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Circumcision
Shaving pubic hair and pulling out underarm hair.
Clipping fingernails and toenails and trimming/shaving the mustache.
Letting a man’s beard grow and become thick.
Using the siwaak:
Siwaak is a piece of the root of a tree called al-’Araak, which is found in the region of Hijaaz in the Arabian Peninsula.
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