What is the ruling on a woman cleaning her eyebrows without reshaping them?
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It is not permissible to take from the eyebrow hair, whether to thin them, reshape them, or what is called "cleaning" (removing excess hair); because that is from the forbidden namṣ (plucking) for which a curse was mentioned. Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, his saying: "Allah has cursed the women who tattoo and those who have themselves tattooed, and the women who pluck eyebrows (al-Namisat) and those who have their eyebrows plucked (al-Mutanammisat), and the women who make spaces between their teeth for beauty, altering the creation of Allah."
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