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9 May 2021video
LatestWhy did scholars say a slave woman's awrah is the same as a man's?
Mufti Abu Layth says most scholars of the past legitimised the practice of slave girls out of pragmatism, realism and sex, and even presented it as a religious act. He contrasts this with music, which they were less keen to permit, and polygamy, which few manage today.
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2021 · 7
9 May 2021video
Did scholars let slave women uncover more than free women?
Mufti Abu Layth says the scholars dropped their concern for modesty when it came to slave women, and calls the claim that nobody would desire them nonsense. He thinks slave women probably wore working clothes, with arms and lower legs uncovered, rather than walking about topless.
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why are some clerics so harsh in their rulings on women?
Mufti Abu Layth says harsh rulings from some clergy, especially towards women, come from sexual deprivation and a closed madrasa culture, and that love and a normal life soften people.
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestWhat does Mufti Abu Layth think of France banning the hijab for girls under 18?
If France has banned headscarves for girls under 18, he says it is an abhorrent breach of basic rights that he strongly condemns. He also opposes pressuring girls to wear it: it should be their genuine choice.
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2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
If the hijab has become sexualised, should scholars still push it?
Mufti Abu Layth argues that since the hijab is now widely sexualised, fatwas should not keep pushing it, though people may wear it as culture.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Does a bald woman have to wear hijab?
Mufti Abu Layth gives no ruling: he jokes about the wording and muses on hair loss in women and men.
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5 Jan 2021video
Is the niqab required, and is it right to make women take it off?
The face veil has no basis in the Quran and Sunnah, being the opinion of some later scholars. Forcing a woman to remove it is still wrong; one may only advise.
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5 Jan 2021video
Why do some women feel they must wear the niqab?
Mufti Abu Layth blames men rather than women: men convince women they need the niqab by making them fear hell, sometimes out of insecurity. He calls the extreme mindsets this produces worrying.
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2020 · 6
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Do women have to cover their wrists and ankles in prayer?
Mufti Abu Layth says relax: the deen is natural, and obsessing over whether a wrist, ankle or hair shows came centuries after the Prophet.
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14 Jul 2020live stream
Is wearing my hijab turban-style allowed?
Yes, he says a turban-style covering is fine, because covering the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran or Sunnah; the emphasis was on modesty.
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2 Jul 2020video
Is it wrong for a hijabi YouTuber to take off her hijab?
Removing the hijab is her own choice and her own business, Mufti Abu Layth says; he adds that some scholars hold hijab is not obligatory and that he finds their argument stronger.
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2 Jul 2020video
Why are people angry at a hijabi influencer who removed her hijab if it is her choice?
The problem is not the hijab but duplicity: Mufti Abu Layth says building fame and income on a religious image one does not believe in is a double life that inevitably collapses, and he advises against living fake lifestyles.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is a marriage between a Muslim and a non-Muslim valid?
Mufti Abu Layth says he holds that a nikah between a Muslim and a non-Muslim would be valid, especially for converts whose spouses remain non-Muslim; both say quoting recorded minority views gets them accused of opening Pandora's box.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Do non-Muslim women in a Muslim country have to cover up?
The guest says early scholars held that non-Muslim women cannot be forced to cover and that the prohibition on looking was applied only to believing women.
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2019 · 4
3 Nov 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Does the Quran actually tell women to cover their hair, or only their chest?
There is nothing explicit in the Quran or Sunnah about covering the head; the verse of al-Nur tells women to cover the jayb (the chest opening) with the khimar they already wore, and whether the khimar itself is obligatory or circumstantial is an open question. Covering the hair became the settled teaching within a generation of the companions.
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3 Nov 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Is it a sin for a Muslim woman not to cover her hair?
Contemporary scholars who say covering the hair is not obligatory hold a valid position, and not wearing hijab is an equally valid opinion to wearing it, which Mufti Abu Layth calls good as part of a woman's identity. What the Quran explicitly establishes is modesty, and the choice is a personal journey, not something to impose.
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3 Nov 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Can a husband or father force a woman to wear hijab?
Forcing women to cover their hair is categorically wrong in Mufti Abu Layth's view and does greater harm. He attributes the pressure to men's insecurity about women and to guilt imposed through fatwas that curse men whose wives do not cover, both of which he calls wrong.
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3 Nov 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Is Islam supposed to feel like a burden?
The deen is one of ease and should complement a person's life rather than burden them with guilt and suffering. An interpretation of Islam that weighs people down is, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, not the one the religion came with.
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2018 · 1
8 Mar 2018Quick Fiqh!
Do Muslim women have to wear the niqab?
Mufti Abu Layth does not consider the niqab part of the religion: it is a cultural measure, sensible only where a woman's safety requires it, and in the West he thinks it should not be worn. The screen rules for the Prophet's wives were specific to them.
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2014 · 4
9 May 2014video
Is the face part of a woman's 'awrah in the Maliki school?
One speaker argues that neither the Maliki nor the Hanafi school counts the face as 'awrah, so covering it is at most a precaution against fitnah.
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9 May 2014video
Must a young woman cover her face because of fitnah?
The speakers disagree: one holds the books require covering where there is fitnah from young women, the other that such a rule would swallow the Prophet's own practice.
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9 May 2014video
Did Imam Malik allow a woman to show her face to her husband's friends?
One speaker reads Imam Malik's fatwa allowing a woman to eat with her husband's friends as proof that the face is uncovered; the other cites the later split between young and older women.
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9 May 2014video
Is Imam Malik's own fatwa the Maliki madhhab?
The speakers disagree on whether Imam Malik's own words or the later transmitted madhhab decide a ruling; one says Malik's hijab fatwas were relaxed and left the face uncovered.
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