Dress & Attire

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?

Tattoos

Q: Are tattoos Haram? The two most common reasons I heard is ghusal will be invalid because it covers the skin and because it is permanently changing the body. However, with modern advancements we can now remove tattoos and the tattoo is under the skin so it does not affect ghusal. If both of these are now not an issue, are tattoos now not haram?