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Cited in 3 segments across 3 recordings · 2017 to 2020 · term/term:tawbah

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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Isn't it better to feel guilty when sinning so that you repent? The guest says most scholars hold watching pornography is haram and people should not watch it, while academically the evidence resembles Imam Ahmad's 'I dislike it but do not say it is haram'. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Kashif Khan (guest)Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbalal-Shafi'imut'ah machine2 min 23 s2:33:37on YouTube
10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Were apostates punished for disbelief or for fighting against Muslims? The classical punishment targeted apostates who took up arms against the community, not disbelief itself: Umar preferred to restrain and persuade, al-Tahawi tied it to waging war, and the Hanafis exempted women because they were not combatants. Lessonposition checkedUmar ibn al-Khattabreport: umar said i would have restrained him and tried to bring him back (unresolved)al-ShawkaniNayl al-Awtar machine7 min 46 s15:42on 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