{"id":6028,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/wisdom-behind-the-sunnah-of-shaving-off-unwanted-hair\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:07","slug":"wisdom-behind-the-sunnah-of-shaving-off-unwanted-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wisdom-behind-the-sunnah-of-shaving-off-unwanted-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom Behind The Sunnah Of Shaving Off Unwanted Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Why do we have to clean hair from under the arms and the pubic area?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Removing hair from under the armpits and the pubic  area is a Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (sws). The wisdom behind the  custom is to attain physical purification. Humans, by their nature, want  to be purified physically. That is why the Holy Prophet (sws) called  the act to be an observance of human nature and instituted these acts as  the Sunnah. He is reported to have said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Five  things are from among [the norms of] human nature: circumcision,  shaving the pubes, cutting nails, removing hair from under the armpits  and clipping the moustache. (Muslim: No. 257)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2014-11-28<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6028\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we have to clean hair from under the arms and the pubic area?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[1647,1646,1359],"class_list":["post-6028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamic-customs","tag-pubic-hair","tag-shave","tag-taharat"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wisdom Behind The Sunnah Of Shaving Off Unwanted Hair - 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