In another weird fatwa, the Darul Uloom Deoband on Saturday issues another fatwa banning plucking, trimming, shaping eyebrows and cutting hair. The Islamic body pronounced the act un-Islamic and his directed Muslim women in the country to stay away from eyebrow plucking and hair cutting.

A Muslim man from Saharanpur had asked Daul Iftaa on Islamic laws about eyebrow trimming and hair-cutting. “Do Islamic laws allow my wife to go for eyebrow plucking and hair-cutting,” the man has sought to know from Darul Iftaa.

In response to his query, the Darul Iftaa issued a fatwa and called both eyebrow plucking and haircutting ' unislami'. “If a Muslim woman is involved in such acts then she is violating Islamic laws,” said the Fatwa in Urdu.

Darul Iftaa clarified that there are ten acts, including eyebrow plucking and hair-cutting which are banned for Muslim women under Islam. “Hair adds to beauty of Muslim women and they should never get them cut, pointed the fatwa. Issuing the fatwa, Head Darul Iftaa Maulana L. Sadiq Qasmi said that “Muslim women should stay away from beauty parlours as Islam does not permit them to have make-up attracting other male members.”

Maulana Kazmi of Darul-Uloom Deoband

“Like Muslim male are not allowed to shave under Islam, eyebrow trimming, hair-cutting and make-up like wearing lipstick, etc is also banned,” he said. “Trend of Muslim women going to beauty parlours has increased in the country. It is not a good sign and it should be stopped immediately. We should have issued a fatwa in this regard long ago,” said he.