Part-4
Discussion on Male Circumcision in Islam
For Muslims, male circumcision is performed for religious reasons, mainly to follow the sunnah (practice) of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Moreover, there are attempts to label it as a contributor to cleanliness / personal hygiene. These are done largely to grant the practice scientific legitimacy and a moral foundation. Because drops of urine and smegma gather under that piece of foreskin and may cause impurity to clothes and the body, many Islamic jurists understand the purpose of legislating circumcision as a way to purify the body from urine and smegma.
Circumcision and its Islamic Rules
Both Jews and Muslims legislate circumcision, a commandment that originated with the Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ, the first to practice circumcision in accordance with the divine directive. The Glorious Qur’an does not enjoin circumcision directly; however, the relevant ruling is mentioned in the writings of the Qur’anic interpreters who clearly elucidated the importance of following Prophet Ibrahim’s steps:
Who can be better in religion than one who submits his whole self to Allah, does good, and follows the way of Ibrahim the true in Faith? For Allah did take Ibrahim for a friend.
Say: Allah has spoken the truth, therefore follow the religion of Ibrahim, the upright one; and he was not one of the polytheists.6
The commandment to circumcise is however mentioned in the aḥādīth (singular ḥadīth), reports about the sayings and actions of the Messenger Muhammad ﷺ.
Five practices are characteristic of characteristic of the fiṭra (sound innate disposition): circumcision, shaving the pubic hair, cutting the moustaches short, clipping the nails, and depilating the hair of the armpits.
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