Including
sunah of nature is to cut nails. Prophet sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam
said:
خمس من الفطرة: الختان,
والاستحداد, ونتف الإبط, وتقليم الأظفار, وقص الشارب
"5 cases
of fitrah: circumcision, shaving the pubic hair, plucking underarm hair, cut
nails, and shaving mustache." (HN. Bukhari Muslim)
Is there a
time limit allowing the pubic hair, or underarm hair or nails, or mustashto
grow long?
In fact,
Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam has set a deadline to let it grow
maximum in "40 days". Moreover, the Prophet ordered to cut it off and
forbidden to leave it longer.
Anas bin Malik
said:
وقت لنا في قص الشارب,
وتقليم الأظفار, ونتف الإبط, وحلق العانة, أن لا نترك أكثر من أربعين ليلة
"The
Messenger gives us the time to shave mustache, cutting the nails, plucking the
armpit hairs, shaving the pubic hair, so that we do not let it grow longer than
40 days" (HN. Muslim)
From the above
hadith, then we can infer that lengthen the nail more than 40 days is prohibited
by Islamic shari'ah.
Especially if people
elongated nails to imitate infidels or wicked (fasiq) person, then it is
obviously illicit (haram).
Prophet sallallaahu
alaihi wa sallam said:
من تشبه بقوم فهو
منهم
"Whoever
imitates a people then he belonged to them." (HR. Abu Daud)
The ridiculous
part of those who lengthen nails: "they stated that lengthen the nail is part
of new era fashion". Yet, it is the stone age seedy fashion, moroover lengthen
the nails resemble animals fingernails which full of dirt.
Furthermore, doctors
must have been recommend people to regularly cut nails in order to make their live
cleaner and more hygienic.
So let us follow
the Sunnah of the Prophet for not lengthening the nail more than 40 days.
Allah knows
best.
Author:
Muhammad Abdurrahman Al Amiry
Translators: Adiba
Hasan
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