al-Lihyah Limadha - Muhammad Ismaïl Al-Muqaddim - (17)

far and wide—across the length and breadth of the annals of Islamic history—you would not find among the leaders of guidance, the beacons that dispelled darkness, a single man who shaved his beard. This deviance only crept into our midst, and some Muslims grew comfortable with it, when they came into contact with the unbelievers: either when those unbelievers occupied our lands, or when Muslims travelled to their lands and let them occupy their minds. They then turned their backs on the guidance of their righteous forbears, followed a way other than that of the believers, matching the disbelievers feather for feather, became enamoured of the customs of Jews and Christians, and imitated them inch by inch, cubit by cubit.

Shaving the beard is imitation of the unbelievers

Allah the Exalted says: “Then We set you upon a law (shariʿah) concerning the matter, so follow it, and do not follow the whims of those who do not know” (Al-Jathiyah 45:18). “Those who do not know” refers to everyone who opposes his ﷺ law, and their “whims”

came before us, so that we may in turn be worthy of being followed by those who come after us.” None of the righteous predecessors is reported to have shaved his beard, for they regarded it as impermissible; had it been a praiseworthy act they would have preceded us to it, for they never left any good deed unattended. Imam Ibn Hazm writes in Maratib al-Ijmaʿ: “The scholars unanimously agree that shaving off the entire beard is mutilation and therefore unlawful.” Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya likewise states: “Shaving the beard is forbidden on the basis of the sound hadiths, and no one has ever permitted it.”

صفحات التاريخ الإسلامى وعرضها لم تجد من أئمة الهدى، ومصابيح الدجى من كان يحلق لحيته، وإنما تسربت إلينا هذه الضلالة، واستمرأها بعض المسلمين لما اتصلوا بالكفار حين احتلوا بلادنا، أو حين رحلوا إلى بلاد هؤلاء الكفار فاحتلوا عقولهم، وأعرضوا عن هدى سلفهم الصالح، واتبعوا غير سبيل المومنين حَذْوَ القُذَّةِ بالقذة، وافتتنوا بسَنن اليهود والنصارى، فحاكَوْهم شبرًا بشبر، وذراعًا بذراع. حلق اللحية تشبه بالكافرين قال الله تعالى: ﴿ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَاكَ عَلَى شَرِيعَةٍ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ فَاتَّبِعْهَا وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَ الَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ﴾ [الجاثية:١٨]، وهم كل من خالف شريعته ﷺ، و"أهواؤهم"

= قبلنا، فنصلح لأن يأتم بنا مَن بعدنا"، ولم ينقل عن أحد من السلف الصالح حلق لحيته لعدم جوازه عندهم، ولو كان خيرًا لسبقونا إليه، لأنهم لم يتركوا خصلة من خصال الخير إلا وقد بادروا إليها، قال الإمام ابن حزم ﵀ فى "مراتب الإجماع": (واتفقوا أن حلق جميع اللحية مُثْلَةٌ لا تجوز) اهـ. وقال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية: (يحرم حلق اللحية للأحاديث الصحيحة، ولم يُبِحْهُ أحد) اهـ.