PLATINUM

[Hard Rock Moslem]

Man not allowed to wear accessories made from gold, how about accessories made from white gold (platinum)? Can someone help, inshAllah.

 

[amirah80]

Man not allowed to wear accessories made from gold, how about accessories made from white gold (platinum)? Can someone help, inshAllah.

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Asalamu Alaikum

Any gold wether yellow or white gold is haram for men to wear in Islam. White gold and Platinum are different in the properties that make up their structure. White gold is actually yellow gold that has been mixed with another metal and sometimes coated with Platinum or Rhodium. But, the properties of Platinum do not contain gold elements so it is permissable to wear. Below is a fatwa to answer your question but please make note because in your question you put platinum in parenthesis as if it is the same as white gold and their element differ. Inshallah this answer your question.

Is it permissible for a man to wear a ring made of platinum?

Praise be to Allaah.

We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen, may Allaah preserve him, who answered as follows:

This is allowed on two conditions:

That it is not an extravagance on the part of one who cannot afford to wear this kind of jewellery

That it should not cause any kind of fitnah (temptation), such as the man being young and perhaps causing fitnah by wearing it.

The basic principle with regard to clothing is that everything is permissible except gold rings, which are haraam for men as is well known. And Allaah knows best.


Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen