I’ve always been told they were but I’ve seen sole Muslims get them as well I mean where I grew up I was told if I ever did them I would be burning in hellfire so bad for even daring to tattoo them on my body and will never be forgiven for it as per as Hadith. What do you think about tattoo?
So I’ll be the first to say this is not my specialty but from what I’ve read there are at least 3 separate hadith’s that ban them: From Sahih al-Bukhari (Hadith 5946): “Do not practise tattooing and do not get yourselves tattooed.” From Jami` at-Tirmidhi (Hadith 2782): “The Prophet (SAW) cursed the women who practice tattooing and those who seek to be tattooed, the women who remove hair from their faces seeking beautification by changing the creation of Allah.” From Sahih al-Bukhari (Hadith 5937): “Allah has cursed the woman who tattoos (herself or someone else) or gets herself tattooed.”
they are pretty clear on why they view them so negatively. pretty much any permanent bodily change is frowned upon as quite a few hadith’s all link back to “not altering Allah’s creation”.
for some context the other abrahamic religions are more and more mixed but they also view it somewhat negatively though they tend to pull from Leviticus 19:28. which says : “Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.” which is historically believed to be a combination of stopping them from taking up beliefs of other popular religions that did this, and was reinforced by not wanting to emulate or imitate what were done to slaves/property of the time (slaves/property were branded/tattooed).
Hope that’s helpful!
