By: u/ImpossibleContact218

So my mom, a pretty cultural/traditional Muslim, always forbid me from shaping/plucking my eyebrows because of the Hadith that the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) cursed those women who shaped/plucked their eyebrows.

But just now, she said she read a Daleel online that the Hadith was referencing those women who would pluck/shape their eyebrows to suggest that they were prostitutes.

Basically, plucked eyebrows were a sign of prostitution and the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was cursing prostitution.

So in that context, it wasn’t about a woman plucking her brows = hellfire.

It was: don’t emulate sex workers to attract immoral attention in a society where that meant danger, objectification, and exploitation.

Very different message.

And my mom finally agreed that plucking/shaping eyebrows is fine :D