# Reaction to the clip: Qadhi joins Zakir Naik in calling it not haram, with jokes about 'the nobility'

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yzrvpdckjxq/s/2/
- Date: 2021-01-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi on Masturbation | Mufti Abu Layth (4:00–6:38)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZrVPdcKjxQ&t=240s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yzrvpdckjxq/

**Topics:** Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Sexual ethics

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth notes that Yasir Qadhi, like Zakir Naik before him, now says masturbation is not haram but merely not a noble deed, and jokes about left-handers and 'the nobility'.

## Longer summary

The segment opens with the final words of the clip, in which Qadhi says the default is that it is makruh [?] and better avoided, quoting Ibn Hazm that it is not among the noble deeds. Mufti Abu Layth then remarks that no sooner had they spoken about Zakir Naik than Yasir Qadhi did a question-and-answer session on intimacy and, as he puts it, 'he too' came out to say it is not haram or a sin but merely not from the nobility of deeds. He jokes about the mention of the left hand, asking whether left-handers like himself have been taken into consideration and feigning relief that they have not been left out, and mocks the phrase about nobility with a quip that the nobility do not stimulate themselves but have maids to do it. He observes that even Shaykh Yasir has now come out and said this is not haram, and says this comes back to a point he wants to make, before being briefly distracted by something on screen that turns out to be a song.

## Sources and names cited

- Yasir Qadhi
- Zakir Naik
- Ibn Hazm
- makruh

## Transcript (machine tier, 4:00–6:38)

[3:45] 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

[4:16] 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

[4:56] 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

[5:32] 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

[6:12] [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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment yZrVPdcKjxQ/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yzrvpdckjxq/s/2/

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