Dress & Attire

Q: Is growing a beard compulsory?

Q: Can a woman remove her hand and leg hairs by waxing or by razer machines or cream?

Q: I have heard that applying mehndi (hena) before eid (on the night of eid) is sunnah and will you get reward for applying it on hands and feet. Is this true according to Islam? If someone don't apply for eid or before eid, are they committing a sin? Will they get punished for it?

Q: Can a male dye his hair red or blue or any other colour besides black?

Q: With regards to your clothing going below your ankles, I was told that the condition is that it must be worn from top but jeans and pants are worn from the bottom, so how come that also falls under the impermissibility of flowing below your ankles?

Q: Is wearing the kurta Sunnah? What is the sunnah method of wearing clothes?

Q: What is the ruling on tattoos? Can a person get tattoos? I have heard that it is permissible while some say it is not. Also I want to know what should a person do if he had tattoos before he was a Muslim or if he was a Muslim but ignorant of the fact? Is there any punishment and can they offer prayer with tattoos? Can a person with tattoo perform hajj or umrah? Also should a person get his tattoo removed or not because some of my friends told me that a person is not Muslim if he has tattoos he should remove it? But what if the person can't afford to do so or if the method of removing tattoos is painful?

Q: Is it permissible to wear a turban without a tail like how the turkisih Imams wear it? If yes, will it be regarded as a Sunnah?

Q: In the Hadith a command is given to lengthen the beard and trim the moustache. I know that it is waajib to lengthen the beard, but what about the moustache? Is shortening the moustache also waajib? If not, then people argue and say that if you say that lengthening the beard is waajib, then trimming the moustache should also be waajib because they in the same Hadith.

Q: Can a woman hot wax/cold wax her hands and face hairs?