Removing of hair from different parts of body for females if their husbands want.
Question
Respectable Mufti Sahb, Assalam-O-Alaikum. Can a woman remove the following hair if her husband orders her or her husband desires (1) Hairs upon legs and hands (2) Hairs below the chin (3) Hairs upon the chicks, face (4) Hairs in the nose coming out of the nose (5) Hairs below the nose and above the upper lip i.e. moustaches place (6) Hairs between the eye-brows
Answer
1. A female may remove all the hairs referred to in point 1 till 5. 2. It is not permissible to remove hair between the eyebrows.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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