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Cited in 14 segments across 13 recordings · 2014 to 2021 · term/term:maqasid

Citing segments

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2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What do you think of Imam al-Shatibi? Mufti Abu Layth calls Imam al-Shatibi an absolute legend and the real founding father of maqasid, the objectives of the Sharia. Question from live chatposition checkedal-Shatibial-Shatibi (author of the Shatibiyya) [?]maqasid al-shariah (objectives of the Sharia) machine2 min 47 s1:17:49on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why do you call yourself a Maliki? Mufti Abu Layth calls himself Maliki because he follows the lens of the school of Medina: the Quran at the centre, Medinan practice, reason and the aims of the shari'ah. Question from live chatposition checkedMaliki (the school of Medina)Imam Malikreport: if a dog licks the vessel of one of you wash it seven timesmaqasid al-shari'ah machine5 min 05 s1:41:27on YouTube
27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Does God really care whether I have a beard? Mufti Abu Layth says the Sharia exists to preserve life and order, and that picturing God as obsessed with beards shrinks God into a child throwing tantrums. Lessonposition checkedmaqasid (aims of the Sharia)Sharia machine6 min 28 s1:12:12on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are Sharia rules brand new, or based on what people already did? Mufti Abu Layth says the Shari'ah did not bring otherworldly rules but took existing practices and set limits on them, like kintsugi mending pottery. Lessonposition checkedShari'ahmaqasid al-shari'ahSalafiWahhabi machine5 min 41 s1:36:57on YouTube
14 Jul 2020live stream What do you think of Shah Wali Allah? Mufti Abu Layth calls Shah Wali Allah an amazing scholar, ahead of his time, who revived hadith studies and wrote on the objectives of the Sharia without using the word maqasid. Question from live chatposition checkedShah Wali Allah al-DihlawiHujjat Allah al-Balighamaqasid al-shari'ahikmah (wisdom) machine2 min 32 s31:30on 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
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Does the sanctity of life in Islam rule out killing apostates? Life has conclusive sanctity in Islam, and preserving life and freedom of religion for everyone are among the aims of the shari'ah. Lessonposition checkedQuran 5:32 (whoever kills a soul, it is as if he has killed all mankind)al-Shatibial-Muwafaqat (al-Shatibi)maqasid al-shari'a machine2 min 36 s5:16on YouTube
29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Is it Islamic to name and shame someone for a sin? Naming and shaming a person for a sin is a modern tabloid practice with no basis in the Prophet's example, who addressed wrongdoing without naming anyone. Those acting as haram police are mostly unqualified, and Mufti Abu Layth notes they ignore rulings that apply to themselves. Lessonposition checkedreport: ma bal aqwam what is the matter with people who do such and suchreport: all the children of adam are sinnershijabmaqasid al-shari'ah machine3 min 56 s15:41on 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 is Aisha's age only being questioned now, and is it just to appease the West? The age was treated as an issue historically through rulings against marrying girls incapable of marriage, and it is prominent now because Islam faces more scrutiny. Mufti Abu Layth rejects the report with certainty and calls the appeasement charge preposterous. Question source not recordedposition checkedSahih al-Bukharial-Dawudi [?]hadith absolutismmaqasid al-shari'ah machine10 min 25 s1:18:33on YouTube
5 May 2015video Is a short back and sides or faded haircut haram? A short back and sides, or hair of unequal lengths, is permissible and does not fall under the hadith forbidding qaza'. Shaving patches and leaving others (qaza') is at most disliked, not haram, in the view he presents, unless done to disfigure or to imitate a religious practice. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedqaza'report: the prophet forbade qaza (unresolved; Ibn Umar, Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari, number not stated)report: shave all of it or leave all of it (unresolved; the child with a patch of hair, al-Nasa'i and Abu Dawud)report: i will not cut it for i saw the prophet hold you by it (unresolved; the braid of Anas ibn Malik, Abu Dawud) machine15 min 52 s1:20on YouTube
20 Mar 2015video Do I have to wear my trousers above my ankles? No: for men, wearing the garment below the ankles is not haram unless it is done out of arrogance, in which case the hadith apply; otherwise it is at most makruh. In today's societies covering the ankles is normal and carries no arrogance, so insisting on it misses the purpose of the ruling. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedisbal (garments below the ankle)khuyala (arrogance)makruhizar machine12 min 57 s1:18on YouTube
2 Jul 2014video What does Mufti Abu Layth hope to achieve? Mufti Abu Layth hopes to spread inclusivity and compassion and a wider understanding of the Maliki school, which he feels the West needs. Question source not recordedposition checkedMaliki school (the school of Madinah)maqasid al-shari'ah machine2 min 50 s24:53on YouTube