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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Narrated Aisha (ra): The Messenger of God (pbuh)
applied kohl to his eyes while he was fasting. (Sunan Ibn
Majah, Chapter 9, Hadith 1678)

Muslim women in those days used lipstick, rouge and kohl and
painted their hands and nails with henna. Women and men used

special dyes to color their hair. Our Prophet (pbuh) used to encour-
age people to dye their hair, and even dyed his own.

Zainab said: I went to Um Habiba, the wife of the Prophet
(pbuh) when her father, Abu-Sufyan bin Herb had died. Um
Habiba asked for a perfume which contained yellow scent
(Khaluq) or some other scent, and she first perfumed one of
the girls with it and then rubbed her cheeks with it. (Sahih
Bukhari, Book 63, Hadith 251) (Khaluq is pinkish-yellow
in color and serves as a kind of rouge.)

Other hadiths on the subject are as follows:

In a Tabarani tradition it is commanded "to change the

hair color so as to oppose the foreigners." (2111)

Narrated Abu Huraira: God's Apostle said, "The Jews and
the Christians do not dye (their grey hair), so you shall do
the opposite of what they do (i.e. dye your grey hair and
beards)." (Sahih Bukhari, Book 56, Hadith 668; Sahih
Muslim, Book 24, Hadith 5245)

Anas bin Malik said, Abu Bakr dyed his hair with Henna'
and Katam (i.e. plants used for dying hair). (Sahih
Bukhari, Book 58, Hadith 257)

Anas b. Malik said, Abu Bakr and Umar dyed hair with
henna. (Sahih Muslim, Book 30, Hadith 5779)

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