Is it permitted to wear jewellery made of the two metals of currency, gold and silver?
It is prohibited (haram) for a sane adult male to use jewellery made of gold or silver or clothing woven with them or embroidered with them, or with buttons made from them. Jewellery itself is even more haram, like goblets and belts, even fighting implements like knives, daggers and spears. There are five exceptions to the prohibition, and their ruling is mubah (allowed): 1. Swords. It is permitted to decorate them with gold or silver, whether on the hilt or the sheath. The scholar al-‘Adawi stipulated that a precondition for allowing the decorating of the sword was that it be used for jihad in the Way of Allah. If it is for bearing it in the land of Islam, it is not permitted to adorn it. 2. Copies of the Qur’an. It is permitted to adorn them to honour them, but it is disliked to write its tenths and juz’s with it because it distracts the reader from reflecting on the meaning. As for copying down knowledge and hadith, it is not permitted to adorn them with gold or silver. Al-Barzali p
