Trimming the Moustache and Leaving the Beard

Question :

In a number of Hadiths the following is mentioned:
"Clip you moustaches and grow your beards. Similarly the mention of clipping the moustache, clipping the nails, plucking the hair from the armpits and shaving the pubic area. So is shaving different than trimming? The question is that some people clip what hangs down from the upper lip, while avoiding the rest of the hair on the moustache. Others trim half of the moustache leaving the rest. So is this the meaning or does it mean shaving all of it? I want to know the way to trim the moustache. As for leaving the beard, it is known that it is to leave it entirely.

Answer:

In the authentic Hadiths of Allah's Messenger he said:
Clip your moustaches and grow your beards, differ from the polytheists.

He also said:
«Pare your moustaches and leave your beards, differ from the Zoroastrians.

And in some narrations:
Trim your moustaches.
And Ihfa' (trimming or shortening) is a more than clipping. So whoever pares or trims his moustache until his upper lip is visible, then there is no harm because the authentic Hadiths mention both ways.

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