# Will I go to hell for not shaving my pubic hair?

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/16/
- Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:38–1:06:12)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=3758s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/

**Topics:** Purification; Beard, moustache and hair

**Question as asked:** Will a person who doesn't shave their private parts be in the deepest pits of hell, along with the moustache man?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Nobody goes to hell for not shaving pubic hair, Mufti Abu Layth says; it is a matter of hygiene, which religion tied to reward and closeness to God.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says nobody is going to hell for not shaving pubic hair; it is a hygiene matter.

**Evidence, his words at 1:03:44:** “nobody's going to hell for a mustache and nobody's going to hell for not shaving the uh pubic hair” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=3824s)

## Longer summary

After finishing the story, Mufti Abu Layth reads a question on whether someone who does not shave their private parts will be in the deepest pits of hell, joking first about the word 'they', which he says South Asian elders use respectfully for their shaykhs and which now also marks gender-fluid people. He says nobody is going to hell for a moustache or for not shaving pubic hair. It is a hygiene matter, he says: Islam ties hygiene to purity, and cleanliness heightens a person's sense of spirituality. He adds that before germs and bacteria were known, religions upheld hygiene by associating it with reward and closeness to God, which he calls a brilliant way of doing things.

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:02:38–1:06:12)

[1:02:37] goes he goes you know he goes but why are there agents the ones feeling the pain but it's just hilarious you guys reminded me of that so I don't even now I kind of lost my train of thought so where are we people Muti will a person who doesn't shave there I you there gender fluid or plural confused you know confus gender fluid plural plural gender fluid

[1:03:15] and this is another thing that you know all the the P the mids of PS they refer to their she as as they which ironically today has become synonymous for either plural or gender fluid it's like it's that awkward moment when the pabs are in the same kind of queue as the gender fluid

[1:03:44] people so will a person who doesn't shave their private parts being the deepest pits of Hell along with the mustach man [Laughter] I don't know what movies what genres you've been watching of right nobody's going to hell for a mustache and nobody's going to hell for not shaving the uh pubic hair okay so the terminology for it is the the the

[1:04:22] the strict terminology is jant keal right so the this is this is a hygiene issue okay this is in Islam it's hygienic you ought to do it it's it's like a hygiene thing it's not something which is about hell heaven but what it is is Islam has with that hygiene matter um it's tied in a sense of the point point punto Punto except you see godliness is next to

[1:04:59] cleanliness so when a person is uh more hygiene you know they're in a better state of purity of cleanliness of you know they have that it heightens their sense of spirituality so that's what it is and you have to remember that look these things back then the language was this was a time when there was no science of germs and bacteria and stuff like this the these things didn't exist yet religions tried very hard to maintain

[1:05:37] hygiene standards and they did it by associating it with the pleasure and reward from God and the proximity closeness to God which I think to be fa isn't amazing it's it's a brilliant way of doing things so yeah cool right so what else is going on Muti what is the Ark of the Covenant in Islam compared to other faiths

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment Hv-BlBVTr4M/s/16. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/16/

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