Is plucking your eyebrows haram

Answer 1

Ok so this is just me gathering up facts that are already in my head. Gathered from many sources. I am a muslim and I've been growing around people who are muslims. Went to an Islam oriented school. Been lectured many, many times by parents and aunts and uncles and imams. I'm going to come up with two questions for you, because, who am I to answer questions like these. I'm just letting you see my light on this topic. You'll have to come to your own conclusion in the end. This may turn out to be a long post but it just has to be that way. So, sorry in advance. haha.

First, let's discuss ear piercing for muslim men. Muslim men aren't allowed to pierce their ears because it is a form of unnecessary alteration of the physical body. Altering your body physically is haram because, from what I've gathered, it means you are not content with what god has given you. But if you don't see it as being unsatisfied with what god's given you, does that make it ok?

Muslim men aren't allowed to WEAR earrings because earrings are what girls use to adorn themselves to enhance their beauty and looking like a woman is not allowed. Women wore earrings back in the day when the Prophet was around. I'm sure there was a time before women started piercing their ears and started wearing earrings. That would mean that there was a time when piercing one's ears was not what a man could do nor was it something a woman could do. What I'm getting at here is, times change. If there can come a point in life when wearing earrings is feminine, then the possibility of there coming an era when earrings can also be masculine is not implausible. That time has obviously arrived. Many men have earrings on nowadays. Now this is just a personal opinion, but I have never thought of men who wear earrings as looking feminine. So if a man does not look feminine when wearing earrings, one can come to a conclusion that it is not haram.

Back to your question. I've been talking about ear piercing because I want you to understand. As I mentioned above, there was a time before women started piercing ears. A time when no one had declared piercing ears is a womanly thing to do. Now, has any gender declared anything over piercing eyebrows?