Tattoos : الأوشـــام

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The majority of the people nowadays in the western world has tattoos on their bodies, we discussed my friend and I yesterday why Islam prohibited tattoos, his obvious answer was because it cause cancer, I said no I don’t think so because I saw people having them since they were 18 or 20 and now they are old but have nothing it must be something else and that’s what drove my curiosity to look for this matter.

Let’s first dive into the history of tattooing and how it was invented; back to 1963 a set of four small tattooing equipment were discovered in an island called Tongatapu, and scientists determined that the equipment found go back to 2700 years old but, the real time tattooing invented is not known.

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What concern us why tattoos were prohibited by ISLAM and what are the disadvantages of tattooing on the human body?

From my research online and some people I discussed the subject with I found out that tattoos could cause allergic reaction of the skin especially when it is exposed to the sun in particular those tattoos that contain yellow and red ink, and sometimes small bumps that can appear on the skin because of the tattoo needle and ink.

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Regarding Islam’s point of view toward tattooing is very clear in prohibiting it, Ibn Mas'ud (May Allah be pleased with him) said: Allah has cursed those women who practice tattooing and those women who have themselves tattooed, and those women who get their hair removed from their eyebrows and faces and those who make artificial spaces between their teeth for beauty, whereby they change Allah's creation.

Allah said in his holy book Quran : And what Allah restored to His Messenger from the people of the towns – it is for Allah and for the Messenger and for [his] near relatives and orphans and the [stranded] traveler – so that it will not be a perpetual distribution among the rich from among you. And whatever the Messenger has given you – take; and what he has forbidden you – refrain from. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is severe in penalty. (AL HASHR -7)