Major And Clear Proofs Why Botox is Not Haram in Islam
C.J Ahmed-03.05.2023
Botox is a cosmetic treatment where botulinum toxin is injected in to the face or the skin and it paralyzes the muscles not allowing the skin to sag hence preventing wrinkles to appear more visible. This procedure lats for around four months and needs o be repeated. It is generally a safe procedure and is used to fight wrinkles as you age. Botox treatments are halal for a Muslim and even hardline websites state that it is halal with a little bit of caveat (Because these guys hate making something permissible for a Muslim). The popular Islamic question and answer website which is an extremely hardline in its position, Islamqa said the following with regards to botox treatments,
“It is permissible to use botox if it is free from harm, because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “There should be neither harm nor reciprocating harm.” Narrated by Ahmad (2865), Ibn Majah (2341) and classed as sahih by al-Albani in Sahih Ibn Majah.” (Source- https://islamqa.info/en/answers/146289/is-botox-haram)
Some others have the opinion that using boox treatments changes the creation hence it is haram. I cannot understand what changes in your body whenyou take botox treatments. According to them, growing fat or slimming is also haram because by that foolish definition, you are changing Allah (swt)’s creation by growing fatter or thinner.
Answering The Foolish Argument “Cosmetic Procedures Changes Allah(swt)’s Creation
The agument opposing these kinds of procedures is that botox your body and changing Allah (swt)”s creation is haram. This argument is a very weak argument which has no basis in Islam and is based on an opinion of a companion and not what was mentioned by the prophet (sal).
Narrated Ibn Masud:
Allah has cursed those women who practise tattooing or get it done for themselves, and those who remove hair from their faces, and those who create spaces between their teeth artificially to look beautiful, such ladies as change the features created by Allah. Why then shall I not curse those whom Allah's Messenger (sal) has cursed and who are cursed in Allah's Book too?” (Bukhari)
The above hadith is the opinion of Ibn Masud (rali) and cannot be attributed to the prophet (sal). There are other variations as well.
Abdullah reported that Allah had cursed those women who tattooed and who have themselves tattooed, those who pluck hair from their faces and those who make spaces between their teeth for beautification changing what God has created. This news reached a woman of the tribe of Asad who was called Umm Ya'qub and she used to recite the Holy Qur'an. She came to him and said:
“What is this news that has reached me from you that you curse those women who tattooed and those women who have themselves tattooed, the women who pluck hair from their faces and who make spaces between their teeth for beautification changing what God has created? Thereupon 'Abdullah said: Should I not curse one upon whom Allah's Messenger (sal) has invoked curse and that is in the Book also. Thereupon that woman said: I read the Qur'an from cover to cover, but I did not find that in it. whereupon he said: If you had read (thoroughly) you would have definitely found this in that (as) Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, has said:" What Allah's Messenger brings for you accept that and what he has forbidden you, refrain from that." That woman said: I find this thing in your wife even now. Thereupon he said: Go and see her. She reported: I went to the wife of 'Abdullah but found nothing of this sort in her. She came back to him and said: I have not seen anything. whereupon he said: Had there been anything like it in her, I would have never slept with her in the bed.” (Sahih Muslim)
It was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah said: “Allaah has cursed the women who do tattoos and those who ask for tattoos to be done, those who ask for their eyebrows to be plucked, and the women ask for their teeth to be filed for the purpose of beautification, changing the creation of Allaah.” A woman from the tribe of Bani Asad whose name was Umm Ya’qoob heard of that and she came and said, “I have heard that you have cursed So and so and So and so.” He said, “Why should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cursed and who are mentioned in the Book of Allaah?’ She said, “I have read what is between the two covers [of the Qur’aan], and I did not find anything in it like what you have said.” He said, “If you have read it, have you not read that Allaah says,
‘And whatsoever the Messenger (Muhammad) gives you, take it; and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain (from it)’
[al-Hashr 59:7]?”
She said, “Of course.” He said, “He forbade that.” She said, “I think your wife does it.” He said, “Go and look.” So she went and looked and she did not see what she was looking for. He said, “If she had been like that, she would not be with us.”(Bukhari)
In all of these hadiths it is narrated by Abdullah Ibn Masud and he is attributing it to the prophet (sl) without narrating a narration directly stating that the prophet (sal) said or cursed making gaps on the teeth for women. There ar other narrations in other books of hadiths which have weaknesses and let us focus on thee hadiths. The word used in these hadiths is “al-mutafallijaat” which means to make gaps between the teeth and a way to beautify oneself and has nothing to do with Botox or any other cosmetic procedure.
Botox treatment is not haram in Islam.
Botox is a cosmetic treatment where botulinum toxin is injected in to the face or the skin and it paralyzes the muscles not allowing the skin to sag hence preventing wrinkles to appear more visible. This procedure lats for around four months and needs o be repeated. It is generally a safe procedure and is used to fight wrinkles as you age. Botox treatments are halal for a Muslim and even hardline websites state that it is halal with a little bit of caveat (Because these guys hate making something permissible for a Muslim). The popular Islamic question and answer website which is an extremely hardline in its position, Islamqa said the following with regards to botox treatments,
“It is permissible to use botox if it is free from harm, because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “There should be neither harm nor reciprocating harm.” Narrated by Ahmad (2865), Ibn Majah (2341) and classed as sahih by al-Albani in Sahih Ibn Majah.” (Source- https://islamqa.info/en/answers/146289/is-botox-haram)
Some others have the opinion that using boox treatments changes the creation hence it is haram. I cannot understand what changes in your body whenyou take botox treatments. According to them, growing fat or slimming is also haram because by that foolish definition, you are changing Allah (swt)’s creation by growing fatter or thinner.
Answering The Foolish Argument “Cosmetic Procedures Changes Allah(swt)’s Creation
The agument opposing these kinds of procedures is that botox your body and changing Allah (swt)”s creation is haram. This argument is a very weak argument which has no basis in Islam and is based on an opinion of a companion and not what was mentioned by the prophet (sal).
Narrated Ibn Masud:
Allah has cursed those women who practise tattooing or get it done for themselves, and those who remove hair from their faces, and those who create spaces between their teeth artificially to look beautiful, such ladies as change the features created by Allah. Why then shall I not curse those whom Allah's Messenger (sal) has cursed and who are cursed in Allah's Book too?” (Bukhari)
The above hadith is the opinion of Ibn Masud (rali) and cannot be attributed to the prophet (sal). There are other variations as well.
Abdullah reported that Allah had cursed those women who tattooed and who have themselves tattooed, those who pluck hair from their faces and those who make spaces between their teeth for beautification changing what God has created. This news reached a woman of the tribe of Asad who was called Umm Ya'qub and she used to recite the Holy Qur'an. She came to him and said:
“What is this news that has reached me from you that you curse those women who tattooed and those women who have themselves tattooed, the women who pluck hair from their faces and who make spaces between their teeth for beautification changing what God has created? Thereupon 'Abdullah said: Should I not curse one upon whom Allah's Messenger (sal) has invoked curse and that is in the Book also. Thereupon that woman said: I read the Qur'an from cover to cover, but I did not find that in it. whereupon he said: If you had read (thoroughly) you would have definitely found this in that (as) Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, has said:" What Allah's Messenger brings for you accept that and what he has forbidden you, refrain from that." That woman said: I find this thing in your wife even now. Thereupon he said: Go and see her. She reported: I went to the wife of 'Abdullah but found nothing of this sort in her. She came back to him and said: I have not seen anything. whereupon he said: Had there been anything like it in her, I would have never slept with her in the bed.” (Sahih Muslim)
It was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah said: “Allaah has cursed the women who do tattoos and those who ask for tattoos to be done, those who ask for their eyebrows to be plucked, and the women ask for their teeth to be filed for the purpose of beautification, changing the creation of Allaah.” A woman from the tribe of Bani Asad whose name was Umm Ya’qoob heard of that and she came and said, “I have heard that you have cursed So and so and So and so.” He said, “Why should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cursed and who are mentioned in the Book of Allaah?’ She said, “I have read what is between the two covers [of the Qur’aan], and I did not find anything in it like what you have said.” He said, “If you have read it, have you not read that Allaah says,
‘And whatsoever the Messenger (Muhammad) gives you, take it; and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain (from it)’
[al-Hashr 59:7]?”
She said, “Of course.” He said, “He forbade that.” She said, “I think your wife does it.” He said, “Go and look.” So she went and looked and she did not see what she was looking for. He said, “If she had been like that, she would not be with us.”(Bukhari)
In all of these hadiths it is narrated by Abdullah Ibn Masud and he is attributing it to the prophet (sl) without narrating a narration directly stating that the prophet (sal) said or cursed making gaps on the teeth for women. There ar other narrations in other books of hadiths which have weaknesses and let us focus on thee hadiths. The word used in these hadiths is “al-mutafallijaat” which means to make gaps between the teeth and a way to beautify oneself and has nothing to do with Botox or any other cosmetic procedure.
Botox treatment is not haram in Islam.