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Is it permissible to trim grey hair with scissors?

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It is understood from the words of some scholars that it is disliked to cut gray hairs because it resembles plucking. Malik was asked about plucking gray hairs and he said: "I do not know it to be forbidden, but I prefer leaving it." Ibn al-Qasim said: "I do not like plucking it, and I dislike it being cut from its root, as it resembles plucking to me."

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