QUESTION:
Is it permissible for a girl who is unmarried to dye her hair? Are there any restrictions to dying the hair? If you don’t have grey hair, are you allowed to still dye the hair ?
ANSWER:
- In regard to dying the hair, if the dye does not contain any impermissible ingredients, whilst at the same time it is permeable (meaning it is of such a nature that water penetrates through it), then too one should refrain from dying the hair due to the reasons listed below:
1.1. In the Hadith we learn that white hair is dyed, whilst dying black hair is not proven. This simply means that young people whose hair hasn’t yet turned white should refrain from dying their hair.
1.2. Most young people that dye their hair do so in emulation of the west as it is the fashion or style of the time.
1.3. By dying one’s hair (particularly young people with black hair), one squanders his/her wealth and exceeds the bounds in beautifying themselves.
1.4. In our times, the trend of dying the hair in different colours resembles the ways of the Kuffar and transgressors. From a medical point of view, experts have written that chemical-based dyes utilized nowadays harm a person in the sense that it causes the roots of the hair to weaken and ultimately the hair starts falling away.
Re:- Fataawa Darul Uloom Zakariyya pg.423 vol.7
ALLAH TA’ALA ALONE IN HIS INFINITE KNOWLEDGE KNOWS BEST!
ANSWERED BY:
Maulana Ahmed Saeed
Date:- 29 Jumādal Ula 1445 / 13 December 2023
CHECKED AND APPROVED BY:
Mufti Mohammed Desai Saheb
