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Can I hug my female friends?

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Can I hug my friends who are girls? A question answered with banter

QuestionSource not recorded · questioner not identifiedAnswered 10 Oct 2019Quick Fiqh!Segment 1 of 1 in the recording2019-10-10-S01

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No ruling is given: Mufti Abu Layth answers the question with jokes about the questioner being friend-zoned and declines to issue a fatwa. He moves on saying the questioner has bigger issues to worry about.

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During a live session on relationships Mufti Abu Layth reads a question from a man asking whether he can hug his friends who are girls. He does not give a ruling: he jokes about how many such friends the questioner has and where one finds them, suggests the questioner wants a fatwa that would get Mufti blacklisted while the questioner gets to enjoy his friends, and remarks that the questioner has been friend-zoned so often that a collective effort is needed to get him out of the zone. He closes by saying the questioner has bigger issues to worry about and moves on. The transcript of this clip is poor and several phrases cannot be made out.

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Can I hug my friends who are girls?

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here was speaking on relationships there was a question that had come through can I hug my friends but there's a catch this one got cat you know on this one car dad can I hug my can I hug my friends who this is a guy you're asking the question who are girl but the nice girl friends but these friends who are girls I yeah how many me

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Donna simultaneous where do we find such friends he's like can I hug my like to the guys is like get in there get in there every two minutes he's like oh you again

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[Music] looking for a photo op let me get this right you want me to give you the fatwa so I get blacklisted I get but Nam or two men were similar and you get to chill with all your friends hey I want to know how have you been friend zoned

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by so many so many girls have friends on this bechara I think we should make like a collective door to kind of like get him out of the zone [Laughter] aloma are each human has a zone a volume and Mahesh yeah so this is this is this bachata is still stuck in in the zone I think you've got bigger

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issues to worry about let's take

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2019-10-10-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2019, October 10). Can I hug my female friends? [Video, segment 2019-10-10-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/s/1/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2019. "Can I hug my female friends?" Video, segment 2019-10-10-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded October 10, 2019. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/s/1/
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@misc{abulayth-2019-10-10-S01,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Can I hug my female friends?}},
  year = {2019},
  month = {10},
  date = {2019-10-10},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/s/1/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2019-10-10-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}
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