Is it true that an-Nams includes removing all facial hair, and that its interpretation as removing eyebrow hair is a weak opinion, and that the majority of scholars permit it with conditions? What is your opinion on this, what is the action cursed in the Hadith, and what are the regulations for taking from the eyebrow?
A legitimate disagreement should adhere to the etiquette of disagreement, and there is no absolute truth in it that can be denied to the dissenting party. The statement in question has two aspects:
First: Preference and choice. We are not concerned with elaborating on this as long as the disagreement does not deviate from accepted scholarly opinions.
Second: The author's rejection of a valid opinion and attributing it to contemporary scholars, which is unacceptable. For restricting the prohibition of namṣ (plucking) to the eyebrows is not a recent opinion. Indeed, Abu Dawud, the Malikis, the Shafi'is, and the Hanafis have interpreted it as related to the eyebrows. The point is that restricting namṣ to the eyebrows is not a novel opinion, regardless of the preferred view on the matter.
The jurists have agreed that plucking eyebrow hair falls under the prohibited namṣ. The majority of scholars held that plucking hair other than the eyebrows also falls under namṣ, while the Malikis, Abu Dawud, and some scholars from other schools of thought held that it does not.
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