Is it permissible to compare a person to an ancient human because of his long hair and beard, without intending to mock the beard or the Sunnah?
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What you mentioned is considered mockery and ridicule of your friend. However, merely ridiculing someone's beard is not ridiculing the religion. It only becomes ridiculing the religion if the mocker intends to ridicule the beard specifically because it is a religious matter.
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