white hair, it will become a spear on the Day of Judgement, with which he will be stabbed.’ (Kanz-ul-‘Ummāl, Vol. 6, p. 281, Ḥadīš 17276)

It is a Bid’aĥ [Innovation] to shave or pluck hair around Bacchī (the few hairs which are on sides of the hair lying between the bottom lip and the chin). (Fatāwā Alamgīrī, Vol. 5, p. 358)

It is Makruĥ [Disliked] to shave the hair on the neck. (Fatāwā Alamgīrī, Vol. 5, p. 357) But it applies when the head is not shaved and the hair on the neck are shaved (many people do so when they have their beard neatened) but if the entire head is shaved, then along with this, the hair on the neck should also be shaved. (Baĥār-e Sharī’at, Vol. 16, p. 230)

There are four things about which there is a ruling that these should be buried; hair, nails, the cloth used by a woman to clean the blood of menses, and blood. (Baĥār-e Sharī’at, Vol. 16, p. 231; Fatāwā Alamgīrī, Vol. 5, p. 358)

It is Mustaḥab for men to turn the white hairs of the beard and head reddish or yellowish in colour; for this purpose Meĥndī [Henna] can be used.

One should not sleep with henna pasted in the beard or hair. According to a Ḥakīm, sleeping with henna pasted in hair causes the heat of the head to descend into the eyes, and this can be detrimental to the eyesight. This advice of