20 January, 2023
Q
As-salamu `alaykum. I’m a 26-year-old single male. I undergo from hair loss and it’s inflicting me psychological pressure in order that I will not even go to the entrance rows within the mosque as I believe others are laughing at my bald patch. I’ve heard of hair transplantation, through which a skinny clear porous skin-like materials is bonded to your scalp by way of your personal hair. Further hair, actual or synthetic, will be added to your current hair. Are you able to advise if that is permissible, contemplating the psychological results hair loss is having on me?
Reply
Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
Within the Title of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All reward and thanks are resulting from Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
On this fatwa:
- Hair transplantation by the use of pure hair is permissible in Islam. Whereas doing so with synthetic hair will not be permissible.
- Nonetheless, hair transplantation ought to be restricted to instances of necessity when an individual suffers actual psychological or social pains.
Answering the query in level, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and Islamic scholar on the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states:
In Islam, hair transplantation by the use of pure hair is permissible, whereas doing so with synthetic hair is impermissible.
Islam prohibits us from unnecessarily interfering or tampering with our our bodies. This falls beneath the forbidden class of mutilation or distortion of Allah’s creation, which has been spoken of as a mission Devil is dedicated to partaking humankind in.
Examples of such tampering and interference are face carry, altering the colour of our pores and skin by way of surgery, likewise, and including a cluster of false hair to at least one’s hair.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) “Allah curses ladies who patch up (their pure) hair with one other patch of hair or ladies who obtain such work!” (Muslim)
Having mentioned this, nonetheless, you will need to state that Islam is in no way against resorting to remedies or drugs so as to improve Allah’s creation with out in any approach altering or mutilating it.
Hair transplantation of pure hair in such a approach that it turns into a part of one’s pure hair and grows on one’s scalp and is sustained by it’s permissible.
It is because it’s not in any respect completely different from transplanting a kidney or eyes or a coronary heart.
Simply as these transplants are permissible, to transplant pure hair that may develop and take roots on one’s head can also be thought-about permissible.
Transplanting synthetic hair, nonetheless, is completely different. Because it doesn’t develop into a part of one’s pure hair, it’s not permissible.
It is usually permissible to resort to remedies or drugs that assist pure development of hair simply as we will take drugs so as to improve our eye sight or bodily stamina, and so on.
Almighty Allah is aware of finest.
Editor’s notice: This fatwa is from Ask the Scholar’s archive and was initially printed at an earlier date.
