The ruling on one who grows his beard in a foreign land and shaves it in his home country
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Question:
Peace be upon you. Honorable Shaykh, what is your view of the one who grows his beard in these lands, but when he returns to his home country, he shaves his beard because of the harassment and danger he faces? What is your advice to him in that?
Answer:
The one who grows his beard here and shaves it when he goes to his home country is one of two types. Either he is a hypocrite who displays adherence to the Sunnah here, but when he goes there, his true nature is revealed: he does not want the beard, but rather he grew it here for a worldly purpose. Allah takes charge of secrets, Glorified and Exalted is He. The second type is the one who wants the Sunnah and loves the Sunnah, and he grew his beard for the sake of the Sunnah, but when he went there, he found that they pursue the people of religion, and he feared that they would take him and torture him. This is weakness; this is cowardice. It is obligatory for a person to hold fast to his religion and hold fast to the Sunnah of his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), no matter what it costs him or what befalls him in that regard, for he is in the path of Allah and will be rewarded for it. But I do not think, I do not think, that the one who does nothing and causes no harm is being pursued. I do not think they pursue him; rather, they pursue people who engage in foolishness and do inappropriate things, so they pursue them for that reason. They may take them, or they may force them to shave their beards, because their behavior and their application of the Sunnah contain error.
As for the one who holds fast to the Sunnah and follows the correct path, I do not think they will target him. But even if they do target him, and even if he has done nothing, he is on the right path. He should be patient with this and not do anything wrong. He should be patient with it, even if they imprison him or inflict any harm upon him. He should be patient with this. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Peace be upon you. Honorable Shaykh, what is your view of the one who grows his beard in these lands, but when he returns to his home country, he shaves his beard because of the harassment and danger he faces? What is your advice to him in that?
Answer:
The one who grows his beard here and shaves it when he goes to his home country is one of two types. Either he is a hypocrite who displays adherence to the Sunnah here, but when he goes there, his true nature is revealed: he does not want the beard, but rather he grew it here for a worldly purpose. Allah takes charge of secrets, Glorified and Exalted is He. The second type is the one who wants the Sunnah and loves the Sunnah, and he grew his beard for the sake of the Sunnah, but when he went there, he found that they pursue the people of religion, and he feared that they would take him and torture him. This is weakness; this is cowardice. It is obligatory for a person to hold fast to his religion and hold fast to the Sunnah of his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), no matter what it costs him or what befalls him in that regard, for he is in the path of Allah and will be rewarded for it. But I do not think, I do not think, that the one who does nothing and causes no harm is being pursued. I do not think they pursue him; rather, they pursue people who engage in foolishness and do inappropriate things, so they pursue them for that reason. They may take them, or they may force them to shave their beards, because their behavior and their application of the Sunnah contain error.
As for the one who holds fast to the Sunnah and follows the correct path, I do not think they will target him. But even if they do target him, and even if he has done nothing, he is on the right path. He should be patient with this and not do anything wrong. He should be patient with it, even if they imprison him or inflict any harm upon him. He should be patient with this. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-02-مفتاح السعادة في الدنيا والآخرة|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (43:04)
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