MaktabatulBinBaaz's video: The Issue of Trimming the Beard Shaykh Saalih Al Fawzaan Hafidhdullaah

The Prophet Muhammad(sallallaahu'alayhi wa sallaam) said:"Shorten your moustaches and grow your beards." [Ahmad 2/25] He(sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallaam) included among the ten characteristics of the fitrah the trimming of the moustache and growing the beard. Allaah Ta'Alaa says Harun said: "O son of my mother! Seize(me) not by my beard, nor by my head!" [Surah Ta Ha(20):94] The beard is the hair which grows on the jaws and the chin. The left and right(bottom) jaws are the places from which the lower teeth grow. And these authentic commands have bee given. It is obligatory upon the Muslims to obey Allaah Ta'Alaa. Obedience is not complete unless it is full compliance, therefore whoever saves his beard has disobeyed the words of the Prophet(Sallallaahu'Alayhi wa Sallaam). As he(Sallallaahu'Alayhi wa Sallaam) said: "Grow your beards...." "Expand your beards...." and "Leave your beards..." [Al-Bukhaaree/5893 and Muslim/259] 'Allaamah Shaykh Saalih al-'Uthaymeen[Rahimaullaah] says: "And this proves that it is not permitted to remove anything from it. However, acts of disobedience differ, so shaving is worse than removing part of it, because it is a greater and clearer violation than removing a apart of it."[Fatawa Islaamiyyah] The Noble Shaykh Saalih Ibn Fawzaan Al-Fawzaan[Hafidhdullaah] clarifies the issue of trimming the beard as Scholars before him. The strongest opinion suffices. NOTE: Translation by the respectable brother Taalib 'Abdullaah[Hafidhdullaah]