Is shaving haraam? Beard's purpose to differ from christian? | Mufti Abu Layth

why do people say shaving the beard is haram when they don't say that dying the his exactly mr o'donnell as arati you do in it as always you're doing it um all right let me just make sure my facebook comments are alright are up to scratch as well so yeah so this this is the thing you see because people everybody agrees that the beard was not something the prophet introduced nobody makes a claim that the prophet

introduced the beard and what they feel is that they all recognize that the prophet had a beard sallallahu alaihi wasallam but pretty much arabs for the most part all kept beards the men so it was something that he was a part of as since he was a part of that the prophet was a part of that culture they all agree on this what they disagree on is is there a religious element to keeping a beard now some people would say no uh and i would fall in line with that um that it's not really religious it was just more

uh conventional and customary but even if you say it was religious they take the hadith that the prophet is saying let the beards grow or they could take it as a command grow your beards you think all right and the hadith says be different to the jews and christians grow your beards or do it's an imperative okay so okay fair enough the problem here

is you see when explained like that it could seem that indeed you know if um despite a command having many interpretations you see this a command the imperative which means the rather the imperative uh is is the name for a command like sit go walk read look these things are imperatives the instructions to do something now the imperative command can have many connotations it can be done for to mean do it as a command it could be done as a

request it could be done as simply just an arbitrary statement like um like people say often like they use it could be done out of a courtesy it could be done out of so many people when they say have some food for example eat with me it doesn't mean as a as a command eat with me god damn it it's more like you know why don't you have some food with me and the person could turn it down and say no uh or take a seat or you know sit over here or um so the question is what kind of a

command is it but people could say they could argue that no we're just going to go be different from the jews and the christians it's a religious command we're going to take it at face value ticket the problem then the cliff abby here

the problem is that then there are at least two other hadith with this same format exact same format with the structure is in an imperative it's a command and it's followed with the sent with the structure of it's connected to the structure of be different to the jews and the christians one of them is dye your your hair and your beards like color them dye them so i know some people i don't know whether they they have an issue using the word die with heroes or

whatever color your uh your your hair be different to the jews and the christians hmm now nobody would take that even though it's a command to mean it's an obligation in islam um but they might take it upon recommendation to be feared they might say well it's good to color your hair to you know and then somebody comes out with like electric blue [Laughter] or like bright pink they go what the hadith says

so that's one issue the but then there's the third hadith and this is where things get really interesting that pray with your shoes on yahoo be different to the jews and the christians this one big problem you know because the scholars would go mad if somebody tried to pray with their shoes on for the most part

i mean they might just about excuse it and tolerate it but they for the most part would be very um very agitated by the thought of people hence when the selfies started praying with their shoes on uh most the other math hubs kind of had went into cardiac arrest they had a heart attack now what the hell pray with your shoes on and yet the hadith structure is the same and nobody would even say that it's generally speaking from the methods that it's recommended to pray with your shoes on they would just say yeah the prophet said that but it wasn't really a religious act

so this is where you look at this thing of the beard and it falls in line with these narrations and the beard is just one of them that allow the beard to grow be different to the jews and the christians so you see once you put it in line with all of these it gives it a totally different flavor