# The backlash to Maulana Tariq Jamil's dua on media, modesty and the pandemic, and the clip

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gam6nytozdg/s/1/
- Date: 2020-04-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Maulana Tariq Jamil on Media, Modesty & Women | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:59)
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- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAm6NYtozDg&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gam6nytozdg/

**Topics:** Views on contemporary scholars; Pakistan; Women in Islam

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth sets out the controversy over Maulana Tariq Jamil's dua, in which he criticised media lies and spoke of modesty, reads critics who called it misogynistic, and plays the clip.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth gives the backdrop to the backlash against Maulana Tariq Jamil: at what he believes was a charity event to raise money, Tariq Jamil was asked to make dua at the end, and in an emotional dua he criticised the media for spreading falsehood and lies and spoke about modesty, which led many, especially women, to call him misogynistic. He reads reactions posted online: one, from a commentator whose name the transcript garbles, calls it absurd to suspect that the Covid pandemic results from women wearing short sleeves or from schools and universities misleading the youth, and calls it a misogynist mindset; another says the comments sum up the thinking of most clergy in Pakistan and of the Prime Minister himself; others defend him, saying he never blamed women for the pandemic and people have misunderstood. He then plays several minutes of the speech in Urdu, which the transcript does not render, so that viewers can make up their own minds.

## Sources and names cited

- Maulana Tariq Jamil
- the Covid-19 pandemic
- Imran Khan (the Prime Minister)
- dua
- haya (modesty)

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–5:59)

[0:00] right I did want to speak about this whole tariq jameel saab thing let me bring this up people so there's been a lot of there's been a huge backlash to this Maulana tariq jameel saab event so what's happened let me give you a backdrop there's been a speech that was done by Maulana tariq jameel he was called on a kind of platform I'll play a few minutes of it and it's triggered a huge kind of backlash people saying that oh he's being misogynistic what he was doing is it was a kind of a live event

[0:38] to raise it was a charity event I believe to raise money and he was called on to do to make dua at the end now in the door I was very emotional to are he did and he spoke about certain things and he criticized the media he that they need to stop spreading falsehood and lies and and he spoke about modesty and this triggered a lot of people especially a lot of women there was a backlash like things like this Shirin Missouri I'm not sure who that is but she says simply absurd for anyone under any guys to even suspect the kovat pandemic is a result of women wearing

[1:17] short sleeves or because of private schools universities misleading the youth it's utterly unacceptable and it's a misogynist mindset venez Eve says tariq jameel his comments about immoral women and corona sum up the thinking of most clergy in Pakistan and dare I say the Prime Minister himself vah vah vah some other comments went on to say some person said I think the women have gone mad he never blamed women for the pandemic please watch it again so a woman saying Farzana saying that people have misunderstood e all

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[5:58] this kind of hate that he's that he's been facing in my understanding honestly I look I don't necessarily generally have to agree in outlook with Maulana tariq jameel Saab but in all honesty I think that you see he didn't really I don't think I didn't feel that he was blaming women in saying that all this is woman's fault the corona virus has come but he was trying to say that look in times of calamity we need to return to this is what I felt that when to also use this as an opportunity to

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment GAm6NYtozDg/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gam6nytozdg/s/1/

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