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Does a community gathering have to be gender segregated?

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Would a viewers' retreat be gender segregated?

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 2 of 50 in the recording2021-04-13-S02

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No: Mufti Abu Layth says adults do not need micromanaging and a gathering of men and women need not be segregated.

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After answering a light question about what he eats for sahur, Mufti Abu Layth reads chat comments about free mixing at the proposed get-together. He says people are adults and do not need to be micromanaged, and that the gathering would not be gender segregated: people would simply be people. He says some imagine that if there is no wall between men and women the result must be an orgy, and calls this a strange way of thinking.

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Would there be free mixing between men and women at the get-together?

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Mufti Abu Layth says adults do not need to be micromanaged and that the proposed get-together would not be gender segregated.

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“look people are adults they don't need to be micromanaged do they of course it would be it wouldn't be gender segregated”

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but i i remember at the time thinking this could have been so much better and yeah that's food for thought people food for thought food for thought but then i'll need some people to organize it let's take a look what's preoccupying your precious thoughts people mufti what's for sahari well since i'm not doing it now today but otherwise there is salan as always i think is it and

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rice there you go um you teasing me nothing that is people saying free mixing in the look people are adults they don't need to be micromanaged do they of course it would be it wouldn't be gender segregated i mean that would be i mean i don't know what that means gender segregate people would just be people isn't it it's hardly a for god's sake you know

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people think oh my god if there isn't a wall i mean if there isn't a wall between men and women then it just translates in their head as an orgy [Laughter] this is how weirded out these people are that they just think ah oh what you mean in the same room men and women then they just picture this uh and they think is that what it is [Laughter] um

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-04-13-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/2/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, April 13). Does a community gathering have to be gender segregated? [Video, segment 2021-04-13-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/2/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Does a community gathering have to be gender segregated?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {4},
  date = {2021-04-13},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-04-13-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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