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Click a year to jump to itLatest answer · 10 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023video
LatestWho carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?
His daughter, who had memorised his hadith and taught his classes after him, while his sons showed little interest.
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Earlier answers · 46 · newest first
2021 · 15
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
LatestDid the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?
The report is not authentic: it was probably put into circulation to support the family hierarchy of a patriarchal society. The report urging violent jealousy over female relatives is likewise fabricated.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What does Islam say about the red pill movement?
Mufti Abu Layth says hating on women, or men, is ridiculous, though he grants some red pill points about how society treats the sexes.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is Mufti Abu Layth a feminist?
Mufti Abu Layth says he would like to think he is a feminist, though feminists seem not to like him.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why does the Quran seem focused on men, and why are two women witnesses needed?
The Quran asks for two women witnesses only for debt contracts, because a lone woman was easier to intimidate, not because women are lesser; otherwise one woman equals one man, and the masculine address reflects historically patriarchal societies.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestCan a woman be an imam and lead the prayer?
Yes: a woman can be an imam and her leading the prayer is valid, though whether it works in practice depends on her society accepting it.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Can a woman become a mufti?
Yes: anyone, a woman included, can become a mufti, but must persevere through often dogmatic institutions, in a field he says is neglected and lacks support.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How should I deal with the misogynistic things some scholars wrote about women?
Do not let contemporary misogynists hijack your Islam, and read past scholars' views on women as reflections of their own age, which do not confine Islam.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is it halal to perform music or dance at concerts for a living?
Dance is not haram in itself, Mufti Abu Layth says, but Muslim cultures look down on it as a profession, especially for women, so propriety should be kept in mind.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
'Danny Boy's' Telegram post calling female academics 'snarling witches'
Mufti Abu Layth mocks a commentator's post calling female Islamic Studies academics 'snarling witches', and says men who block women's education are insecure.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What did Ibn Rushd say about women's abilities?
Mufti Abu Layth highlights Ibn Rushd's argument, 900 years ago, that women equal men in ability and that confining them to the home impoverished his cities.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Do I have to be in a state of purity to say verses of the Quran?
Mufti Abu Layth says religion should be natural, not ritualistic: the menstrual state is not impure, and revelation came to the Prophet while in bed with Aisha.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Can a woman lead the prayer or give the khutbah?
Yes, he says a woman may lead the prayer, give the adhan or the khutbah; it is not invalid, it is just generally not done.
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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 · 7
4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Was Aisha a feminist?
Yes, if a feminist means someone who stands up for women's rights, says Mufti Abu Layth; Aisha did, including by rejecting misattributed hadith.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestDoes the Quran allow a husband to hit his wife?
The guest reads 4:34 as telling a persistently flirting wife to leave rather than as permission to beat, and says four words in the verse were mistranslated to create male authority. Mufti Abu Layth says the statement that men provide is descriptive, not prescriptive.
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28 Apr 2020video
The backlash to Maulana Tariq Jamil's dua on media, modesty and the pandemic, and the clip
Mufti Abu Layth sets out the controversy over Maulana Tariq Jamil's dua, in which he criticised media lies and spoke of modesty, reads critics who called it misogynistic, and plays the clip.
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28 Apr 2020video
Did Maulana Tariq Jamil blame women for the coronavirus?
Mufti Abu Layth did not feel Tariq Jamil was blaming women for the pandemic; he heard a call to self-examination in a calamity. Despite disagreements, he supports him as a caring voice for unity and reflection.
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28 Apr 2020video
Is it wrong to preach modesty to society?
There is nothing wrong with a message about modesty: like avoiding profanity in front of children, social propriety has a place even when one disagrees on details. Tariq Jamil's apology, he says, was big of him.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Can women be stopped from going to the mosque because of fitnah?
The guest says there is no evidence for keeping women from the mosque beyond fear of fitnah, since even harassment in the Prophet's time did not lead to a ban; Mufti Abu Layth cites Malik's report of men and women making wudu together.
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17 Jan 2020Responding to Refutations
Is it a Sunnah for women to pray in a wardrobe or the innermost room?
The claim that women praying in a wardrobe is a Sunnah rests on a weak, indeed false, hadith that is not a saying of the Prophet. Mufti Abu Layth sees the following of such claims as dogma and herd mentality.
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2019 · 8
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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14 Aug 2019On Current Events
Supporting women's rights while rejecting hostility to masculinity
Mufti Abu Layth backs women's rights and condemns abuse, but rejects what he sees as a campaign against masculinity, while accepting men who are naturally soft.
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4 May 2019On Current Events
Daniel Haqiqatjou's post that praying in a closet is a Sunnah for women
Daniel Haqiqatjou's post claimed that a woman praying in a closet revives a Sunnah and that this is better for her than praying in the Prophet's mosque.
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4 May 2019On Current Events
Does a hadith tell women to pray in a closet?
No: the word makhda' means an inner sleeping chamber, not a closet, and such rooms were dark only because houses had no lamps.
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4 May 2019On Current Events
Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque?
No: sahih hadith show women regularly praying in the Prophet's mosque, the Prophet forbade stopping them, and Umar and Ali provided imams for them.
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4 May 2019On Current Events
Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic?
No: the chains run through unknown, abandoned or weak narrators, so the reports are fabricated or very weak and clash with the sahih hadith.
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4 May 2019On Current Events
Have Muslims really kept women out of mosques for 1,400 years?
No: women prayed in mosques from the Prophet's time on and classical scholars held many such views, so the '1,400 years' claim fails; Mufti Abu Layth doubts Haqiqatjou's scholarly training.
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8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Does the Quran criticise the Queen of Sheba for ruling over men?
No: the Quran portrays her as a woman of great power over male ministers and never rebukes her for it.
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2018 · 9
29 Jul 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report, though in al-Bukhari, is a false attribution to the Prophet, and that he once took it as a joke but now holds it inauthentic.
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29 Jul 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
Does the Quran say most people in hell are women?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran speaks of mankind as a whole, all created weak, and never divides the people of hell by gender, so the report clashes with it.
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29 Jul 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
Is not praying during menstruation a sign of weak faith?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says women refrain from prayer during menstruation because the religion told them to, so calling it a lack of faith is absurd and the report is a misattribution.
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4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque?
The report only tells women not to wear perfume to the late Isha, sometimes Zaynab alone, so Mufti Abu Layth reads it as a specific instruction, not a general ban.
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4 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report is a statement attributed to Abu Hurayra through unknown and weak narrators, not a hadith of the Prophet, and no one holds that such a prayer is invalid.
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22 Apr 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
Can a woman travel without a mahram?
Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says a woman can travel without a mahram, since the ruling was about safety. The reports behind it disagree on how long a journey they mean.
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22 Apr 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
Is it haram for a woman to travel more than 48 miles alone?
No: Mufti Abu Layth calls the 48-mile rule absurd, a later Hanafi hardening of Abu Hanifa's three-day limit, which was itself meant to ease things for women.
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22 Apr 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam
Is it safe and allowed for a woman to fly alone?
Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says a woman may travel alone, including by air, since the ruling was always about safety, and rejects the claim that only a husband can protect her.
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5 Mar 2018On Love, Romance, and Relationships
What should a couple agree before marriage about registering and money?
Have an open conversation before marriage about registration and finances, and if the marriage is not registered the woman should keep her own work, income and property. Saying a woman may not work is cultural and backward, not Islam.
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2017 · 3
29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti
Is a relationship between a leader and a follower automatically abuse?
A consensual relationship between adults is not abuse just because one has status, and Mufti Abu Layth calls the contrary claim insulting to women. Abuse of power is coercion, such as a boss demanding sexual acts to keep a job; Khadijah's marriage to the Prophet who worked for her is his first counter-example.
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20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions
Why are so many 'possessed' people in the community women?
Dissociative disorders that look like possession occur mostly among women with histories of trauma, excessive control, pressured or forced marriages and childhood beatings. The psyche breaks down under such treatment just as the body reacts to injury.
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2 Apr 2017video
Do women pray differently from men in the Maliki school?
No: the Maliki school makes no distinction in principle between men's and women's salah. Some scholars only advise that a woman be mindful of modesty in ruku' and sujud.
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2016 · 1
15 Mar 2016video
The verse on men having a degree over women, read in its passage
The verse about a degree over women is read by one speaker as concerning women in their waiting period, not a general ranking of men above women.
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2014 · 3
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
Can a woman go out of the house without a need?
One speaker holds women went out only for need; the other that hadith and Maliki texts show women in public and travelling, with no text forbidding going out.
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9 May 2014video
Is it haram for a woman to go out for a walk?
One speaker says nothing makes it haram for a woman to go for a walk and challenges the other to produce a Maliki fatwa forbidding it; the other asks whether fatwa must follow the madhhab's protocols.
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