FaTiMa like W0ah, on Dec 12 2005, 02:27 PM, said:
hm...if the changing of the body like this is haram what about plastic surgery? not for beauty purposes, but body irregularities?
its halal for burn victims/congential deformities-the child is born abnormal, like a missing upper lip etc, cos thats using science to help
but for breast augmentation/ nose job...well then thats changing god's creation for vanity reasons
Following are the bases for the prohibition of tattoos in Islam.
The meaning of the verse [And obey the Prophet] (4:59, 5:92, etc.) is not that the Prophet saws is also a judge whose orders and prohibitions are law issuing from him rather than Allah Most High. Allah Most High declared the obligator ness of obeying the Prophet saws only in the sense that He made it obligatory for us to obey him in whatever he saws orders and makes obligatory for us to do. It is Allah Most High Who makes it obligatory for us both to obey and to do, except that the order for some of the acts are formulated by the Prophet saws. Such formulation is only a proof or sign of Allah's own binding order. The meaning of [And obey the Prophet] is therefore "Know that whatever the Prophet saws commands or forbids you to do, it is I Who commands and forbids you to do" as explicated in the verse [And whatsoever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatsoever he forbids, abstain from it] (59:7). Without such order, the Prophet's saws command would not have been binding upon us. Illustrating this principle is the following narration from `Alqama:
`Abd Allah ibn Mas`ud ra said: "Allah Most High curses women who tattoo others, women who have tattoo applied to them, women who have their eyebrows clipped, and women artificially tooth-gapped, all for cosmetic purposes, changing Allah's fashioning." News of this reached a woman of Banu Asad called Umm Ya`qub. She came to him saying: "O Abu `Abd al-Rahman! I heard that you cursed such-and-such." He replied: "Why should I not curse those whom Allah's Messenger saws cursed?" She said: "Lo! I certainly read all that is between the two covers [of the volume of Qur'an], and I did not find this." He replied: "Had you read it you would have certainly found it. Did you not read [And whatsoever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatsoever he forbids, abstain from it] (59:7)?" She said yes. He said: "Allah's Messenger saws forbade it."
Narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim in their Sahihs, Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah in their Sunan, Ahmad and al-Darimi in their Musnads, al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-Kubra (7:312) and Shu`ab al-Iman (6:170), Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (12:314), `Abd al-Razzaq in his Musannaf (3:145 #5103), al-Humaydi in his Musnad (1:53), and Ibn `Abd al-Barr in Jami` Bayan al-`Ilm (2:1181-1182 #2336-2337). Al-Dhahabi narrated it in al-Kaba'ir [the Enormities] and he said: "It is agreed upon [by Bukhari and Muslim]."
Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani said in Fath al-bari (10:378) in commentary of this hadith:
Nawawi said: "An exception from the prohibition of plucking away facial hair is when a woman has a beard, mustache, or hair growing between her lower lip and chin, in which cases it is not unlawful for her to remove it, but rather is commendable (mustahabb)," the permissibility being on condition that her husband knows of it and gives his permission, though it is prohibited if he does not, because of the deception it entails. End of excerpt.
Mufti Lajpuri in his Fatawa Rahimiyya declared it required (wajib) for her to pluck such hair from her face.
There is a kind of temporary metaphorical "tattoo" that is desirable for women: to dye the hands and feet with henna. Of course women also use it for the face and hair, and men for the beard. In some countries of the Borneo peninsula men also apply it on their hands and feet on the occasion of weddings, although it is actually forbidden in their [Shafi`i] madhhab. However, it would be wrong to call all this tattoo since that word lexically means an _indelible_ marking of the skin.
A man came to the Prophet, Peace be upon him, with his hands dyed with saffron. This is a removable, temporary skin ornament, yet the Prophet saws did not even return his salam. All he said to him was: Go wash this away. He went and came back, and there was a little bit left. Again the Prophet saws did not address him except to tell him to wash it away more thoroughly. So this is a lesson for men that decorating/altering the skin in such manner is not allowed.
Another factor which makes it prohibited is that tatooing is the fashion of unbelievers, and the Prophet saws said: "Whoever looks [i.e. wilfully] like a people is one of them." And Allah knows best.
Hajj Gibril
GF Haddad
i got it from here
hope that helped
This post has been edited by Blue Iguana: 16 June 2006 - 12:20 AM
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