Keeping a beard
Q: Please inform me of the Sunnah way of keeping a beard? Please let me know of the areas which you can shave and which you cannot.
Beards and Moustache
Trimming the moustache
Q: I would like to know whether it is permissible to trim the moustache if I don't have a full 1 fist beard yet, but my beard is in the initial growing stages (I do have little hair on the 2 sides and on my chin). If it's not permissible and I have already trimmed it before and now it grows faster and thicker so should I trim it?
Shaving and trimming the beard
Q:
- Is it Haraam or Makrooh Tahreemi to remove the beard on the two parts of the cheeks and keep only the one on the chin?
- Is it Makrooh Tahreemi to remove the white beard on both (the thick and thin beard)?
- Is it better to repeat the salaah prayed behind a faasiq (one who shaves or trims his beard)?
- Can a faasiq be a witness or wakeel for a nikah?
- Some people remove the two side of the anfaqa (baby beard), what is the hukm?
Plucking white hairs
Q: Is it makrooh tanzeeehi or tahreemi to pluck the white or grey hair from the beard or hair?
Maintaining the beard
Q: Do we have to keep a beard which is a full fist or half of it and how do we have to maintain the beard as per Islamic law, can we apply oil on it.
Length of the beard
Q: What is the fist length of the beard? Is there any measurement as in inches or centimeters?
Growing the beard up to the chest
Q:
1. Can I grow my beard up to my chest. Would it be better to grow upto the chest or only one fist.
2. Which colour safa is sunnat?
Is keeping of a beard compulsory for men?
Q: My cousin wanted to know that keeping beard is compulsory for muslim men? Is there no excuse of not keeping it? If his wife does not want him to keep and she doesn't feel attracted towards her husband in beard then is it permissible to not grow beard. Because there are excuses for men if he doesn't feel attracted towards his wife in joint heavy big eyebrows then she can trim it for the sake of her husband. But why the same rule doesn't applies to a lady? Kya shariat se koi gunjaish nahi hai for not keeping beard?
Trimming the beard
Q: I am keeping a fist length beard Insha Allah as it is wajib. However I want to ask a question just out of curiosity regarding trimming the beard slightly shorter than a fist. Most Deobandi Ulama say it is Makrooh e Tahrimi, and if done continously it is a major sin. However in Shah Hakeem Akhtar Sahib's book it was written that to cut even a few millimetres of the beard shorter than a fist is GUNAH KABEERA (major sin)? So do you agree with Hakeem Akhtar sahib's statement?
Shaving or trimming the moustache
Q: Which one is more close to Sunnah shaving the mustache with a razor or trimming it with scissors or trimmer?