What is the ruling on mocking the beard and shortening the garments?
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Question:
What is the ruling on mocking the beard and shortening the garments to above the ankles?
Answer:
This is forbidden. Mocking the beard, mocking the shortening of garments, and not letting the garment hang below the ankles is a great evil. Its doer may be an apostate—may Allah protect us from that—he may become a disbeliever because of it. If his intention is to mock the religion, then this is apostasy from Islam. Allah the Exalted says:[At-Tawbah 9:65] Do not make excuses; you have become disbelievers after your faith [Surah al-Tawbah: 65-66]. So mocking the beard, or the prayer, or fasting, or shortening the garments and not letting them hang below the ankles is a great danger. If his intention is to belittle the religion and disparage the religion, then he is an apostate from Islam—may Allah protect us from that.
What is the ruling on mocking the beard and shortening the garments to above the ankles?
Answer:
This is forbidden. Mocking the beard, mocking the shortening of garments, and not letting the garment hang below the ankles is a great evil. Its doer may be an apostate—may Allah protect us from that—he may become a disbeliever because of it. If his intention is to mock the religion, then this is apostasy from Islam. Allah the Exalted says:
Say, "Is it Allah and His verses and His Messenger that you were mocking?"
قُلْ أَبِاللَّهِ وَآيَاتِهِ وَرَسُولِهِ كُنْتُمْ تَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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