Yasir Qadhi on Masturbation | Mufti Abu Layth

all right the masala segment people the masala so as you all know right there's we this is we discussed last week if you recall uh that what's this yes what's this uh interesting craze that recently the salafia have embarked upon where zakir naiksab all of a sudden

had his enlightenment and said that look uh the island you know so no sooner had we spoken about that and then our own so the first question we're going to be in the permissibility of self-stimulation or

you're teasing us self-stim let's go back let's go back to this question with yasir the people pay attention not you first question we're going to be doing is the permissibility of self-stimulation or masturbation is it permissible in islam or is this act sinful speaking the majority of scholars the majority of mathematics view masturbation as being haram or sinful uh and they base this on the fact that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forbids all sexual activity except with one's

spouse and allah says in the quran that uh uh whoever that allah praises those who protect their private parts except allah says in the quran except with their spouses or their right hand possessions whoever is within this confines they are they are that is permissible however some of the scholars of the past uh they did consider it to be and others considered to be mubarak so there are uh three primary positions in this so that he avoids the

bigger sin of actual zina of actual uh intercourse that is uh haram and he also mentions very explicitly that the same ruling applies for a woman that a woman can also resort to this if there is a fear of falling into a zina and there are a number of reports from the sahaba and taberun that indicate that this position was found amongst them as well a man came to ibn abbas the cousin of the process of a young man came to ibn abbas and he mentioned that you know he's not you know married and that he uh basically stimulates himself until he ejaculates

to him what you are doing is better than committing zina but if you were to marry a slave girl that is even better than what you are doing now and of course evan has an entire section on this as well the famous scholar vendors as i mentioned and he mentions ibn hasan mentions that uh it is allowed to touch one's organ even if it's with the left hand it is allowed to touch one's organ and if it's not the norm no doubt self-stimulation is not natural despite what psychologists might say it is not the norm and that is why the default is the default is that there is a sense of shame and a sense of regret

uh when somebody does this even if you're not a muslim you know they are uh they are looking to get married and making dua to allah to help us to get married and we also understand that uh even if the act is permissible and i do believe that there's no sin in doing it it's no sense the default is that it is and means it's better not to do so the default is that as azim says not from the nobility of deeds

you see so no sooner had we spoken about zakir naik that yasser khadi does a q a on intimacy issues and he too comes out me too me too hashtag me too and he says well actually um it's not haram it's not a sin uh it's just not from the nobility rather and the left hand i think you're easy

is that for us left-handers as well did he is he taking us into consideration ah felt a great sense of relief i was like a cha-cha-cha left-handers we haven't been left out of this [Laughter] so it's not haram it's uh it's just not from the noble class oh the nobility do not self-stimulate rather they have their maids who come and stimulate them

unless of course you got slave girls slave girls from so it's interesting how even shaykh assad has now come out and said this is not haram you see now but it comes back to that point doesn't it because people would say oh you know why this one

[Music] that's actually a song so this that's ear dirty that's actually a song that's actually song so the reason is that look these people for decades have been guilt-tripping so many muslims making them feel burdened by sin telling

them they're gonna be punished by the hell fire telling them they're gonna go to hell telling them god will you know it's gonna ruin their relationships they're gonna do this whilst i bet you many of them secretly themselves believed it was okay and cello whether they practice or not or this one this one sorry it's not from the nobility [Music] not from the self stimulate stimulate stimulate come on come on come on stimulate people oh yeah right it's not stimulating uh don't

self-stick but you see to other people they would say oh you're going to go to hell you're going to go to hell you are this is haram allah is going to punish you um so the question is but all these people who've been suffering you know what how is this justified for them you know now all of a sudden you just come out and you say well actually it's not a sin i mean

um was there did revelation come down overnight or did uh did everything just change did hell fire temperature go down you know in hell fire what are these heart and these people you see they would proper obviously say about me that i'm spreading all these kind of rulings i'm making people corrupt uh this is what they would say and but yet it's them like when you look at them they they themselves have now come and said well actually just one moment i was just looking if

i had this no there was a i want to share this no no no no right so no it's not here right so but so this is my issue this is why i when i see these things i think um at least you should come out and apologize you should at least say look i want to say i apologize to all those muslims who i've you know who you know i may have misinformed over the years i now realize because

look him quoting ibn hasem which by the way i quoted years ago they knew what ibn hazmat to say him quoting the humbly method of saying that oh this is permissible he they knew that years ago no new information has come to them it's just that now they've realized they can get away with it by saying it publicly so you see my point now about the two-faced thing about the hypocrisy in these circles that behind closed doors i've told you before behind closed doors most of these imams don't believe in half of what they preach

they just do this because they expect because this is what the public you see it's like this vicious circle they think the public need them to say this because if they say something different they're going to get rejected so they say the public hear them say and it reinforces that vicious circle so the public think of course and now the public expect them and it's this kind of this loop that they're trapped in but yeah so i was just like wow okay because first of all zakir naik has had this revelation and i'm thinking

why is wahi coming to all these ex-selfies but then i realized oh i've already been enlightened i'm ahead of the curve it's these guys trying to catch up so yeah so this is uh this is why i had to speak on that um it's not because i'm

after fixated on our beloved it's just that i thought you know what hmm that why why why why for so long make people feel guilty and then only to say don't do it yeah don't do it man not the noble class [Laughter] the noble

the nobility one does not peruse self-stimulation that's to just say that i mean come on that's uh that deserves a you know that's what that's what it is people people we gotta wrap this up you know it's been epic as always now that we're all super excited that it's not just

many more and more selfie scholars are coming out giving these uh glad tidings so i've got something to rejoice about people but