Let the Beard Grows

بســـــــــــــــــــم الله الرحمن الرحيم

You may try to search images by “terrorist” as the keyword and than just see what are shown by the engine. You should see some face with turban on it or covering head and the other are some faces with dense beards those really make sure that’s the face belong to a muslim. I don’t think to justice that the search engine make it’s like that, because the things are bigger than about an engine, and I don’t think either to explain about the bigger thinks.

The turban is revert to some civilization that most identical with Islam and of course it’s easy thing for some people to mention it as far as it commonly known. And the beard too, it’s the same thing, and definitely can be said as one of the identity of Muslim according the Sunah (normative) on Islam. In other way, you should try to search by typing word “muslim” at the engine, it’s almost show the same things but more various.

The turban is not an identity (sign: I mean as one of the Syi’ar) on Islam, any way it isn’t a problem when some people things about terrorism by the look of turban. But the beard, it was some different thing as a sign of Islam that’s more general and more important in Syari’at. The beard is one of things that are meritorious to perform. The Fiqh said (on commonly said by most Ulama) according to Rasulullah p.b.u.h. words:

خَالِفُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ أَحْفُوا الشَّوَارِبَ وَأَوْفُوا اللِّحَى (رواه مسلم)

“Act against the polytheists, trim closely the moustaches and grow beard.” (Sahih Muslim).

The hadith although came in many way etc. by Buchari, at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasai in many different forms that show the order to perform about moustaches and beard as a sign. The sign, as just said, told to make a differential with the other one (mushrikin) and it should build a different with any other people.  

When the little thing abandoned, it could be not a little thing.

Some people maybe just see no matter with it and its seen didn’t leave any caution directly on a person (muslim). But anyway, if we try to take some lesson to the hadits, the law (command to let the beard grows) as clear as it said by Rasul p.b.u.h., it have to be done for some reason about the big community of Islam beside another people. Its included as one of the syi’ar that should be performed by any muslim. In the Quran the syi’ar was told as:

ذَلِكَ وَمَنْ يُعَظِّمْ شَعَائِرَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ تَقْوَى الْقُلُوبِ

“That (it so). Whoever honors the symbols of Allah – indeed, it is from the piety of hearts.” (Q. 22: 32)

As the syi’ar, when a muslem leave it, and another many muslim could be on the same way as the improver or the other improved, it shouldn’t longer just a little thing when commonly performed that’s against the syari’at. After all, it’s a big trouble that could be hard to be cured.

In other verse, when any syar’i had been abandoned, beside that Allah mean the syar’i as the huge “schedule” for getting the better ways (maslaha), Allah command anyone who believed to perform the Islam as total as demanded:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ادْخُلُوا فِي السِّلْمِ كَافَّةً وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا خُطُوَاتِ الشَّيْطَانِ

“O you, who have believed, enter into Islam completely [and perfectly] and do not follow the footsteps of Satan…” (Q. 2: 208)

Wallahu a’lam, and may Allah forgives us.

Amang B., 2015

You can also read: independent.co.uk