Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

hundred and eighty-first (481) page of the fifth volume of Ibni
’Âbidîn and in the book entitled Mejmâ ’ul-anhur that his blessed
headgear and overcoat were black on the day when he conquered
Mekka.] It is an act of sunnat to wear green clothes. With the
exception of swine, hides of all fierce animals will be clean when
they are tanned. Hides and skins of animals killed (in a manner
prescribed by Islam and) after saying the Basmala, (i.e. by saying,
“Bismillâh-ir-Rahmân-ir-Rahîm,”) are clean. Namâz can be
performed on their (tanned) hides. It is permissible for men to
wear clothes, fur coats, fur-collared coats, and headgears made
from their hides. It is not permissible for women to dress
themselves like men or to do kinds of work to be done by men. It
is makrûh for men to wear pants and trousers as long as to cover
their feet. It is makrûh to wear najs clothes when not performing
namâz. (It goes without saying that namâz performed with najs
clothes on oneself will not be sahîh.)” [It is written in the fourteen
hundred and sixth (1406) edition of the periodical that is entitled
Al-Mu’allim published by Indian scholars that when human organs
such as hands, feet, fingers, toes, noses, teeth, eyes, hearts, and
others are missing or no longer function properly it is permissible
to replace them with metal or plastic prostheses or to transplant
organs from other people, dead or living. For, it is as indispensably
necessary to save a human organ as it is to save a person’s life. It is
not permissible to eat an organ or flesh of a living person. Blood
transfusion is permissible. It is harâm for both sexes to imitate
each other in styles such as haircut, make-up, and attirement. It is
written in the five hundred and fifty-eighth (558) page of Hadîqa
that it is harâm for men to liken themselves to women by growing
their hair in a manner that it will hang over their cheeks. It is
written in the two hundred and thirty-eighth (238) page of the fifth
volume of Ibni ’Âbidîn and in the five hundred and seventy-ninth
(579) page of the second volume of Hadîqa and in the hundred and
seventy-fourth (174) page of Fatâwâ-i-kubrâ, (by Husâm-ad-dîn
’Umar bin ‘Abd-ul-’Azîz ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’, 483–536 [1142],
Samarkand,) that it is not harâm for a woman to fasten human hair
with a piece of thread or cloth ribbon to her hair instead of plaiting
it in a mixed braid with her own hair or to add animal hairs. It is
concluded that it is permissible to use false hair that is called a wig
and eye-lashes made from human and animal hair or from threads
of flexible artificial material such as nylon; however, necessity
should not be confused with ornamentation. If something is
permissible on account of a necessity, it is not permissible to use it
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