Dress & Attire

Wearing different types of topis

Q: Zaid says that in today's time the topi has become a big fitnah. The reason he says this is because one day at the masjid one uncle gave him a topi and told him to wear this topi because its for the Shaikh. Then Zaid says everyone is wearing their own topi and following the Shaikh and they only worry about the Shaikh. 

Zaid says if one group of people are wearing a certain topi and another group of people are wearing a different type of topi then they don't even make salaam with each other. Hence Zaid concludes by saying that he knows for sure that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam at times didn't wear a topi. So from that time in the masjid when the uncle gave Zaid the topi, Zaid says he will not wear a topi till he finds the topi that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to wear. 

Zaid also says that he doesn't wear it so people won't know which of the 72 sects he is from. How do we explain to Zaid that he is confused and confusing others?

Men using facial exercises to enhance their features

Q: Is it permissible for a man to: 

1. Use facial exercises to either make his lips slimmer or bigger, or to improve their eye shape? This only trains or untrains the muscles of the face and doesn't necessarily permanently change the structure of the face. 

2. Use chin tucks to increase his jawline visibility? Chin tuck is an exercise by help of which fixes their neck posture. Effectively leading to jawline visibility. 

3. Reduce fat using lifestyle changes to get slimmer nose, or increase fat using lifestyle changes to get bigger nose, and similarly to get sharper or softer facial features?