# Is it haram to shake hands with women?

*A clip of a well-known preacher shaking hands, and handshakes with women*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/30/
- Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:38:23–2:40:17)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=9503s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/

**Topics:** Interaction between men and women; Views on contemporary scholars

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth defends a preacher caught on camera shaking a girl's hand and says shaking hands with women is not haram anyway.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth shares a viral clip in which a well-known Pakistani preacher is shown shaking hands with a girl, edited against his speech on morality. Mufti says the preacher is genuinely a nice guy who has preached some weird things in the past that he does not support, but is one of the few scholars who has tried to go cross-sectarian and speak for unity, so the clip is not fair. Mufti says he does not feel it is haram to shake hands with women anyway, pointing to his detailed video, and that people are always waiting for a scandal.

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:38:23–2:40:17)

[2:38:22] This was to do with molana jab. I'll give you a little extended on the masala. I thought this isn't I think look Molana Tariq J is a very a genuinely a nice guy. He has in the past preached some weird stuff and I don't support that but I do think he's one of the few scholars who's tried to go cross sectarian and unite you know spoken for unity but there was this so they c got a video of him shaking hands with a girl and then they've put his speech conde speaking about morality [laughter]

[2:39:08] [laughter] People are proper haramies though. Ain't it [laughter] [laughter] But I honestly feel that look it's not fair.

[2:39:37] Malana Jamil Sav is is I do like him and you know he I don't feel it's haram to shake hands with women anyway. I've got a detailed video explaining that. But this is how people are. You know, they're waiting for that one moment. You know, this not nice, you know, like scandal scandal. [laughter] Oh, as they're always waiting and I suppose, you know, with Tar Jab, they've now seen somebody got a clip of him shaking hands with a woman uh with a girl and they're like, "Oh my god, oh my god, Jame's thinking [laughter] you invite me

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment TR4-gh0qEZ4/s/30. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/30/

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