Ruling on cosmetic surgery to make one taller
Question

                I have a growth problem and have not grown very tall, i am in my mid 20s and my height makes me feel really depressed i know it ist a major issue for most but for me it is and i dont want it done for beautification its very depressing being below average short. is it permissiable to increase height with cosmic surgery ?.
Praise be to Allah.
      Making a person taller is done by means of hormones and 
      treating the factors that have made one short, or it may be done by means 
      of surgery. There is nothing wrong with using the former method. 

    But with regard to surgery, it is done by breaking the bones 
    and carries a risk of fibrosis of the muscles or infection. The basic 
    principle is that it is haraam for a person to bring harm upon himself, 
    unless it is for the purpose of medical treatment. 

    Ibn Hazm (may Allah have mercy on him) said: 

    They are unanimously agreed that it is not permissible for 
    anyone to kill himself or to cut off any of his limbs or to cause pain to 
    himself except in the case of medical treatment by cutting off the affected 
    limb.

    End quote from Maraatib al-Ijmaa‘, p. 157 

    This issue was addressed by Dr. Saalih ibn Muhammad 
    al-Fawzaan (may Allah preserve him) in his letter to doctors entitled 
    “Cosmetic surgery, a combined medical and fiqhi analysis,” in which he 
    concluded that it is haraam. 

    Among other things he said: 

    It seems to me that it is haraam to carry out surgery for 
    this purpose, and that is because of the following: 

    (a)

    Increasing height by means of this technology depends on 
    breaking healthy bones, and this is contrary to what is established of the 
    sanctity of the body of a person who is protected in sharee‘ah, and the 
    ruling that it is not permissible to transgress against it by any means so 
    long as that is not for the purpose of necessary medical treatment. As for 
    merely wanting to be taller, that is not sufficient justification for 
    transgressing this sanctity. 

    And there is evidence to indicate that it is haraam to break 
    bones in such cases, as the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon 
    him) said: “Breaking the bone of the dead person is like breaking it when he 
    was alive.” This hadeeth likens breaking the bones of a dead person to 
    breaking the bones of a living person, which indicates that the prohibition 
    on breaking the bones of the living person is a definitive and established 
    ruling, hence breaking the bones of a dead person is likened to it. What is 
    meant here is that both are haraam in principle, but they are not equally 
    haraam, because transgression against the bones of a dead person is not like 
    transgression against the bones of a living person in terms of qisaas 
    (retaliatory punishment) and diyah (blood money), according to scholarly 
    consensus. 

    (b)

    Short stature is regarded as something normal among people 
    and is not regarded as a defect in most cases, and surgery to change a 
    characteristic that is regarded as normal may come under the heading of 
    changing the creation of Allah, which the texts forbid, as stated above. 

    If we assume that shortness is not a normal characteristic, 
    it cannot be treated and changed into a normal characteristic. That is 
    because the appearance of the body will not be in the right proportions. It 
    is the lower limbs that will be lengthened whilst the rest of the body 
    remains short, which will make the body appear abnormal, so this surgery 
    will not change an abnormal characteristic into a normal characteristic, and 
    if the lengthening is not a remedy to the deformity then there is no shar‘i 
    justification for something that involves breaking healthy bones 
    unnecessarily. 

    (c)

    What is mentioned above of serious complications in this 
    surgery, such as infection, severe chronic pain, and fibrosis of muscles, 
    along with the possibility that the function of the muscles may be impaired, 
    let alone the fact that the body’s appearance will not be in the right 
    proportions – all of this means that it is not permissible to go ahead with 
    it merely because one wants to look better and add a few centimetres to 
    one’s height. 

    End quote from al-Jaraahaat al-Tajmeeliyyah, p. 322 

    Based on that, you should not worry about being short and you 
    should understand that a person’s true beauty resides in his attitude and 
    good conduct. The individual’s worth is based on good deeds, not good looks. 
    So try to be accept your situation and what Allah has decreed for you, and 
    look at those who are less than you in terms of physical well being and 
    appearance, and you will realise the blessing that Allah has bestowed upon 
    you. 

    We ask Allah to guide us and you, and to make us all 
    steadfast. 

    And Allah knows best.