{"id":19118,"date":"2021-01-08T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=19118"},"modified":"2021-01-08T21:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T21:48:44","slug":"is-it-permissible-to-cut-long-hair-with-the-intention-to-keep-it-neat-and-tidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/is-it-permissible-to-cut-long-hair-with-the-intention-to-keep-it-neat-and-tidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Permissible To Cut Long Hair With the Intention To Keep It Neat and Tidy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 04728<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Question<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If a Muslim wants to keep long hair for the sake of ALLAH and imitate our beloved Messenger of Allah Rasool salle Alaa hu alaihi wa sallam, and after keeping his hair long for a while (let\u2019s say to his ear lope) &amp; finds it difficult to keep it long &amp; finds it difficult to look after his hair, is it permissible to cut &amp; reduce the length of his hair?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><u>Answer<\/u><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Yes, it will be permissible to cut it with the intention to keep it neat and tidy. Below I have mentioned some ahadith, which shows the importance of keeping the hair clean, neat, and tidy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The Prophet of Allah (SAW) has said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u201cWhoever has hair, should look after it.\u201d (Sunan Abu Dawud p.220 v.2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">On one occasion the Prophet of Allah (SAW) saw a person whose hair was disheveled. The Prophet of Allah (SAW) remarked:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Does he not find such a thing (oil etc.) by which he can gather\/straighten his hair.&#8221; (Mishkat p.375)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">In another hadith, Saaiduna Abu Qatadah (RA) once asked The Prophet of Allah (SAW): \u201cI have long hair, should I comb it?&#8221; The Prophet of Allah (SAW) replied, &#8220;Yes, and look after your hair\u201d. Hence Abu Qatadah (RA) used to sometimes apply the oil twice a day (i.e. apply oil and comb it) because of the order of The Prophet of Allah (SAW). (Mishkaat p. 384)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Only Allah Knows Best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 04728 Answered by: Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah &nbsp; Question &nbsp; If a Muslim wants to keep long hair for the sake of ALLAH&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19136,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118\/revisions\/19136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}