# Reply to Mufti Mangera on ear piercing: who defines normal and decent?

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp-vz7g-uw0/s/1/
- Date: 2021-03-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Mufti Abdurrahman Ibn Yusuf on Ear Piercing | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:40)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP-vZ7g-UW0&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp-vz7g-uw0/

**Topics:** Dress and appearance; Responses to critics

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** A played clip of Mufti Mangera allowing one or two ear piercings as 'normal' among decent people but not higher ones, which Mufti Abu Layth mocks for leaving undefined who decides what is normal.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth plays a clip in which Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera answers a question on the limits of ear piercing, pausing it repeatedly to comment. In the clip the mufti says it is permissible to pierce any part of the body considered acceptable among decent people, that one or two piercings at the bottom of the ear are normal, that piercing higher up becomes abnormal, and that piercing the nose is fine because many Muslim cultures accept it. Mufti mocks the reasoning, asking who is defining normality and whether indecency is not usually about nudity. The clip then gives manipulation of the body as the reason other piercings are impermissible, which Mufti also questions.

## Sources and names cited

- Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–3:40)

[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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment JP-vZ7g-UW0/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp-vz7g-uw0/s/1/

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