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7 answers in 5 recordings, 2018 to 2020. 5 with a checked position in his own words.
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· Is it rape if a husband uses religion to pressure his wife into sex?
Mufti Abu Layth says that pressuring a wife into sex by threatening her with Allah's punishment is no less rape than threatening to beat her.
“that is no less rape that's just like saying in other words a deferred beating so that's just threatening her still because it's still a threat but it's a threat with a deferred punishment”
2:33TranscriptCite 2018-07-08-S01corrected
· Do the angels curse a wife who refuses her husband in bed?
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the hadith about a wife who stays away from her husband's bed is weak and unacceptable, clashing with the Quran.
“there's this hadith which is weak I believe it's unacceptable utterly clashes with the Quranic clashes with the authentic sana clashes with the principles of Islam”
3:50TranscriptCite 2018-07-08-S02corrected
· Is it haram to pressure a wife into sex by saying God will be angry?
Mufti Abu Layth says, repeating what he said in an earlier session, that marital rape is categorically haram and that this includes religious blackmail.
“I've said that marital rape is categorically Haram and that includes religious blackmail”
3:44TranscriptCite 2018-07-08b-S01corrected
· Is there an authentic hadith that a wife may never refuse her husband sex?
Mufti Abu Layth says that the report that a woman may not refuse her husband cannot be attributed to the Prophet without blasphemy, and challenges his critics to bring one version of it whose chain he cannot show to carry weakness or hidden defects.
“this kind of blasphemy is not attributed to our prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam you bring me one hadith one hadith that I can that cannot be criticized”
6:21TranscriptCite 2018-08-03-S02corrected
· Is forcing your wife to have sex a sin in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that coercive sex with one's wife is haram, that Muslims who deny this are the problem, and that, following Imam Malik's saying, the umma is set right by the independence to challenge inherited readings shaped by the patriarchy of past ages.
“he said well oh it's okay to you know it's not a sin to force to have coercive sex with your wife or not it's like what a new thing you want about of course it's a god it's Haram”
33:10TranscriptCite 2019-07-25-S11corrected
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