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Did Zakir Naik say masturbation is not haram?

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Zakir Naik now says masturbation is not haram: a call for those who preached otherwise to apologise

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Zakir Naik has said masturbation is not haram but only discouraged. Mufti Abu Layth says those who preached it as haram for decades owe people an admission and an apology, and ridicules the view that only one's own hand makes it haram.

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Mufti Abu Layth reports that Zakir Naik, asked in a recent stream whether masturbation is haram, answered that it is not haram but discouraged, and he plays on the audience's excitement at the news. He says it is remarkable that people who for decades preached it as haram, burdening people with unnecessary guilt and threats of hellfire, now turn around and say it is not actually haram, and he would like them to admit they were preaching wrong and apologise to the millions who suffered for it. He names Yasir Qadhi [?] among those he expects to say the same within half a year. He says he finds it both hilarious and saddening, since so many people carried this guilt while mocking him, and recalls an article on a news site [?] that mocked him for saying masturbation outside marriage is permitted. He ends with the argument he made then: those who allow a spouse to do it but forbid doing it oneself must hold that it becomes haram the instant one's own hand makes contact, which he calls the stupidity of what such people brand and sell as Islam.

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all right so people for many a person who was struggling all this time [Laughter] we have finally had a video from the neck the brother has asked a beautiful question the brother has asked is masturbation haram and he said it's not haram but it's just discouraged [Laughter]

0:38

so zakir naik was asked this question this is just recently last week he did a whole stream explaining how it's not haram but we just don't like it [Laughter] but the the brother has asked a beautiful question so i know a lot of you probably super excited right now you probably

1:08

so there you go people look at this so i don't know he's come out with a whole new technique so you know it's amazing how all these people who for decades including our kadhi yakadaites have been promoting these things haram making people feel so guilty for decades unnecessary guilt burdening people that you're gonna be punished by the hellfire for you know relieving yourself and for doing this and for doing that

1:47

now turn around and say okay then i'll physically turn around that would completely kill any desire the other person had anyway but they now at this stage appear and say well it's not actually haram you know so i would like them to admit that they were preaching wrong and to apologize to any person that they had caused suffering to because can you imagine the millions of people that have been listening to these people

2:26

over the last decade or two that these people have been spewing this nonsense including the likes of yasir you still i bet you believes it's absolutely permissible right but he will he won't say yet he'll probably say it in about half a year's time so you know on one hand i find it hilarious but you know on the other hand i feel saddened by the fact that so many people have been

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carrying this guilt just mocking me saying [Laughter] even though they all do it themselves [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] okay what was it one of those when those article that uh what is it five pillocks

3:41

the voice piece of the when that article was talking about me and it said oh this person says masturbation outside of marriage [Laughter] you know i found that so ridiculous and this is the thing they would say oh somebody is allowed to masturbate you but you can't masturbate yourself [Laughter] what games is god playing with us

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like that's where you know if you do huh if you touch it you're going to hell [Laughter] no no no no no somebody else can touch it but if you touch it that's where i gave the example i said imagine okay in that scenario then do they believe that their spouse can masturbate them and and they would say yes so you say okay can you place your hand above the hands of the spouse whilst it's happening they would say yes i would say can you control the speed

4:52

they would say yes i would say whilst amidst this this transcendental uh scene that is taking place what if whilst you were doing that the spouse was to remove their hand and your hand was too toba toba god forbid make contact with your own body then

5:20

then it would become haram so exactly look at the stupidity of what these people try to brand and sell as islam people

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2020-12-11-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9kk28jhdca8/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, December 11). Did Zakir Naik say masturbation is not haram? [Video, segment 2020-12-11-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9kk28jhdca8/s/1/
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  year = {2020},
  month = {12},
  date = {2020-12-11},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9kk28jhdca8/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-12-11-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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