As the Urdu saying goes: "Deen main dari hai, dari main deen nahi". Meaning growing a beard is part of faith but merely growing a beard doesn't mean you have faith.
Most of your heroes are bearded phonies.
Also, this reminds me...whenever and wherever one of Turk's heroes comes into power of a district, region, country or whatever...and imposes "Shariah" their first act of power is to enforce the growing of the beard. I don't get the obsession. I'm sure there are other pressing issues but they get hung up on the length of the beard, the height of the pant legs, and the size of the burqa. Never mind obvious problems like human rights, lack of education, child molestation, women's rights...na beard lengths and the height of pant legs.