Mufti Abu Layth Archive: quran/memorisation-and-recitation

Damascus, 1998: the two people who inspired Mufti Abu Layth to memorise the Quran

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

Damascus, 1998: the two people who inspired Mufti Abu Layth to memorise the Quran

Mufti Abu Layth credits a scholar's Quran ijazah and a convert classmate who memorised on the bus with starting his own memorisation in Damascus.

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:07:17)

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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Chat round: Trump's Twitter ban, Surah Ya Sin in the morning, and banter

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Chat round: Trump's Twitter ban, Surah Ya Sin in the morning, and banter

Light chat: he is unsure how he feels about Trump's Twitter ban and says reciting Ya Sin each morning is not a sunnah.

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

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 25:46)

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

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Can I recite the Quran in the shower?

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Can I recite the Quran in the shower?

Mufti Abu Layth says deliberately reciting the Quran in the shower is bad etiquette, though a verse slipping out by habit is fine. Mufti Abu Layth says intentionally reciting the Quran in the shower is very bad etiquette, because the Quran has a sanctity.

Answer from 27 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:49:56)

A more recent answer on quran/memorisation-and-recitation exists (2 February 2021): Damascus, 1998: the two people who inspired Mufti Abu Layth to memorise the Quran

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Does a reciter's chain of teachers back to the Prophet prove the Quran's text?

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Does a reciter's chain of teachers back to the Prophet prove the Quran's text?

A single chain of huffaz only testifies who taught whom and does not authenticate the text on its own; preservation rests on the vast number of people transmitting the same thing, of which one chain is a drop in the ocean.

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

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

Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (at 1:36:25)

A more recent answer on dialogue/guest-conversations exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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An imam faking his tarawih recitation: a memory from Mufti Abu Layth's hifz days

Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

An imam faking his tarawih recitation: a memory from Mufti Abu Layth's hifz days

A personal story: as a teenager memorising the Quran, Mufti Abu Layth caught a village imam faking his tarawih recitation and told him privately that misleading people with the Quran was wrong.

Answer from 31 August 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: Memoirs of a Mufti: Deceitful Imams Disrespecting Islam -Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

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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What practical techniques help me memorise the Quran?

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

What practical techniques help me memorise the Quran?

Understand the words and translation first, keep a fixed place and a time that suits you, familiarise yourself with each verse before a break, then memorise the verses cumulatively, practise them in salah and recall them at night before reading to your teacher. In the hadith, Ali went from struggling with four verses to recalling forty. Mufti Abu Layth recommends understanding the words and translation first, memorising in a fixed place at a time that suits one, familiarising oneself with each verse before a break, then memorising the verses cumulatively, practising them in salah, recalling them at night and reading them to a teacher the next day.

Answer from 18 January 2014 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: How to memorise the Quran- Mufti Abu Layth (at 8:00)

A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose/goals-and-habits exists (16 April 2022): Am I only praying because I fear God will punish me?

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What is the dua for memorising the Quran and how do I perform it?

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

What is the dua for memorising the Quran and how do I perform it?

On Thursday night, in the last part of the night, pray four units with al-Fatiha and a set surah in each, then say the dua the Prophet taught Ali asking that the Quran stick to the heart, for three, five or seven Fridays. The Quran may be held and read from during the prayer according to the majority. Mufti Abu Layth says that, according to the majority of scholars though with some difference of opinion, it is permitted to hold the Quran and read from it during salah, so the surahs of the memorisation prayer may be read from the book.

Answer from 18 January 2014 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: How to memorise the Quran- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:39)

A more recent answer on fiqh/prayer 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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How do I start memorising the Quran?

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

How do I start memorising the Quran?

Memorising the Quran is among the greatest things a Muslim can do, and knowing Arabic helps immensely. What matters most is routine, and the lesson will cover tips, a dua and how to apply it. Mufti Abu Layth says that memorising the Quran is among the greatest endeavours a Muslim can undertake, that having studied Arabic helps immensely, and that routine is what matters most in memorising it.

Answer from 18 January 2014 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: How to memorise the Quran- Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:04)

A more recent answer on quran/memorisation-and-recitation exists (2 February 2021): Damascus, 1998: the two people who inspired Mufti Abu Layth to memorise the Quran

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