Is it permissible for a Muslim to shave his beard due to the pressure exerted on him by state authorities?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : Shaykh, currently the youth in Egypt, given the pressures that are happening, with killings and executions every day, their scholars there are issuing fatwas that they should shave their beards. What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh : They should migrate to other countries.
The questioner : They should migrate, not shave.
The Shaykh : No, it is not yet their turn; they are preventing them from entering mosques, like in Algeria.
The questioner : What remains in Egypt is that they are preventing them from entering mosques.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What remains in Egypt now is that they are preventing them from entering mosques now; they have prevented them from recording anything, any tapes, anything is forbidden from being recorded.
The Shaykh : They should migrate to other countries.
The questioner : They should migrate, not shave.
The Shaykh : No, it is not yet their turn; they are preventing them from entering mosques, like in Algeria.
The questioner : What remains in Egypt is that they are preventing them from entering mosques.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What remains in Egypt now is that they are preventing them from entering mosques now; they have prevented them from recording anything, any tapes, anything is forbidden from being recorded.
Source
www.al-albany.com
The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.