Muslim Australian preacher criticised for claiming plucking of eyebrows is 'haram'

A Muslim convert, Umm Jamaal ud-Din, who is a teacher in Australia, during a 'fiery' two-hour sermon covering the delicate issue of female grooming, has said that it is sinful for women to pluck their eyebrows, reported DailyMail.

Din, who is an instructor from western Sydney, is also known as Mouna Parkin. She claimed that it was haram for women to pluck their eye brows, even if is believed to be hygienic.

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"You're still falling into a major sin whatever you like to call it yourself," she said in a YouTube video for her followers.

"What do the girls say? 'I'm just cleaning, I'm not plucking I'm cleaning.' That sounds great, doesn't it? Clean shaven. Sounds great but it's haram. Names of things don't change the reality," she stated in her YouTube video.

Also a teacher at the Saudi-trained Islamic College of Australia, Jamaal ud-Din converted to Islam 28 years ago and can be seen sporting a burqa with a face veil in her video.

The daughter and granddaughter of lay Christian preachers told her followers that for women, it is sinful to pluck their eyebrows just as it is a sin for men to groom their beards, under a fundamentalist interpretation of a Hadith.

In April,  Sheikh Mohamad Doar told a room full of teenage girls in Punchbowl that plucking their eyebrows, waxing their bodies or shaving was a sin. "You are not allowed the remove the hair of the eyebrow, it's a major sin," the preacher from the hard-line Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah Association said.

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"The lady who plucks her eyebrows and the one who gets them plucked, they're both cursed," he said during a question and answer session organised by Muslim charity Sisters United.

However, there has been a strong reaction from Loose Women's Saira Khan. The 47-year-old was a finalist of the first ever series of The Apprentice in 2005, and is a part of the four women panel of Loose Women.

In response to the sermon, Khan uploaded a bikini-clad photograph to her official Instagram page and captioned, “I woke up to news that a Muslim preacher is saying that ‘plucking eyebrows’ for Muslim women is a sin. 'Here’s my response – kiss my *** you backward prehistoric dinosaur!'”

One of four children from a Pakistani family, Khan has often talked about her religion and her experience growing up as a first generation immigrant in the UK.