Zakir Naik – What if the Beard does not Suit the Person

There are many Muslims

on

with faith, the beard will suit very well

if they have a good growth. There are

many Muslims

on a face the beard may not suit.

I remember the first time when I kept

a beard

when I was starting the medical college,

and my growth was very sparse. Even now,

it's not thick. It is the same. But,

previously, it was more sparse. You know, just

a few hair here and there.

So when I started keeping a beard, 1

of our Muslim brothers said,

The beard

has thrown light on your face, and the

beard suits you.

What the Muslim brother was trying to do

was to encourage me that I should continue

keeping the beard.

But I knew

that as far looks concerned,

the beard did not suit me. You know,

just few hair here and few hair here

and a few hair there. It didn't suit

me. Even now after so many years,

it has grown a bit,

but not like many of us people

who have got a good growth,

Add a spouse growth.

But I have a logic,

and I say,

that those Muslims

who have a good growth, and if the

beard suits them, and they keep the beard,

they will get the because

they obey Allah and his messenger.

But those Muslim

who don't have a good growth,

and if the beard doesn't suit them, and

yet if they keep the beard

to follow Allah and his Rasool, inshallah,

they will get most of up.

Because imagine, even though the beard doesn't suit

me, if the beard doesn't suit a Muslim,

yet he keeps for the love of Allah

and Rasool.

I consider

that inshallah, he will get more salah.

All those who keep the beard will get

the, but the person on whom the beard

doesn't suit, and yet he keeps it knowing

very well it doesn't suit him for the

love of Allah and,

he will get multiple times.

Normally, if you analyze

that all the human beings

who keep a beard,

if you

take a survey, approximately,

more than 3 fourth

of the men

who sport a beard, they are Muslims.

More than 75%

of the men who sport a beard, they

are Muslims.

Maybe

about 25%,

maybe non Muslims.

But those non Muslims

who sport a beard,

they may have a typical type of beard,

you know, with the mustache curled up, so

you can make out that.

He's not a Muslim. Oh, may I have

a particular type of beard resembling

some other personality indicating that this is not

an Islamic type of beard. Or he may

wear an additional sign, like,

worn by the Hindus, all wear across

the sign of a Christians.

So most of the time,

when the non Muslim, when they keep a

beard,

depending upon the type of the beard or

the sign that they're wearing, a cross or

a tika, you can identify that though this

person has a beard, he is a non

Muslim.

So when you meet a person

sporting a beard,

majority of the time,

more than 95% of the time, you can

identify whether this person is a Muslim or

not.