What is the purpose of circumcision? | Mufti Abu Layth

leveled up why do we circumcised when Allah says I have created you perfectly Sohail secundum up upset with the little snip doctor sub doc no imagine if the doctors got like arenal so like he's got Parkinson's like don't worry we're just gonna do a little snip okay he comes in with the scissors

you know you should do as a prank that would be an awesome prank but do you think if the doctor you go for a circumcision and the doctor comes because don't worry I've got it all under control you see this is circumcision in Islam isn't something mandatory but it's recommended read it's a strong emphasis as part of the fitrah why is it part of the fitrah it's actually very it's more hygienic and it

kind of it does support a more hygienic lifestyle and the studies actually today scientifically demonstrate that and some people have argued that it makes a it causes a slight numbness as in results in slightly less like it results in a slight desensitization of the area of the precious area that said obviously we wouldn't know because that's all we've

ever known so that's where we set the standard so but I don't think it's I'm pretty sure the sensitization is pretty fine it's but apparently apparently people say that it ought to be more sensitive then it is for people for guys who are circumcised but I mean if it does its job that's the main things Oh but circumcision is really just a health thing and there's nothing wrong with it

right okay it's in it's in all religions it is scientific it is and today you will see that even studies on circumcision demonstrated for example the the transmission of diseases for example that when they did a study on circumcised men and uncircumcised men when they were even exposed to such dangerous diseases like HIV 50% that's half the bloody applicants sorry the

after bloody participants half of the people when it came to the circumcised men group and the control group the non-circumcised that they were half likely to be infected and that for some reason it wouldn't allow the transmission of the you know the viruses and things like that easily it would but not as easily as those who weren't circumcised and part of this is that we see what we probably don't realize as

Muslim men is that it with the foreskin it's not just a skin right it is a skin obviously I mean that's what it is but beneath the skin there's actually these kind of like tiny kind of like glands and things which excrete a kind of mucous so it keeps the the gland the head the chief of staff it keeps that moist at all times that's if you weren't circumcised obviously we're circumcised so we're home

we have that experience but for non-circumcised people there's actually a kind of a gradual excretion of this kind of mucus okay and so now that can result in a kind of buildup but because of that those glands there are with the full skin they are very susceptible to picking up kind of viruses and things like that so that's one I'm just saying today this is something scientifically demonstrated today you know I remember

reading this a little while back all these kind of research this kind of study because I got into a debate with a friend of mine who's from who works at Emporium gym he's an atheist and we got into a discussion once about circumcision and he said well you know why ah you know this is it's all nonsense and so on and obviously we're joking and laughing we have a good kind of banter between us but I went away and ended up researching and I have to say I was so impressed it and this is from general data available not Muslim data general scientific data available I was

so impressed with the what I've came across and found that if even if I was a non-muslim and I wasn't circumcised and I've read that I would go and get circumcised I'm serious because I just read the amount of kind of benefits I was like wow thank God that decision was made for us but yeah is it moral to force it on children as people do because of supposed health benefits you see I believe that this is a choice that

the parents have and yes of course I think that if it's if you believe it if look science demonstrates it definitely has you see if you had non circumcision and circumcision circumcision definitely outweighs from a health perspective and hygiene perspective now the question is should you have it now within Islam it is strongly emphasized as part of the Fatah when you when we use words like imposing it on children it sounds very kind of demonic and sounds kind of like

draconian and like oh my god like my child doesn't want this and I'm like I'm imposing this on you it's not really like to me that there's many decisions that a parent will undertake with the child it's like saying is it okay to impose chillies on your child in their cooking is it okay to impose like like when we use words like this they're loaded terms so obviously if I eat curries and I eat chillies now I'm gonna

impose curry on my child but you see when we say it like that you're making it sound like I'm sticking a funnel in the child's mouth and just pouring curry inside and I've got them in some kind of like goo like Oh in some torture chamber but you see these words are just loaded terms I think the better term is is it okay to choose this for your child because is it okay to impose education on your child is it okay to impose education who said like just because we

assume education is a good thing arguably it is but I mean I'm just saying there's many people who haven't had a decent education but they have far surpassed the educated people in productivity within this world in achievements there's many people who become millionaires and that they they can't even write well you know there's many people who have become well established as people who conquered immense parts of the world historically and they could read and write Akbar one of the greatest kings of India in his time you know II apparently couldn't read and write

but there's so many people who've done so many things and they didn't you know they didn't have a schooling per se is it okay to impose schooling upon your child I think these words are wrong I think it's always right for parents to make choices on behalf of their children up until their children reach a certain age of maturity that they can make choices themselves it's like saying is it okay to impose piercings on on your children on little girls give them an ear piercing why I mean why not wait till they're 18 it

just does you know the world is it okay to cut their hair is it okay to clip their nails is it okay to I mean these things so I think although I understand you could say well the hair could regrow and but piercings are a reasonable example I think imposing education you can't undo that imposing certain discipline upon children you can't undo the time spent so I think if that makes sense but isn't it much powerful to have

a circumcision before marriage is oh is circumcision so-called condom before the what the hell is Abdullah all about is circumcision the condom right okay well the lot doesn't get to teach sex education people there's all these unwanted pregnancies because Abdullah has been teaching sex education that don't work we don't need we don't need

family planning we're circumcised so boomer is thinking that if you're circumcised you can't make anybody pregnant and then he's got like 50 letters coming from the child support agency saying but can you come in and bring your checkbook [Laughter]