Can the Hair That Is on the Right and Left Side of the Soul Patch Be Removed/Trimmed?

Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji

Question:

Can the hair that is on the right and left side of the soul patch be removed/trimmed

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Answer:

According to Hanafi jurists, the beard is that which is on the jawbone¹. Since the soul patch is a single small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin² and not on the jawbone it will be permissible to cut it and the hair on its sides.

Only Allah knows best

Written by Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham

1 Maraqi-Al-Falah, Page 29, al maktaba-al assriya 2007

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2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_patch