Bismillahir
Rahmaanir Raheem
My Shaykh, Hazrat Maulana Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar
Saheb (Rahmatullahi ‘alayh), repeatedly said that if a person adopts the garb
or outer features of Rasulullah (Sallallaahu 'alayhi wasallam) and the Sawliheen (pious) who follow, then the soul of righteousness will
come into his body.
For example : Keeping the Sunnah length beard,
pants above the ankles (which has been greatly emphasised in the Hadeeth
Shareef), the dressing, eating, sleeping, trading and so forth, in conformity
with the Sunnah.
Hazrat mentioned that he once told a person in
Karachi to keep a beard. Not only did this person refuse to do so, he made a
joke of this. Allah Ta’ala caused a sickness to afflict him. As a result, pus
would ooze out from his cheek. He therefore grew a beard and still had the
audacity to say: “I kept it, not because
it is a Sunnat, but to cover my wound.”
(Na-oozu Billah)
One of Hazrat’s Khalifas, who is also a poet, says
: If the beard was going to make a person
look ugly, it would not have been the Sunnah of my Beloved (Sallallaahu ‘alayhi
wasallam).
The person who is clean-shaven is – as if - ‘announcing’ : I am not happy
with the face of Rasulullah (Sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam). – Na’uzu Billah
The beauty of a man is his beard. There are a
group of angels who read the following Tasbeeh[1] : “Glory be to Allah, who gave beauty to men
with their beards and who gave beauty to women with their locks of hair.”
[1] Tasbeeh : incantation
