Halima Aden quits the runway - My thoughts | Mufti Abu Layth

i wanted to let's address right this issue all right taking a look here we've had this going on quite a lot of talk about it on social media the model halima aiden right now she has quit as you can see being a model the runway that's that's what it's called runway model because she was forced to compromise her faith you can see her

here before the kind of uh conversion to a slightly less modest hijab i mean to me it was still you know it was still hijab anyway but she feels come to that in a moment she feels that this hijab had compromised her iman so she quit the industry and you know it was just they broke the internet for the muslim dawa scene

now what are my thoughts on this now first of all i think look i wish her luck in whatever field she's in or gone into you know i i don't really know much about her before don't really still know too much about her now but sure i mean if she says look islam to me in some way has become more meaningful because of this then more power to you and good luck but as far as this thing about quitting industries now that's a person's personal choice but i have said this before i've got a

few videos on um when certain bollywood actresses there was that zyra there was also when i spoke about some pakistani celebrities uh who had quit the the showbiz industry to to come to islam and dedicate themselves to islam especially that z uh uh especially zyra wasim i've got a video on that it's on youtube where sh because she presents a detailed note she gives a letter which she puts on instagram facebook all these different social media

sites explaining in detail how the industry had made her be a part of something very haram and so on and she's now found peace with god now i have explained that look people one must remember that the world work industry it always will have there will always be elements of um of this of i i'm trying a frustration

you understand um of this kind of burdensome maybe evil politics or dynamics let me replace it with that word evil if i want to say evil in that sense but this kind of dark burdensome weighty evil dynamics exist i would say in all industries but they are like it's like a spectrum it exists more in some industries than others so it exists everywhere so you know this thing of

feeling like you have your your life is compromised or aspects of your life are being compromised or you know you're feeling uncomfortable or feeling this is everywhere it's just being a part of the world but in some places it's more than others so when a person works like let's say halima was a taxi driver let's say i mean it'd be an interesting spin on taxi drivers but why not let's say you know gender equality let's say halima was a taxi driver

so she would have seen this she might have been thinking oh my god i take people to such and such i take people to clubs i take people to pubs i take them to do all you know i pick someone up who's cheating on his partner i pick someone up who's going to who's just stolen something i pick someone you see now this even though they haven't participated but they might feel that look i'm kind of helping them i'm the getaway driver i'm just giving an example now you could work in a college or a school and this it's a different

kind of thing you know there's a politics um i remember many years ago when i worked in schools the truth is the system is fake now there isn't okay in schools you're not there's a different kind of thing going on it's not you know you're not doing those kind of things like people are stealing and stuff like this but there's a fake facade a system which is inauthentic it's insincere you know you it's just oh kids are now at this grade now we've got them at this grade now you know a huge part of all of this is a lie you know it's not

really i mean in some cases i understand these things are real but you know when you're a part of that system if you can see through it a lot of these things are just lies that people just generate to show something to achieve something to gain more kind of credit and rating amongst a certain hierarchy to um to create an image the lies they tell each other you know i just do this for you know every child you know every child matters and that whole thing and if one child just one child can and they're lying they're lying right out of their teeth

they will be backstabbing this person cutting that person uh you know removing this person from opportunities providing opportunities to people who are doing them favors on the side corruption to the core but just a different kind of corruption and that's a bloody school you know the school i worked in there they would they would be money deals going on or providing certain things getting their own people in making them get this money you know not liking certain teachers making their life hell on purpose they don't like somebody else so they consistently fail that person

just to get at them and these kind of vendett and that's perceptibly a benign atmosphere it's a school for god's sake it's not a casino but so now you move to a different you know you can move to a more corporate industry things are going to be more intense there's going to be a lot more you know being you know other things going on maybe people are sleeping with someone to get more of an advantage you know they want that position position they want that particular post post i don't know what word to use here so they want some kind of a so people are doing all

kinds of things maybe this person is you know you're working in some corporate offices and this person is sleeping around with all these members of staff and that person is doing this and this person is doing that and that person is sleeping with the boss and that person and this what i'm trying to say is in the world this exists everywhere just more in some industries than others so it's like a a continuum a spectrum so obviously things like the more glamorous an industry is usually the more darker it is that's just the nature of

light you know like this is saying that saya that this whole in urdu that the that you know the flame the candle right beneath it is shade so the darkest place sometimes is closest to it and so you you will find in these industries especially to do with beauty you can just imagine that in industries where there's beautiful women and very powerful rich man you know that's like that's just pure

fuel and flame there's nothing you know in an industry like that there's going to be exploitation which is just going to be the name of the game it's not even going to be exploited it's just going to be the wrongs of a ladder everybody's going to have to be doing it there you can't even there's no point calling you might as well just call it rituals but yeah so people look so what i would say is that i if you know this uh model leaving her job or other people and they find more peace in their heart then

alhamdulillah i think that's who you know may everybody find peace in their heart but what i would also say is that they had on a set i'm not saying you have to stay in the model industry modeling industry but you must remember that you know sometimes when we're in the middle of a a hustle and bustle we being extracted from that into anything that is remotely meditative will always bring serene and bliss it will always bring this kind of like the serenity so it will bring this kind

of uh tranquil feeling so if somebody was in imagine you're in a court imagine there's nothing even really that bad going on but you're in this you i don't know you're working on wall street or you're working in the london stock exchange and it's like oh it's all mad and you're selling and buy buy sell sell by and then you all of a sudden come out of that and you go to a yoga retreat you're gonna naturally feel this sense of calmness so it's the same thing when a person is in the dunya like when i say by dunya i mean like work work work mad mayhem routines chaos doing this doing and then you come out

and now you're like let me read the quran now naturally you're going to get a sense of tranquility a sense of peace and calmness but the issue here the challenge is this too is an emotion and like all emotions it will subside so if you just try to sit down and read the quran for two years in a row um that try it's not gonna be like that okay you're not gonna get that kind of feeling all the way through it's not going to work like that because that's why you know the prophet he said to people look i the the better motmin is the one menuhalitanas

who mixes mingles with people in their world remains a part of their world but can still remember allah because becoming a hermit is never the answer one must remember we are very much part of this dunya but that's true we don't need to be in the filthiest part [Laughter] but that said you will always the hustle and bustle even if it's not that dark it will still always preoccupy you it's good to just have an escapism but the escapism even the spiritual escapism if it

becomes a a norm you will need an escapism from that just that's basic human psychology so yeah so but my only issues with what halima i saw some of her posts or i saw people sharing her posts and you know she was kind of saying on some of unless i misread them she was telling people off oh my god you know i've been in this industry how come none of you told me off how come none of you told me to do my hijab properly how come none of you you know you are happy to see my pictures blah blah blah blah blah blah blah you see this is the problem

you know no sooner do you decide to give something up for the name of islam you decide to become the khalifa khalifa walked [Laughter] so no sooner do you decide to give up this haram that you're into you decide to all of a sudden start telling other people off and i think that is pathetic yeah that's not the way to go about it you know you need to

like if you've been wrong you've been wrong you know like why do you tell me off you people should be embarrassed ashamed no first of all i honestly don't even know what she's on about because in all those pictures she still has hijab on but i don't know obviously maybe it wasn't hijab enough but yeah so that's my thoughts on it i think as far as her decision her life more power to her but i think the preaching thing is a bit you know it's not you know no no need for holier than thou you know if i'm correct i'm sure this is just you've only just turned holy in the last five minutes

so you can just apply the breaks [Laughter] and and we'll see how this works out because remember you've got a whole life ahead of you this is another issue as well with this day and age with social media people want to announce amazing things which really ought to just be their kind of eulogy which meant to be the kind of like uh epitaph for their grave gravestone they want to just announce them by the minute and the problem is you've got a whole life ahead of you so you can make all these kind of grand announcements and six months from today you don't know how

you'll be so i i would just say look people ease up with making you know grand gestures and grand announcements cool