88. Are men permitted to adorn gold jewelry?
Prophet Muhammad prohibited men from wearing gold jewelry, but some use this verse (3:14) to justify men wearing gold jewelry.
But Prophet Muhammad’s prohibition of men wearing gold ornaments/jewelry is not against Quran,
In fact, nothing is said about wearing gold jewelry in this verse, but it talks of heaping of gold and silver at homes.
Only if it is said in hadiths that aggregating gold and silver is wrong can it be considered as contradicting the Quran verse.3:14.
Moreover, this verse does not encourage aggregation of wealth.
It only says that gold and silver heaps are made to look attractive. Even if for argument’s sake we take the verse mentioning gold jewelry, it says (gold and silver) are made to look attractive and does not mean it is admitted to heaping them.
Moreover, the phrase ‘made to look attractive’ is not used in the Quran just to mean those permissible but is also used to denote everything that is good looking for men that may be good and bad.
This can be verified in verses 6:43, 6:108, 6:122, 6:137, 8:48, 9:37, 10:12, 13:33, 16:63, 27:4, 27:24, 29:38, 35:8, 40:37, 47:14, 48:12
Thus, this verse cannot be substantiated to prove the argument that men are permitted to adorn gold jewelry.
