Can You Wear Makeup During Ramadan

27 Apr, 2021

Q As-salamu `alaikum. What is the ruling apropos women'southward using cosmetics (makeup) during the daytime of Ramadan?

Respond

Wa `alaykum as-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

In the Proper noun of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

In this fatwa:

1- Information technology is permissible for a woman to adorn herself for her married man on status that no non-mahram man should see her adornment. Muslims apply the daytime of Ramadan to worship Allah so that they may purify their souls.

two- A Muslim woman's fast will not be invalidated if she adorns herself for her husband, merely she may avoid such things in consideration for the sacredness of the blessed calendar month of Ramadan.

In responding to your question about wearing makeup in the daytime of Ramadan, Dr. Muhammad Ahmad Al-Musayyar, the late Professor of Islamic creed and philosophy at Al-Azhar Academy, states:

The month of Ramadan is a period of time during which Muslims savour spiritual purity and deed like the angels and refrain from all or some of their physical needs.

That is why they refrain from food, drink, and sexual intercourse from dawn until dusk, only for the sake of Almighty Allah.

Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said "All the deeds of a son of Ada:m are multiplied: a good human action (is multiplied) ten times the like thereof, upwardly to 7 hundred times. Almighty Allah said, 'Except fasting, which is for Me and I reward for information technology. He leaves his food and lust for Me.'" (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

This refraining from all or some of the concrete needs and satisfaction of desires is a Shar`i objective.

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The Messenger of Allah swore that the change of the smell in the oral fissure of a fasting person will be meliorate than musk in the hereafter. He said,"Past Him in Whose mitt Muhammad'southward soul is, the smell coming out from the mouth of a fasting person is amend in the sight of Allah than the odor of musk" (Al-Bukhari)

Therefore, a Muslim adult female who avoids such necessities of life as nutrient and drink during a sure menstruation of time in compliance with the divine command would non find whatever impairment or difficulty in refraining from excessive use of cosmetics, in consideration for the etiquette of fasting, the sacredness of this month, and the celebrity of the fasting as a religious obligation.

Nonetheless, everybody should bear in mind that a woman's adornment must be for her husband and can be seen only by hermahrams (close male blood relatives).

If she violates this rule and reveals her adornment to non-mahrammen, she volition exist committing an act of disobedience and will have gone against Allah'southward control.

More important nevertheless, this contravention is multiplied if done during the glorified calendar month of Ramadan. This is included in the post-obit saying of the Prophet: "Whoever does not give up false speech (lying and the similar) and evil actions, Allah is not in demand of his leaving his food and drink" (Muslim)

The faux speech and evil deportment referred to in the above hadith include all acts of defiance.

Finally, all Muslims should be great on making use of the opportunities available through the divine gifts and grants so that they may have happiness in this world and in the afterlife.

Allah Almighty knows best.

Editor'due south note: This fatwa is from Ask the Scholar's archive and was originally published at an earlier engagement.