Is it permissible to shave the mustache completely?
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Abu Malik: ... to uproot his mustache, and he nearly shaves the skin beneath it. How did they understand this? Where did this strange understanding come from?
The Shaykh : This, my master, comes from two aspects. The first aspect is failing to combine the words of the hadith that command cutting the mustache, trimming the mustache, and shortening the mustache. The other aspect is failing to look at the practical Sunnah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), which explains the verbal statements or textual reports.
Abu Malik: Glory be to Allah! Even meaning = -- and peace and mercy of Allah be upon you -- = it is not a good appearance.
The Shaykh : May Allah be pleased with Imam Malik.
Abu Malik: Yes.
The Shaykh : And he rarely expressed satisfaction with anyone other than a Companion. He said: "Shaving the mustache is mutilation."
Abu Malik: Mutilation, yes, yes, by Allah.
The Shaykh : ... .
Another questioner : The youth are going around and around.
The Shaykh : Where are they?
Another questioner : ... .
Abu Malik: And they believe that this is not the right of anyone but them. They alone are Muslims, and the others, well, from the perspective of, I mean, what do they call it? From the perspective of, let us say, what is that there, O our Shaykh? When the Hanbali school says: by analogy, by analogy, by analogy, it is permissible to marry a Shafi'i by analogy to the People of the Book.
The Shaykh: Yes.
Abu Malik: Yes, from this perspective they say: by analogy, yes? Regarding others, we consider that these people, I mean, are possible, but they do not reach the level of, no matter how much one attains of righteousness, piety, and knowledge, he cannot compete with the lowest of them in rank in knowledge and piety. So, on that basis, we count them as the third, fourth, or fifth class of Muslims, and we treat them as we treat the dhimmis (non-Muslims under Muslim protection), having for them what we have according to their opinion, and having for them what we have for us; by analogy to the dhimmis.
The Shaykh : This, my master, comes from two aspects. The first aspect is failing to combine the words of the hadith that command cutting the mustache, trimming the mustache, and shortening the mustache. The other aspect is failing to look at the practical Sunnah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), which explains the verbal statements or textual reports.
Abu Malik: Glory be to Allah! Even meaning = -- and peace and mercy of Allah be upon you -- = it is not a good appearance.
The Shaykh : May Allah be pleased with Imam Malik.
Abu Malik: Yes.
The Shaykh : And he rarely expressed satisfaction with anyone other than a Companion. He said: "Shaving the mustache is mutilation."
Abu Malik: Mutilation, yes, yes, by Allah.
The Shaykh : ... .
Another questioner : The youth are going around and around.
The Shaykh : Where are they?
Another questioner : ... .
Abu Malik: And they believe that this is not the right of anyone but them. They alone are Muslims, and the others, well, from the perspective of, I mean, what do they call it? From the perspective of, let us say, what is that there, O our Shaykh? When the Hanbali school says: by analogy, by analogy, by analogy, it is permissible to marry a Shafi'i by analogy to the People of the Book.
The Shaykh: Yes.
Abu Malik: Yes, from this perspective they say: by analogy, yes? Regarding others, we consider that these people, I mean, are possible, but they do not reach the level of, no matter how much one attains of righteousness, piety, and knowledge, he cannot compete with the lowest of them in rank in knowledge and piety. So, on that basis, we count them as the third, fourth, or fifth class of Muslims, and we treat them as we treat the dhimmis (non-Muslims under Muslim protection), having for them what we have according to their opinion, and having for them what we have for us; by analogy to the dhimmis.
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