What is the ruling on plucking sparse grey hairs from a man's eyebrows?
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Plucking gray hairs from the eyebrows or other parts of the body is disliked by most scholars. The Shafi'is, Malikis, Hanbalis, and others have considered it disliked based on the : "Do not pluck gray hairs, for they are the light of a Muslim." Some have even gone to the extent of prohibiting it.
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