The word · Worship
حَلْق
Halq
Shaving the head after the rites, which releases the pilgrim from the state of ihram.
Also written · Halk · Halaq · Halq or taqsir · shaving the head · shaving after hajj · Hilaq · head shave
The meaning
What Halq means in Islam
The Prophet asked mercy for those who shave three times and for those who trim once, so shaving is the better of the two for men. Women never shave; they gather their hair and cut about a fingertip's length from the end. It is done after the stoning on the tenth for hajj, and after the sa'i for umrah.
Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- TaqsirTrimming the hair rather than shaving it, the alternative way to leave ihram.تَقْصير
- TahallulComing out of ihram, so that what was forbidden during it becomes permitted again.تَحَلُّل
- JamaratThe three pillars at Mina that pilgrims pelt with small pebbles, called ramy.الجَمَرات
- UmrahThe lesser pilgrimage: ihram, tawaf, sa'i and cutting the hair, and it may be done any time of year.عُمْرَة
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