QUESTION:
Is it permissible for women to pray whilst wearing makeup that does not contain alcoholic substances?
ANSWER:
Yes, it is allowed to pray your salah whilst wearing makeup, provided the wudu and ghusl was performed correctly.
Extra care should be taken when performing wudu/ghusl with makeup on yourself as some cosmetics create a layer over the skin which doesn’t allow water to reach the skin. If there is a layer preventing the water from touching the skin then your wudu/ghusl will not be valid nor will your prayer be.
For a prayer to be valid, the body and clothes of the person and where the salah is offered should be clean. So if the makeup is clean and its ingredients are not haraam then the prayer will be valid.
Imam Abdullah bin Mahmood Moosli states, “and there are six obligations (before starting the prayer); (one of which is) purification of the body from the two filths (hukmi & haqeeqi) and purification of the clothes and purification of place of Salah.”
[al Ikhtiyar vol 1, page 146]
Allah knows best.
Answered by Mawlana Mohammed Kashif
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