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**greekbeast** · 10-03-2009, 06:54 PM

The Arab Shaykh and Mufti of Iraq, Mufti Abd al-Malik Sa'di was asked about cutting the beard before fist length and he replied that this is the act of the effeminate one [mukhannath].[/url]

As far as I can tell from the biography the mufti doesn't ascribe to or judge according to a specific madhhab, but maybe I have misunderstood the Arabic.

As for "mukhannath" then it is not (as far as I know) a word that refers to someone who "changes" their gender (which is of course impossible in reality), but rather an effeminate man (a man who is womanly, acts like a woman or tries to appear like a woman etc.).

10-03-2009, 06:54 PM	#7
greekbeast Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	The Arab Shaykh and Mufti of Iraq, Mufti Abd al-Malik Sa'di was asked about cutting the beard before fist length and he replied that this is the act of the effeminate one [mukhannath].[/url] As far as I can tell from the biography the mufti doesn't ascribe to or judge according to a specific madhhab, but maybe I have misunderstood the Arabic. As for "mukhannath" then it is not (as far as I know) a word that refers to someone who "changes" their gender (which is of course impossible in reality), but rather an effeminate man (a man who is womanly, acts like a woman or tries to appear like a woman etc.).
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