Almost all muslims nowadays are extremely conscious of the dressing of women. However, they are not conscious in the dressing of men. They are complaining women is a temptation for the men. On the other hand they are not thinking that men are also a source of temptation for the women. Every wife would like to see their husband to stay precious and also has a sense of gheerah (protective jealousy) over her husband.
The wearing of hijab in its essence is tied to faith. Am I more afraid of what my employer-to-be thinks in an interview because of my beard or my hijab or am I more afraid of the One who created me?Am I worried about losing ephemeral fair-weather friends if I wear the hijab or wear a beard or should I rather be happy with earning the favors of the One without whom I would not even exist? Such constant and rigorous self-reminders and trust in Allah are part and parcel of the arsenal of the Muslim.
It is related in the Sahihain of al-Bukhari and Muslim, rahimahumallaah, from Anas, radhiallahu `anhu, that the Prophet, sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, said: “None of you truly believes until I am more beloved to him than his father, his child and all of mankind.” So following the Sunnah is mandatory. 1) LOWERING THE GAZE
Before
the women are given the guidelines in the Surah, the men are given
their guidelines.
“Say
to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard
their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: And Allah
is well acquainted with all that they do.” -
[Quran 24:30]
Here we find that the men are
given the primary command to lower their gaze. In Ma'ariful Quran it
is stated:
“The
word in the ayat 'yaghuddu' is derived from 'ghadd', which means to
bring down or lower, ('Raghib') lowering of eyes or to keep eyes down
as enjoined in the verse, means to turn the eyes from something which
is prohibited to be seen by Shariah (Ibn Kathir). Ibn Hibban has
given the explanation that to look at a non-Mahram woman with the
intent to have (sexual) pleasure is totally prohibited, and to look
without any such motive is makkruh (undesirable). To look at any
woman's or man's private parts of the body is included in this
explanation (except in case of dire necessity, such as medical
examination). Peeping into anyone's house with the intent of finding
out his secrets, and all such acts where looking is prohibited by
Shariah are all included in this injunction.”
- [Ma'ariful Quran, by Maulana
Mufti Muhammad Shafi, First Authorized Edition 2004, Vol. 6, pg 408]
Also we find in
Tafsir Ibn Kathir the following explanation regarding the concerned
Quranic verse:
“The
Command to lower the Gaze This is a command from Allah to His
believing servants, to lower their gaze from looking at things that
have been prohibited for them. They should look only at what is
permissible for them to look at, and lower their gaze from forbidden
things. If it so happens that a person's gaze unintentionally falls
upon something forbidden, he should quickly look away. Muslim
recorded in his Sahih that Jarir bin `Abdullah Al-Bajali, may Allah
be pleased with him, said, "I asked the Prophet about the sudden
glance, and he commanded me to turn my gaze away.
In
the Sahih it is narrated that Abu Sa`id said that the Messenger of
Allah said:
(Beware
of sitting in the streets.) They said, "O Messenger of Allah, we
have no alternative but to sit in the streets to converse with one
another.'' The Messenger of Allah said:
(If
you insist, then give the street its rights.) They asked, "What
are the rights of the street, O Messenger of Allah'' He said,
(Lower
your gaze, return the greeting of Salam, enjoin what is good and
forbid what is evil.)”
Thus we find that
the men are commanded strictly to lower their gaze and of course
guard their private parts which would also mean to remain chaste and
not adopt immoral ways. These two actions are the very first step
regarding the Hijab of the men as prescribed in Islam by Allah
(swt).
2) BEARD
Also beard is a part of Muslim Personality. It has
the same importance that a woman is observing her hijab. Beard is
part of a man's Hijab. Which is well defined as follows :
IS
KEEPING BEARD THAT IMPORTANT?
To be straight on
the point shaving the beard is Haraam
because of the saheeh ahaadeeth that clearly state this, and of the
general application of texts that forbid resembling the kuffaar
One of these
reports is the hadeeth of Ibn 'Umar who said that the Messenger of
Allaah S.A.W. said: "Be different from
the mushrikeen: let your beards grow and trim your moustaches."
According to
another report: "Trim your moustaches
and let your beards grow." There are other hadeeth
which convey the same meaning, which is to leave the beard as it is
and let it grow long, without shaving, plucking or cutting any part
of it. Ibn Hazm reported that there was scholarly consensus that it
is an obligation (fard) to trim the moustache and let the beard grow.
He quoted a number of ahaadeeth as evidence, including the hadeeth of
Ibn 'Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) quoted above, and the
hadeeth of Zayd ibn Arqam in which the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever does not remove any of his
moustache is not one of us." (Classed as saheeh by al-Tirmidhi).
Ibn Hazm said in al-Furoo': "This is the way of our colleagues
[i.e., the Hanbalis]."
Is it haraam (to
shave it)? Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on
him) said: "The Qur'aan, Sunnah and ijmaa' (scholarly consensus)
all indicate that we must differ from the kuffaar in all aspects and
not imitate them, because imitating them on the outside will make us
imitate them in their bad deeds and habits, and even in beliefs,
which will result in befriending them in our hearts, just as loving
them in our hearts will lead to imitating them on the outside.
Al-Tirmidhi reported that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah beupon him) said, "He is not one of us who
imitates people other than us. Do not imitate the Jews and
Christians."
According to
another version: "Whoever imitates a people is one of them."
(Reported by Imaam Ahmad) 'Umar ibn al-Khattaab rejected the
testimony of the person who plucked his beard.
Imaam Ibn 'Abd al-Barr
said in al-Tamheed: "It is forbidden to shave the beard, and no
one does this except men who are effeminate" i.e., those who
imitate women. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) had a thick beard (reported by Muslim from Jaabir). It is not
permitted to remove any part of the beard because of the general
meaning of the texts which forbid doing so. [Fataawa
al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah, 5/133]
Is Keeping the
beard being Fard.
The beard (Arabic:
liyah) is defined as the hair which grows on the cheeks and the jaws
(ex., review: al-Q m s al-Muh t by al-Fayrazabad ). It includes the
hair of the temples, the growth underneath the lower lip, the hair of
the chin, and the hair that grows on the lower side of the jaws.
The Islamic
Ruling Concerning Beards: Growing
the beard is a wajib (mandatory) for all males who are capable of
doing so. This has ample evidence in the Sunnah (as will be shown
below) and is the unanimous opinion of the ulamaa of Islam. One
should not be misled by the neglect to this sunnah by a few
contemporary shaykhs, and by their providing shaky fatwas to support
their action. By doing that they make people follow them into the
wrong way, when the Messenger (S) said: He who starts a good sunnah
(way) will be rewarded for it, in addition to receiving rewards equal
to the rewards of those who follow him into it. Whereas he who starts
a bad sunnah will be burdened with it, in addition to receiving
burdens equal to the burdens of those who follow him into it.
[Muslim]
And he said: Allah
does not pull the knowledge abruptly from the hearts of people, but
he takes away the knowledge by taking [the lives of] the `ulamaa
(true scholars). When no `ulamaa are left, people will take ignorant
persons for leaders. Those will give them fatwa (religious verdicts)
without knowledge. By doing this, they will stray and lead others
astray as well. [Al-Bukhari]
A List of
Violations: Shaving the beard results in a series of Islamic
violations, as is obvious from Allah's Book and His Messenger's
Sunnah. The following is a list (not necessarily comprehensive) of
such violations:
A.Disobedience to Allah (T) Shaving
the beard is a disobedience to Allah (T). The ruler of Yemen,
appointed by the Persian emperor Kisraa, sent two envoys to the
Messenger (S) to summon him. When they came into his presence, he
noticed that they had shaved their beards and grew their moustaches.
He hated to look at them (because of their odd appearance) and he
said: Woe be to you, who told you to do so? They replied: "Our
lord! (referring to Kisraa.)" The Messenger (S) then said: But
my Lord, may He be exalted and glorified, has commanded me to leave
alone my beard and to trim my moustache. [Recorded by Ibn Jar r
a-abar , and judged to be Hasan (good) by al-Albani.]
B.Disobedience To the Messenger (S) Shaving the beard is a
disobedience to the Messenger (S). In many hadiths, the Messenger (S)
commanded men to leave alone their beards. These different hadiths
have a similar meaning: Trim the moustache and save the beard.
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim] Obeying the Messenger (S) in that is
equivalent to obeying Allah (T) who said (what means): He who obeys
the Messenger has indeed obeyed Allah. [An-Nisaa 4:80]
C.Deviation from the Appearance and
Guidance of the Messenger (S) Shaving
the beard is a deviation from the appearance and guidance of the
Messenger (S). The Messenger (S) used to have a large beard [Muslim].
One should strive to imitate him (S) in his practices, as Allah (T)
said (what means): In the Messenger of Allah is a good example for
you to follow.[Al-Ahzab 33:21] And the Messenger
(S) said: Verily, the best guidance is Muhammad's guidance. [Muslim]
D. Deviation
from the Way of Believers Shaving the beard is a deviation
from the way of believers. All the prophets (S), the sahbah
(Prophet's companions), the great `ulamaa, and the righteous early
Muslims of this Ummah (Nation) grew their beards. There is no report
of a single one of them ever shaving his beard. Thus, this is their
way, and Allah (T) says (in the meaning): Whoever disobeys the
Messenger after guidance has been clarified to him, and follows other
than the path of the believers, We shall give to him what he deserves
and broil him in hell, which is the worst abode. [An-Nisaa 4:115]
E. An Imitation
of the Disbelievers
Shaving the beard or styling them
is an imitation of the disbelievers. It has been emphasized in
several hadiths of the Prophet (S). For example: Cut the moustaches
and grow your beards. Be different from the Magians (followers of a
religion that dominated in Persia). [Muslim] Cut your moustaches and
leave your beards alone. Be different from the people of the
scripture. [Muslim] Be different from the Mushrikin (those who
worship other than Allah (T)); trim your moustaches and save your
beards. [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]
We have been
commanded to be different and distinct from the disbelievers, as in
surat ul-Fatihah. Also, Allah (T) said (what means): Follow not the
whims of those who have no knowledge (of Islam). [Al-Jathiyah 45:18]
And His Messenger
(S) said: Whoever imitates a people is but one of them. [Recorded by
Abu Dawud, and judged to be authentic by al-Albani]
F. Changing
Allah's Creation without Permission The Messenger (S) declared
that the women who change what Allah (T) has created (such as
removing the hair from their faces or filing their teeth or tattooing
their bodies) seeking by that to improve their appearance, are
accursed by Allah (T). [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]
The hadith
mentioned women in particular because they normally seek to beautify
themselves more than men. But the warning surely applies to both
sexes, because the condition for the curse is declared, and thus the
curse applies to anyone who satisfies such condition.
Shaving the beard
falls under this warning, as it is much worse than the Nam (removal
of facial hair) practiced by some women. It involves obeying Satan
who said: And I shall tempt them until they change what Allah has
created. [An-Nisaa 4:119]
G.An Imitation
of Women The beard is a major distinction between men and
women. Shaving it removes this distinction, and is thus a means of
imitating women. The Messenger (S) said: Allah curses those men who
imitate the women, and He curses those women who imitate the men.
[Al-Bukhari]
H. Shaving the
Beard Contradicts the Pure Fitrah (Nature) Allah's Messenger
(S) mentioned ten qualities as indicative of a good, clean nature
[Muslim]. Two of these qualities are to trim the moustaches and to
grow the beard.
The Messenger (S)
also tells that every child is born with a clean, pure fitrah, which
later may get deformed by the influence of the environment and the
up-bringing. [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
In the footsteps
of the disbelievers, many Muslims' fitrah is now, unfortunately, so
much deformed that they seem to find a clean-shaven man more handsome
and masculine than one with a beard - exactly the opposite of what
the Messenger (S) declared in the above hadith. This fitrah never
changes with time: Allah (T) said (what means): The pure nature
according to which Allah has created people. There is no change in
Allah's creation. [Ar-Room30:30]
For shaving their
beards, some men give the strange excuse that their wives or mother prefer them
without one! As if their purpose in this life is to follow the
deformed inclinations of their wives or mothers instead of the clear-cut
commands of Allah (T) and His Messenger (S)!
Others claim that
growing their beards results in an irritability and scratching. This
cannot result from abiding by the pure fitrah, but would result (if
true) from neglect of the proper cleaning and washing with wudu as
instructed in the Sunnah.
What the
`Ulamaa and Imams Say
All the `ulamaa of
as-Salaf, including the Four Imams, agreed that shaving the beard is
haram (prohibited). They considered shaving it an impermissible
mutilation, as has been reported about Umar bin Abdil-Aziz. They used
to consider the person who shaved his beard effeminate. Many of them
would not accept his witness or allow him to lead the prayers.
May Allah (T)
guide us to abide by His Deen, and to adhere to His Messenger's
Sunnah, and to be among those whom he blessed in both lives.
...
3) Isbal:
Wearing your garment below the ankles
Al-Bukhaari
reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) said: "Whatever
of the izaar (lower garment) is below the ankles is in the Fire."
(al-Bukhaari,
no. 5787)
The
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
"There
are three whom Allaah will not look at or praise on the Day of
Judgement and theirs will be a painful punishment: the one who wears
his garment below his ankles, the one who reminds others of his
favours, and the one who sells his product by means of making false
oaths"(reported
by Muslim, no. 106)
The
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
"Isbaal
(wearing one’s garment below the ankles) may apply to the izaar
(lower garment), the shirt or the turban. Whoever allows any part of
these to trail on the ground out of arrogance, Allaah will not look
at him on the Day of Judgement."(reported
by Abu Dawud, no. 4085, and al-Nisaa’i, no. 5334, with a saheeh
isnaad). Ibn
‘Abbaas reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) said: "Allaah
will not look at the one who wears his lower garment below his
ankles." (Reported
by al-Nisaa’i in al-Mujtabaa, Kitaab al-Zeenah, Baab Isbaal
al-Izaar).
Hudhayfah
said: "The
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
took hold of the muscle of my calf (or his calf) and said, ‘This is
where the izaar should stop; if you insist, it may be lower, but it
should not reach the ankles.’"(Reported
by al-Tirmidhi, who said this is a saheeh hasan hadeeth; see Sunan
al-Tirmidhi, no. 1783) All
of the ahaadeeth quoted above speak against Isbaal, whether or not
the intention is to show off; but if a person does this deliberately
out of arrogance, there is no doubt that his sin is greater. The
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
"Allaah
will not look at the one who trails his izaar on the ground out of
pride." (al-Bukhaari,
no. 5788) Jaabir
ibn
Sulaym said: "The Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to me: ‘Beware of wearing
one’s lower garment below the ankles, because this is a kind of
showing-off, and Allaah does not love showing-off.’" (Regarded
as saheeh by al-Tirmidhi, no. 2722).
No one is able to be
completely free of pride and arrogance, even if he claims that this
is so. Such a claim is unacceptable, because by saying it, he is
praising himself. Only in the case of those whom the wahy
(revelation) testified that they were free of pride do we believe
that this is the case. For example, there is a hadeeth which states
that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
said: "Whoever trails his garment on the ground out of pride,
Allaah will not look at him on the Day of Resurrection." Abu
Bakr said to him, "O Messenger of Allaah, my izaar slips down if
I do not pay attention to it." He said: "You are not one of
those who do it out of pride." (Reported by al-Bukhaari, no.
5784)
What indicates that isbaal is prohibited even if it is
not done out of pride is the hadeeth of Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri, may
Allaah be pleased with him, who said: "The Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘The lower
garment of the Muslim should come down to mid-calf, but there is
nothing wrong if it is between that point and the ankles. Whatever is
lower than the ankles is in the Fire. Whoever trails his garment on
the ground out of pride, Allaah will not look at him." (Reported
by Abu Dawud, no. 4093, with a saheeh isnaad.)
These ahaadeeth
describe two different deeds, for which there will be two different
punishments: Imaam Ahmad reported that Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Ya’qoob
said: "I asked Abu Sa’eed: ‘Did you hear anything from the
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
concerning the izaar (lower garment)?’ he said, ‘Yes, listen!
‘The
izaar of the believer should come to mid-calf, although there is
nothing wrong if it comes between there and the ankles, but whatever
is lower than the ankles is in the Fire,’ and he said it three
times." Ibn
‘Umar said: "I passed by the Messenger of Allaah (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and my izaar had slipped down.
He said, ‘O ‘Abdullaah, pull up your izaar!’ so I pulled it up.
He said, ‘More!’ so I pulled it up more, and always made sure it
was pulled up properly after that." Some people asked, "To
where did you pull it up?" He said, "To
mid-calf length." (Reported
by Muslim, no. 2086; al-Dhahabi, Kitaab al-Kabaa’ir, 131-132) The
issue of isbaal applies to women just as much as it applies to men.
This is indicated by the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Umar, may Allaah be
pleased with him, who said: "The Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Whoever trails
his garment on the ground out of pride, Allaah will not look at him.’
Umm Salamah said: ‘O Messenger of Allaah, what should women do with
their hems?’ He said, ‘Let them go down a handspan.’ She asked,
‘What if their feet show?’ He said, ‘Let them lengthen it by a
cubit, but no more.’" (al-Nisaa'i, Kitaab al-zeenah, Baab
dhuyool al-nisaa’).
The punishment for showing off may come
to pass in this world, not in the Hereafter. Abu Hurayrah reported
that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) said: "Whilst
a man was walking arrogantly admiring himself and his clothes, Allaah
caused the earth to swallow him and he is suffering in it until the
Day of Resurrection." (Reported
by Muslim, no. 2088
....
So A Muslim Man's
Hijab be summed as:
He should
control his Eyes.
He should
grow beard and trims moustache.
He does not
trail his dress below his ankle.
He is not
allowed to wear silk or gold.
He cannot
wear thin or see through clothes that would reveal his self to the
public.
It forbidden
to wear that would have any religious significance in another
religion.
He is not
permitted to wear tight clothes.
The dressing
should be loose so as not to show the figure of ones body to others
especially those of the opposite sex.
Our dressing
should remind others of Allah. Dont imitate dirty culture. We have a
responsibility to others.
While men encourage women wearing hijab, just have a
look at yourselves.
Do we dare to question His orders...??
How can we even consider violating an order to be an
insignificant thing although it comes
from Allah??