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Sayyid Ahmed from Malaysia writes and he says that

He has heard conflicting reports about dying the hair for men dying the hair for men

What is my opinion about this issue?

So dying the hair with henna or with other natural dyes that don't imitate your natural hair color now

the Hadith mentions black and the books of Fihr mentioned black because the black color of hair was the default color for the Middle East

And so when the books of Fihr mentioned black is the controversy what they mean is the hair that you naturally have so if your hair is already yellow or you know blonde or red or you know whatever it is then the

Controversy would come can you use a dye that is matching your original hair color henna which is reddish in nature you know that it's not your skin color you know not your hair color so it is

Sunna to dye the hair with henna or with other natural dyes that are clearly not the original color of your hair our

Professors and would regularly dye his beard with henna and we are also familiar with the fact that you know the Shadya does say that

During times of you know war and confrontation that definitely the army should look powerful and young and whatever

That takes dyeing your hair that's also something that is good the question though is outside of those situations is it permissible for a man in particular to dye your hair or your

Beard black meaning the color that it originally is if you're if your hair color is black and the reason why there's a controversy is because of a famous Hadith

An incident of the seerah that the professor Allah who Ali he was said them greeted the father of Abu Bakr Abu

Qahafa and he said to Abu Qahafa that the he said to Abu Qahafa when he saw him his hair was completely white he said to the people in the

Entourage that take him back and change the white but avoid black washtenibu a sewa avoid black now based on this which is an authentic Hadith

That's where the scholars differed is that avoidance for a particular reason or is it unconditional is that avoidance obligatory or is it

Recommended to avoid okay all of these are controversies and again because this is the short round

I'll just quickly go over that you have three opinions in this regard the shafi'a school was the strictest and if you're from Malaysia

I'm assuming you're following the shafi'a school the shafi'a school said that it is haram for a man to dye his beard or his hair

Black even if it's outside of any it's you don't do that the majority position which is the Hanafi the Maliki and the humble

School they said that it is not haram but it is better to avoid it is Makru you're not sinful as long as everybody said

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