Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Is It Bad That a Clean Shaven Beard Man Leads a Prayer

			Is it bad for a clean shaven man
		

			to lead prayers?
		

			It is either
		

			obligatory or sunnah
		

			for men to keep a beard.
		

			The predominant opinion is that it's obligatory.
		

			The relied upon position in the Shafi'i school
		

			is that it is a sunnah for men
		

			to keep beards. Either way, it is from
		

			what is
		

			unique from
		

			the the teachings of our deen.
		

			So
		

			the the proper thing is when there's a
		

			choice one chooses,
		

			the most fitting person to lead the prayer,
		

			but having a beard is not the only
		

			criteria. There are there's a list of criteria
		

			that should be the most learned,
		

			then the one with the best recitation,
		

			then the one with taqwa,
		

			etcetera.
		

			And this is one of the balance of
		

			considerations
		

			there.