Manners-Cutting Nails Hair

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THE ETIQUETTE OF CUTTING THE FINGERNAILS AND HAIR

To remove the hair directly below the navel, under the arms and to trim the nails once a week is Mustahab (preferable), it is permissible after fifteen days and to leave it for after forty days is disliked (Makrooh).

It is preferable on Thursday or Friday before Jumu’ah Salaah.To wash the fingers after trimming the nails is desirable.

Do not bite your nails as it is disliked and a predisposition to infectious diseases.

To get rid of the hair under the navel is Sunnah and the best day is Friday.It is permissible to use hair removal cream.It is Sunnah to pluck and there is no problem in shaving the hair under the arms.

Do not remove the hair from inside the nose as it could affect an illness of sense.

If the eyebrows become long, then to trim them is permissible.

To take of hair in any part of the body when in the state of impurity (when bathing is obligatory) is disliked (Makrooh).

The hair and nails should be buried and to flush them is disliked (Makrooh) as there is a chance of illness spreading.

Method of cutting nails–‘Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates the way of cutting the nails: FOR THE RIGHT HAND: start of with the index finger, forefinger, ring finger and little finger, then moving onto the LEFT HAND: little finger, ring finger, forefinger, index finger, thumb and lastly the thumb of the right hand. Then to wash the hands after cutting the nails.

For toe nails – Start with the right foot small toe and proceed until the big toe, then start with the left foot big toe and & conclude with the small toe (Semi-circle).There is no specified way recorded for trimming the nails but it is better to use the same method that Khilal (wiping in between the toes in ablution) is done.

What to do with them-After cutting the nails and hair of the body, one should collect them all and bury them, since we all are made from soil and thus the hair and nails should be put back to the earth.

The consequence of keeping long nails-There will be no blessing in your wealth,You will become poor, Illness will plague you, Allah (The Exalted) and the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) will be displeased with you,The devil sits on long nails.

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