The Criterion for the Beard Hair Whose Shaving Is Forbidden
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Question:
This is also a question via the website from Algeria: It says, “O honorable Shaykh, what is the criterion for the beard hair whose shaving is forbidden? Does it include the hair of the chin and the hair growing on the neck and face?”
Answer:
The beard, as the scholars mentioned, is: (what grows on the cheeks) on the cheeks, meaning, the cheeks and the chin. What grows on the cheeks and the chin is the beard, and it includes the chin hair. One should not touch it, neither by cutting nor plucking, but rather it should be left to grow and left as Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) created it. There is no harm in cleaning your beard, no harm in washing it, and no harm in perfuming it. But as for encroaching upon it, cutting it, and messing with it, no. The beard is beauty for you and a sign of manliness. Why do you attack it? And why is your only concern the beard, like women, whose only concern is their eyebrows, messing with them? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who plucks eyebrows and the one who has them plucked, and he ordered men to let their beards grow. When Satan saw this Sunnah, he incited men to oppose beards and incited women to oppose eyebrows. There is no power and no strength except with Allah. Yes.
This is also a question via the website from Algeria: It says, “O honorable Shaykh, what is the criterion for the beard hair whose shaving is forbidden? Does it include the hair of the chin and the hair growing on the neck and face?”
Answer:
The beard, as the scholars mentioned, is: (what grows on the cheeks) on the cheeks, meaning, the cheeks and the chin. What grows on the cheeks and the chin is the beard, and it includes the chin hair. One should not touch it, neither by cutting nor plucking, but rather it should be left to grow and left as Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) created it. There is no harm in cleaning your beard, no harm in washing it, and no harm in perfuming it. But as for encroaching upon it, cutting it, and messing with it, no. The beard is beauty for you and a sign of manliness. Why do you attack it? And why is your only concern the beard, like women, whose only concern is their eyebrows, messing with them? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who plucks eyebrows and the one who has them plucked, and he ordered men to let their beards grow. When Satan saw this Sunnah, he incited men to oppose beards and incited women to oppose eyebrows. There is no power and no strength except with Allah. Yes.
Source
www.alfawzan.af.org.sa
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