What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “And do not shave your heads until the sacrificial animal reaches its place”? Is this not explicit that the slaughter is to be performed before the shaving?

The questioner : He says: What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: Is this not explicit that the slaughter is to be performed before the shaving, or else what is the meaning of the verse?

The Shaykh : Yes. The saying of Allah the Exalted: means: Do not shave the head except when you have slaughtered, this is the meaning of the verse. However, the Sunnah came with the ruling that there is no harm in shaving before the slaughter. Since the Sunnah came with this, it is a relaxation from Allah the Mighty and Majestic, or it can be said: means: the time of its arrival, not that the intended meaning is that he actually slaughters it. In that case, there is no contradiction between the hadith and the verse. We have two explanations for this: The first explanation is to say that the meaning of his saying: is not that he slaughters the sacrificial animal, but that the time of slaughter arrives. The second is to say that it is meaning: until he slaughters, but the Sunnah came with the permissibility of advancing the shaving before the slaughter.
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