Mufti Abu Layth Archive: belief/salvation-and-non-muslims

If most people love praise and are punished, how is God the most merciful?

2025-10-18T00:00:00Z

If most people love praise and are punished, how is God the most merciful?

The guest says most people are mushrikun according to the Quran and that God is merciful in giving them messengers and exits, so those who refuse to reason deserve punishment; guidance follows the attributes God has set, not chance.

Answer from 18 October 2025 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:10:46)

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Will gay people around us make Muslims gay?

2023-02-22T00:00:00Z

Will gay people around us make Muslims gay?

Mufti Abu Layth says people being gay does not make others gay and the fear of it is an unnecessary insecurity; like Imam Malik on others' customs, their way of life is theirs. Mufti Abu Layth says the fear that people being gay will make Muslims gay is, in his view, an unnecessary insecurity.

Answer from 22 February 2023 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 24:50)

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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Will Allah judge someone who follows only the Quran by the Quran alone?

2021-10-25T00:00:00Z

Will Allah judge someone who follows only the Quran by the Quran alone?

Mufti Abu Layth will not speak on who is saved: he finds it arrogant for a human to presume where anyone ends up, since Allah's mercy encompasses everything. We should concern ourselves with our own path. Mufti Abu Layth says that he personally finds it very arrogant for a human to presume who will go where in the afterlife, which only Allah knows.

Answer from 25 October 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Should We Debate Quranists? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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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Can I pray for a non-Muslim who has died?

2021-04-13T00:00:00Z

Can I pray for a non-Muslim who has died?

Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims may pray for a non-Muslim like DMX who touched many lives, since no one has a monopoly on salvation, and that music is not haram.

Answer from 13 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:18:55)

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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Are the Prophet's parents in heaven or hell?

2021-02-09T00:00:00Z

Are the Prophet's parents in heaven or hell?

Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's parents are unquestionably among the saved. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's parents are unquestionably from the people of salvation.

Answer from 9 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:14:22)

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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Is it unfair that some are born Muslim, and is God's throne literal?

2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Is it unfair that some are born Muslim, and is God's throne literal?

Mufti Abu Layth says the throne is a literary expression meaning the kingdom is God's, and that salvation in the hereafter is not the exclusive property of Muslims. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran's description of God establishing Himself over the throne is not literal but a literary expression meaning that the kingdom is His.

Answer from 12 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:52:39)

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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Can a Christian really speak with God?

2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Can a Christian really speak with God?

Anyone can have a direct line to God whatever they call Him; he says the atheist one-god-further argument is a fallacy. Mufti Abu Layth says he believes that anybody and everybody has a direct line to Allah, whatever they call him.

Answer from 5 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:51:46)

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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If blind following in faith is forbidden, why must I accept a school's creed without question?

2020-12-11T00:00:00Z

If blind following in faith is forbidden, why must I accept a school's creed without question?

Mufti Abu Layth finds it paradoxical that schools forbid blind following in faith but demand blind acceptance of their creeds; the guest says traditionalists use reason only to reach revelation and then discard it, whereas reason must stay in continuous use.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 22:39)

A more recent answer on belief/reason-and-revelation exists (18 October 2025): Why did Mufti Abu Layth bring up 3:188 against the Quran-only position?

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Can non-Muslims be saved according to Sunni scholars?

2020-08-19T00:00:00Z

Can non-Muslims be saved according to Sunni scholars?

Mufti Abu Layth says broad views on salvation for non-Muslims and on hell, while not necessarily right, are all part of the Sunni tradition. Mufti Abu Layth says that, without saying any of them are necessarily right, these broad views on salvation and hell are all part of the understanding within the Sunni tradition.

Answer from 19 August 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: In Islam is salvation possible for a non-muslim? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:03)

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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What was al-Ash'ari's argument against the Mu'tazila about God always doing what is best?

2020-07-14T00:00:00Z

What was al-Ash'ari's argument against the Mu'tazila about God always doing what is best?

Mufti Abu Layth tells the debate attributed to al-Ash'ari, in which a disbeliever asks why he was not allowed to die as a child, and says this is where the Mu'tazili view of a God bound to do the best crumbles. Mufti Abu Layth says the paradox in the debate attributed to al-Ash'ari is where the Mu'tazili view that God is bound to act by a fixed rule crumbles.

Answer from 14 July 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (at 49:45)

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

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Is al-kitab the same book given to every prophet?

2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

Is al-kitab the same book given to every prophet?

The guest says owning a slave is shirk, that kawthar means abundance rather than a pool, and that al-kitab is the one divine law sent to every prophet, whose goal, peacemaking, is secular while iman is distinct.

Answer from 26 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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

Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 2:29:34)

A more recent answer on quran/tafsir exists (18 October 2025): Why are two of the daily prayers recited silently when 17:110 says not to be silent?

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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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