# Is it haram to pressure a wife into sex by saying God will be angry? *Reply to Sunni Defence: the hadith of the angels cursing a refusing wife* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ngz8jo6o0f4/s/1/ - Date: 2018-07-08 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. II -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:25) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGz8JO6O0f4&t=0s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ngz8jo6o0f4/ **Topics:** Responses to critics; Abuse in marriage; Individual hadith explained **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Yes: marital rape is categorically haram, and so is religious blackmail, using God's anger to get sex. He reads the hadith of the angels cursing a refusing wife as justifying that. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says, repeating what he said in an earlier session, that marital rape is categorically haram and that this includes religious blackmail. **Evidence, his words at 3:44:** “I've said that marital rape is categorically Haram and that includes religious blackmail” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGz8JO6O0f4&t=224s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth introduces a video by a presenter from the Sunni Defence channel, which he says would be better called a Wahhabi defence, attacking him over his criticism of a hadith, and mocks the presenter at length. He says the presenter frames the issue as the hadith not sitting well with his views on equality in marriage, whereas the hadith in question, that if a woman refuses to have sex with her husband the angels curse her and God is angry, is in his reading about marital rape. He recalls that in an earlier session he said marital rape is categorically haram and that this includes religious blackmail, using God to obtain sexual favours by telling someone God will be angry with them. ## Sources and names cited - Sunni Defence (YouTube channel) - report: if a woman refuses her husband's bed the angels curse her - Wahhabi - haram ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–4:25) [0:00] right so let's take a look at we've had some old dear friends of mine all right people likely to click like click Share we're gonna share some words on the SUNY defense so people the SUNY defense are back I say SUNY defense but really they've I don't know what they've got to do with Sony I mean maybe like Wahhabi defense right so and not even maybe all were hobbies [0:38] but you know but these guys are back and one of them this guy he's made a video exposed right and is Abu layth a Dajjal or a jackal ha ha ah ha ha like look at the false compassion that they're giving you a choice that's like you know we're giving you a choice man like are you the job were you again you know just you [1:13] gotta love the compassion so these guys are back so this guy I think his name is Farid sorry the deme Baba Farid Dean Gandhi Shakur toe-mah-toe Baba Farid the English actor is an amazing an awesome as like a Saint figure from from India ancient India Pakistan like that obviously nothing to do with the this [1:51] furry dude in this what's that what's that same kaha Raja Bhoj kaha Gangu Teli in fact that's a better name Baba Farid Udine Gangu Teli [Laughter] so Gangu Teli here has done a a refutation of me right and he's upset and he's he's really upset that Oh Oh puh-leeze because I heard these on equality in marriage doesn't sit well [2:31] with him because there's this lack of equal ahaha why don't you why don't we begin by you actually saying what the hadith is my friend my friend please you know please this one please say this one you know this one the hadith ladies and gentleman that he's referring to that he's talking about Oh because it doesn't have equality it's nothing to do with equality the hadith is to do with raping your wife that's what the hadith is not a laughing matter the hadith he's trying to justify right [3:07] typical typical wahabis in a bottle maja Jia tafero she had a Pharisee so jihad that if a woman refuses to have sex with her husband the Angels curse the God God is hanged god almighty is angry that why hasn't he had sex like God is angry the heavens are aflame that how is it that he has not had sex for I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance [3:44] right so this hadith which in one of my previous sessions and you can watch the whole segment it's on YouTube about religious blackmail is Haram like I've said that marital rape is categorically Haram and that includes religious blackmail so to say to somebody that you have to have sex with me otherwise God is gonna be angry with you is Haram you can't do this kind of stuff you can't use God to to gain favors or sexual favors from people that's sick right so now and the angels rule curse and so on and [4:24] so I've been through this hadith in the past I won't go through the whole thing I went through the rewire in Muslim of the old Bihari Adhamiya Ahmed and showed how they all centrally pretty much are based on a lavish who takes it from abu hassan from abu huraira and although i go into the other rewires as well but because a lot of them centrally are based on a lot much I showed the criticism to do with a lavish Suleiman and are mush now our friend here brother you know brother this one please please this one you know brother I think the brother is from Bahrain you know the ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment NGz8JO6O0f4/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ngz8jo6o0f4/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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