiful their eyebrows looked, so flawless and perfect! As I looked closer it turns out they lighten (bleach) the hair that they dislike to the color of their skin so you can't tell it's there. I was a bit confused and upset. Upset because I thought what they were doing was a bit sneaky and bending the rules, I mean isn't the purpose of not TWEEZING your eyebrows is to accept their shape and not to beautify the look of them for strangers? So my argument was if it's halal to bleach them then why can't I tweeze them? you get the same look, don't you? It just seemed unfair to me. I decided to face my problem instead of ignoring it. My issue became with the Saudi girls approach of lightening since I can't argue with what the Prophet said and it seemed to me as if they found a loop hole "well, we won't pluck our eyebrows but the hadith says nothing about bleaching, right?" I decided to do some research of my own and not do my eyebrows till I came to a conclusion. I stumbled upon this hadith :

The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said:
Allah has cursed those women who modify their eyebrows or ask others to do it for them (Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim).

After reading this I felt great! Since I haven't been tweezing my eyebrows I actually love them, as long as cleaning in between them is ok I'm cool with it. I know this might sound bad but I felt like I WON! True I am not gonna have the look of those flawless eyebrows the Saudi girls have but I don't care anymore.
So I give up!
I give up caring if people think I look ungroomed or if I have a few strays that are really bothering me! When I stand in front of  Allah on the day of judgment I wouldn't be able to blame my action on the Saudi girls or society cause it will be all on ME and only me.
Fighting this issue was exhausting and now that it's over I am at peace, Alhamdulillah :)

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