Why Tattoos are NOT Haram by Mufti Abu Layth

was a question there about tattoos the thing is look with tattoos there is a so I think there's some difference of opinion it's not much I've heard that this some I think within the Maliki method I think Zanotti and I think even our fee slightly and where they said they felt it may have been mikaru and not Haram but I think in general the all amount didn't recognize it as and they felt it was Haram but the thing is tattoos I don't know that's a tricky one I think it's it's a lengthy one which we haven't really got too much time for right now but I think in general there

was an interesting some interesting points made about why tattoos traditionally were actually used that tattoos today are for kind of like I mean actually even today they're kind of used as a kind of affiliation but they used for things like generally folk for for kind of like an adornment light of beauty so people want to kind of odd to mark themselves in a particular way how traditionally tattoos were used to brand cattle and slaves this was one point which was interesting and that nobody is a slave except to Allah and it

so there was this understanding although slavery you know did exist and in mind the way I've explained this before is Islam did set out through trajectory hermeneutics to rule this out but anyway and another thing that tattoos were used for was to one it was to brand people - it was used to kind of mutate and disfigure people and it was done in a or you belong to this set of people and now you must be known as these people because you carry the mark cease of tattoos weren't the way they're

perceived today the question then is that how ok will that have changed now that it's become an issue of beauty I don't know is the end historically because it wasn't like this none of the ulama fought too hard about it one thing we know is several tribes historically like certain Berber tribes and so on for centuries and centuries always had tattoos the Illuma didn't actually go so mad about them and didn't really condemn them or didn't really do anything just

recognized it as their way that it was this particular tribe and like a mages so he opened a lot of questions some my Lakia saw that it was my crew and not haram but the majority the people didn't feel in me to discuss it otherwise and therefore they left it as haram tattoos in general people feel are forbidden but some of the male kiya have differed with that and they felt it's only makrooh and not haram Rafi has an interesting comment on that and he's quoted by sure I will hasanul either we in his hashey

on the Rossella where he where he quote curavi is well stating that look it doesn't he says I only saw the you know he says I only saw the Hana fear and the Maliki sorry the Chevy and the Molly Kia giving their reasons for these Haram things in this hadith to be you know the famous hadith with a woman who changes herself plucks her eyebrows and so on he says that I found that to be the justification that the Maliki's in the Shaffer is gave was that deception and from fraud but he said I found that not

really to make sense and he said and it definitely didn't make sense with tattoos and as to being changing the creation of Allah he said well if it's for beautification then how can that be included because trimming the nails cutting the hair removing hair around the private parts stuff like this he said is all also changing the creation of Allah so he said that and he includes in that circumcision so if you weren't allowed to change the creation of Allah why do why do God he's is only okay Soho not down with the we don't agree with the female circumcision

but guys only why do people circumcise are they not changing the creation of Allah if that argument applies if Allah wanted ask like that he could have created us circumcised that's so the point is every time people saw what Qaddafi is saying here is that not everything is he's a kind of not every alteration is negative so when people freak out all the time oh my god put up the eyebrows oh my god creation changing the creation of Allah well if she looks like this like Cyclops

one eye then I think not changing I think plucking that is having mercy on the creation of Allah why do you want to freak everybody out for God's sake so hell yeah pluck those eyebrows and in this a transmission from iShare she said that if the if the daughters of she said Abdul Rahman meaning her family and so on had Harry had kind of hid facial hair that was slightly excessive she would have removed it but they didn't and you have to remember something that the the prophet salaallah solemn his people the

Arabs especially of that time were not a kind of hairy people tattoos I have highlighted before that look although there yes there are those hadith with the professor Allison and cursed people but certain olomana from the school of Medina from the Maliki mother did say that they understood them not to be Haram okay and this is the way that a man puffy kind of bears that way and some other people as well people like even as they yet and these other Maliki's and this is why you see a lot

of the the kind of Berber tribe women in the mothership they would a lot of them would have these little tattoos and stuff like this but there is I have explained in much detail look you have to understand that the whole backdrop to tattoos and that is that tattoos originally yet the Amasya the amazi yep you're right absolutely Robin historically tattoos were not a fashion statement so in the time of the Prophet tattoos were things to brand people or

cattle and you either the the branding took place either with slaves to say he or she is my property all with animals to say that is my property so it was done as a kind of a brand it wasn't done to as a fashion statement so it's very important to understand the context in which the Prophet spoke when he said these things were Haram now and it stayed like that throughout a huge part of human history

this is why all tattoos were done as tribal kind of like as an act of tribal solidarity that we are this tribe we will have certain tattoos marks but those tattoos were not fashion tattoos so somebody having a done our picture of a small rose or things like this these kind of things were not generally done I'm not saying nobody may have done them but this was not how the world did things with tattoos some of the berber women that did have tattoos or in Pakistan you see even today the elderly women and maybe from like I would feel like my grandmother's Eva they used to

have small kind of tattoos sometimes on the chain and things like this and sometimes on their hands a few marks and things like these these things were done just as kind of play into kind of there was they might have been seen as maybe an act of beauty but they weren't really beautiful the the tattoos not saying that about my grandma I'm sure she was beautiful in her time but the thing is so our aha Thoros Loco all right Lauren yours right the thing is now that was just somebody writing

their messaging about the the Mexican or the the Latino gangs I gotta say you know I I find the the culture from a distance from a safe distance so like wow like in Creegan because I'm learning Spanish and I'm going through a lot of these these kind of Latino things so it helps with my Spanish and it's just it's just it's like a different world but I gotta say from a distance it seems so cool the Southsiders em man they got all this stuff going man

but crazy brutality man crazy I'm not trying to glorify at all I totally disagree and condemn violence people absolutely absolutely utterly condemning right so coming back to this so this is why the people like 'mom kerothi he argues this concept and thematic he had said that things in that hadith were speaking about a woman in her aid there the widower who the the widow who's going through sorry the widow who's going through a state of mourning that she refrains from threading her eyebrows and doing things like this plucking here

and tattoos and stuff like that okay so I hope that's of some help so it is permissible in my understanding