The Beard in Islam & Arab Culture | Mufti Abu Layth

people's what's going on right so imam will he cuz he had asked can i speak about the beard sure look so the beard i've got detailed videos on the beard anyway and you can watch them you can refer to them they're on youtube they're not that long and I go through much detail but to sum it up for you everybody agrees that the ancient ancient Arabs ancient Arab civilization

had a custom part of which men grew facial here they had a beard so it was part of their kind of their custom and convention all men did it just as they had a custom of certain clothing they dressed in a particular way they lived in they lived in wiva part let's say Arabia Arabian Peninsula and that's what they did now the Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu I live Selim was I mean he was born and he was raised there amongst his people so it's very natural for the Prophet to be a part of his society so

he's not gonna be walking around in a different fashion kind of clothing he's going to be exactly like normal people so the same thing when it comes to the beard the prophet salallahu alaihe salam kept a beard but so did everybody all of the disbelievers of the prophet's time had beards abu jahil had a very long beard so the beard was not exclusive to muslims it was not something that muslims kind of oh here are the muslims they have a beard everybody had a beard so the question is well why is this Islamic then this is

the question why is this an Islamic requirement now people have said ok because you won't say riding a camel is a Sunnah of you know for us to do just because the Prophet did it so why is growing a beard so then what they say is oh but they certain hadith with the Prophet said let the beard grow okay fine there are these hadith but let's look at these heavy and if you want a very detailed book I've actually got it here

but it's right I won't be able to get it right now but it's by chef Abdullah judez who actually brings the entire chains and all the hadith to do with the beard so first of all we know that the Prophet had a beard we also know that he used to trim his beard so that's in Bukhari that if not more says the Prophet used to hold his beard like this and you would just trim it whatever was below that now him doing this action the process of Alison doing this action was this an obligatory action was this an Islamic action was this a customary action was this just a permissible

action like today I chose to wear a grey t-shirt as opposed to our and our blue or a black one that's just an arbitrary action it's not something Islamic Lee mandated so what we can do is look at all the other hadith when the Prophet is instructing to grow the beard and he says in some of them they transmitted Oh grow the beard and differ with the Jews and the Christians okay fine now this appears in the same in the same hadith you will see sorry this wording this

exact wording let's take this wording do this like a command an imperative whether it's a positive or negative as in do this or don't do this as in grow the beard or do something I'm differ from the Jews and the Christians what else is this ruling setting so let's take a look what else has mentioned this ruling so I'll tell you what has mentioned this ruling is the Prophet said he said dye your hair color your hair right you should color your hair as a command he said color your hair be different to

the Jews and Christian that's a thing that's a that's a heavy with the same wording do we consider coloring or dyeing the hair to be obligatory or Sunnah or necessary or strongly recommended no let me give you another one the Prophet said pray the Salah female aleikum salut female Allah come pray with your shoes on hardly fully or who don't want us all be different to the Jews and the Christians

oh it doesn't matter okay just what I thought so the question is thatthat society but they don't want to know that nobody does that it's the same wording so what I say is bring me one sake hadith just one where the Prophet is telling you how to grow up here there isn't a single one the rest is simply interpretation by scholars okay right what is going on somebody's who this Hassan sabar asking

for a shouter you nothing that a great expect honesty women all right so this is the so it's important to understand power structures and just because the clergy people look all people I've traditionally kept a beard and to be fair the beards come back into fashion now so many people will now keep a beard but for a few centuries it had gone out of fashion so people didn't keep a beard but but once again two forces the indian sub-continent kind of movement like the Deobandi movement which was really is a modernist movement which is claiming to

be traditional it's only set up under the British Raj and it's set up just to be distinct from the British so anything the British did they declared it her arm straight away and found Islamic stuff to declare it her wearing trousers was haram for example because wearing a shirt and a tie and things like this was Haram apparently because because the British worried now okay at that time when you're being attacked and under the British Raj fair enough identitarian politics but today in 2019 it's ridiculous to adhere to certain politics like that so and the dumb thing is they will say things like

don't dress like the Westerners where our shalwar kameez you know like a commercial water which the the pakistani dress and you think a chartered healthy Arabs walking around in 6th century Arabia were wearing shalwar kameez they're walking around eating biryani a

cha-cha-cha yeah logic is tomalak yeah this is the absurdity that we have people this is the ridiculousness so I hope that answers that question bring me a single ADIZ that explains how to grow the beard once ah hey sorry Hadees Oh ha to burhanakum right what