The ruling on letting the garment hang below the ankles or shaving the beard out of fear of people
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, if a person lets his garment hang below the ankles or shaves his beard out of fear or shyness of people, is this shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
So I present to you that... Fear... is divided into three. Likewise, wood. The fear of worship, which is with it... The intended meaning... This is the voice of worship. It is not permissible for us... By the permission of Allah... or the Ka'bah. And the second type is fear of people in doing the obligatory or leaving the prescribed or the recommended; this is major shirk. The one who leaves enjoining good and forbidding evil, and leaves calling to Allah out of fear of people, this is major shirk. And the third type is natural fear; the one who fears the lion or fears the enemy, the person is not held accountable for this; this is natural fear.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, if a person lets his garment hang below the ankles or shaves his beard out of fear or shyness of people, is this shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
So I present to you that... Fear... is divided into three. Likewise, wood. The fear of worship, which is with it... The intended meaning... This is the voice of worship. It is not permissible for us... By the permission of Allah... or the Ka'bah. And the second type is fear of people in doing the obligatory or leaving the prescribed or the recommended; this is major shirk. The one who leaves enjoining good and forbidding evil, and leaves calling to Allah out of fear of people, this is major shirk. And the third type is natural fear; the one who fears the lion or fears the enemy, the person is not held accountable for this; this is natural fear.
Source
ترك الطاعة خوفا من الناس — alfawzan.live
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