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Cited in 17 segments across 13 recordings · 2014 to 2022 · term/term:hijab

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10 Dec 2022video LatestWhat is the story of the woman who tricked Abu Hanifa into a marriage proposal? Abu Hanifa died in 150 AH and is buried in Baghdad. In a story of uncertain accuracy, a woman tricked him into a marriage with a different bride to get him back for the clever reference he once gave a poor suitor. LessonAbu Hanifareport: the nikah with the least burden has the most barakahnikahhijab machine11 min 51 s56:24on YouTube
9 May 2021video LatestWhy did scholars say a slave woman's awrah is the same as a man's? Mufti Abu Layth says most scholars of the past legitimised the practice of slave girls out of pragmatism, realism and sex, and even presented it as a religious act. He contrasts this with music, which they were less keen to permit, and polygamy, which few manage today. Question source not recordedposition checked'awrahamah (slave woman)hijabIbn Hazm machine7 min 03 s0:38on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why are some clerics so harsh in their rulings on women? Mufti Abu Layth says harsh rulings from some clergy, especially towards women, come from sexual deprivation and a closed madrasa culture, and that love and a normal life soften people. Lessonposition checkedhijabfatwa machine8 min 44 s1:12:51on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhat does Mufti Abu Layth think of France banning the hijab for girls under 18? If France has banned headscarves for girls under 18, he says it is an abhorrent breach of basic rights that he strongly condemns. He also opposes pressuring girls to wear it: it should be their genuine choice. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedthe reported French move to ban headscarves for girls under 18 (2021)hijabdhabiha (ritual slaughter) machine7 min 20 s1:21:35on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth If the hijab has become sexualised, should scholars still push it? Mufti Abu Layth argues that since the hijab is now widely sexualised, fatwas should not keep pushing it, though people may wear it as culture. Lessonposition checkedhijab machine9 min 37 s1:20:04on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Does a bald woman have to wear hijab? Mufti Abu Layth gives no ruling: he jokes about the wording and muses on hair loss in women and men. Question from live chathijab machine1 min 07 s24:30on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Do women have to cover their wrists and ankles in prayer? Mufti Abu Layth says relax: the deen is natural, and obsessing over whether a wrist, ankle or hair shows came centuries after the Prophet. Question from live chatposition checkedHanafiAbu YusufhijabQuran 6:38 (We have not neglected anything in the Book) machine8 min 14 s45:48on YouTube
14 Jul 2020live stream Is wearing my hijab turban-style allowed? Yes, he says a turban-style covering is fine, because covering the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran or Sunnah; the emphasis was on modesty. Question from live chatposition checkedhijabSurah al-Nur (his video on it) [?]al-Hajjaj ibn Yusufimamah (turban) machine6 min 48 s17:43on YouTube
2 Jul 2020video Is it wrong for a hijabi YouTuber to take off her hijab? Removing the hijab is her own choice and her own business, Mufti Abu Layth says; he adds that some scholars hold hijab is not obligatory and that he finds their argument stronger. Lessonguest speechAmena Khan (Pearl Daisy)hijab machine2 min 36 s0:01on YouTube
2 Jul 2020video Why are people angry at a hijabi influencer who removed her hijab if it is her choice? The problem is not the hijab but duplicity: Mufti Abu Layth says building fame and income on a religious image one does not believe in is a double life that inevitably collapses, and he advises against living fake lifestyles. Lessonposition checkedAmena Khan (Pearl Daisy)L'Orealhijab machine5 min 55 s2:37on YouTube
19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does lowering the gaze apply to images and screens? The guest says most classical scholars took the forbidden gaze to be the lustful one, and that jurists distinguished seeing a person in the flesh from a reflection or screen, a matter on which there are two opinions. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Kashif Khan (guest)Ibn QudamaIbn Uthaymin [?]lowering the gaze (ghadd al-basar) machine7 min 56 s1:32:23on YouTube
3 Nov 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Does the Quran actually tell women to cover their hair, or only their chest? There is nothing explicit in the Quran or Sunnah about covering the head; the verse of al-Nur tells women to cover the jayb (the chest opening) with the khimar they already wore, and whether the khimar itself is obligatory or circumstantial is an open question. Covering the hair became the settled teaching within a generation of the companions. Question from live chatposition checkedQuran 24:31 (let them draw their khimars over their jayb)hijabkhimar (head covering)jayb (the chest opening of a garment) machine9 min 06 s0:04on YouTube
3 Nov 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Is it a sin for a Muslim woman not to cover her hair? Contemporary scholars who say covering the hair is not obligatory hold a valid position, and not wearing hijab is an equally valid opinion to wearing it, which Mufti Abu Layth calls good as part of a woman's identity. What the Quran explicitly establishes is modesty, and the choice is a personal journey, not something to impose. Lessonposition checkedJaved Ahmad Ghamidi [?]hijab machine2 min 39 s9:10on YouTube
3 Nov 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Can a husband or father force a woman to wear hijab? Forcing women to cover their hair is categorically wrong in Mufti Abu Layth's view and does greater harm. He attributes the pressure to men's insecurity about women and to guilt imposed through fatwas that curse men whose wives do not cover, both of which he calls wrong. Lessonposition checkedhijab machine5 min 13 s11:49on YouTube
8 Mar 2018Quick Fiqh! Do Muslim women have to wear the niqab? Mufti Abu Layth does not consider the niqab part of the religion: it is a cultural measure, sensible only where a woman's safety requires it, and in the West he thinks it should not be worn. The screen rules for the Prophet's wives were specific to them. Question source not recordedposition checkedniqab (face veil)al-Dasuqi [?]ghuluw (extremism in religion)hijab machine10 min 32 s0:37on YouTube
29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Is it Islamic to name and shame someone for a sin? Naming and shaming a person for a sin is a modern tabloid practice with no basis in the Prophet's example, who addressed wrongdoing without naming anyone. Those acting as haram police are mostly unqualified, and Mufti Abu Layth notes they ignore rulings that apply to themselves. Lessonposition checkedreport: ma bal aqwam what is the matter with people who do such and suchreport: all the children of adam are sinnershijabmaqasid al-shari'ah machine3 min 56 s15:41on YouTube
9 May 2014video Did Imam Malik allow a woman to show her face to her husband's friends? One speaker reads Imam Malik's fatwa allowing a woman to eat with her husband's friends as proof that the face is uncovered; the other cites the later split between young and older women. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechUstadh Abdus Shakur Brooks (guest)Imam MalikAbu al-Walid al-Bajihijab machine8 min 19 s11:31on YouTube