Saturday, August 30, 2008

Why Grow A Beard?

I posted this entry in December 2006:
http://ibnshamsuddeen.multiply.com/journal/item/73/Why_Grow_a_Beard
http://fikrahibnshamsuddeen.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-grow-beard.html

Gonna quote it again, with some additions:


"If God had wanted you to have a hairless chin, He would have given you one." (Marvin Grosswirth)[82]

"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man." (Willian Shakespear (1564-1616) Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1)

[Extracted from Growing a Beard: In Light of the Qur'an,Sunnah and modern Science by Dr. Gohar Mushtaq.]


"Beard in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety." (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

"The beard is a sign of manhood.." (Dr Yousuf al-Qaradawi)

"Shaving the Beard: A Modern Effeminacy" (Title of an article by Shaykh Muhammad al-Jibalee)

"Have you ever wondered why both men and women have pubic and armpit hairs but only men have beards and not women?" (Imam Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jauziyyah)

"May Allah beautify you with what He has beautified the man." (Shaykh al-Albaanee)

"By the One who Has Beautified men with beard.." ('Aa'ishah, wife of the Prophet)


Why Lincoln Grew a Beard
(Multiply / Blogger)

Reflections of an American Muslim about his beard (Multiply / Blogger)

Logic on the Importance of the Beard (Multiply / Blogger)

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Footnotes:
[82] Grosswirth, Marvin, The Art of Growing a Beard (New York: Jarrow Press, Inc., 1971)

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