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Cited in 16 segments across 13 recordings · 2016 to 2025 · term/term:wudu

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18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestHow does a Quranist pray salah? The guest's prayer has no unit count: after wudu he seeks refuge, reads al-Fatiha by his own choice and a full chapter, then prostrates once with supplication, filling the prayer time as the moment dictates; in congregation the imam leads a single long prostration and prayers last up to an hour, three times a day. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)salahwudusujud machine6 min 20 s1:19:58on YouTube
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhy does the guest's prayer have no fixed number of units, and what counts as wudu? The guest's prayer is about duration and connection rather than numbers of units, with an imam supplying structure only in congregation; prostration, kneeling and standing are components without a set order, and wudu is as 5:6 describes it, without the tradition's additions. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Quran 5:6 (wash your faces and hands, wipe your heads and your feet)Quran 96:19 (prostrate and draw near)salah machine5 min 07 s1:36:54on YouTube
13 Feb 2023video Language embeds power: 'inconvenience' versus 'hardship' in tayammum The words scholars choose, such as 'inconvenience' or 'hardship', already decide the ruling, embedding power even when used sincerely. Lessonposition checkedrukhsah (dispensation)tayammumwuduHanafi school machine3 min 52 s26:17on YouTube
10 Dec 2022video Did Abu Hanifa allow wudu with nabidh when there was no water? In the early school of Abu Hanifa, someone without water could make wudu with nabidh, a weak fermented date drink, and he helped people out of rash conditional divorce oaths, unlike the sterner Imam Malik. LessonAbu HanifaImam Maliknabidhwudu machine3 min 54 s28:48on YouTube
19 Aug 2022video Jokes about Rushdie's hairline and a mock hair-transplant offer Mufti Abu Layth jokes about Rushdie's hairline and offers a mock hair transplant, repeating in passing that the attacker only gave Rushdie the limelight. OtherSalman Rushdiewudu machine2 min 38 s52:44on YouTube
27 Apr 2021video Can I pray while carrying my child? Yes: the Hanafi rule that three consecutive movements break the prayer is made up, and the Prophet prayed carrying Umama; Mufti Abu Layth puts the attacks on Shaykh Aslam down to jealousy. Lessonposition checkedsalahwudureport: the prophet prayed carrying a child (Umama)Ibn Abidin machine7 min 58 s4:23on YouTube
26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDo obscene or blasphemous thoughts during prayer ruin my salah? Intrusive or blasphemous thoughts in prayer are not a reason to worry: noticing them is a sign of faith, as a hadith says. Mufti Abu Layth adds that jinn in the Quran means the unseen and possession stories are folklore. Discussionguest speechLupe Fiasco (guest)salahwuduwaswasa machine7 min 40 s1:31:29on YouTube
26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth How did Lupe Fiasco discover Mufti Abu Layth? The guest says he found Mufti Abu Layth while looking for alternatives to the Salafi content that dominates Muslim YouTube, and values his different point of view. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechLupe Fiasco (guest)SalafiMalikiwudu machine3 min 10 s1:55:15on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Can I carry a child while I pray? Mufti Abu Layth says one may carry a child while praying and that Hanafi rulings such as the three-movement rule, or that laughing or reading something breaks the prayer, are made up. He sees the campaign against the preacher who showed this as sectarian jealousy. Lessonposition checkedHanafi schoolAbu HanifaAbu YusufIbn Abidin [?] machine12 min 45 s23:17on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Can I do tayammum instead of wudu if water makes my cough worse? Yes: tayammum is allowed for anyone with an excuse, and whether the excuse applies is for the person to judge. Question from live chatposition checkedtayammumwudu machine1 min 17 s39:55on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth If a hadith is also in other books besides Bukhari, does that confirm it? Not necessarily: he says transmitters and editors, often with good intentions, aligned names and texts with versions they knew, as Ahmad Shakir did in al-Muhalla, so parallel versions may not be independent. Lessonposition checkedImam al-BukhariAhmad ShakirIbn Hazmal-Muhalla (Ibn Hazm) machine7 min 51 s1:56:22on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Does smoking break my wudu? Smoking does not break wudu, Mufti Abu Layth says; only relieving oneself and meaningful sexual activity do, not a peck on the cheek or eating. Question from live chatposition checkedwudu machine1 min 57 s38:30on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does prayer have to be physical, or is remembering God enough? The guest is not against the physical form of prayer but says it is only an expression; the one necessary component of salat according to the Quran is conscious connection with God, so one may pray sitting or while travelling. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 4:43 (do not approach prayer while intoxicated)salahsujud machine2 min 34 s2:42:40on YouTube
28 Apr 2020video Is it wrong to preach modesty to society? There is nothing wrong with a message about modesty: like avoiding profanity in front of children, social propriety has a place even when one disagrees on details. Tariq Jamil's apology, he says, was big of him. Lessonposition checkedMaulana Tariq Jamilhaya (modesty)Talibanwudu machine2 min 20 s9:52on YouTube
6 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti Should scholars give fatwas based on minority opinions if it makes life easier? In this clip Shaykh Akram Nadwi says scholars may give fatwas on easier minority opinions in minor matters of fiqh, since ease has always guided the jurists. Mufti Abu Layth speaks only at the end. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)usul (fundamentals) and furu (branches)taqwawudu machine5 min 27 s0:00on YouTube
15 Mar 2016video Western human rights, unquestioned presuppositions and the labels liberal and conservative Both speakers say Muslims should question their own presuppositions and scrutinise Western values rather than dismiss or adopt them wholesale. One objects that Western moral markers shift every decade; the other that labels like liberal and conservative replace argument. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechNouman Ali KhanQuran 2:228 (men have a degree over them) [?]wuduUS Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage (2015) machine7 min 50 s6:55on YouTube