# Is a skin fade haircut haram? *Dawah Man on 'haram' fade haircuts: why is God obsessed with hair?* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/22/ - Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:13:43–2:21:50) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=8023s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/ **Topics:** Beard, moustache and hair; Responses to critics **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says hairstyles are fine and rejects Dawah Man's claim that a zero-blade fade is haram, asking why God would be obsessed with hair. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says it is okay to grow your hair and, when you do, to have a hairstyle. **Evidence, his words at 2:17:18:** “it's okay to grow your hair can when you grow your hair can you have a hairstyle of course of course of course of course you can have hairstyle” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=8238s) ## Longer summary Answering a request to debate Dawah Man, Mufti Abu Layth says he would love to have him on Mind Trap but thinks such people avoid giving him clout. Mufti describes a clip from Dawah Man's podcast in which a participant speaks of him indirectly, as someone who claims knowledge yet wears a chain and a fade, and Dawah Man says a zero-blade cut on parts of the head is haram while a 0.5 is not. Mufti asks how shaving can be haram when the head is shaved for hajj, says growing one's hair and having a hairstyle is fine, and notes that the Prophet had long hair and companions braided theirs, which requires uneven lengths. He says this picture of a God who sends people to hell over a 0.5 blade infantilises God as an angry four-year-old. ## Sources and names cited - Dawah Man - hajj ## Transcript (machine tier, 2:13:43–2:21:50) [2:13:42] what is the difference debate dawah man please i would love to have darwin on if he wants to come on a a mine trap that would be excellent i'll bring him on mine i think these people don't want to really maybe they don't want to popularize me or they don't want to talk about me because it will give more clout right actually speaking of that let's speaking of dawa man right i somebody sent me a clip uh this this weekend gone and it was to do with a podcast that dawaman has [2:14:21] and it's called chai with my right and it's a group of guys having a chat so they told me go to this point and speaking about imitating kuffar and they're speaking about having the fade cut and so one of the guys i don't know what his name is uh somalilad he speaks about me indirectly without mentioning my name he says well you know you get some people who claim they're knowledgeable but yet they'll wear a chain and they'll have this kind of fade haircut and so on and [2:15:00] um and then that man doesn't engage my name or me but he just goes back to the topic i find that first of all i do find it very intriguing why the woman does that and i think it's maybe because he doesn't want to uh give me any kind of like clout or anything he doesn't want maybe to attract more people towards me maybe unless it's he deep down has a a liking for me that that would be interesting that would be an interesting twist plot twist right but i think it's because he doesn't want [2:15:37] uh to kind of make me popular if that's the case um so they end up talking about this that oh you're not you're not allowed to imitate the kuffar and dawah man gives his interpretation saying okay the puzzle the haram haircut is the one where you have a zero blade but if you have a 0.5 that's not haram [2:16:07] so having a zero blade is haram so immediately you think what about hajj [Music] but i mean he doesn't answer that question but he gives it in his way that having a zero blade on some parts is haram but on some parts like if you have it all over it's not haram if you have it in some parts then then you're going to hell [2:16:39] so let me get this right so god says that when you do hajj that those people uh that are wants to complete the hajj you must do this zero blade all over okay or you can trim omo kasirin or you can trim your hair okay fair enough tikka so shaving the head can't be haram no no in fact it's haram or it's you know not to do or if you don't trim at least after the hajj so in some cases [2:17:18] it's mandated with a substitute okay um point point is it okay to grow your hair yeah it's okay to grow your hair can when you grow your hair can you have a hairstyle of course of course of course of course you can have hairstyle okay it's natural when you have when you grow your hair your hair won't be the same length that's natural because obviously the hair growing here is not going to be the same length as the hair growing here on the sideburns or the same as the so the prophet had long here now to have long hair [2:17:58] what you're going to do is you're going to have the hair from the front longer so it has to because otherwise you can't really tie it if this here is so the prophet would tie is here as well as with the companions would actually braid some of the ears and they would have things like ponytails and stuff like that now to do that you'll hear from here has to be longer than the hair from here it has to be otherwise it won't yeah but that's fine that's fine okay so having it equal no no you don't have to have equal length okay okay what about if i grow my hair but i shave up to here [2:18:37] throw in hell throw him in this won't help him [Laughter] so you're like yeah what i'm trying to understand this god that you're painting a picture of that you know the same god who's created this magnificent cosmos he is saying that if you trim your hair it's not haram if you trim it like you've shaved it 0.5 it's not haram if you go that 0.5 lower it is haram and you're going to go to [2:19:17] hell unless i change my mind unless it's for hajj then you better trim it [Laughter] but then you better do it all over and you're like why is this god so obsessed with my hair okay why seriously why is god so obsessed over people's hair that you know or him was harami bhagavatam grab that harami at the back there who's got his sideburns shaved right down they're like you thought we couldn't [2:19:55] tell that that's not a 0.5 that's a knot throw him in the bottom pits of help in the bottom pits of hell this is how dumb these people have made this religion honestly i find this so absurd like i can't believe that people actually you know this is what people worship god through this kind of reasoning to me that is like god in the in this what they're illustrating it's like somebody you know they infantilize god that he's some kind of like a [2:20:35] like a four-year-old who throws a tantrum and he's like always angry and he's just angry he doesn't know why he's angry he's just angry he's like oh you got this haircut burn him like but why he like oh burn him yeah but why aren't you burning him he's like well he did a 0.5 you did a naught he's like why aren't you burning him yeah he did a naught because i told him to do a knot because it was hajj he had to do a knot but why are you burning that one yeah because he did the hajj and he didn't do a knot so we're gonna burn him and we're gonna burn you [2:21:12] so this kind of uh a an image of god i just don't i don't get like how do these people manage to pull this off but yeah so anyway speaking of dhawa man i have to say though you know i i have to say i watched dawa man's some of his clip because i watched one then youtube mentioned you know recommended a few so i went through some of them and i have to say you know i am impressed with our man's marketing oh this one ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment jTYEM-eEe78/s/22. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/22/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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