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What is on the plate and in the cup: halal and tayyib meat, eating out, pork and alcohol in ingredients, smoking and vaping, supplements and substances.

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10 Mar 2023video LatestCan a pregnancy last for years, as was said of Imam Malik's birth? No: reports of years-long pregnancies are best explained by phantom pregnancies followed by real conception, not dismissed as lies or taken literally. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikphantom pregnancy (pseudocyesis)Matt Walshnifas (postnatal bleeding) machine7 min 07 s6:54on YouTube
22 Feb 2023video Is it okay for adults or children to change gender? Mufti Abu Layth says gender transition is an adult's own choice after professional advice, but children should not be put through it until they can decide for themselves. Discussionposition checked machine6 min 27 s28:41on YouTube
30 Aug 2021Shorts LatestIs a DMT ego death the same as the Sufi idea of fana? Mufti Abu Layth says the ego death reported with 5-MeO-DMT is, he believes, what Ibn Arabi meant by fana fillah. Lessonposition checked5-MeO-DMTMike TysonJoe RoganIbn Arabi machine1 min0:00on YouTube
26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Are psychedelics like mushrooms and DMT haram? Mufti Abu Layth says he has a video saying psychedelics are not haram; the guest says he has never drunk or used drugs and judges such substances by a medicinal line. Discussionguest speechLupe Fiasco (guest)haram machine4 min 31 s58:24on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhat does Mufti Abu Layth think of France banning the hijab for girls under 18? If France has banned headscarves for girls under 18, he says it is an abhorrent breach of basic rights that he strongly condemns. He also opposes pressuring girls to wear it: it should be their genuine choice. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedthe reported French move to ban headscarves for girls under 18 (2021)hijabdhabiha (ritual slaughter) machine7 min 20 s1:21:35on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are insects haram to eat in the Maliki school? Insects are not haram in the Maliki school: almost everything is halal except pork and what is sacrificed to other than God. Ritual slaughter applies only to domesticated livestock, not insects. Lessonposition checkedRami Nsour [?]Maliki schoolQuran 6:145 (I do not find in what was revealed to me anything forbidden to eat except ...)dhabiha (ritual slaughter) machine10 min 04 s1:52:50on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Does Allah love everybody? Allah loves His creation and detests harmful actions, not creatures. Pork being forbidden, most likely for hygiene, does not mean God hates pigs. Question from live chatposition checkedreport: isa will descend break the cross and kill the pigsIsa (Jesus) machine2 min 40 s2:10:23on YouTube
5 Mar 2021video What counts as khamr, and is a drink with very little alcohol haram? In the Quran khamr is wine; other drinks are haram if they intoxicate similarly, but a drink so weak that normal consumption does not intoxicate is not haram. This was Abu Hanifa's ruling, for which the Hanafi school was attacked for centuries until later Hanafis grew embarrassed by it. Question source not recordedposition checkedkhamrAbu HanifaHanafi schoolharam machine3 min 59 s0:00on YouTube
5 Mar 2021video Why did Imam Malik say nothing between spouses is haram and only pork is forbidden to eat? Imam Malik held that nothing sexual between spouses is haram and that no meat is haram in itself except pig, and Mufti Abu Layth says such rulings defend the principle that only Allah declares things haram. Saying something is not haram is not the same as recommending it. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikMaliki schoolAbu Hanifafatwa machine5 min 04 s3:59on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did the Prophet tell people to drink camel urine as medicine? Mufti Abu Layth says camel urine is not medicine and the Prophet never really told anyone to drink it; the report is weak in its chain and, if taken at all, reads as a rebuke. Question from live chatguest speechMohammed Hijabreport: the prophet told the sick to drink camel urinereport: the people of uraynah had their hands and feet cut off and their eyes brandedAnas ibn Malik machine6 min 30 s1:26:20on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did Abu Hanifa allow nabidh only as medicine? Mufti Abu Layth says the reports Abu Hanifa's school transmitted, of Umar and Ibn Mas'ud drinking and diluting nabidh, are about drinking with food, not medicine. Lessonguest speechShaykh Asrar Rashid [?]Imam Abu HanifanabidhImam Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani machine12 min 25 s2:47:32on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is cannabis an intoxicant like alcohol in Islam? Mufti Abu Layth says marijuana is not an intoxicant in the way alcohol is, and accuses the preacher of not understanding the difference between psychoactive substances and intoxicants. Lessonguest speechShaykh Asrar Rashid [?]cannabis (marijuana, hashish)George SorosHugh Hefner machine5 min 26 s2:55:00on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth The preacher on DMT: 'no proof of the unseen', and tahajjud instead Mufti Abu Layth ridicules the preacher's claim that there is no scientific proof DMT users reach the unseen, asking what such proof could even look like. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Asrar Rashid [?]DMTDMT: The Spirit Moleculeghayb (the unseen) machine6 min2:59:48on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is smoking marijuana haram? Marijuana is haram for the young because of the harm, he says, but not for an adult whose brain has developed, though Islam does not encourage it. Lessonposition checkedcannabis (marijuana) machine2 min 35 s3:05:48on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are DMT and magic mushrooms haram? DMT and psilocybin are not haram, he says, though they raise legal issues; brain studies give abundant evidence of their effect on consciousness. Lessonposition checkedDMTpsilocybinLSD machine2 min 36 s3:08:23on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is drinking poison haram in Islam? Drinking poison is categorically haram, he says, so it is inconsistent to call DMT haram while justifying publicly drinking poison. Lessonposition checkedShaykh Asrar Rashid [?]DMT machine3 min 35 s3:10:59on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What counts as khamr, and is a drink with a little alcohol haram? Mufti Abu Layth says khamr in the Quran meant wine; other drinks were haram only when they intoxicated like it, which was Abu Hanifa's position. Question from live chatposition checkedalcohol (khamr)Abu HanifaImam MalikMaliki school machine6 min 09 s24:29on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is pork the only meat that is haram in the Maliki school? Mufti Abu Layth says that in the Maliki school no meat is haram in itself except the pig, which does not mean the imams urged people to eat everything. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikMaliki school machine4 min 24 s29:59on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is the Quran's verse about the stupor of death talking about DMT? Mufti Abu Layth says the verse is not about DMT specifically, though the DMT death experience could relate to it; he sees psychedelics as a portal to the hereafter where legal. Question from live chatposition checkedQuran 50:19 (the stupor of death brings the truth)Quran 50:22 (your sight this day is sharp)Quran 41:53 (We will show them Our signs until it becomes clear that it is the truth)DMT (dimethyltryptamine) machine6 min 15 s1:01:31on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What is Birmingham really like for Muslims? Mufti Abu Layth defends Birmingham but calls drugs a cancer in its Muslim community, and says cannabis should be legalised and regulated. Question from live chatposition checkedcannabis (marijuana, hashish) machine6 min 13 s1:29:06on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is it haram to have an anal swab test for COVID? An anal-swab COVID test is not haram, Mufti Abu Layth says, any more than a colonoscopy, if that is the test. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedCOVID-19 pandemic machine6 min 11 s53:23on YouTube
29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Did Abu Hanifa allow drinks with a little alcohol? The guest says Abu Hanifa's ruling that mildly fermented non-wine drinks are not haram shows he followed the Quran over reports; Mufti Abu Layth says the lesson is his way of thinking. Discussionguest speechShaykh Atabek Shukurov (guest)Abu Hanifakhamrnabidh machine3 min 24 s1:13:24on YouTube
26 Jan 2021video Is it haram to eat meat that is not halal-slaughtered, like a non-halal burger? Eating meat that is not dhabiha is not haram in Mufti Abu Layth's view, because its original purpose of separating Muslims from pagan sacrifice has lapsed. He still supports and advocates halal meat for its identity value and eats it himself. Question from live chatposition checkeddhabiha (ritual slaughter)halal machine3 min 28 s0:02on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth If a lot of anything can intoxicate, does that make tiny amounts of alcohol haram? The hadith refers to drinks that intoxicate in the amount normally drunk, so a little of such a drink is haram; foods with trace alcohol that cannot intoxicate are not covered. Question from live chatposition checkedreport: what intoxicates in large amounts a small amount of it is haram (unresolved; collection not stated)Salafi machine3 min 53 s46:28on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Quick chat: LSD, paratha and nihari, and jinn as microbes In quick chat replies he refers to his video on psychedelics, jokes about food, and says reading jinn as microbes is one interpretation, held by Rashid Rida. OtherRashid Ridajinn machine2 min 37 s2:25:08on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is it haram to eat with my left hand? Eating with the left hand is not haram, Mufti Abu Layth says; the right hand is good etiquette taught to a child, so do it if you can. Question written questionposition checkedreport: say bismillah eat with your right hand and eat from what is in front of you (unresolved; Umar ibn Abi Salama, Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, number not stated)Sahih al-BukhariSahih MuslimUmar ibn Abi Salama [?] machine6 min 30 s2:37:29on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are king prawns halal? Yes, prawns are halal: in the school of Medina everything from the sea is halal, and only the pig is haram by its nature. Question from live chatposition checkedreport: the sea its water is pure and its dead are lawfulHanafiMaliki (the school of Medina)makruh / makruh tahrimi machine4 min 56 s44:32on YouTube
5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDo I lose good deeds if I keep a dog as a pet? No, owning a dog does not cost you reward; he reads the dog hadith as hygiene measures against diseases like rabies, citing Ibn Rushd al-Jadd. Question from live chatposition checkedIbn Rushd al-Jaddal-Muqaddimat al-Mumahhidat (Ibn Rushd al-Jadd)al-Mudawwanaal-Mazari machine8 min 27 s40:54on YouTube
27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: answering critics, soft drinks and Syrian rue Mufti Abu Layth says he only answers persistent public critics, that non-alcoholic drinks are halal, and that he has not read the reports on Syrian rue. Otherhalalharmala (Peganum harmala, Syrian rue)Twelver ShiaRumi machine3 min 27 s46:55on YouTube
27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is non-halal chicken and beef actually haram? Mufti Abu Layth says eating non-dhabiha meat is not haram, since its original purpose has gone, but he advocates halal meat for the sake of identity. Question from live chatposition checkeddhabihahalal machine4 min 32 s2:31:58on YouTube

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