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no one may declare haram what Allah has not declared haram

Cited in 3 segments across 3 recordings · 2020 to 2021 · principle/principle:only-allah-declares-haram

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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are disgusting sexual fetishes between spouses haram? Such fetishes are not haram, however disgusting most people find them: contact with impurity is unclean but not forbidden, and what a consenting couple do in private is their own business. Nobody is obliged to do them. Question from live chatposition checkedTariq RamadanharamHanafi schoolno one may declare haram what Allah has not declared haram machine8 min 30 s1:04:21on YouTube
5 Mar 2021video Why did Imam Malik say nothing between spouses is haram and only pork is forbidden to eat? Imam Malik held that nothing sexual between spouses is haram and that no meat is haram in itself except pig, and Mufti Abu Layth says such rulings defend the principle that only Allah declares things haram. Saying something is not haram is not the same as recommending it. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikMaliki schoolAbu Hanifafatwa machine5 min 04 s3:59on YouTube
19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is looking at an image of a naked person the same as looking at a real one in Islamic law? The guest says he cannot call something haram without a text prohibiting it, so he presents the scholars' differing views on looking at a reflection or image and leaves the choice to the asker. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Kashif Khan (guest)a Shafi'i jurist [?]haramno one may declare haram what Allah has not declared haram machine4 min1:28:23on YouTube