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In the Armed, Paramilitary and Law enforcement forces of India, male Sikh servicemen are allowed to grow full beards as their religion expressly requires followers to do so. However, they are specifically required to "dress up their hair and beard properly". [1] In December 2003, the Supreme Court of India ruled that Muslims in uniform can grow ...
Ritual ablution is also very important, as observed by the practices of wudu, ghusl, and tayammum (water-free alternative using any natural surface such as rock, sand, or dust). [citation needed] In Muslim-majority countries, bathrooms are often equipped with a bidet. This ablution is required in order to maintain ritual cleanliness.
Many religious male figures are recorded to have had facial hair; for example, numerous prophets mentioned in the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) were known to grow beards. Sikhism mandates growing beards; in Shia Islam, trimming beards is allowed but shaving them is forbidden. Amish men grow beards after marriage, but ...
The requirements include women to wear attire that fully covers their bodies and faces and bars men from shaving their beards as well as from skipping prayer and religious fasts.
Two Muslim officers sued Newark police 25 years ago for the right to wear a beard. Today, beards and religious garb are far more common in policing. Police officers with religious garb, beards ...
Male practitioners will often grow long beards, [308] and many Rastas prefer to wear African styles of clothing, such as dashikis, rather than styles that originated in Western countries. [309] However, it is the formation of hair into dreadlocks that is one of the most recognisable Rasta symbols. [ 310 ]
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The requests can be for religious reasons (full beard only), health reasons such as acne (no restrictions on facial hair styles), and on the grounds of "free will", which means the facial hair (mustache, a goatee or a full beard all of which must be well groomed) has to be part of the soldiers identity and part of his self-esteem.