What is the ruling on shaving the beard?
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Question:
He says: Since Allah is beautiful and loves beauty, is shaving the beard not an act of beauty?
Answer:
That is the opposite. Beauty lies in keeping the beard. Allah made the beard a beauty for men. You see the difference between the bearded man and the shaven one. You find that the bearded man has beauty and radiance, because Allah placed beauty in it. And you find that the shaven man’s face is like a woman’s face, not like a man’s face. But this is a calamity and a trial, a trial with which he has been tested. Otherwise, if he thought and looked in the mirror and saw his face, he would realize that he had made a mistake. Allah adorned him with a beard, and then he goes and shaves it off, becoming like a woman or like an old woman. That is not right. But perhaps, as the poet says, it is decreed upon a person in the days of his tribulation that he sees as good what is not good. Allah the Exalted says:[Fatir 35:8] Therefore, it is obligatory for those who have been tested with shaving their beards to repent to Allah Mighty and Majestic, to return to the right path, and to leave their beards, because they are their beauty, their adornment, and their manliness. Yes.
He says: Since Allah is beautiful and loves beauty, is shaving the beard not an act of beauty?
Answer:
That is the opposite. Beauty lies in keeping the beard. Allah made the beard a beauty for men. You see the difference between the bearded man and the shaven one. You find that the bearded man has beauty and radiance, because Allah placed beauty in it. And you find that the shaven man’s face is like a woman’s face, not like a man’s face. But this is a calamity and a trial, a trial with which he has been tested. Otherwise, if he thought and looked in the mirror and saw his face, he would realize that he had made a mistake. Allah adorned him with a beard, and then he goes and shaves it off, becoming like a woman or like an old woman. That is not right. But perhaps, as the poet says, it is decreed upon a person in the days of his tribulation that he sees as good what is not good. Allah the Exalted says:
Then is one to whom the evil of his deed has been made attractive so he considers it good [like one rightly guided]? For indeed, Allah sends astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills
أَفَمَن زُيِّنَ لَهُ سُوءُ عَمَلِهِ فَرَآهُ حَسَنًا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُضِلُّ مَن يَشَاءُ وَيَهْدِي مَن يَشَاءُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم حلق اللحية؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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