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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 2 Feb 2021 › Segment 3 of 27

Can men wear gold?

muftis haraam forbidden koran quraan al-quran madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib ulama ulema ulamaa ummah umma ummat

Can men wear gold? A ban for a warrior society

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 3 of 27 in the recording2021-02-02b-S03

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This segment16:35 to 19:31 · 2 min 56 sGeneral teaching

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Men can wear gold, in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding; the Prophet discouraged it because Medina needed to stay on a war footing.

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Asked in the chat whether men can wear gold, Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding they can, and that he has a video explaining why gold and silk are not haram, in line with several scholars. Mufti says the Prophet discouraged them for a good reason in his time: Medina was a volatile warrior society that survived by raiding and needed to stay on alert rather than settle into a luxurious, sedentary life. He points to the coalition attempts to wipe Medina out, saying that without the sandstorm the Quran speaks of the coalition would have done near-fatal damage. He then checks on the moderators.

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Can men wear gold?

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Mufti Abu Layth says that men can wear gold in his understanding.

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“Can men wear gold? Yes, I've answered that. Uh men can wear gold in my understanding”

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Can I drink alcohol? That's the question basically. Relax. Relax. Relax. So, I can't pay. What's all of these? Can men wear gold? Yes, I've answered that. Uh men can wear gold in my understanding [snorts] and I've got a whole video on it explaining why gold and silk are not haram.

Uh according to several scholars, and I find myself in line with those, but it was that the prophet did discourage this for a for a good reason in his time. because he was trying to prevent this um luxurious sedentary um chilled out kind of lifestyle because the people needed to be on a persistent or a consistent state of standby.

It was a very volatile society. It was uh they were things like they I mean they were in essence a warrior uh society. They I mean if you say society but a warrior kind of civilization. They had a warrior lifestyle. People survived off raiding other towns or other villages or um tribes and it was extremely dangerous.

So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam discouraged a a kind of in the in the moment in his moment sallallahu alaihi wasallam he discouraged a um a settled settled outlook on life. He needed the community to be on alert. And there were several attempts.

There were major attempts, coalition attempts to completely wipe Medina off the face of the globe. So it's not that the prophet was just imagining these things that were in his mind. These things actually happened. Um and the attempts were very powerful. And if it was not for the sandstorm that kind of blinded these people and lasted days um I mean that's in the Quran speaks of the the means the coalition and if it wasn't for that the coalition the part these kind of groups that got together would have caused you know near

fatal damage to Medina. So yeah. Uh right. What is going on? What is going on? Right. Are people saying that there's uh are the mods are the mods asleep today?

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-02-02b-S03, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/3/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, February 2). Can men wear gold? [Video, segment 2021-02-02b-S03, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/3/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Can men wear gold?" Video, segment 2021-02-02b-S03, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded February 2, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/3/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Can men wear gold?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {2},
  date = {2021-02-02},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/3/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/3/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-02-02b-S03, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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