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Fatwa on Tattoos - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

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answered about tattoos previously that most of the scholars felt it was Haram some Oh Lamar felt that it was discouraged amongst them I believe it was people like it mister yet and curavi from the Maliki matter who argued that how could it be Haram but perhaps discouraged and that's probably the way I inclined that I don't feel that they're Haram as long as they're not entirely disfiguring so I'm I would feel that the way you get some of these gangs that kind of disfigure their faces with tattoos I would feel that is Haram but small kind of tattoos here or there that are seen as enhancement not as a kind of

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disfiguring or seen as just to kind of beautify your or women get sometimes small tattoos I don't believe that to be Haram Asst Imam karate argued I believe that to be perhaps at most discouraged

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, March 5). Fatwa on Tattoos - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/opl3bf6wzas/
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@misc{abulayth-Opl3bF6wzAs,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Fatwa on Tattoos - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {3},
  date = {2018-03-05},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/opl3bf6wzas/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/opl3bf6wzas/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}