‘Beardless men sinners’
NZPA-Reuter Islamabad Pakistan’s top board of Islamic scholars has announced that men without beards are sinners. “To shave one’s beard is a sin and persistently doing so is a major sin,” said the official Council of Islamic Ideology in reply to an inquiry on the subject.
Pakistani press reports recently said the council had proposed that beardless men should be barred from elections promised by Pakistan’s martial law President, General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, by March, 1985. The council complained that an “assiduous and
wholly unnecessary press controversy” had been raised, and condemned what it called attempts to link its opinion on beards with “wholly alien matters.” The council’s suggestions, which are often not published, carry moral weight but are not legally binding.
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Press, 24 April 1984, Page 38
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