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Is it permissible, from a Sharia perspective, to perform a breast augmentation surgery due to its small size, which causes psychological suffering and embarrassment before the husband, when the aim is for the woman to be like other women, not for increasing beauty?

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A previous fatwa clarified that breast augmentation through surgery is forbidden (haram), because it is an alteration of Allah's creation, and whoever does so is cursed.

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