# Can men wear earrings in Islam?

*Can men wear earrings? The ruling is yes, and the plan for a holistic overview*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/1/
- Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:37)
- Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/3/; general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/

**Topics:** Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Dress and appearance

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Yes, men may wear earrings according to Islam. Mufti Abu Layth sets out to show, through history and the practice of the Salaf, that the idea that earrings are effeminate is a misconception.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth holds that men may wear earrings according to Islam, and that the idea that earrings are effeminate or exclusive to women is a misconception.

**Evidence, his words at 0:35:** “can men wear earrings according to Islam now the answer is clearly yes they can we hearings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=35s)

## Longer summary

After some banter with the stream's admin, Mufti Abu Layth opens the topic of earrings and asks what the ruling is: can men wear earrings according to Islam? He says the answer is clearly yes, but that rather than a simple ruling he wants to give a holistic overview and then come back to the ruling, focusing on certain traditions that have been narrated and on the practices of the Salaf. He identifies the misconception he wants to address: that an earring is effeminate, that only homosexuals or men trying to act like women would wear one, and that earrings are something one identifies only with women, which someone had commented on one of his photos. He says he will zoom out to give a backdrop on earrings over thousands of years of human use of jewellery, and then zoom back in.

## Sources and names cited

- the Salaf

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–2:37)

[0:00] should we take a look at that what say you folks what say you earrings people earrings so let me just open this up okay here it is right now bismillah folks the ruling on earrings somebody just the admin just commented the type of guy that you'd want your daughter to

[0:35] marry that's those those one or two guys that we only ever know we think wow they need to be more men like that yeah in this world well anyway let admin stop distracting me right let's focus people bismillah right so earrings what is what is the ruling can men wear earrings rather can men wear earrings according to Islam now the answer is clearly yes they can

[1:14] we hearings but more than just going through a simple ruling I'd like to give a holistic overview okay then coming back to the ruling and I'd like to focus on certain I am certain traditions that have been rated some of the practices of the Salaf and things like this right so first of all we there's there seems to be this this thing that people feel that an earring is effeminate that they feel that this may be only homosexuals would wear earrings or people trying to act like

[1:53] women somehow are trying to a soul somebody commented on one of my photos saying that oh you know I don't understand the earring because it's only something women that you'd identify women with so this seems to be this conception this misconcept you know that women only wait you ring so I'm gonna zoom out slightly and then we'll zoom back in people okay so I'm gonna go over a brief overview give us a backdrop of earrings now for thousands of years those of us that but pick for people who do not know for thousands of

[2:33] years human beings have used jewelry okay thousands and thousands of years at least from documentation that we and it's not just documents it's inscriptions it's rock art things like this we can see that human beings from at least documented something like opportunity anything between seven to nine thousand years ago were adorning themselves with jewelry we see men many civilizations okay so you've got several kind of dynasties if we go for as far

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment pkjtq8AXGRE/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/1/

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