# Can I hug my female friends?

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

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/s/1/
- Date: 2019-10-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can I hug friends of a different gender? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:21)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuMMzjvfRI&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/

**Topics:** Interaction between men and women; Friendship and social life

**Question as asked:** Can I hug my friends who are girls?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** 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.

## Longer summary

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.

## Sources and names cited

- fatwa

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–2:21)

[0:00] 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

[0:33] 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

[1:04] [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

[1:37] 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

[2:15] issues to worry about let's take

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment psuMMzjvfRI/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/s/1/

Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.