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Reply to Mufti Abdurrahman Ibn Yusuf on Ear Piercing | Mufti Abu Layth

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1 · 0:00Reply to Mufti Mangera on ear piercing: who defines normal and decent?Dress and appearance · Responses to critics · includes a quoted view · guest speechmachine 3 min 40 s0:00on YouTube
2 · 3:40Reply to Mufti Mangera: does the ban on muthla forbid piercing?Dress and appearance · Responses to critics · includes a quoted view · guest speechmachine 3 min 57 s3:40on YouTube

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0:00

we've got mufti abdul rahman ibn yusuf al-mangera speaking people on piercing ear piercings ear piecing in [Music] what are the limits for ear piercing can you pierce the top of your ear or is it just the bottom and what is the reason for not piercing any other part of the body

0:37

for example the ears and the nose etc it's permissible to pierce any part of the the body that is considered to be acceptable among decent people as are your decency ah people some of you have just noticed i've also figured out how to use the stop button on this

1:05

i just figured this out today ali we learn people we live we learn so we are seeing the amazing sheikh pouring the gems and anything that people seem decent not decent this one what the decent let's let's hear people it's a source of adornment for women sorry teasing you people i now know the function i know the function so for example pay attention people must be saying if you are piercing the ears which means that if you're piercing one or two at

1:44

the bottom that's considered to be you're piercing the bottom the bottom the ear bottom listen properly to move this up quite normal one or two quite normal is kind of acceptable to a certain degree but to pierce up and above then that gets a bit abnormal for more [Laughter] i want this up so one or two is normal and you pierce above it becomes abnormal

2:15

i love to see who's defining normality here is sitting there saying that's abnormal most people most people don't do that right mostly that would become problematic like a cha cha cha cha and we're thinking things like colon can say is problematic piercing the nose is fine it's fine find this one people fine because again you have many muslim cultures which allow that and it's considered to be quite normal and not indecent [Laughter]

2:56

isn't indecent usually to do with being nude i mean it's not indecent people it's not indecent reason why it's not permissible to go around piercing every part of your body is because that's why manipulating your body in a ah manipulating your body your body

3:40

let's see what he's saying in a sense and there's no muthla in islam muslim means there's no there is no mutilation of any part of your body to make a hole through it etc so that's that's one of the reasons for it oh that's one of the reasons for it oh so people as you heard right there the wise words of uh mufti mangerasap that you all enjoyed [Laughter] so let me just clarify what uh mufti saab was saying you see the problem with having

4:20

you can have one piercing it's normal you can have two it's normal why is it normal because decent people say it's normal but like you harami is watching this but that's why i past the underneath

4:50

saying if you pierce on top it becomes abnormal but why muftis why does it become abnormal right just hold your horses people i'm going to explain the wisdom is because you're manipulating [Laughter] what the hell does manipulating here mean i don't know whether it's the lack of caffeine today

5:29

manipulating you your body means so you're manipulating your body take care right so oh look at that magic there going a bit then mufti saab goes on to explain that the other wisdom is because we're not allowed to do musla in islam muthullah for those of you that don't know means to what it's really used for is to disfigure distort and disfigure someone especially to the dead

6:09

after they've been killed what they would do the ancient arabs would kind of disfigure them so they'd do things like i don't know maybe cut their tongue out and you know like maybe kind of do all weird stuff with their body parts cut it off and do hang it around and you know a bit like uh i suppose you get some of these cartels and the colombian necktie is which is not a tie you want to be wearing you know so this kind of stuff is muthala so because muthla is haram the

6:56

but then because muthla is haram you're not allowed to pierce [Laughter] then why can't you do it here i am of this up you see this is the problem this is why the ummah is is where it is but i saw that and i thought well

7:32

i have to share that now since it's so

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, March 10). Reply to Mufti Abdurrahman Ibn Yusuf on Ear Piercing | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp-vz7g-uw0/
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  title = {{Reply to Mufti Abdurrahman Ibn Yusuf on Ear Piercing | Mufti Abu Layth}},
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  date = {2021-03-10},
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