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Can you donate your hair to help make wigs for cancer patients?

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No, donating human hair for others to use (such as for wigs) is prohibited; synthetic hair can be used instead. hair donation, wigs, prohibition, synthetic hair, medical, charity https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bDMNq5L1_ks
So the Prophet mentioned that there was a female who asked about taking another female's hair and he prohibited it. So we're not allowed to donate hair to others to use. If anyone is having issues in terms of their hair, you can use synthetic hair, but human hair, we're not allowed to donate to be used in that form.
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