My Understanding on Men Wearing Gold: How Knowledge Develops -Mufti Abu Layth

you know something I wanna highlight a point they made a point about this gold yeah now about men wearing gold now I wanted to say something I think I'm actually glad they made that they highlighted because what they did is they they played a clip of mine from about a year and a half ago in which I am asked about gold and I say that look my I am not aware of any difference of opinion and therefore this is Haram as far as I'm aware for men gold we're in

gold and then they played a clip perhaps within the last six months or maybe at the end of last year where I state that gold in my understanding that there is a difference of opinion and but they don't play the whole clip they just play that short kind of cut and paste all right so they just sorry I'm just trying to write okay it's not it's freezing on me alright so they just play the short cut and paste kind of snippy but in the

entire clip if they played it I do mention that I had come across the discussion of even a topical light a great legendary scholar who everybody accepts where he highlights that they were at least five the difference of opinion and speaks of at least five companions who not only believed that gold was permissible for men but died wearing gold now you see so if you go back to my first clip I it is visible

that in if you watch that whole discussion and other discussions around that time that I was struggling but I didn't know any difference of opinion on it and to me this is actually proof you see like these people say I follow my desires if that be case I want you to pay attention to this and hopefully I know they will definitely be watching me right that if I followed my desires one and a half years ago or two years ago when I gave that first ruling I was still very saying the other rulings were very similar I was saying Halloween was okay I was saying these things so if I was

simply following my desires I would have at that stage said it was hollow like I don't care but the fact that I said it was haram and only when I came across the evidence of five companions dying wearing gold looking into that dialogue I realized that actually you know that this has a huge discourse and how can it be that this be Haram and the Companions had this belief and then I changed my view but if it was simply about following desires I would have said it in the beginning I would have said well I don't give a damn its Hollow but the

fact that I didn't declare it halal whilst I was declaring other things halal is it is a testimony to the fact that I am following evidence I'm not like just sitting here following my desires because if I was then I would just two years ago you would have had the same ruling so you know when you see my rulings change it is because my understanding of that topic has developed because I've stumbled across a dialogue on a deeper discussion I learned something that I didn't know that my learning hasn't stagnated so you

know that to me that I'm really glad they should demonstrated that to them that they were kind of mocking that as in hahaha he changed to me it was celebratory it was something to celebrate that my learning had enhanced that I had come across and it's it's testimony to the fact that I wasn't just following desires because if I was you know why only say that after I come across the hadith that shall we so yeah