Ruling on owning, renting and renting out beauty salons for women and the ruling on working in them

In most cases women’s beauty salons are not
free of things that are contrary to sharee’ah. If they are free of these
things then it is permissible to own them, and it is permissible to work in
them. These things that are contrary to sharee’ah include: 

1.Plucking the
eyebrows, tattooing the skin and adding hair extensions or wigs

2.Using cosmetics that
contain chemicals that are harmful to the body

3.Beautifying women
who make a wanton display of themselves (tabarruj) or women who wear hijab
but leave their faces uncovered. That is helping them in their sin of
tabarruj, and causing haraam adornment to appear on them before non-mahrams

4.Looking at ‘awrahs
when removing hair from the ‘awrah or when dressing the bride in clothes
that are usually revealing

5.Cutting or dyeing
the hair in ways that resemble kaafir or immoral women

6.Using false nails or
false eyelashes

7.Putting perfume with
enticing fragrances on adorned women

8.Men putting makeup
on women! Which is an abhorrent evil

There follow some fatwas of the Standing
Committee that have to do with the things mentioned above and warning
against them: 

1.

The scholars of the Standing Committee were
asked:

Some women go to women’s salons where there
is a woman’s hairdresser, and this hairdresser shaves the unwanted hair of
other women, even the hair of the most private ‘awrah, especially before her
wedding night. The hairdresser also plucks the facial hair, and adds hair
extensions for those who want that. What is the ruling on this work? Please
advise us and explain the ruling to us, may Allaah reward you. 

They replied: 

Plucking means removing the hair of the
eyebrows. Hair extensions means adding hair to the hair on the head. Both of
them are major sins; the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) cursed the one who does them or who does one of them. It is not
permissible to uncover the ‘awrah before anyone except the husband. Allaah
says (interpretation of the meaning): “And those who guard their chastity
(i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts)” [al-Mu’minoon 23:5]. 
Part of guarding one’s chastity is the obligation to cover the ‘awrah and
the prohibition on looking at it, except for the one to whom Allaah has
permitted that, or in cases of necessity such as medical treatment which
cannot be administered except by uncovering it for that purpose. 

Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz, Shaykh ‘Abd
al-‘Azeez Aal al-Shaykh, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ghadyaan, Shaykh Saalih
al-Fawzaan, Shaykh Bakr Abu Zaid. 

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah
(17/131, 132) 

2.

The scholars of the Standing Committee said:

It is not permissible to use artificial
nails, false eyelashes and coloured contact lenses, because it is harmful to
the part of the body where they are used and because it also involves deceit
and trickery, and is changing the creation of Allaah. 

Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez Aal al-Shaykh, Shaykh
‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ghadyaan, Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan, Shaykh Bakr Abu Zaid. 

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah
(17/133) 

3.

They also said: 

There is no reason why a woman should not
adorn herself by putting makeup on her face and kohl, and fixing her hair,
in ways that do not resemble kaafir women. It is also stipulated that she
should cover her face before men who are not her mahrams. 

Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz, Shaykh ‘Abd
al-‘Azeez Aal al-Shaykh, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ghadyaan, Shaykh Saalih
al-Fawzaan, Shaykh Bakr Abu Zaid. 

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah
(17/129) 

4.

They also said: 

The basic principle is that it is not
permissible for a woman to wear perfume that has a fragrant smell if she
wants to go out of her house, whether she is going out to the mosque, or
elsewhere, because of the general meaning of the words of the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): “Any woman who puts on perfume
and goes out and passes by people so that they can smell her fragrance is a
zaaniyah (adulteress) and every eye is zaaniyah (because it looks at haraam
things).” Narrated by Ahmad, al-Nasaa’i and al-Haakim from the hadeeth of
Abu Moosa (may Allaah be pleased with him). 

Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz, Shaykh ‘Abd
al-Razzaaq ‘Afeefi, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Qa’ood. 

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah
(17/124, 125) 

If the beauty salons are free of these
things that are contrary to sharee’ah, then it is permissible to own them,
or work in them. Otherwise it is haraam to own them or rent them or rent
them out, and it is haraam to work in them. 

And Allaah knows best.