Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 5 Jan 2021 › Segment 8 of 35
Is it haram for a mother to kiss her child on the lips?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis halaal permitted lawful haraam forbidden hasan hadith hasan li-ghayrihi hasan li-dhatihi hasan sahih sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting deen al-din ad-deen ad-dinA mother attacked for kissing her son with Down syndrome: nothing haram
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machinesummary, machine-writtenThere is nothing haram in a mother kissing her child; he says the haram lies in the perverted comments, and the Prophet kissed his grandsons.
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Mufti Abu Layth plays a video sent to him by a viewer, in which a mother who makes videos to raise awareness of Down syndrome replies to people who told her it is haram to kiss her young child, saying she will carry on. Mufti says that such a reaction shows how dysfunctional the religion has become for some, prays for her and her child and for all who care for people with disabilities, and calls this the true message of Islam. He says there is nothing haram in what she does, and that the only haram is the comments and the perverted mentality that oversexualises everything. He says general affection between family members was displayed and accepted in the time of the Prophet and the companions, and that the Prophet often kissed Hasan and Husayn, as documented in many hadith.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedA video of a mother who makes videos to raise awareness about Down syndrome, criticised as haram for kissing her child on the lips.
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is likewise shukran shukran people do click like do click share so let's deal with some of the thoughts preoccupying the people right let me bring this back up so right what have we got hi guys so I'm just going to leave this one right okay so somebody had sent me this video I thought okay let's um take a look at this this is on uh the context to it is this mother who makes videos to raise awareness about
Down syndrome and I what I was told is whilst she kisses her son she kisses him on the lips and people were having an outro. Hi guys. So I'm just going to leave this one here. Um I've had a few people leaving comments and sending me messages in my inbox. saying that they're offended by me showing affection to my three-year-old child in my clips.
Yeah, it's silly, isn't it? Um, some people telling me that it's haram to kiss my child. Um, I'm not going to go into the details of halal and haram here, but if watching my one minute clip is affecting your mental health, unfollow and block. Because I'm not in on here to offend you. I'm on here to raise awareness for Down syndrome and hearing loss.
And I'm going to carry on being me, kissing my child and showing affection because that's what he loves. Okay. I have to say that the fact that, you know, something like this is happening just goes to show how defunct and dysfunctional the religion has become for certain people.
you know that I don't know who uh this lady is, but I mean she's doing a great job. May Allah bless her. May Allah bless her child. May Allah make life easy for anyone who is suffering from certain disabilities and may Allah bless the lives of those around them that are caring for them.
That is the true message of Islam. Now, as to the the haram police who upon seeing a mother kiss her child on the lips, have some go into some kind of a frenzy because they're seeing some woman making lip contact with her own child.
Uh I think that was the initial thing and that's what some people that's what I was told. It just shows the disease that is in the mind of these people honestly and the lady said I won't go into the halal or haram of it and fair enough but I will there is nothing haram and the only thing if haram happening here is the comments and the perverted uh kind of mentality ities that those
people have. That is haram. Okay. How dare you insult the motherhood of this lady and of millions out there. You know what is wrong with certain people? You know, when I watch these kind of things, my my blood pressure gets impacted cuz I think what is wrong with these people?
Seriously, like I mean how can you be so perverted to even think something like that? And you are the virus. I mean, you are more of a virus than this global virus. You are such a cancer to this dean. You know this kind of mentality. These people that over sexualize everything.
You know every single thing they can only see through that perverted lens. This is not the dean of Islam. I tell you that. And it just disgusts me. But I I do hope and pray that this lady and other people like her carry carry on doing what they're doing full steam ahead, full strength. Um raise awareness.
Uh don't be deterred in the slightest. Don't be deterred in the slightest by these kind of nutcases. Okay? None of these things are haram. And if you actually read from the s of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and you read from the s of the companions there was just general affection being displayed and accepted within society.
It wasn't something we're not talking about people uh we're not talking about doing something you know like an explicit sexual act in public. We're talking about general general intimacy between family members. People used to kiss their children. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would often kiss um Hassan and Hussein um now this this is documented in many hadith.
Many of the companions would do things like this is I mean I don't the fact I even have to explain this is so stupid. I you know I shouldn't even have to even it's it's a insult to humanity but yeah so I I wanted to shim that somebody had sent it to me and it did rile me up a bit and I thought well I need to speak about it and you know what I would say is look my advice is with this new year you can take it as a new year's resolution Remove
yourself from these circles of toxicity. Do not allow yourself to be bombarded by such negativity. If you are on particular WhatsApp groups, remove yourself.
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