Explaining Hadith: Those Who Have Women Leaders Will Never Be Successful? | Mufti Abu Layth

oh the Hadith a people who placed the leader as a woman will never be successful this is transmitted it is in but it's in some other books as well but what does this mean does this mean that it is Haram to have a leader as a woman I'm sorry a woman as a leader some people have taken this Hadith and understood that from it that they've taken this Hadith so first of all let's understand why

this Hadith was said this Hadith was said at the time when the kisra uh the Persian assassinate King had died and the woman became in charge I believe her name was Boran they put her in charge and somebody told the prophet that she is now in charge and allegedly the prophet said this keeping in mind that the sassanid Empire was at War at least especially at that time with the the lahmid Arabs who were the kind of

cultural capital the the managera and they killed the last you know um they killed there was this huge and we've covered that in the story previously so keeping that in mind and and here I was the capital they are the one who who in where you were most many of the Major Poets were were Arabic today as we know it comes from as well so this is with with the allegiance of the Arabs was anti-sasonit anti-persian this is why even in the Quran it says

about Liberty room Rome which was the the the Byzantium the byzantines they have been defeated but they will again be successful and on that day the Believers will be happy why because the Believers were more aligned with the Christians than they were with assassinate Persians at the time so when this female is in place as the kind of queen this statement is allegedly said by the Prophet salallahu this is once again we say allegedly because there isn't 100

certainty that the prophet salallahu said this but let's go with the hypothesis that this was said by the prophet salallahu now the next question is that is this statement is this statement a descriptive or is it religiously prescriptive okay so is it dis so is it descriptive from a psychosocial environmental fact uh perspective or is it prescriptive so is the prophet salallahu

describing this is he describing or is he inscribing making this a law within Islam is he teaching Islam or is the prophet describing a phenomenon this is where people disagreed so for example because you have to remember as as Imam karafi says that the prophet salallahu when he's engaging people he he is in different states of mind

in some states he's engaging them as the Imam of the Muslims in some states he's engaging them as as as a judge he may be ruling over two people in some states of mind he's engaging them as a uh as a person amongst them like as as an Arab who lives in hijaz amongst them like saying hey like when they say would you want to eat he says no I don't I don't eat this and they say oh is it haram I'm probably say no no it's not Haram it's just I I don't like it our people never used to

eat it that's the famous Hadith or when the prophet says to barira Marie marief and she says oh is this religious like are you is this a priest to prescribe something is to mandate it to make it obligatory is this like are you prescribing something and the prophet said no no this is just a suggestion then she says oh in that case no I won't marry him or it's like in the time of Buddha when the prophet says why don't we set up camp here and the person says is this Revelation or is this an opinion

and the prophet said no it's just an opinion and then he says well in that case I think the person says to the prophet what about over there because we're closer to the well and we've got a vantage point to attack and the brothers says you're right let's set it up over there or in the instant when the prophet sees them cross-pollinating the the wheat that they used to do and the prophet says that's strange why do you do that so they didn't do it and the following Harvest was terrible and they came complaining to the prophet they said that and the prophet why are you complaining to me and said well you said why are you doing

that that's strange and he said I just said that's strange they never said it's from Islam the prophet said you you guys he said you're more knowledgeable about your worldly Affairs I just said I find it strange that you guys cross-pollinate I never said this is from God that don't do this I was just speaking as a person I wasn't speaking as the prophet of God so when the prophet is engaging in different things there's different states of mind that are that are active

so now when let's take this Hadith so we're going with this statement has been said is the prophet saying that oh these people who have placed a woman as their leader will never be successful a description based on the social economic factors of the people because like the prophet is a very like he's aware like today we are aware of what's going on with Russia and Ukraine when we don't have to be there but we all know what's going on the prophet

knew about them attacking the Mondays are fighting back some of the battles we've mentioned where they were defeated by the bakrid ill tribe and by other tribes that attacked them and we've done all of these segments the prophet is aware of these things that buys you know the byzantines attacking them and how they're struggling how to assassinate Legacy of over a thousand years is crumbling the prophet is aware of these just as today we are aware of kind of global factors now to Crown it all off not only of all of the Kings become so weak and these are

people who are very boastful very so on you know they wouldn't even allow they had such and such person in charge and he used to claim to be like a God and people did this and some people challenged him and and now it comes down to when the King has died they've placed a woman like I know there's no way that's gonna work like these people are definitely gonna flop now that kingdom is gonna crumble it's no way it's like it's if a person was to say you know like imagine all of a sudden there's all these candidates to

to get in charge and they put this really old man who is you know almost senile one could say almost we're speaking about Biden here but somebody places somebody in charge and you say well this is definitely gonna this country is going to the dogs now there's no way that they're going to you know you put a man like that in charge an old man you know any country that's being run by an old man that old is gonna be ruined so is this statement coming as a description given the kind of socio-political

Affairs of the invite of the environment that the prophet says knowing what's going on and all the turmoil they're in that you know are people who now place a woman in charge those men are never going to accept that woman that's like because it's it's the sassanid Empire and that too it's crumbling and there's all this infighting and now you put a woman in charge in that in the climate they're never going to succeed was this descriptive or was it prescriptive was the prophet saying this is now a Fiat ruling in

Islam that it is Haram for a woman to rule a people because if she does they will never attain success so this these two ways of looking at what is going on some people took it to say that the prophet was prescribing here that he was giving a ruling within Islam and trying to say that now any henceforth any woman that or let's make it clear that because the Persian woman has let's make it clear given this instance that any

nation that any civilization that takes a woman as a leader is doomed by the fate of God and that is by Divine decree some people have taken it to mean that however many other people would understand the other ruling which makes sense because after the prophet salallahu his own wife was was in charge of the very famous battle which is controversial German the Battle of Jamal of the camel

she is in charge she leads the whole campaign going up to basara so people had put Aisha in charge and people like zubair were in that Army were in that group let's say but they had placed in charge of it obviously they would have had a much better understanding of the dean that they were so close to the prophet and if they felt that putting the woman as a leader would have been something so wrong in Islam that they surely you know that's not how they would go about things so that's how

people these people this interpretation would see it the other way you would see that no this is uh you know this is Haram always this is doomed in Islam and they may even interpret they may say that was kind of leading but technically maybe there was a man that was the leader but she was just a prominent person so they may give that that kind of an interpretation so this is how people take away from a ruling but it goes to show that here is a ruling and how it's not simple to say something

because you just a statement first of all ascertaining whether okay you've got ascertaining whether it was actually said or whether it was paraphrased or whether it was is another discussion but even going with the hypothesis this is the Hadith this was said there's still many ways to look at it simply as a description just as today if there was um certain things going and and you said you know what if I said you know any person any person riding a motorbike in this day and age or any person riding a bike in this teenage

is never going to make it if I made a statement like that which now what would you understand from my statement what am I trying to say and what is the context so surely when I if I say something you know any person riding a bike in this day and age anchor is definitely not going to make it or why am I saying that first the context secondly do I mean not make it in anything do I mean because there's been certain road traffic accidents and people are kind of knocking over cyclists and people are

doing all these kind of things and so that's a very uh that's a very uh more profound way of looking and reading uh texts okay people with that let's wrap that up ah