Waleed Basyouni – What Are The Signs Of Puberty – Ask The Imam

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The speaker discusses various signs of puberty, including signs of sexual attraction, age, and puberty for men and women. They also mention the importance of hair growth and the use of it for financial reasons. The speaker emphasizes the need to wait until the age of puberty before adjusting behavior and avoid risk of embarrassment.
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We have a question about, you know, signs
of puberty, reaching puberty for both boys and
girls.
When does a person become really Islamically accountable
based on puberty?
Is it in the beginning of the appearance
of these signs or which sign that is
the defining threshold for that?
The sign of reaching the age of puberty,
some of them are agreed upon and some
of them are not.
The one that is agreed upon for men
is that * or their ability to
* and * comes out.
You know, that's basically a sign that's agreed
upon by all the scholars.
And for a woman is when she starts
her period.
She starts her period.
They said another sign, also she gets pregnant.
I think that's too late to figure that
out, but I mean, you know, but that's
something mentioned in the book.
These are the two things that were mentioned
in the books of fiqh, sorry, that's what's
been documented in the book.
So these are two signs that are agreed
upon between all the scholars.
Then you go to an area, also there
is another sign which is age, reaching the
age of 15.
Majority of the fiqh, not agreed upon, but
majority of the fiqh will say the age
of 15 is reaching the age of puberty.
Some made the difference between, I think in
the ahnaf, between men and women.
So they will have certain type of debate,
but you know, the one that back up
by a lot of evidence is the age
of 15.
Also some of the fiqh, debated over or
another sign which the fiqh debated over is
the growth of, the growth of the hair.
And when we talk about the hair, we
talk about the pupic hair, the hair that
grows around the private area.
And the private area, that hair must be
thick and curly, is not the soft hair,
because even kids like in a very early
age can grow soft hair in that area.
That will not be considered.
It has to be curly, thick, you know,
hair, that it needs to be shaved.
So when it is like that, that when
some of the fiqh consider it, not all
of them, consider it a sign of puberty.
Like the Hanabilah, because the Prophet ﷺ considered
this a sign of puberty for the Bani
Qurayza.
And also the famous opinion among the Malikiyah,
and I think it is also Abu Yusuf
from the Ahnaf said the same thing.
But you will have the Ahnaf and the
Hanafi and some of the Malikiyah said, no,
it's not a sign at all.
Thick or not thick, a lot or little,
doesn't matter, it doesn't, does not count as
a sign of puberty.
The Shafi'iyah made more tafseel, I mean
by tafseel they say, it is a sign
of reaching the age of puberty for non
-Muslims but not Muslims.
And they have a reason for that, because
they said, it is an explanation about that
Muslims will not want to be responsible, mukallaf,
you want to delay that.
Also they said, because Muslim parents are trusted,
so if you ask them, nobody is going
to check, but if you ask them, they
will not lie, you know, about the age,
you know.
But I believe this kind of differentiation, there
is weakness in it, but it is something
that some of the faqah said.
The bottom line is, I do believe, also
some of the faqah said, the hair can
be a sign of puberty when it comes
to financial responsibility, but not ibadat, act of
worship.
So if you grow that, that means he
is old enough to be responsible for his
financial actions, selling, buying, you know, stuff like
that.
Also in front of the judge, stealing, treated
like adult, going to war, but he will
not let obligated him to pray, obligated to
fast.
So also, there is a different range of
opinions.
Wallahu alam, for me, is that if the
pubic hair grows in a thick, curly manner,
in a very early age, okay, like nine,
there is not any other sign, basically, no,
anything happen like that, or no, period, I
will not consider a sign of reaching the
age of puberty.
And when it comes to the age, I
go by the 15, as a maximum age,
not to wait the 15, because if somebody
start period before 15, all the scholars said
the age of puberty started, or have a
* before that.
But if nothing, if the period or the
* did not happen until the 15,
and 15 comes, khalas, 15 is a cut
-off line for me, and that's the Madhab
al-Hanabira, rahimahullah, and some other faqah as
well, and many of the sahaba have considered
that to be an age.
Some faqah even said no.
We wait until the hayd or the wet
dream take place.
So that's when it comes.
There is also sign, al-'ulamah consider them nothing,
like underarm.
Some people think the growth of the underarm
hair is a sign of reaching the age
of puberty.
It's not.
Or voice became thick, or changing the voice,
or the appearance of, for example, breast for
a woman, or the growth of the private
area of man.
That does not mean that the person reached
the age of puberty.
All right.
JazakAllah khayr.
JazakAllah khayr.
Thank you.