Keeping a fashion style beard
Question
1. If someone keeps the beard not as sunnah but like fashion which could be french, will he be committing sin?
2. Is keeping a beard the sunnah way is sunnah or farz?
Answer
1. Adopting the ways of kuffaar is a severe wrong. The hadeeth warns us that the person who imitates a people will be counted from amongst them.
2. It is compulsory.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
- Answered by
- Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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