Yasir Ghandi casually citing 109:6 during his speech at the “Balancing Our Faith with Civil Rights” conference, (mis)using (and distorting) the verse to support a secular-liberal worldview.

The main contention here was LGBLTBBQ rights btw.

Hand-writing proper, neat, and organized notes entirely in Arabic is extremely time-consuming but feels very rewarding.

I would heavily recommend this to ṭullāb who are still trying to get comfortable and fluent with Arabic. It allows for more consistent exposure.

I may or may not upload some pictures of my handwritten notes later… 👀

I will never understand how a man can accept his wife working outside the house, or his daughter attending a secular university, in non-segregated environments, with kuffār, where they will spend most of their waking hours, for most of their lives.

Nowadays, the vast majority of men don’t even just tolerate this stuff. They encourage and demand it, and even BOAST about it to their friends and family. Just the mere thought of this makes me sick.

I would rather take the absolute lowest standard of living or not get married at all than allow any of the above.

السؤال (٤): ما رأي شيخنا نضال حفظه الله في عورة المرأة أمام الأجانب في عصرنا هذا؟

الجواب (٤): عورتها ما عدا وجهها وباطن كفيها، أما ظاهر كفيها فعورة يجب سترها، ويجب ستر وجهها في معتمد في المذاهب الأربعة.

العلامة الشيخ نضال آله رشي الحنفي

Pseudo-fiqh taught by western imams, neo-Azharis etc:

"Hijab is a JoUrNeY culminating with a foulard covering one's hair, a caked-up face, a flirting smiling face for her boss (but never for her husband) and empowering a Muslim woman to enter the public social sphere".


Actual take of the four madhahib:

A woman should not emerge from her home unless it's necessary, and in those circumstances she should cover completely; niqab (I.e. leaving eyes uncovered) is not permissible - it doesn't cover enough!

Question (9): Women wear niqabs where only their eyes are visible. Is wearing a niqab in this manner permissible?

Answer (9): It is not permissible for women to wear a niqab in such a manner. According to the Hanafi school of thought, whether or not there is social safety, it is obligatory for beautiful and young women to completely cover their faces when going out to prevent potential fitna (temptation). Neglecting this makes them sinful. When the face is covered but the eyes remain exposed, it causes even greater fitna, as the eyes are more alluring. (The attire deemed obligatory by the Sheikh, as shown in the image, is called a "burqa." When going out, a woman must at least cover her face in this manner.)

Allama Sheikh Nidal al-Hanafi

Ignoramuses' claim:
"A woman covering her face is makruh in the Maliki madhhab"..

Reality:
For Malikis the karahah is in the "niqab" style, which is technically defined as covering the lower part of the face and leaving the eyes and eyebrows uncovered! And the karahah is because this is not the proper way for a woman to cover her face, which is instead achieved by completely covering her face by letting her veil fully hang down.

Basically, for Malikis "niqab" (as per the above technical definition) is makruh ...because it's not covering enough; the whole face has to be covered!

Yet, you'll see coffee Sîdîs and bay area "Malikis" totally misunderstand, butcher and twist this ruling to promote uncovering of the face.

Question (13): If a woman does not cook for her husband, clean the house, or wash her husband's clothes, does she commit a sin?

Answer (13): Yes, she commits a sin because serving her husband is obligatory for her.

Allama Sheikh Nidal al-Hanafi

Question (15): A mu'min woman kisses her husband's hand every morning. Is it permissible for her to do this according to Sharia?

Answer (15): It is permissible. Does a woman like this still exist? (The Sheikh expresses amazement at the existence of this kind of woman, as finding one in this era is very rare)

Allama Sheikh Nidal al-Hanafi

I chuckled :)

مقدمة العلامة زاهد الكوثري على (التبصير في الدين وتمييز الفرقة الناجية عن الفرق الهالكين) للعلامة ابي المظفر الاسفرايني ، مقدمات الكوثري ، ص ١١٩ ، ط. دار السلام

"And being gentle with the people of deviation after their stubbornness has been established in the face of the well-established proof, and after their deceit and ignorance have clearly manifested as corruption: this is not the manner of the zealous 'Ulamā', who defend the sanctity of the dīn. History, in its pure form, has its own matter, and guarding the truth has its own separate matter."

Muqaddimah al-‘Allāmah Zāhid al-Kawtharī ‘alā (At-Tabsīr fī ad-Dīn wa Tamīz al-Firqa an-Nājiyah 'an al-Firāq al-Hālikīn) lil ʿAllāmah Abī al-Muẓaffar al-Asfarā’īnī, Muqaddimāt al-Kawtharī, p. 119, ed. Dār al-Salām.