Chechnya's grand mufti having women remove their niqab? | Mufti Abu Layth

[Music] but i don't think he's forcing them although he is kind of urging them as you can see remove the face veil so this kicked up a bit of controversy online so he's saying that look there is nothing in the kitabo sun to prove this face veil thing and it is a wahabi um

introduction or wahhabi innovation so now although i admit it's not purely a wahhabi thing it has been in the fairy textbooks since the beginning however he is absolutely correct in saying that it is not from the quran sunnah that part is absolutely true so although the hanafi madhhab uh does also speak of things like face coverings um but they make it very clear this is not from the kitab was sunnah this is from and some maliki's who spoke of it as well made it very clear this was not from the

kitab or sunnah this was from where they were in certain places certain women felt endangered so it was more uh suddenly to kind of prevent a kind of harm in certain societies it was not uh from the kitab was sunnah so they make it very clear now some madhhabs like the shaffer ear and some of the hanabila did feel it was an obligation to cover the face now there's nothing in the quran sunnah that clearly proves that but they obviously extrapolated and and took certain

rulings for granted and that's the perspective so i so right now although i am in favor of preaching that making it very clear that look this face veil is nothing to do with the quran yes some scholars have said this throughout the centuries based on their day and age and based on their culture which you know if you lived a thousand years ago um you know in some i don't know some kind

of dangerous volatile territory uh yeah sure you know if you did that as some kind of tribal practice but if you fast forward to the 21st century you know in all honesty that's not really happening in the streets of london or birmingham or manchester or or paris or wherever it is new york these places you know nobody's going to be so god gobsmacked by the face of a of a woman you know even i mean she may be extremely beautiful but nobody's gonna just kind of jump out of a van pick her

up and run off with just because they've seen her face and those kind of things although you may have feared the bandits 800 years ago living in a desert somewhere today these things don't really happen like that in this part of the world you don't need to be so frightened and covered up and um like that so and so just to be clear on that secondly what this mufti the chechen mufti is saying so i do i agree although in part is he's just reducing it to the wahhabis the wahhabis today emphasize this point more than any other groups

so that's why he's probably using them as an example um but it is more than just the wahhabis who have said this but to force women to remove it should that be done right okay i don't agree with force okay that would be wrong equally because i think you shouldn't force people to do anything to do with clothing so if somebody did want to walk around dressed like that you know that's what you can do is advise them

if you're in that role if they ask or you're educating them that this is not actually from the quran that this was not what the prophet taught uh however if you want to although some men in the past did say this but that's all it is the opinion of some men now if you want it's not what god has said it's not what the prophet said but some scholars did say it so if you want to follow them and do this that's ultimately all you're doing is just following the opinion of a man probably lived about 1200 years ago but you're not following the quran sunnah by doing it

however if you do do it you shouldn't be nobody should force somebody to like they should never rip it off or something like that that would be equally a violation um and an encroachment on that person's personal civil rights to be able to exercise whatever the hell they want you know as long as it's not harming someone else and them covering themselves is not harming someone else so yeah so that's what i say all i i'm not sure if in this clip the chechnyan scholar is actually forcing them and the people that wrote the

you know the kind of the titles have listed it as he's forcing them i'm under the impression he's just kind of urging them but if it is forced that part is wrong cool i hope that makes some sense i've been asked to comment on that um so that's my views on it that it has no basis but force of any kind is wrong

all right people so what else is going down all right hmm some scholars were mad they said ridiculous stuff yeah you know i've been asked duke you're doing it you're doing it uh if they are also brainwashed that they need a nepap then why do they leave their houses yeah but you know what it is look i'm gonna be honest you know sometimes you can't like i don't blame the the women because really although even the women that wear nihab won't admit to this but really it's the men who've convinced

them about this and you see they've been made to feel guilty like if you do this you're gonna burn in hell you're gonna do this you're gonna so people they do it because they worry about the afterlife so they you know they get like really and sometimes in many cases their men might be insecure like i don't want no man to see what your face looks like um which you know i don't and people kind of pride themselves on it they create these little echo chambers i remember one speaking to someone and he said that and he said it in a very proud way he said you know

um i needed something from home and i was somewhere wherever he was and he said i needed that thing and my mate was gonna come so he's mate he's gonna meet his friend and he needed this thing and his mate is close to his house so he asked his mate can you go pick this up from my house uh so something nothing major like i don't know let's say some papers he needed some papers or some documents or something now he said that when he went there uh his his wife sorry it wasn't papers he would have been bigger something larger than papers but he said when he went there his wife

phoned him and said uh you you know your friend is here so his friend found him as well said look i'm there nobody's opening the door so his wife called him and said that yes somebody's at the door but because he's a non-maharam so he's not related to me i will not open the door to him i don't care so he is like he's like iman iman

[Laughter] all of a sudden the gates of heaven opened and the angels started singing praise and the heavenly music and the light came down and she began her is [Laughter] [Music] so they this was like a really proud

moment for this person like [Laughter] i'm thinking are these people seriously uh handicapped like like i'm thinking to myself what the hell is this for real like how what that to me honestly is is either these people are suffering from some psychosis that's not normal behavior that is psychotic behavior i'm telling you those be such mindsets out there are very i would be

very scared of such mindsets because they just that's just weird guys man that's like taking weird to to the nth degree but anyway so people