So whoever shaves or trims three, upon him is a blood sacrifice

The Shaykh : The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "So whoever shaves or trims three, upon him is a blood sacrifice". "Whoever" "whoever" is a conditional noun that necessitates the verb, "shaves" is the verb of the condition, and "trims" is conjoined to the verb of the condition, and "upon him is a blood sacrifice" is the answer to the condition. Or: any person in the state of ihram who shaves three hairs, upon him is a blood sacrifice; or whoever trims three nails, upon him is a blood sacrifice. Upon him is a fidyah (ransom payment) because the minimum number for a collective is three. And when the minimum number for a collective is three, if he shaves three, it is true that he removed the hair. And the author's statement "or trims three" is the same thing. And it is known from his statement "three, upon him is a blood sacrifice" that if he trims less than that or shaves less than that, there is no blood sacrifice upon him. But what is obligatory upon him? They said: it is obligatory for him to feed one poor person for every hair, and to feed one poor person for every nail. And this detail requires evidence. Where in the Sunnah is there what indicates that in the single hair there is feeding a poor person, or in the single nail there is feeding a poor person? For this reason, the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) differed regarding the amount for which the fidyah becomes obligatory and the amount that is less than that. Some of them said: if he shaves four hairs, upon him is a blood sacrifice. Others said: if he shaves five hairs, upon him is a blood sacrifice. Others said: if he shaves a quarter of the head, upon him is a blood sacrifice. And others said: if he shaves what removes the annoyance, upon him is a blood sacrifice. So how many are the opinions? Three, four, five, a quarter of the head, and what removes the annoyance. The opinion closest to the apparent meaning of the Qur'an is the last one, which is the madhhab (school of jurisprudence) of Malik: that there is no blood sacrifice upon him except if he shaves what removes the annoyance, meaning a shaving that is almost complete, because that is what removes the annoyance, and that is what Allah the Exalted mentioned in the Qur'an regarding it: . And he does not shave if he has an annoyance from his head except what removes the annoyance, so upon him is a fidyah. And this opinion is the most correct of the opinions. And what indicates this is that it agrees with the apparent meaning of the Qur'an; this is the first evidence. The second evidence is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) . And cupping on the head necessitates shaving the hair for the location of the cupping cups, and it is not possible otherwise. And it was not narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he paid a fidyah. Why? Because the hair that is removed for the sake of the cupping cups does not remove the annoyance; it is little compared to the rest of the hair. And based on this, we say: whoever shaves three hairs, there is no blood sacrifice upon him, or four, or five, or twenty, and this is not called shaving. But is it permissible for him to do that or not? This is the point: is it permissible to shave one hair or two, or remove them with any remover? The answer is no, it is not permissible. Pay attention, because we have a rule: obedience to the command is not completed except by doing all of it, and obedience to the prohibition is not completed except by leaving all of it. So if you are prohibited from something, you are prohibited from it as a whole and its parts. And if you are commanded to do something, you are commanded to do it as a whole and its parts. Pay attention: obedience to the commanded is not completed except by doing all of it, and obedience to the prohibited is not completed except by avoiding all of it. And based on this, we say: if shaving the entire head or what removes the annoyance is forbidden, then shaving a part of it is forbidden. But the discussion regarding the fidyah is different from the discussion regarding the prohibition. If someone asks: is it possible for something from the prohibitions of ihram to be forbidden and not have a fidyah? We say: yes, it is possible. Contracting marriage and the proposal are forbidden for the person in ihram, but there is no fidyah in them. Okay, lice: according to the opinion of some jurists, a person removing lice from himself while in ihram, they say it is forbidden, and there is a fidyah in it. Is there a fidyah or not? I do not know if you know what lice are or not? Praise be to Allah, in recent times we do not know them because cleanliness is abundant and clothes are always clean. But in the past, lice would be on the bodies and bother people. Sometimes you would find them walking on top of the clothes; they are a small insect, meaning swollen, smaller than a grain of rice, but their effect is strong; they torment a person greatly, because they bite him, then suck the blood, and they harm the person. For this reason, Ka'b ibn Ujrah was brought to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and lice were falling from his head onto his face. So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: . He said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah. So he called them "hawama" (lice). Okay, so we say in this issue, meaning the issue of what? Shaving the entire head is forbidden, and there is a fidyah in it. And shaving part of it is forbidden and there is no fidyah in it. And we raised the question: is it possible for something from the prohibitions to be forbidden and not have a fidyah? And we said: yes, the proposal, contracting marriage, removing lice, and its offspring, according to the one who considers it forbidden. And the correct view is that it is not forbidden. The correct view is that removing lice is not forbidden; rather, the person in ihram is permitted to do so for its sake. The person in ihram shaves his hair for the sake of being relieved of this lice. Okay, so the stronger opinion is that what has the blood sacrifice is what removes the annoyance, meaning what is apparent on the entire head such that the head is safe from the annoyance.