What is the ruling on a nose cosmetic surgery if it is prominent and causes psychological harm and negative comments from others, and is this considered a disfigurement that permits the procedure, given the fear of the curse mentioned in the hadiths?
Standards of beauty vary, and ugliness or disfigurement have two extremes and a middle ground. A prominent nose may or may not reach the degree of disfigurement. What is customary among people determines what is unsightly and what is not. If a prominent nose causes psychological harm, it is Islamically permissible to undergo cosmetic surgery to remove the disfigurement that causes this harm, based on the decision of the Islamic Fiqh Academy. However, cosmetic enhancement surgeries that do not fall under medical treatment to alter normal creation are forbidden. It appears that the prominent nose has reached the point of disfigurement since it causes distress to the questioner.
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