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14 answers in 10 recordings, 2014 to 2021. 10 with a checked position in his own words.
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· Can I trim my beard short or to a goatee, below a fist's length?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that trimming the beard from the sides, to a goatee or to less than a fist's length is permissible and not haram, while recognising a valid difference of opinion that others may follow.
“so first of all I'd like to say that this is permissible this is not Haram okay I do recognize that there is a difference of opinion amongst the”
1:25TranscriptCite 2014-04-12-S01corrected
· Which scholars have allowed trimming or shaving the beard?
Mufti Abu Layth says that the view that trimming or even shaving the beard is at most makruh and not haram has been held by Maliki and other classical jurists and by many modern scholars, some of whom were themselves trimmed, goateed or clean-shaven.
“many of these have all written very clearly that it is not Haram to trim or even shave but especially to trim right down the beard they've not considered it haram”
5:51TranscriptCite 2014-04-12-S02corrected
· What do the sound hadith about the beard actually say?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the sound hadith on the beard reduce to three, each pairing the moustache with the beard and giving the reason of being different from non-Muslims, and that the command need not be read as obligatory, as other hadith show.
“now many people have interpreted this to mean that it is an obligatory command a mandatory command but we see quite differently from other Hadith”
12:29TranscriptCite 2014-04-12-S03corrected
· Is it haram to trim my beard shorter than a fist's length?
Mufti Abu Layth says the opinion that trimming the beard below a fist's length is not haram is well founded in the tradition.
“this is something that is well found and established in our books and we have to recognize that the is well founded it is in our tradition it is unden denable”
8:13TranscriptCite 2014-04-12b-S01corrected
· Does Islam require a particular dress or beard style for scholars?
Mufti Abu Layth says the din does not mandate a particular type of uniform.
“there's many people who have you know exercised that the dean has not actually um you know it does not mandate a particular type of”
24:09TranscriptCite 2014-07-02-S07corrected
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the beard was the common custom of all Arabs including the disbelievers of Quraysh rather than something the Prophet introduced, that the 'be different from the Jews and Christians' wording is applied selectively since the same words command dyeing the hair and praying in shoes, and that the Prophet never once defined what the beard should look like.
“yet the wording is the same in all of them but we have selective application like we reject where the Prophet said it here and we accept it where he said it here so that's not consistency”
3:15TranscriptCite 2018-06-12-S01corrected
· Is growing a beard compulsory in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth says the beard was an ancient Arab custom shared by the Prophet's opponents, that the command to grow it and differ from the Jews and Christians is worded like commands to dye the hair and pray in shoes that nobody treats as obligatory, and that no sahih hadith says how to grow it.
“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”
4:24TranscriptCite 2019-12-17b-S01corrected
· Is a skin fade haircut haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says it is okay to grow your hair and, when you do, to have a hairstyle.
“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”
2:17:18TranscriptCite 2020-09-22-S22corrected
· Does God really care whether I have a beard?
Mufti Abu Layth says the basis of the Sharia was the preservation of life.
“because the basis of the Sharia was preservation of life.”
1:13:04TranscriptCite 2020-10-27-S11corrected
· Will I go to hell for not shaving my pubic hair?
Mufti Abu Layth says nobody is going to hell for not shaving pubic hair; it is a hygiene matter.
“nobody's going to hell for a mustache and nobody's going to hell for not shaving the uh pubic hair”
1:03:44TranscriptCite 2021-01-19-S16corrected
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