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**Druspills** · 03-26-2012, 11:07 AM

Personally, the opinion that I convey to inquiring souls is always the mu´tamad, i.e. that it is makruh to take anything from the beard, even that which is above a fist length (except for on Hajj and Umrah). I was merely stating some arguments that the great Imams of this Ummah have employed when disagreeing with both "my" view and the standard Hanafi view. Imam Ghazali was a mujtahid and subsequent Fiqh works by various Imams of the school are basically based on his works.

wassalam

Imam Ghazzali never said a trimmed beard fulfills the sunnah. The proof of this is that he has mentioned that trimming the beard is makhruh. And a makhruh action can never be a sunnah. This is in Ihya Uloom al-Din and anyone who has it can read it. So unless you can bring a proof of your claim from some other source or some of his other books - then your claim regarding Imam Ghazzali is false.

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Druspills Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 353 Senior Member	Personally, the opinion that I convey to inquiring souls is always the mu´tamad, i.e. that it is makruh to take anything from the beard, even that which is above a fist length (except for on Hajj and Umrah). I was merely stating some arguments that the great Imams of this Ummah have employed when disagreeing with both "my" view and the standard Hanafi view. Imam Ghazali was a mujtahid and subsequent Fiqh works by various Imams of the school are basically based on his works. wassalam Imam Ghazzali never said a trimmed beard fulfills the sunnah. The proof of this is that he has mentioned that trimming the beard is makhruh. And a makhruh action can never be a sunnah. This is in Ihya Uloom al-Din and anyone who has it can read it. So unless you can bring a proof of your claim from some other source or some of his other books - then your claim regarding Imam Ghazzali is false.
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