Should women wear the Niqab? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

shake the Sookie mentions that the wearing of the niqab is extremism and his wording is whoa home in el hulu it he says and it is from extremism he actually brings this up in his chapter of solo and he speaks about a woman praying whilst wearing a niqab and he says wah wah Manila lui 15 it is from extremism in the religion and then in his commentary him understeered actually

they say this Salafi Aradia whether it's in the Salah or outside of the salon do I believe depends I'm not in favor of the niqab where I at all categorically I I mean let me give some context to that if you are in a I see the niqab as a cultural measure a cultural kind of tool or prop if you were in a particular part

of the world where by not covering your face you would endanger yourself and then I believe obviously you should do the niqab and safeguard yourself your safety is paramount now so if you were gonna get kidnap gang graved things like this then obviously killed sold off into you know modern-day slavery or whatever is these kind of things then obviously all harassed I mean I suppose harassed can be a spectrum because some people could say

whistling could be a form of harassment right so and then actual physical harassment could be on the other end so I suppose harassment can be subjective because some I mean some forms of harassment may be like well you know it's it doesn't really bother people too much and it's although it may be annoying or it may not be but I mean but some form is completely unacceptable acceptable so now especially with the more serious side of things if you were in that part of the world let's say

somewhere like walking around in Kabul if you're walking around in Tora Bora and obviously you're not going to be you know flaunting yourself I'm sure and neither would the guys actually I mean you wouldn't be walking around in a t-shirt or anything like this in that part of the world right and definitely not if you're a guy with no beard because then you're gonna get you ready for some kind of special dancing classes because I hear the but anyway so the thing is in those contexts

obviously niqab would be the sensible and it would be the thing that you should do because it's got nothing to do with religion is to do with safety now it's like saying if you're riding a bike motorbike you should have a helmet on it's nothing to do with religion is to do with your safety right so now in this part of the world or in many other parts of the world with that kind of harassment that kind of you know you're not gonna get abducted off the streets and we're not living in you know in that kind of a climate so right so the thing

is in in in this part it becomes then a religious statement and as far as religion is concerned I do not consider the niqab to be at all part of the religion as one of the leading Maliki scholars in the world today no not myself I followed that on quite nicely actually though it sounded like I was talking about myself as one of the chef's Mata Hari Yin who is one of the most senior Maliki authorities in the world today and who have had the pleasure of visiting him in his house right and he gifted me some of his

personal books and in shall I do intend to god-willing visit him perhaps this year bismillah that would be awesome now he says and his video is available on YouTube where he says that the niqab is not fraud no son it is not from the father neither is it from the Sun it is a cultural kind of thing in the West I don't think people should wear it at all right I think it causes much more of a barrier so what do you say about the wives of the Prophet covering their faces so it means hijab is part of the

Sunnah you see there was this thing of that the process that Allah says to the wives of the Prophet that they should address people meanwhile Haeju was that hijab necessarily speaking about a face covering or a particular kind of barrier behind which they would often address and teach people I think generally in their lifetime I think it was both they did they did used to cover but they had a a kind of covering for when they would offer extended advice and sessions and

things like this and people would ask all sorts I think that was more for safeguarding them right because you have to remember that they were several in my understanding there were several attacks on the Prophet Salla solemn and and by extension people would want to attack his wives as well I think it was more in my understanding to do with things like this because they weren't the only people you have to remember that the Arabs generally covered people covered their face as well in that time especially when they were travelling so it's like saying when I gave the

motorbike example you get out you get on a bike you put a helmet on in the similar way as soon as they set out to travel due to the kind of dust due to the kind of desert desert like surroundings that they would wrap-up men and women they would all do that so I think in that sense the prophets wives would do that as well but the covering they did have some rules which was specific to them one they became the mother of the believers and in that

sense people would not people would not marry them and things like this that wasn't a kind of a sexist ruling or anything but it was a ruling it was it's it's a kind of compound ruling which has won a sense of immense honor associated with it so the thing is like the honor of the status being the of being the mother of the believers and to the fact that they carry an immense burden as well because they are married to the

prophesy lacerum okay now and after him they will convey the beam this thing about marriage and stuff like that in my understanding was once again done primarily to safeguard them but to to keep away people who may think of attacking Islam the Prophet and the wives by extension so you have to understand that there were a lot of kind of plots against Islam as well against the Prophet as well in his time there were Sassa nation attempts and there were people even saying things like just

wait till Mohamed Salah Allison dies and then we will marry his wives and watch what we do and even now there is a culture in people I mean there's a huge I mean all the men will be aware of halfway but the thing is there's a coach AZ that people they have this kind of like obviously that it's a very kind of macho and also this thing about like oh well you know if they get somebody else now like old now they've got somebody else's let's say I don't know girlfriend or something like this and and this is how

culture involved even which it goes on to our to our day and age and we see in the you see it in all the pop thing and you see everywhere this whole thing about it being an insult to the other person that this is how they get people back that you know I did someone soul with you you know so-and-so and I did this and I did that and people then were not very different they were just people like us so there was this kind of thing going on as well that people were saying that are just wait till Mohammed kind of dies and then this was part of the clot that they were gonna part of the denigration was to marry some of his

wives and then to kind of like have this boast about what they've done and stuff like this and this is why it was to safeguard them first the women the wives of the processor are salam the honor of the prophet and islam by extension so this is and they were given this choice when they married the Prophet that look if the Prophet says and certain the Quran that if you want the dunya Allah will give you the dunya if you want the messenger of allah then it will be the messenger of allah and the akhirah and that is your choice i mean and and Allah says that tell it tells the Prophet to tell them you're free to go if you want to go and they's choose eyeshadow

Dallara says it's a higher on our oscillator of The Messenger of Allah gave us this choice and we chose to remain with him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and radi allahu anhu 'no and jemmye on