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Cited in 12 segments across 10 recordings · 2017 to 2021 · principle/principle:trajectory-hermeneutics

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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Does an Islamic judge always give the maximum punishment for theft? Mufti Abu Layth says a qadi would weigh the circumstances, much as courts in England do today, and that this is how the Sharia would work; the hudud would be different now. Question from live chatposition checkedqadi (judge)hududthe hudud change with the agetrajectory hermeneutics machine1 min 58 s2:39:59on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran ban slavery, and what does 'what your right hand possesses' mean? The guest says the Quran abolishes slavery as the greatest crime, since owning a slave is to claim to be a rabb like Pharaoh, and that what the right hand possesses means contractual marriage. Mufti Abu Layth holds that slavery is abrogated through trajectory hermeneutics rather than by an explicit ban. Discussionguest speechEdip Yukseltrajectory hermeneuticsrabbabd machine10 min 29 s1:08:39on YouTube
19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Was there ever a verse of stoning in the Quran, and does stoning still apply? The guest says Umar's 'verse of rajm' refers to the muharaba verse 5:33, from which exemplary punishment including stoning derives, and that it still applies to extreme crimes under strict conditions. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet only condoned stoning from Jewish practice until the lashing verse, and that under Maliki scholars like al-Burzuli the hudud change with the age. Question from live chatguest speechDr Shehzad Saleem (guest)rajm (stoning)Hamiduddin FarahiQuran 5:33 (the muharaba verse) machine5 min 14 s1:31:11on YouTube
19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Was Ibn Mas'ud's Quran different from the Quran we have? No: the guest says the reports that Ibn Mas'ud rejected al-Fatiha or the last two surahs are wrongly ascribed to him, and the major companions vouched for the same Quran, the only traceable dispute being over the word 'qul'. Mufti Abu Layth also says he would not advocate cutting the hand today, since for him the hudud have already changed with the age. Question from live chatguest speechDr Shehzad Saleem (guest)Ibn Mas'udUbayy ibn Ka'bIbn Abbas machine3 min 57 s1:37:31on YouTube
28 Apr 2020From the Mind of a Mufti Is slavery haram in Islam, and did Muslim scholars ban it before the UN? Slavery is categorically haram today, and Maliki scholars issued fatwas forbidding it long before the UN; Mufti Abu Layth explains this through trajectory hermeneutics. Concubines were female slaves, not wives. Lessonposition checkedma malakat aymanukum (what the right hand possesses)trajectory hermeneuticsharamfatwa machine2 min 37 s0:00on YouTube
28 Apr 2020From the Mind of a Mufti Why did Islam not abolish slavery outright? Islam did not abolish slavery outright because the collective consciousness of the age could not yet see it as wrong, but it encouraged emancipation as a route to that change. Slavery was always wrong, and Mufti Abu Layth says Jonathan Brown's three axioms rest on a shallow analysis. Lessonposition checkedJonathan BrownEmile DurkheimAristotlecollective consciousness machine9 min 23 s11:48on YouTube
22 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth What does the Quran mean by 'what your right hands possess', and did the Prophet have a concubine? The guest reads the Quran's 'right-hand possessions' as a category of wife who was not free, since 4:25 speaks of marrying slave girls, and thinks Mariya al-Qibtiyya may have been a wife misunderstood as a concubine. Mufti Abu Layth says Mariya was a wife, as he has taught, and that under trajectory hermeneutics slavery would have become haram. Question from live chatguest speechDr Shabir Ally (guest)ma malakat aymanukum (what your right hands possess)Ibrahim (Abraham)Hajar machine7 min 13 s1:42:42on YouTube
10 May 2019video Did any early scholars allow marrying Zoroastrians or idol worshippers? Yes: some companions and early scholars allowed relations with Zoroastrian and even idol-worshipping women. Same-faith marriage was stressed because early Islam needed stable Muslim families, and it remains strongly encouraged. Lessonposition checkedal-MuwattaImam MalikImam Ja'far al-SadiqImam Muhammad al-Baqir machine5 min 46 s27:17on YouTube
3 May 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult Islam Are tattoos haram in Islam? Tattoos are permissible in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding, though he notes most scholars held them haram and some Malikis only makruh. He reads the prohibition in its historical context of branding slaves and cattle rather than beautification. Question source not recordedposition checkedal-Qarafi [?]al-RisalahAishamakruh machine10 min 31 s0:00on YouTube
29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Should religious leaders be held to a higher standard than everyone else? The claim that leaders deserve greater scrutiny is a modern Western ethic that its proponents apply selectively, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, while a hadith tells Muslims to overlook the slips of people of standing. Workplace rules on relationships are corporate productivity ethics, not religion. Lessonposition checkedreport: aqilu dhawi al-hayat atharatihim forgive people of standing their slipstrajectory hermeneuticsdiya (blood money) machine3 min 56 s19:37on YouTube
14 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Can Islamic punishments like stoning and cutting off hands change with time? Yes, in his understanding: the Sharia itself asks for punishments fitting the age, so today they would be replaced by penalties such as prison, following Maliki and other precedents. Question source not recordedposition checkedhudud (prescribed punishments)the hudud change with the agetrajectory hermeneuticsmaqasid al-shari'ah [?] machine5 min 03 s0:00on YouTube
11 Jan 2017Mothers of the Believers: The Wives of the Blessed Prophet ﷺ Why did jurists like Imam Malik let a father marry off his young daughter without her consent? Marrying off an underage girl is impermissible today. Imam Malik's exception was a contract only, without intimacy, tied to welfare in his own circumstances and not based on a clear verse or report. Question source not recordedposition checkedImam Malikal-Shafi'i [?]trajectory hermeneuticsnikah machine9 min 07 s2:00:23on YouTube