Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh

 

For the first and the second questions, sperm is pure. It has been related by Muslim in his Sahih from ‘Aa’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) who said: I remember scratching sperm from the garment of the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon) thoroughly, then he prayed in it. Her not washing of sperm and just scratching is an evidence that sperm is pure.

 

Based on this view, if a woman swallows sperm, it does require having a ritual bath. It is sufficient to clean her mouth by just washing it.

 

For the third question is on shaping eyebrows. Shaping eyebrows by trimming, shaving or plucking their edges is prohibited because it involves changing the creation of Allah and following the Satan in his tempting of mankind to change the creation of Allah as it is demonstrated in Quran 4:116-119.

 

According to the report related by Al-Bukhari and Muslim, Ibn Mas`ud, said: “Allah has cursed the women who do tattoos and those who have this done, the women who pluck eyebrows and those who have this done, and the women who file their teeth and change the creation of Allah.” Then he said: “Should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) cursed, when it says in the Qur’an ‘… And whatsoever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatever he forbids you, abstain (from it)…’Quran 59:7”.

But if a woman suffers from abnormal growth of the hair of her eyebrows, she is, then permitted to treat it in the appropriate way. It does fall into meaning of the hadith we have just quoted. She, in this case, does not change the creation of Allah but she reforms it to its normal and original shape.

 

Moreover, there is no problem if a woman colors a apart of her eyebrows to be very close to the color of her skin. It does not fall into the prohibition of trimming or shaping eyebrows.

 

Almighty Allah knows best.