My wife has a bit of bushy eye brows, which I don't like that much. Can I ask her to trim them?

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalaamu `alaykum waRahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

Nabi صلى الله عليه و سلم curses those women who trim their eyebrows. Abdullah ibn Masood رضى الله عنه reports that he heard the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه و سلم curse those women who do tattooing, those you make a gap between their front teeth and those women who trim their eyebrows, those who change the creation of Allah Ta’ala.” (Nasai 2/292 Qadeemi)

Trimming the natural hair of the eyebrows is prohibited even if it seems to be dense and bushy. If there is a real need, at the most it will be permissible to remove only the stray strands of the hair around the eyebrows.

And Allah knows best

Wassalam

Ml. Ishaq E. Moosa,
Student Darul Iftaa

Checked and Approved by:

Mufti Ebrahim Desai