Circumcision

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The performance of circumcision is one of the rules of cleanliness in Islam. It is reported by Abu Hurairah that the Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) mentioned:

Five are the acts quite akin to fitra: circumcision, shaving the pubes, cutting the nails, plucking the hair under the armpits and clipping (or shaving) the moustache (Recorded in "Sahih Muslim", "Sahih Bukhari", "Musnad Ahmed" and "Sunnah At-Tirmidhi").

The word fitra in relation to cleanliness can refer to the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh) with regard to this matter, and fitra also "implies an inner sense of cleanliness in man which is proof of his moral convictions and mental health".

Today the doctors say that lack of circumcision:


Is the biggest risk factor for heterosexually-acquired AIDS virus infection in men (8-times higher risk by itself, and even higher when lesions from STDs are added in).
Is responsible for a 12-fold higher risk of urinary tract infections. Carries a higher risk of death in the first year of life (from complications of urinary tract infections: kidney failure, meningitis and infection of bone marrow).
One in 900 uncircumcised men will die from cancer of the penis or require at least partial penile amputation as a result. (In contrast, penile cancer never occurs in men circumcised at birth).
Often leads to balanitis (inflammation of the glens), phimosis (inability to retract the foreskin) and paraphimosis (constriction of the penis by a tight foreskin). Up to 18% of uncircumcised boys will develop one of these by 8 years of age, whereas all are unknown in the circumcised.
Means problems that may result in a need for circumcision late in life: complication risk = 1 in 100 (compared with 1 in 1000 in the newborn).
Is associated with higher incidence of cervical cancer in the female partners of uncircumcised men.

This is what I found.

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First; Circumcision for men is clearly part of Islam as it is one of the five things listed by the Prophet Muhammad pbuh as being part of the fitrah, in
a hadith recorded by Bukhari and Muslim. This is sufficient proof but as for the Prophet pbuh he was circumcised by his grandfather, Abdul-Muttalib on the 7th day, according to the strongest verdict (see Zaad al-Ma'ad fi Hadyi khayr al-Ibaad 1/82).

Secondly, Muslims do not practice circiumcision because of empirical benefits; they practice it because GOD ordained it, as He has many other Islamic practices:
http://www.islamicboard.com/430256-post28.html
We are to follow the practices ordained by God and live according to that code of life. Jews have the same practice:
http://www1.epinions.com/content_1497145476


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I do believe Abraham (pbuh) was circumcised - he was the first person to commence the whole thing, on the order of God. Hence the followers of his message (who were the other Prophets who followed, like Moses etc) also practised circumcision. That is why Jews do it too. I do believe circumsion is mentioned in the Bible though I am not sure what context it is mentioned under. So it is a Muslim practise too.
 

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