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Cited in 5 segments across 4 recordings · 2019 to 2021 · term/term:tariqah

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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What does the Mufti think of the Naqshbandi Sufi order? Mufti Abu Layth says many Sufi orders have become institutionalised and dogmatic, the very thing mysticism set out to defy. Question from live chatposition checkedthe Naqshbandi ordertariqah (Sufi order)Friedrich Nietzsche machine1 min 17 s2:23:08on YouTube
6 Apr 2020video What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi? Mufti Abu Layth regards Shaykh al-Yaqoubi as a level-headed scholar who has spoken against extremism and would point someone set on joining a Sufi order to a figure like him, while thinking his admirers overdo it. He himself once took issue with al-Yaqoubi's statements on Bukhari. LessonShaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubitariqa (Sufi order)SufiSahih al-Bukhari machine2 min 37 s0:00on YouTube
21 Aug 2019BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi? Mufti Abu Layth likes al-Yaqoubi as one of the more level-headed and knowledgeable pirs, from a family of scholars, though he has only seen his generic talks. He recalls meeting him in Damascus two decades ago as an ordinary, respected academic with no entourage. LessonShaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubipir (Sufi shaykh, subcontinent usage)tariqah (Sufi order) machine4 min 01 s2:35on YouTube
21 Aug 2019BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Does Mufti Abu Layth regard Sufi tariqahs led by pirs as cults? Mufti Abu Layth says all such tariqahs are in essence cults, though al-Yaqoubi's is a better and less harmful one than the usual exploitative pir. The SKT charity boycott, he says, shows how much power such shaykhs now wield. LessonShaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubipir (Sufi shaykh, subcontinent usage)tariqah (Sufi order)murid (disciple) machine2 min 36 s10:33on YouTube
17 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Saqib Shaami? Mufti Abu Layth respects Saqib Shaami for turning people lost to drugs and crime into good human beings and finds his influence in the East unique for a Western-raised shaykh. He sees him as focused on spirituality and tasawwuf rather than academic or contemporary intellectual issues. Question source not recordedShaykh Saqib Shaamithe Chishti tariqa [?]tariqah (Sufi order)tasawwuf machine4 min 47 s0:00on YouTube