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**cucceevevaind** · 03-29-2010, 12:04 AM

I think the logic behind shaving being a "24 hour sin" is that when you shave and go out in public you're showing off your sin proudly, and encouraging others to do the same (becoming a fajir I think? rather than a fasiq). Regardless however, as Mufti saheb mentioned, the ruling on keeping the beard remains.

That’s an interesting point. If a person were to be liable for the sins of others committed due to influence from his own wrong-doing, then the sin would become perpetual. He can start wearing the Niqab or a surgical medical mask or a false beard, to avoid such a sin.

I remember reading once that Martin Lings became very distressed on finding that most of the participants of an Islamic conference were donning suits rather than the Sunnah attire. He then changed the subject of his own speech in order to stress upon the importance of the outward appearance. He described beautifully how the outward state affect the inward state, not just the other way round:

"All that I have mentioned is outward, but the outward acts upon the inward, and a man’s clothes and his home are the nearest of all things to his soul, and their influence on it is perpetual and therefore incalculably powerful."

03-29-2010, 12:04 AM	#33
cucceevevaind Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 652 Senior Member	I think the logic behind shaving being a "24 hour sin" is that when you shave and go out in public you're showing off your sin proudly, and encouraging others to do the same (becoming a fajir I think? rather than a fasiq). Regardless however, as Mufti saheb mentioned, the ruling on keeping the beard remains. That’s an interesting point. If a person were to be liable for the sins of others committed due to influence from his own wrong-doing, then the sin would become perpetual. He can start wearing the Niqab or a surgical medical mask or a false beard, to avoid such a sin. I remember reading once that Martin Lings became very distressed on finding that most of the participants of an Islamic conference were donning suits rather than the Sunnah attire. He then changed the subject of his own speech in order to stress upon the importance of the outward appearance. He described beautifully how the outward state affect the inward state, not just the other way round: "All that I have mentioned is outward, but the outward acts upon the inward, and a man’s clothes and his home are the nearest of all things to his soul, and their influence on it is perpetual and therefore incalculably powerful."
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