The Ruling on Opening Barbershops for Trade
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Question:
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on opening barbershops for the purpose of trade?
Answer:
What is the good in barbershops now? They have turned into a forbidden practice in shaving beards. If he prevents the shaving of beards, there is no harm. But if he says that whoever comes to have his beard shaved, that is haram (forbidden) and not permissible. Shaving the beard is haram (forbidden), and taking a fee for it is haram (forbidden). Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on opening barbershops for the purpose of trade?
Answer:
What is the good in barbershops now? They have turned into a forbidden practice in shaving beards. If he prevents the shaving of beards, there is no harm. But if he says that whoever comes to have his beard shaved, that is haram (forbidden) and not permissible. Shaving the beard is haram (forbidden), and taking a fee for it is haram (forbidden). Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب ما جاء في السحر — islamhouse.com (49:48)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.