4 – Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāz also said: A man may remove the hair on his body—whether from the back, chest, shins, or thighs—so long as this does not harm him and he does not intend to imitate women, for the original ruling is permissibility. A Muslim is not allowed to declare something forbidden without evidence, and there is no proof that this is prohibited; the silence of Allah and His Messenger indicates that it is allowed.

5 – The wāshima (tattooist) is the woman who inserts a needle into a part of her own body or someone else’s until blood flows, then fills the spot with kohl or lime so that it turns green. The mustawshima is the woman who requests that this be done to her.

6 – The ḥadith shows that tattooing is prohibited and that both the one who performs it and the one on whom it is performed are under a curse; a curse is invoked only for a major sin.

7 – Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAssāf said in his book Al-Ḥalāl wa-l-Ḥarām: “Among the forms of adornment are tattooing the body and filing the teeth, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the wāshima, the mustawshima, and the wāshira (the woman who files teeth).” [Narrated by Muslim.] Tattooing disfigures the face and the hands. In addition, some people use it to draw images of their deities and symbols; nowadays we see some Christians inscribing the cross on their hands and chests.

8 – Al-Ālūsī said in Bulūgh al-Arab: “Tattooing is a baseless practice and an extremely repulsive custom; therefore Islamic law abolished it and made it forbidden because it alters the creation of Allah.”