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Is It Obligatory To Trim Long Nails
For context, I don’t like cutting my nails and like to keep them long. It’s easier to keep them clean when they are long because I noticed when they are short, dirt accumulates very fast under them and that doesn’t happen when I keep them long. It’s is also easier to scratch myself with longer nails, and women keep them long for beauty. So can we just keep our nails long?
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Is It Obligatory To Trim Long Nails
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Prophet (sws) instituted this Sunnah that long nails should be trimmed. Dirt often accumulates in elongated nails and such nails also have resemblance with savage animals. So strict was the Prophet (sws) in observing these norms that for some of them he even stipulated a certain time limit. Anas (rta) reports:
وُقِّتَ لَنَا فِي قَصِّ الشَّارِبِ وَتَقْلِيمِ الْأَظْفَارِ وَنَتْفِ الْإِبِطِ وَحَلْقِ الْعَانَةِ أَنْ لَا نَتْرُكَ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً
The time before which we must trim our moustache, pare our fingernails, shave pubic hair, remove hair from under the armpits has been fixed as forty days.
However, it has not been made obligatory like five daily salah or fasts of Ramdhan etc. It is an emphatic Sunnah, with great stress i.e a recommended act with great emphasis. Any intentional violation might incur a minor sin for the person.
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