Is it haram to bleach one's skin? | Mufti Abu Layth

elias all right say about women who bleach their skin you see these things i don't feel that they're haram per se just by being haram i don't think it's an issue of god getting involved [Laughter] you know this is the problem that people want god involved on everything you know it's like is god involved i don't think god is involved on these matters like this you know this is the problem people want god to micromanage

everything in telling you off and if he doesn't oh my god i don't feel that at all but i feel these other issues here which are like which are guidelines of the sharia on things like first of all health and safety on safe you know like because some of these things are not safe uh people use these then there's another whole issue of uh of low self-esteem which needs to be tackled um which is a huge which is then ties into a greater context of colorism

and people degrading you know more melanin the more melanin you've got the more you're kind of like downgraded in certain cultures tackling this on a huge issue and but these things are so huge they can never be so easily kind of eradicated you know and some cultures are terrible arty you know like the thesis culture is ridiculous you know if you are uh if you i mean i i'm i mean i'm quite dark-skinned i think so you know you will have uh compared to other i'm just saying compared to other people like i think definitely in my family amongst my

siblings but so you will have this thing of like the culture sees it as a stigma or not as a stigma but as an old dark skin or or even if it i mean if dark is relative to whatever it's darker than but there is this culture and and it does exist in other it exists in in african circles as well so you know there's this whole concept of and lighties and light-skinned guys and girls being deemed more attractive so can people

undo that culture i think it's a huge effort because there's a huge kind of like a this a mammoth of a you know of a current to go against it but i i don't feel people should give up i think people should still what they can do is try and work on their own self-esteem and that can help because they you know it's true that um um that you see you may be because some people may have been kind of on the brunt because people that do these things they obviously have been on the brunt of maybe

discrimination or insults or a social thing but there will be many people who will like that as well that will not the intel not that they like the insult but they like those skin colors there will be many people that prefer darker skin tone you know there will be it's in because it's amazing that the way creation of god is that you know what you might dislike somebody may think is absolutely amazing about you and you might be thinking no not that thing oh my god that's my not my eye not my nose not my ears not my you know not my skin

color not my teeth not my i don't know not my hair not my but some people somebody maybe absolutely may find it so adorable and sometimes these things really help as well you know like coming across if you come across people that really find something that you may maybe kind of like um you know a bit uh hiding but they find that adorable it helps a person you know calibrate their sense of self-esteem because they come to realize that well wow actually

you know it's not something to be embarrassed of it's not something to to hate or to self-hate or to and may allah make things easy for anyone and everyone who's struggling because i think it's a really difficult struggle these things but i don't feel that these things i don't i wouldn't encourage these things but i don't feel just because some things are not good or they uh you know not encouraged that they automatically haram allah is going to punish you in the health [Laughter] allah's like cha cha so you think you're dark burn him

[Laughter] how does that feel [Laughter] that would be one hell of divine sarcasm if that was the case so i don't think that's gonna happen so it's not haram so we don't need to kind of freak out on every issue about god is