men because they are incongruous with the perfection of manhood. Just as it is part of a woman’s beauty that no beard or moustache appear on her face, so a man’s splendor, dignity, and gravitas lie in his beard and moustache.

Shaving the Beard Is Imitation of Women
Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them) reported: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed the men who imitate women and the women who imitate men.” [Reported by al-Bukhārī]

Abd Allah ibn ʿAmr (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that he once saw a woman carrying a bow and walking with the gait of a man. He remarked, “I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘Whoever of women imitates men, and whoever of men imitates women, is not of us.’” [Authentic]

There is no doubt that the resemblance of a clean-shaven man to women is more obvious than the resemblance of a woman who merely slings a bow over her shoulder to men.

Just as a woman who were to attach a false beard to her face would be imitating men, so too a man who removes the very beard with which Allah has adorned him is imitating women. If you were to ask a man from