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How much does Allah love me? Mufti Abu Layth says Allah has an unimaginable love for every one of us, so we should take a chance on ourselves. Mufti Abu Layth says Allah has an unimaginable love for each and every one of us. Answer from 4 March 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors Kind: general teaching Recording: Take A Chance On Yourself #Shorts #Perspective #MALM (at 0:02) Watch on YouTube at 0:02: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fko_FZwwNbA&t=2s

<p><b>How much does Allah love me?</b></p> <p>Mufti Abu Layth says Allah has an unimaginable love for every one of us, so we should take a chance on ourselves. Mufti Abu Layth says Allah has an unimaginable love for each and every one of us.</p> <p>Answer from 4 March 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors</p> <p>Kind: general teaching</p> <p>Recording: Take A Chance On Yourself #Shorts #Perspective #MALM (at 0:02)</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fko_FZwwNbA&amp;t=2s">Watch on YouTube at 0:02</a> · <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/">Open the segment</a></p> https://muftiabulayth.org/r/chvpqwz6bee/s/1/ 2024-02-28T00:00:00Z 2024-02-28T00:00:00Z

A fate worse than death: each of us is a mirror for divine potential Each person mirrors a divine potential given by Allah; do not let it go to waste and live to mourn the person you could have become. Mufti Abu Layth says each of us is a mirror for the divine potential that Allah has gifted and urges people not to let it go to waste. Answer from 28 February 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors Kind: general teaching Recording: A Fate Worse Than Death - #Shorts #Perspective #MALM (at 0:02) A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists (4 March 2024): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/ Watch on YouTube at 0:02: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVPqWZ6BeE&t=2s

<p><b>A fate worse than death: each of us is a mirror for divine potential</b></p> <p>Each person mirrors a divine potential given by Allah; do not let it go to waste and live to mourn the person you could have become. Mufti Abu Layth says each of us is a mirror for the divine potential that Allah has gifted and urges people not to let it go to waste.</p> <p>Answer from 28 February 2024 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors</p> <p>Kind: general teaching</p> <p>Recording: A Fate Worse Than Death - #Shorts #Perspective #MALM (at 0:02)</p> <p><b>A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists</b> (4 March 2024): <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/">How much does Allah love me?</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVPqWZ6BeE&amp;t=2s">Watch on YouTube at 0:02</a> · <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/chvpqwz6bee/s/1/">Open the segment</a></p> https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umpepyisc_g/s/1/ 2021-07-04T00:00:00Z 2021-07-04T00:00:00Z

Is it wrong to want to be rich? Wanting to be rich or to build a lucrative business is not wrong in Islam. The balance is to hold wealth in your hands and not in your heart, keeping your purpose. Mufti Abu Layth says there is nothing wrong in Islam with wanting to be rich or to have a lucrative business, so long as wealth is held in one's hands and not in one's heart and one keeps a purpose. Answer from 4 July 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors Kind: general teaching Recording: Feeling bad about wanting to be rich? #Shorts (at 0:00) A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists (4 March 2024): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/ Watch on YouTube at 0:00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umPepYIsc_g&t=0s

<p><b>Is it wrong to want to be rich?</b></p> <p>Wanting to be rich or to build a lucrative business is not wrong in Islam. The balance is to hold wealth in your hands and not in your heart, keeping your purpose. Mufti Abu Layth says there is nothing wrong in Islam with wanting to be rich or to have a lucrative business, so long as wealth is held in one's hands and not in one's heart and one keeps a purpose.</p> <p>Answer from 4 July 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors</p> <p>Kind: general teaching</p> <p>Recording: Feeling bad about wanting to be rich? #Shorts (at 0:00)</p> <p><b>A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists</b> (4 March 2024): <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/">How much does Allah love me?</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umPepYIsc_g&amp;t=0s">Watch on YouTube at 0:00</a> · <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umpepyisc_g/s/1/">Open the segment</a></p> https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/18/ 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z

Are young people today facing an existential crisis? The guest says most people face a crisis of purpose rather than of existence, urges anyone with suicidal thoughts to seek expert help, and says young people can find value without conventional success. Answer from 26 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held) Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (at 1:36:35) A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists (4 March 2024): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/ Watch on YouTube at 1:37:14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiiPEhuiHA&t=5834s

<p><b>Are young people today facing an existential crisis?</b></p> <p>The guest says most people face a crisis of purpose rather than of existence, urges anyone with suicidal thoughts to seek expert help, and says young people can find value without conventional success.</p> <p>Answer from 26 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors</p> <p>Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)</p> <p>Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics &amp; Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (at 1:36:35)</p> <p><b>A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists</b> (4 March 2024): <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/">How much does Allah love me?</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiiPEhuiHA&amp;t=5834s">Watch on YouTube at 1:37:14</a> · <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/18/">Open the segment</a></p> https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/9/ 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z

Is it normal for faith to keep changing over a lifetime? Mufti Abu Layth says faith is a lifelong journey and iman an organic process, not a fixed mould to be fitted onto everyone. Answer from 26 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors Kind: general teaching Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (at 42:17) A more recent answer on belief/reason-and-revelation exists (18 October 2025): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/27/ Watch on YouTube at 42:17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiiPEhuiHA&t=2537s

<p><b>Is it normal for faith to keep changing over a lifetime?</b></p> <p>Mufti Abu Layth says faith is a lifelong journey and iman an organic process, not a fixed mould to be fitted onto everyone.</p> <p>Answer from 26 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors</p> <p>Kind: general teaching</p> <p>Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics &amp; Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (at 42:17)</p> <p><b>A more recent answer on belief/reason-and-revelation exists</b> (18 October 2025): <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/27/">Why did Mufti Abu Layth bring up 3:188 against the Quran-only position?</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiiPEhuiHA&amp;t=2537s">Watch on YouTube at 42:17</a> · <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/9/">Open the segment</a></p> https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/7/ 2021-04-13T00:00:00Z 2021-04-13T00:00:00Z

Should my faith make me happy? Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says faith should make you happy, not hateful or bitter, because Islam is meant to complement daily life. Mufti Abu Layth says faith ought to make a person happy rather than hateful or bitter, and that Islam is meant to complement day-to-day life. 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 29:29) A more recent answer on belief/reason-and-revelation exists (18 October 2025): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/27/ Watch on YouTube at 29:29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=1769s

<p><b>Should my faith make me happy?</b></p> <p>Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says faith should make you happy, not hateful or bitter, because Islam is meant to complement daily life. Mufti Abu Layth says faith ought to make a person happy rather than hateful or bitter, and that Islam is meant to complement day-to-day life.</p> <p>Answer from 13 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors</p> <p>Kind: general teaching</p> <p>Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&amp;A Unscripted &amp; Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 29:29)</p> <p><b>A more recent answer on belief/reason-and-revelation exists</b> (18 October 2025): <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/27/">Why did Mufti Abu Layth bring up 3:188 against the Quran-only position?</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&amp;t=1769s">Watch on YouTube at 29:29</a> · <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/7/">Open the segment</a></p> https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/31/ 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z

Does the Quran motivate people through self-interest? Mufti Abu Layth suggests, tentatively, that even the Quran motivates through self-interest; the guest distinguishes healthy from harmful selfishness. Answer from 10 July 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors Kind: general teaching Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (at 1:59:04) A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists (4 March 2024): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/ Watch on YouTube at 1:59:04: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCe73zqCi_I&t=7144s

<p><b>Does the Quran motivate people through self-interest?</b></p> <p>Mufti Abu Layth suggests, tentatively, that even the Quran motivates through self-interest; the guest distinguishes healthy from harmful selfishness.</p> <p>Answer from 10 July 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors</p> <p>Kind: general teaching</p> <p>Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism &amp; the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (at 1:59:04)</p> <p><b>A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists</b> (4 March 2024): <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/">How much does Allah love me?</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCe73zqCi_I&amp;t=7144s">Watch on YouTube at 1:59:04</a> · <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/31/">Open the segment</a></p> https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2cei2vntjes/s/1/ 2019-11-09T00:00:00Z 2019-11-09T00:00:00Z

What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Imran Hosein? Mufti Abu Layth has not watched much of Imran Hosein but finds him preoccupied with doomsday culture, which he opposes. Islam, he says, is about optimism and seizing the day, as the hadith about carrying on planting when the Hour comes shows, and doom and gloom can fuel death cults. Answer from 9 November 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors Kind: general teaching Recording: My Thoughts on Sheikh Imran Hosein | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00) A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists (4 March 2024): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/ Watch on YouTube at 0:00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cei2vnTjes&t=0s

<p><b>What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Imran Hosein?</b></p> <p>Mufti Abu Layth has not watched much of Imran Hosein but finds him preoccupied with doomsday culture, which he opposes. Islam, he says, is about optimism and seizing the day, as the hadith about carrying on planting when the Hour comes shows, and doom and gloom can fuel death cults.</p> <p>Answer from 9 November 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors</p> <p>Kind: general teaching</p> <p>Recording: My Thoughts on Sheikh Imran Hosein | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)</p> <p><b>A more recent answer on wellbeing/motivation-and-purpose exists</b> (4 March 2024): <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/">How much does Allah love me?</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cei2vnTjes&amp;t=0s">Watch on YouTube at 0:00</a> · <a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2cei2vntjes/s/1/">Open the segment</a></p>