Mufti Abu Layth Archive: belief/tawhid-and-shirk

Should scholars publicly condemn a scholar said to have joined in a libation ritual?

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Should scholars publicly condemn a scholar said to have joined in a libation ritual?

Mufti Abu Layth does not think people have to condemn the scholar; to Mufti, pouring some water at a protest, as the scholar says he did without knowing the ritual's history, is not a big deal.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:08)

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Has Islam become a religion about Muhammad rather than the religion he brought?

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Has Islam become a religion about Muhammad rather than the religion he brought?

No: there is a deep human need for a human archetype, not someone to pray to, and for Muslims that is the Prophet. He adds that his own life changed in the Prophet's mosque. Mufti Abu Layth says human beings have a fundamental need, deep within the psyche, for a human archetype, not one to pray to.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 55:37)

A more recent answer on wellbeing/personal-stories exists (18 October 2025): Is there a middle way between rejecting all hadith and accepting every hadith?

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Is the great love Muslims have for the Prophet a kind of prophet worship?

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Is the great love Muslims have for the Prophet a kind of prophet worship?

Muslims' love for the Prophet is not prophet worship: people need a human figure to love, and for Muslims it is the Prophet, though praying to him is wrong. He strongly disagrees with the shaykh and calls it an unnecessary battle.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 46:41)

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

Watch on YouTube at 48:28 · Open the segment

Is following the Sunnah like believing in the Trinity?

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Is following the Sunnah like believing in the Trinity?

No: following the Sunnah is of course not akin to the Trinity. Mufti Abu Layth says the quick answer is that following the Sunnah is of course not akin to the Trinity.

Answer from 16 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:16:17)

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

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The snowman fatwas: building a snowman as an idol, or permitted by the dolls hadith

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The snowman fatwas: building a snowman as an idol, or permitted by the dolls hadith

Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks two fatwas on snowmen, one calling them idols and one permitting them by a hadith about dolls, saying such reasoning makes Muslims a laughing stock.

Answer from 26 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:45:37)

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 haram to take part in another religion's rituals, like eating prasad at a gurdwara?

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Is it haram to take part in another religion's rituals, like eating prasad at a gurdwara?

Mufti Abu Layth would personally avoid ritual-filled protests, but says joining another faith's rituals to experience them is not haram or shirk, as intention decides. Mufti Abu Layth says it is not haram to eat the prasad offered on a visit to a gurdwara, because the objective of going is to experience what those people do.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:49:04)

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

Watch on YouTube at 2:49:43 · Open the segment

Clip: Daniel Haqiqatjou's video on the libation ritual

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Clip: Daniel Haqiqatjou's video on the libation ritual

A clip, played by Mufti Abu Layth, in which Daniel Haqiqatjou accuses Omar Suleiman of joining a pagan libation ritual and calls his denial deceptive.

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:33:51)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 2:33:51 · Open the segment

What is the Pagan-gate row about Omar Suleiman?

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

What is the Pagan-gate row about Omar Suleiman?

Mufti Abu Layth sees Pagan-gate as a power game: imams may seek status, but wrapping it in high religiosity is what invites attacks like this.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:27:01)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 2:27:01 · Open the segment

Clip: a Dawah Man and Daniel Haqiqatjou interview that calls Omar Suleiman a fasiq

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Clip: a Dawah Man and Daniel Haqiqatjou interview that calls Omar Suleiman a fasiq

A clip in which Dawah Man and Daniel Haqiqatjou call Omar Suleiman a fasiq, which Mufti Abu Layth introduces as part of the Pagan-gate row.

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:25:06)

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?

Watch on YouTube at 2:25:06 · Open the segment

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

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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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If the Quran abolished slavery, why is there no explicit verse saying so?

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

If the Quran abolished slavery, why is there no explicit verse saying so?

The guest says rabb is used in the Quran only for God, so that owning a slave is shirk and la ilaha illa Allah is itself the abolition of slavery. Mufti Abu Layth notes that rabb has ordinary linguistic uses and that non-Muslims recorded Muslims as owning slaves.

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 1:19:08)

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 the Quran ban slavery, and what does 'what your right hand possesses' mean?

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Does the Quran ban slavery, and what does 'what your right hand possesses' mean?

The guest says the Quran abolishes slavery as the greatest crime, since owning a slave is to claim to be a rabb like Pharaoh, and that what the right hand possesses means contractual marriage. Mufti Abu Layth holds that slavery is abrogated through trajectory hermeneutics rather than by an explicit ban.

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

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 1:08:39)

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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Why did Edip Yuksel write a reformist translation of the Quran?

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Why did Edip Yuksel write a reformist translation of the Quran?

The guest describes translating the Quran with Rashad Khalifa and says the Sunni religion distorted the message, beginning with adding Muhammad's name to the shahada; he calls Sunni and Shia translations deliberate distortions and says the Quran was betrayed through hadith.

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 12:57)

A more recent answer on hadith/quran-only-movement exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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Is the evil eye real in Islam?

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Is the evil eye real in Islam?

Belief that a look can cause disease or disaster contradicts tawhid; the evil eye is simply envy, whose harm lies in how it is acted upon. Mufti Abu Layth says believing in superstitions such as the evil eye causing harm contradicts the tawhid of Allah.

Answer from 13 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: The Evil Eye has no reality in Islam - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 0:00)

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

Watch on YouTube at 0:00 · Open the segment