Is it permissible for a nineteen-year-old girl to dye her hair with black henna to cover gray hair, knowing that her natural hair color is dark brown?
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Henna does not make hair pure black, and if such henna exists, it is not permissible to dye with it due to the general prohibition against dyeing with black.
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