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So when Allah gave me the body, it's only to use for a few years that I'm on earth.

After that it will decompose into the soil in the case of the vast majority.

Minhaha khalla kona kum wa fihan waidu kum wa minhan uhriju kum ta'ratan uhra

insurattaa Allah says, we have created you from the soil or the dust

and we will return you into the earth and we will resurrect you from it thereafter.

So meaning once again.

Now once we understand and realize that the body is entrusted to us by the supreme deity

who it belongs to and he wants it back, we will then realize that we are not allowed to do with it

whatever we want to do but we will only be allowed to do what he allows us to do, what he has

permitted. So for example when it comes to piercing, you cannot just pierce anywhere and everywhere

thinking it's my body. A believer doesn't look at it that way. A believer says this belongs to the Almighty

I'm not going to cause any harm to it, I'm not going to damage it to the best of my ability

and for this reason Allah says, wala tunu kobi aidikum elat dahnuka don't ever throw yourselves

using your own hands into destruction. So I'm not allowed to just pierce anywhere and everywhere

for females they're allowed to pierce there is and the piercing elsewhere is to sell out.

Some scholars have allowed a little bit more than that but let's look at the issue of tattoos.

So if I am using say for example henna or a little bit of a dye that is permeable and I'd like

to put a design on my hands or wherever else I would be allowed to a certain extent to do that

but if it is permanent then we as believers look at it by saying who gave me the right to make a

permanent change to this body of mine that the Almighty hasn't trusted me with. If I find it in the

teachings of the messenger piece be upon him I would do it if I don't I will abstain from it because

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