Taliban Orders Afghan Mosques to Dedicate Friday Sermons to the \u201cImportance of Growing a Beard\u201d
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\nThe Taliban-run Ministry of Guidance, Hajj and Religious Affairs has issued a formal directive instructing all mosque imams across Afghanistan to dedicate the Friday sermon on 20 November to the topic of the \u201cimportance of growing a beard.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the directive, shaving the beard is described as \u201cimitating women\u201d and therefore \u201cforbidden,\u201d and the ministry claims that \u201ca man\u2019s adornment is his beard.\u201d The letter further states that men who shave their beards \u201cresemble Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n
As reported by Shia Waves Agency, citing the BBC, the ministry referenced the hadith \u201cTrim the moustache and let the beard grow,\u201d noting that for the past four years it has assigned a single mandatory topic for every Friday sermon nationwide. Clerics are not permitted to deviate from these weekly themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taliban Orders Afghan Mosques to Dedicate Friday Sermons to the \u201cImportance of Growing a Beard\u201d ————————– The Taliban-run Ministry of Guidance, Hajj and Religious Affairs has issued a formal directive instructing all mosque imams across Afghanistan to dedicate the Friday sermon on 20 November to the topic of the \u201cimportance of growing a beard.\u201d According …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"yoast_head":"\n