Hair and Nails

Shaving and trimming the beard

Q:

  1. 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?
  2. Is it Makrooh Tahreemi to remove the white beard on both (the thick and thin beard)?
  3. Is it better to repeat the salaah prayed behind a faasiq (one who shaves or trims his beard)?
  4. Can a faasiq be a witness or wakeel for a nikah?
  5. Some people remove the two side of the anfaqa (baby beard), what is the hukm?

Shaping the eyebrows

Q: I am worried about tidying my eyebrows. I heard the hadith that if you pluck your eyebrows you will never be able to smell the fragrance of paradise. Can you clarify as to what I am able to do about this within the limits of the shariah?

Neatening the eyebrows

Q: I am a female and I have untidy eyebrows. I'm married now and want to neaten it. I don't want to shape it but I want to remove the stray hairs around it that makes it look untidy. My husband has granted me permission to do so but is it permissible?