Grooming and Fitrah
356 questions
What is the ruling on hair highlights (mesh), and is it considered one of the types of heavy dyes that prevent water from reaching the skin and invalidate ablution?
Does highlighting the hair invalidate ablution for prayer, and is it considered an insulating substance?
Why is circumcision performed on males and females? Is this an alteration of God's creation? If the circumcised organ is the most suitable, then why did God not create humans circumcised from the beginning?
What is the ruling on uncovering the forearms—from the elbow to the palms—during the study and practice of medicine in Germany, for health reasons, given the impossibility of covering them?
Is liquid Vaseline oil and other oils applied to the body and hair considered a barrier preventing the water of ablution from reaching the skin, due to the sensation of something solid upon contact with water, or are these merely whispers (waswas)? If they are a barrier, what hair oil is not an insulator against water? And does Fairy dish soap contain alcohol, and what type of soap does not raise suspicions about containing alcohol?
What is the meaning of al-istinjaʾ, washing the knuckles (al-barajim), and al-sabṭ, and what is the difference between sunan and nawāfil and their numbers?
Is it permissible for a menstruating woman to remove body hair or trim her nails?
Is it permissible for a woman observing 'Iddah to use a comb to comb her hair, and what is the evidence for that?
Is it permissible to pluck the armpit and pubic hair while fasting?
Is it sufficient, when wiping the head for ablution, to wipe from the front to the back without returning, or is it necessary to return from the back to the front for the ablution to be valid? Do all schools of thought stipulate this? And how is it possible to return with the same water from the back to the front and wipe the ears with it, even though the water becomes used? And does Sheikh Ibn Baz’s statement that the purpose of wiping back and forth is to wipe all parts of the hair mean that the ablution of one who only wipes the front is invalid?
Is there anything else required of her after she performed Umrah while menstruating 20 years ago, and then recently repeated the Umrah after her divorce?
Is it permissible to comb one's beard in the mosque, and what are the evidences for that?
Is it obligatory for each of the two brothers, who live in the same house and share food and drink, to offer a sacrifice (Udhiyah), or is one sacrifice sufficient for both of them? And is it permissible for the other [brother] to shave his head and trim his nails if his brother offered the sacrifice?
Is it permissible to conceal the eyebrows with a substance and then draw them with kohl for a specific occasion?
How is a thin beard treated in ritual ablution (wudu') with regard to wiping (masah) and running fingers through (takhlil)?
What is the ruling on cutting the excess skin around the nails and applying nail polish over them?
Is it forbidden for men to comb their hair daily?
Is eating food or drinking a beverage into which a cat's hair has fallen unlawful (haram)? And is eating cat hair unlawful (haram)?
Is a woman's ablution valid if henna prevents water from reaching only the front of her head?
Does applying henna to the hair prevent ablution, and can one perform ablution and prayer with it on?
What are the Sunan al-Fitra?
Must the prayer be repeated if, after finishing it, the presence of nail polish residue on the nails or the uncovering of part of the neck due to a tear in the khimar is discovered?
What are the conditions for the 'Udhiyah (sacrificial animal), and is anything incumbent upon one who plucks the skin of his lips and cuts his nails?
What are the Prophetic narrations concerning bodily purity for men and women before and after marriage?