A religious conservat whom I had an encounter with, last year hooked the collar of my shirt with his index finger claiming I can't join the first row for not wearing a skullcap. Just in a splash, I told him, hadn't you been elderly to me but still I'd love to let u know :

Beard is a greater Sunnah and the only one you can enter your grave with, but you have just came up here with a chocolate shave. Please go forward. This happened in Srinagar.

Another : Another man from my vicinity argued with me for being a coward leaving home and staying in my maternal home because of regular army patrols in my village. I told him, our Prophet too once migrated to Madinah. Plus it's it reported by Abu Hurairah that our Prophet said :

A Muslim could be Bakheel ( one who spends less) or even a coward but he can't be a liar. So this opens up a room for a coward to be a Muslim too. Numbed, he crushed.

I argued with a guy for parking his car in a wrong lane causing misery to others and in between the exchange of words I told him, you've got a glittering beard thereby you need to behave civilized and if people with such persona opt for hooliganism, this haunts the image of Islam

I saw the same guy chasing me and in a tussle to overtake me I thought he might fall prey of an accident and I again stopped. He challenged me for abusing his beard and asked about the number of Faraz in a complete Wadhu if I know any. I told him, you seem to be

be a recent 3 day product of Tabhleegi's and just because I've been with them too so expect me to know all that stuff. He was shocked to know every Farz and each Sunnah in a wadhu. His cheeks blushed and he again argued. I requested his grandparents :