Is it Haram to Shave Your Body? | Mufti Abu Layth

Ah, is it haram to shave your body? You mean the dead body that I've got lying here? Is it haram to shave it as well now? Is it haram to shave your body, huh? Well, I mean, would you I don't know. I mean, does that mean there's many permutations to this question?

I mean, one could be is it haram to shave your own body as opposed to getting somebody else to shave your body? Ah, all right. So, it's like hell no, I can't shave it myself. But, can I get people to shave it? All right. No, it's not haram to shave your body. I think you should definitely No, I don't I'm not No, I'm not saying you should definitely shave your body, but it's not haram to shave your body.

And if you need to remove In fact, certain parts of your body, you should shave or remove the hair from, uh, especially around the private parts, underarms, things like these. Basic hygiene, people. Basic haram people. I have to teach you guys basic hygiene. And if you wish to remove, men or women, if they wish to remove, uh, body hair, they can do so.

It's absolutely fine. It's not haram. Um, yes, of course. I mean, maybe more emphasized I think I think some ethnicities, you see, we're speaking about Pakistanis earlier on. You see, the things that we don't want, we get. So, Pakistanis been like, as Peter What is it? What's his name? The comedian, Russell Peters or Peter Russell?

I keep always mixing it up which way it's which way round it is. But he said like when God was making Indians, he said he God said, "I know, let's put them in the hottest place on earth and then cover them with hair." Because Pakistanis are just They're just like it's just unfair that the hair genes that they've inherited.

I don't know why they've kind of held on to those genes. Even the DNA is like you do know. Can you guys not tell it's boiling hot outside? So yes, for uh the men, so this is another thing. When they grow their beards, they're just like hair everywhere.

Ah. And unfortunately, that gene has equally blessed the gentle gender. Blessed the women as well. So the women are like cavemen women. So hell yeah, they should definitely kind of like get a lawn mower, shave those legs.

And this is why you know, they they ask people ask that oh, can they pluck the eyebrows? And you think, well, you see the Arabs because when you read about the Hadith, when you read the Hadith, you realize that when when you read descriptive Hadith, for example, even when they're describing the prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So the Hadith So there's a Hadith in Tirmidhi describing the the chest hair of the prophet.

And it says he had only a few and on one occasion, Anas, who was a young boy, tries to count them. And he says he can count like maybe I don't know it goes up to like 15 hair, 16 hair, 17, 18 like this. He counts individual strands and that's all there is. And he says he can count like maybe up to I think it goes up to 18 or 19 hair.

That's it. And so this is to give you a picture of the kind of uh the the the phenotype, the the appearance of the Arabs at the time when the prophet is speaking about certain things. Right now, All right, there you go.

I'm just blocking mocking and blocking. I think I've done that. All right, awesome. All right. So, the point is that look, now you get people, let's say, who come from a culture where they're going to be they're going to have like a monobrow. They're going to be like Cyclops.

Might as well just have one eye like the giant. They got like these bushy eyebrows here. And they're like, "Oh, bro, do you think it's haram to uh pluck eyebrows haram?" It's like uh no, that should be your priority above do it trying to trying to do trying to do Hajj above that.

Your first and foremost priority should be to fix your appearance. It's like what the hell is that? So, and the worst thing is religion does it to people. So, religion, you know what the things people end up doing because of religion, they end up suffering, you see. So, what happens is they suffer so much and then they reach a certain age where they have a kind of like a a crash moment, a burnout effect.

And then they feel that look, because of religion, I've kind of been through all this and this is religion's fault and but then they forget that you see Allah said to them that I give you an akal. In the hope that you may use your intellect. But these people don't really do things like that.

So, what else is going on? What else