Some object and say: Some Jews let their beards grow, and it was mentioned in the hadith (… differ from the Jews …).

The Shaykh : We also get an objection here: the Jews are growing their beards, and these are the ones they call what?

The questioner : The beetles.

The Shaykh : The hippies, and that is a fashion from a few years ago that may have passed long ago, because the fashion among them has become to return to nature. They do not believe in Allah, His books, or His messengers, but in nature. What is nature? They actually saw with their own eyes that the woman is different from the man, and the man is different from the woman. If it is necessary to return to nature, they returned to nature. So here arises a doubt from some people: "My brother, the Jews, the hippies, many of them are disbelievers, and they are growing their beards." This is a doubt, as the jurists say, that is sufficient to mention it to refute it, and it is weaker than a spider’s web. Why? First, we say that this growing of the beard by these disbelievers is like black hair on the skin of a white bull, meaning a very small proportion of disbelievers who grow their beards. Second, here it is one of two things: either the Muslim imitates the disbeliever, or the disbeliever imitates the Muslim. Which of the two is stronger for our religion, our Islam, our customs, and our Islamic traditions? That we imitate the disbelievers, or that the disbelievers imitate us? There is no doubt that it is established in the philosophy of history, as they say in this age, "that it is the nature of a weak nation to imitate a strong nation," and not the reverse; the strong nation does not imitate the weak nation, because this nation has no weight in their eyes. And conversely, the weak nation, which feels its weakness in all aspects of life and looks with reverence and magnification at another nation, tries to do what? It imitates this great nation.