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  <title>Mufti Abu Layth Archive: wellbeing/resilience-and-hardship</title>
  <subtitle>Answers on wellbeing/resilience-and-hardship, newest recording first.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2023-05-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>I'm a new Muslim and my faith has crashed after the first high. What should I do?</title>
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    <updated>2023-05-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2023-05-09T00:00:00Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">I'm a new Muslim and my faith has crashed after the first high. What should I do?
Mufti Abu Layth says the first energy of faith always burns out, so the aim is to learn and live the faith while it lasts; at its core Islam is justice and kindness. Mufti Abu Layth says the energy that comes with embracing a faith is temporary, so a burnout is inevitable.
Answer from 9 May 2023 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors
Kind: general teaching
Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)
Watch on YouTube at 2:31: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAG-F3hxCDY&amp;t=151s</summary>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;I'm a new Muslim and my faith has crashed after the first high. What should I do?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mufti Abu Layth says the first energy of faith always burns out, so the aim is to learn and live the faith while it lasts; at its core Islam is justice and kindness. Mufti Abu Layth says the energy that comes with embracing a faith is temporary, so a burnout is inevitable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Answer from 9 May 2023 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kind: general teaching&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAG-F3hxCDY&amp;amp;t=151s"&gt;Watch on YouTube at 2:31&lt;/a&gt; · &lt;a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oag-f3hxcdy/s/1/"&gt;Open the segment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>What was the hardest time of your life?</title>
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    <updated>2021-01-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2021-01-12T00:00:00Z</published>
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    <summary type="text">What was the hardest time of your life?
Mufti Abu Layth names his arrest as the most overwhelming time of his life: it left an imprint, but he says he came back stronger and many opportunities followed.
Answer from 12 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors
Kind: answer to a specific questioner
Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&amp;A Unscripted &amp; Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:29:34)
A more recent answer on wellbeing/personal-stories exists (18 October 2025): https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/5/
Watch on YouTube at 2:30:13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&amp;t=9013s</summary>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What was the hardest time of your life?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mufti Abu Layth names his arrest as the most overwhelming time of his life: it left an imprint, but he says he came back stronger and many opportunities followed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Answer from 12 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kind: answer to a specific questioner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&amp;amp;A Unscripted &amp;amp; Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:29:34)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;A more recent answer on wellbeing/personal-stories exists&lt;/b&gt; (18 October 2025): &lt;a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/5/"&gt;Is there a middle way between rejecting all hadith and accepting every hadith?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&amp;amp;t=9013s"&gt;Watch on YouTube at 2:30:13&lt;/a&gt; · &lt;a href="https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/35/"&gt;Open the segment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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