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As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.  (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)

One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

Assalaamu Alaikum Waharamatuallahi wabarakhathu.

Dear Brother in Islam,

My friend has a beauty saloon, and they do plucking the eyebrows. They are very much aware of that, its haraam to do. She says that if we don't do that we are loosing the customers and we have to survive. So what ever she earns form doing eyebrows she keeps separately and giving it to charity.

I think that when we know something is prohibited to do, we should not do that, because Allah swt doesn't like it, so main thing is to obey Him.

My question is that:

1. When we know that its prohibited, so doing the same don't we disobeying Allah?

2. Is it ok to give that money to charity?

3. Doesn't it better them to ask Allah swt to give them some other halal source of living?

JazaakAllah Khairan.

Sister in Islam

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Answer:

Plucking eye brows

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Sahih Al-Bukhari 7.815 Narrated by Abdullah

Allah has cursed those women who practice tattooing and those who get themselves tattooed, and those who remove their eye-brow hairs, and those who create a space between their teeth artificially to look beautiful, and such women as change the features created by Allah. Why then should I not curse those whom the Prophet (saws) has cursed?

Q-1: When we know that its prohibited, so doing the same don't we disobeying Allah?

To intentionally indulge in anything which has been clearly prohibited by Allah and His Messenger (saws) is indeed to transgress the boundaries of obedience in Islam, and a heinous sin in the Sight of the Lord.

Q-2: Is it ok to give that money to charity?

Sahih Muslim Hadith 2214 Narrated by Abu Hurayrah

Allah's Messenger (saws) said: ‘O people, Allah is Good and He, therefore, accepts only that which is good!’

If one expects to earn the Pleasure and Good Will of their Lord Most Gracious in performing the worship of charity, then it is absolutely imperative that the money spent in charity be earned from lawful sources; for Allah Subhanah does not accept charity earned from unlawful and illegal sources.

Q-3: Doesn't it better them to ask Allah swt to give them some other halal source of living?

Without an iota of a doubt, the supplication of a believer who sincerely fears Allah and the Last Day must always be to implore the Lord Most Bounteous to provide them their livelihood from lawful sources and make it sufficient for them.

Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 4.131b

Ali related that he heard the Messenger of Allah (saws) supplicate: 'O Allah, make Your lawful bounties sufficient for me so as to save me from what is unlawful, and from Your Grace grant me sufficient abundance to make me free from the need of all except You'."

Related by Tirmidhi.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan