# Why do some women feel they must wear the niqab? *Men's role in pressuring women into the niqab* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/he3wjiqoxaa/s/2/ - Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Chechnya's grand mufti having women remove their niqab? | Mufti Abu Layth (6:31–10:31) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE3WjiQoxAA&t=391s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/he3wjiqoxaa/ **Topics:** Hijab and niqab; Women in Islam **Question as asked:** If women think they need a niqab, why do they leave their houses at all? **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth blames men rather than women: men convince women they need the niqab by making them fear hell, sometimes out of insecurity. He calls the extreme mindsets this produces worrying. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that, although women who wear the niqab will not admit it, it is really men who have convinced them they need it. **Evidence, his words at 6:31:** “although even the women that wear nihab won't admit to this but really it's the men who've convinced” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE3WjiQoxAA&t=391s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth responds to a chat comment questioning why women who believe they need a niqab leave their houses at all. He says he does not blame the women: although women who wear the niqab will not admit it, it is really men who have convinced them, making them feel guilty and fearful of hell, sometimes out of insecurity about other men seeing their wives' faces. He relates, without names, how a man proudly told him that his wife refused to open the door to a friend he had sent to collect something because the friend was not her mahram. He mocks the man's pride in this and calls such a mindset not normal and very worrying. ## Sources and names cited - niqab (face veil) - mahram ## Transcript (machine tier, 6:31–10:31) [6:30] 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 [7:08] 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 [7:46] 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 [8:24] 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 [8:59] [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 [9:38] 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 [10:17] 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 ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment hE3WjiQoxAA/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/he3wjiqoxaa/s/2/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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