Mufti Abu Layth Archive: On Current Events

Spread love, and take account of the damage our words have done

2024-09-29T00:00:00Z

Spread love, and take account of the damage our words have done

Mufti Abu Layth says this deen is one of love and hope, and everyone, himself included, must reckon with the harm their words may have done. Mufti Abu Layth says that all Muslims, himself included, have to take themselves to account for the damage their past words may have done.

Answer from 29 September 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (at 20:58)

A more recent answer on society/dawah-and-debate-culture exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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Why is lanasfa'an in Quran 96:15 written with an alif, and is it a mistake?

2024-09-29T00:00:00Z

Why is lanasfa'an in Quran 96:15 written with an alif, and is it a mistake?

It is not a mistake: Mufti Abu Layth shows from Sibawayh that the emphatic nun becomes an alif when stopping on it, so the alif spelling is the traditional one. Mufti Abu Layth says that writing the emphatic nun of lanasfa'an with an alif is the traditional way of writing it.

Answer from 29 September 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (at 14:51)

A more recent answer on quran/arabic-language exists (18 October 2025): Is the 'light' that came with the clear book in 5:15 the Prophet or the Quran itself?

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How scholars' rhetoric fed Pakistan's blasphemy killings, in Mufti Abu Layth's view

2024-09-29T00:00:00Z

How scholars' rhetoric fed Pakistan's blasphemy killings, in Mufti Abu Layth's view

Mufti Abu Layth says scholars who long told the public to kill blasphemers, Mufti Tariq Masood once among them, helped build the culture now threatening him, and must teach mercy for everyone.

Answer from 29 September 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (at 9:46)

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Is someone who says something wrong about the Prophet guilty of blasphemy?

2024-09-29T00:00:00Z

Is someone who says something wrong about the Prophet guilty of blasphemy?

Not when there was no such intention: Mufti Abu Layth says Mufti Tariq Masood was clearly wrong, but he meant to praise the Prophet, so calling him a blasphemer is unacceptable. Mufti Abu Layth says that when people make mistakes it does not mean they are blaspheming, even if the mistake is horrendous.

Answer from 29 September 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (at 5:12)

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Mufti Tariq Masood's remark on scribal errors, and Islam as a deen of mercy

2024-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mufti Tariq Masood's remark on scribal errors, and Islam as a deen of mercy

Mufti Abu Layth says there are no mistakes in the Quran's script, but Islam is a deen of mercy, so Mufti Tariq Masood's error should not bring calls for his death. Mufti Abu Layth says that Islam is a deen of mercy.

Answer from 29 September 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:03)

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Abdul Raheem Limbada and the dream of the coronavirus as a man

2020-03-22T00:00:00Z

Abdul Raheem Limbada and the dream of the coronavirus as a man

Mufti Abu Layth mocks a preacher's account of a dream in which the coronavirus appeared as a man sent to punish, calling it nonsense that people are preaching and sharing.

Answer from 22 March 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Maulana Limbada & Coronavirus Dream | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:01)

A more recent answer on dialogue/views-on-contemporary-scholars exists (22 February 2023): Should scholars publicly condemn a scholar said to have joined in a libation ritual?

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Is it good that Hamza Ali Abbasi left showbiz for religion?

2020-01-12T00:00:00Z

Is it good that Hamza Ali Abbasi left showbiz for religion?

Mufti Abu Layth welcomes Hamza Ali Abbasi's turn to religion but hopes he does not become a full-on mullah and stop being a bridge.

Answer from 12 January 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Thoughts on Hamza Ali Abbasi's discussion with Harris Sultan | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:52)

A more recent answer on society/current-events/pakistan exists (29 September 2024): How scholars' rhetoric fed Pakistan's blasphemy killings, in Mufti Abu Layth's view

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How did Hamza Ali Abbasi do in his debate with Harris Sultan?

2020-01-12T00:00:00Z

How did Hamza Ali Abbasi do in his debate with Harris Sultan?

Mufti Abu Layth says Hamza Ali Abbasi showed genius-level intelligence and came out on top against Harris Sultan.

Answer from 12 January 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Thoughts on Hamza Ali Abbasi's discussion with Harris Sultan | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on society/current-events/pakistan exists (29 September 2024): How scholars' rhetoric fed Pakistan's blasphemy killings, in Mufti Abu Layth's view

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Supporting women's rights while rejecting hostility to masculinity

2019-08-14T00:00:00Z

Supporting women's rights while rejecting hostility to masculinity

Mufti Abu Layth backs women's rights and condemns abuse, but rejects what he sees as a campaign against masculinity, while accepting men who are naturally soft. Mufti Abu Layth says he seriously does not understand the hostility of this age against masculinity.

Answer from 14 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: What does Islam say about Gender Dysphoria? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 5:11)

A more recent answer on relationships/masculinity-and-gender-roles exists (9 May 2023): How did the Prophet balance gentleness and strength?

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Does Islam allow gender transition for someone diagnosed with gender dysphoria?

2019-08-14T00:00:00Z

Does Islam allow gender transition for someone diagnosed with gender dysphoria?

Where there are legitimate biological concerns and medical input, he believes it is permissible, but he opposes sowing doubt about gender in children. Mufti Abu Layth says he believes there is permissibility where there are legitimate biological concerns, with medical experts giving their input.

Answer from 14 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: What does Islam say about Gender Dysphoria? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on fiqh/medical-ethics exists (10 March 2023): Can a pregnancy last for years, as was said of Imam Malik's birth?

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Do you need to appear perfectly pious to be a good Muslim?

2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

Do you need to appear perfectly pious to be a good Muslim?

No one needs to pretend to be pious; being genuinely human makes the deen more workable, while sanctimonious fake preaching drives people from faith. Mufti Abu Layth says one does not need to pretend to be pious, and that it is okay just to be human.

Answer from 1 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (at 25:17)

A more recent answer on wellbeing/religious-guilt-and-scrupulosity exists (16 April 2022): Am I only praying because I fear God will punish me?

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Is it right to condemn people for being in a polygamous marriage?

2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

Is it right to condemn people for being in a polygamous marriage?

Mufti Abu Layth says polygamy is a personal choice Islam allows, so people should not hate on others for it, though nobody has to practise it. Mufti Abu Layth says polygamy is a personal choice that Islam allows, so people should not be hated for it, though no one has to practise it.

Answer from 1 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (at 16:28)

A more recent answer on fiqh/polygamy-and-mutah exists (22 February 2023): Is there an LGBTQ push in media and schools?

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Is it wrong to judge someone who has become an atheist or left Islam?

2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

Is it wrong to judge someone who has become an atheist or left Islam?

A person's atheism or doubts are their own choice and he does not judge them; what he objects to, he says, is staged exorcisms and charity money taken under false pretences. Mufti Abu Layth says that if a person is an atheist it is their choice, as there is no compulsion in Islam, and he does not judge people who have doubts or have left the faith.

Answer from 1 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (at 10:45)

A more recent answer on belief/salvation-and-non-muslims exists (18 October 2025): If most people love praise and are punished, how is God the most merciful?

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Why is it harmful when religious influencers present a fake perfect life?

2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why is it harmful when religious influencers present a fake perfect life?

Mufti Abu Layth says their private lives were their own business, and that the harm lay in preaching standards they could not live by and selling an unattainable ideal of marriage in God's name.

Answer from 1 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (at 4:26)

A more recent answer on society/technology-and-media/social-media exists (15 May 2021): What can ordinary people do about the Palestinian crisis, and do social-media posts help?

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Introducing the controversy over a famous Instagram 'couple goals' pair

2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

Introducing the controversy over a famous Instagram 'couple goals' pair

Mufti Abu Layth introduces the social media controversy around a famous Muslim Instagram couple accused of living double lives.

Answer from 1 August 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on society/technology-and-media/social-media exists (15 May 2021): What can ordinary people do about the Palestinian crisis, and do social-media posts help?

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Is Islam meant to be applied the same rigid way everywhere?

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Is Islam meant to be applied the same rigid way everywhere?

No: Islam was revealed to a tiny population but came for all mankind, so it is flexible enough to take in every people's backgrounds and needs. Mufti Abu Layth says Islam came with the flexibility to incorporate people's backgrounds, perspectives and needs.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 38:06)

A more recent answer on fiqh/legal-theory exists (18 October 2025): If reason helps us understand the Quran, does the reasoning of earlier scholars matter too?

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Have Muslims really kept women out of mosques for 1,400 years?

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Have Muslims really kept women out of mosques for 1,400 years?

No: women prayed in mosques from the Prophet's time on and classical scholars held many such views, so the '1,400 years' claim fails; Mufti Abu Layth doubts Haqiqatjou's scholarly training.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 31:44)

A more recent answer on society/women-and-gender exists (10 March 2023): Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?

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Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic?

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic?

No: the chains run through unknown, abandoned or weak narrators, so the reports are fabricated or very weak and clash with the sahih hadith. Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations about a woman praying in the darkest part of her house are either fabricated or very weak.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 23:22)

A more recent answer on hadith/authentication/narrator-criticism exists (19 April 2023): Why does the practice of Madinah matter more than a single hadith?

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Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque?

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque?

No: sahih hadith show women regularly praying in the Prophet's mosque, the Prophet forbade stopping them, and Umar and Ali provided imams for them. Mufti Abu Layth says the reports placing a woman's prayer at home above the Prophet's mosque go against the sahih hadith of women attending the mosque.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 15:11)

A more recent answer on hadith/false-and-fabricated/about-women exists (6 April 2021): Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?

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Musaylima, Sajah and the poem that shows what makhda' means

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Musaylima, Sajah and the poem that shows what makhda' means

Musaylima's poem to the false prophetess Sajah uses makhda' for a bedchamber, showing the word never meant a cupboard.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 9:26)

A more recent answer on quran/arabic-language exists (18 October 2025): Is the 'light' that came with the clear book in 5:15 the Prophet or the Quran itself?

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Does a hadith tell women to pray in a closet?

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Does a hadith tell women to pray in a closet?

No: the word makhda' means an inner sleeping chamber, not a closet, and such rooms were dark only because houses had no lamps. Mufti Abu Layth says the makhda' in these reports was the sleeping chamber within the inner part of a house, not a closet or cupboard.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 5:33)

A more recent answer on quran/arabic-language exists (18 October 2025): Is the 'light' that came with the clear book in 5:15 the Prophet or the Quran itself?

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Daniel Haqiqatjou's post that praying in a closet is a Sunnah for women

2019-05-04T00:00:00Z

Daniel Haqiqatjou's post that praying in a closet is a Sunnah for women

Daniel Haqiqatjou's post claimed that a woman praying in a closet revives a Sunnah and that this is better for her than praying in the Prophet's mosque.

Answer from 4 May 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on dialogue/responses-to-critics exists (6 April 2021): Donors, deathbed remarks and 'no hatred': an invitation to the critic

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