“…and He has made hateful to you disbelief, defiance, and disobedience.”

I have explained this important point at length in my book Warning the Worshipper against Turning Graves into Mosques, pp. 48–55, where I furnished several examples; the reader may consult it.

Another readily accessible illustration lies before us: in the discussion on the so-called “engagement ring” we noted that Imām Aḥmad and Imām Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh declared a gold ring for men to be makrūh. Here, too, the term denotes a prohibitive dislike, for the hadiths cited there state the prohibition explicitly. The same reasoning applies to banning a gold ring for women, because the proofs are equally clear. Hence, anyone who simply says it is “disliked” for them in fact means the sharʿī makrūh—that is, a prohibition. Reflect on this impartially.

Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam relates in The Life of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, p. 163, that ʿUmar’s daughter once sent him a pearl, asking, “If you see fit, would you send me another so that I may wear them in my ears?” He summoned her and said, “If you can put these two glowing embers into your ears, I will send you a matching pearl!”