The Ruling on Shaving the Beard Due to Pressure and Persecution
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Question:
What is the ruling on not growing the beard in a country that persecutes everyone who grows a beard, on the grounds that they are extremists, which makes anyone who grows a beard an easy target for their persecution and torture?
Answer:
These are illusions of the soul. He is not permitted to shave his beard out of fear of the rulers. Rather, he must fear Allah, keep his beard, and let it grow. He has a model to follow, and he will find well-being if he is upright and sincere, and does not interfere in their affairs, but attends to his own affairs, his buying and selling, and his obedience to his Lord. He will see nothing but good.
If they overpower him and shave it themselves, that does not harm him; the sin is upon them. But if he says, "I will shave it so they do not take me," that is from the whispers of Satan, from the misguidance of Satan—may we seek refuge in Allah—and from obeying Satan.
What is the ruling on not growing the beard in a country that persecutes everyone who grows a beard, on the grounds that they are extremists, which makes anyone who grows a beard an easy target for their persecution and torture?
Answer:
These are illusions of the soul. He is not permitted to shave his beard out of fear of the rulers. Rather, he must fear Allah, keep his beard, and let it grow. He has a model to follow, and he will find well-being if he is upright and sincere, and does not interfere in their affairs, but attends to his own affairs, his buying and selling, and his obedience to his Lord. He will see nothing but good.
If they overpower him and shave it themselves, that does not harm him; the sin is upon them. But if he says, "I will shave it so they do not take me," that is from the whispers of Satan, from the misguidance of Satan—may we seek refuge in Allah—and from obeying Satan.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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