Healthy Living

Hair Care

Long or short, straight or curly, black or grey, covered or open, your hair reveals more about your age, habits and personal beliefs than any other part of your body. Rasulullah (SA) instructs: If you wish to grow your hair, look after it. Rasulullah (SA) teaches:  Trim the hair on your temples (ear locks). Trim the hair on both your cheeks. Comb your hair regularly. Shave off the hair on your nape Trim your moustache where it touches your upper lip and leave it untouched on the sides. Do not imitate Ahl ul-Kitaab.  Imam Jaafar us Sadiq (AS) has said: Trim the moustache regularly and do not let it grow over the lips as is the habit of Banu Umayya.  Rasulullah (SA) says: "Do not let the pubic hair and the hair in the armpits grow, or the devil will find abode in them." Hairy parts, particularly of the pubis, are subject to troublesome infestations by minute insects and mites, such as chiggers and lice. The hair should be combed regularly. Rasulullah (SA) cautions: "If one does not part the hair (on the head), Allah will part it on the day of qayamat with nails of fire."  Rasulullah (SA) says of grey hair: "Old age is noor, do not diminish it by plucking out the white hair that appear in your beards or dying them with color or henna." It is interesting to note that Shariat, however, has permitted dyeing hair in times of war in order that the soldiers appear younger and stronger.  Aqa Maula (TUS) in the course of his bayaan, instructs mumineen to keep their hair short and grow beards. Shaving or trimming of beards is forbidden by the Shariat and is against the will of Aqa Maula (TUS).  Women should not trim their hair. On the aesthetic importance of hair Rasulullah (SA) has said: "When one of you decides to choose a wife, inquire about her hair as you do about her facial appearance: hair is one of the two elements of beauty."  One should remember to wash off excess hair after a hair-cut: what leaves the body is considered dead, and therefore is non namazi.