{"id":778,"date":"2011-08-21T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=778"},"modified":"2011-08-21T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:20:51","slug":"are-we-allowed-to-shave-during-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/are-we-allowed-to-shave-during-fasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we allowed to shave during fasting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Are we allowed to shave during fasting? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before answering the question it should be borne in mind that keeping a beard is a symbol of a Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Prophet (Saw) has said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Oppose the Mushrikeens (poytheists), lengthen your beards and cut your moustache<\/em>.\u201d (Bukhari p875 v2)<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore all the four Imams, Imam Shafee, Imam Ahmed, Imam Malik and Imam Abu Hanifah agree that the shaving of the beard is impermissible. (Wujub-Ifah-Liyah P19, 20)<\/p>\n<p>Therefore one should keep a beard and abstain from shaving the beard. Regarding your question if one does shave during the fast his fast will remain intact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we allowed to shave during fasting? Before answering the question it should be borne in mind that keeping a beard is a symbol of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}