# Mufti Abu Layth Archive: every published answer

> Built 2026-11-01. Questions first, then lessons and discussions; newest first. A summary is not a quotation. A checked position is shown only after two independent reviews found it in his own words, with the sentence he says as evidence. Prefer the latest answer on a topic and quote its date. A Cites line gives each Quran verse or hadith a segment cites with its quran.com or sunnah.com page (references the archive could not confirm are left out). Full data: https://muftiabulayth.org/data/segments.json. Guide: https://muftiabulayth.org/llms.txt.

## I'm a new Muslim and my faith has crashed after the first high. What should I do?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oag-f3hxcdy/s/1/
Date: 2023-05-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:18)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Converts and newcomers; Resilience in hardship
Question as asked: I converted to Islam from a non-religious background after being introduced to it on YouTube. I went through a very high iman phase, but a few months ago hit a brick wall and have been going through heavy doubts, some intellectual and some from the lack of kindness I saw in some YouTube dawah people; your reasoning and kindness have pushed me to keep trying.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the energy that comes with embracing a faith is temporary, so a burnout is inevitable.
Evidence, his words at 3:08: “the thing about that energy is it is it has a kind of temporality about it it has a uh it's not never-ending it comes for a certain set period there will be a burnout yeah it's inevitable” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAG-F3hxCDY&t=188s)

## Should scholars publicly condemn a scholar said to have joined in a libation ritual?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/1/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:08–8:55)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Sexuality and orientation; Tawhid and shirk
Question as asked: Why are the well-known Muslim scholars not refuting this act, joining hands with the LGBTQ community and doing this pagan ritual?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Should Muslims tell gay people what the Quran says about homosexuality?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/2/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (8:55–14:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Dawah and debate culture
Question as asked: If you are a Muslim, we should preach the message. Should we not tell people what the Quran says about it?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Americans are overwhelmingly not Muslim, so speaking on issues there means speaking to non-Muslim norms rather than preaching the Quran to them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that when speaking generally about issues in a country such as America one speaks about its norms, not its exceptions.
Evidence, his words at 11:27: “so when you're speaking generally about issues in a country you're going to speak about the Norms not the exceptions” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=687s)

## Did some Muslim scholars say homosexuality is not haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/3/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (14:40–20:23)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Sexual ethics; Arabic poetry and men of letters
Question as asked: If something is haram in Islam according to the Quran, how can you promote that agenda in your own community by joining hands with the people who are promoting it? I know you disagree.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he described, not endorsed, a minority view that it is not haram; Islamic history holds diverse views, many scholars' poetry shows bisexual appreciation, and persecution is unacceptable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that many scholars of Islam clearly had an appreciation for bisexuality, whether or not they practised it.
Evidence, his words at 18:27: “many countless Scholars of Islam uh they they appreciated bisexuality” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=1107s)

## Should Sunnis preach to Shia Muslims about what they get wrong?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/7/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (35:08–37:42)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Sunni-Shia dialogue; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Dawah and debate culture
Question as asked: Why not preach to Shia Muslims about the things which are wrong and have become taboo in their religion?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says no: it only leads to sectarian fighting. Answer people who come asking, but Sunni-Shia debating does no good.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is not personally for Sunni-Shia debating because he feels it does no good and only does harm.
Evidence, his words at 37:02: “I'm not personally for all the kind of Sunni Shia debating thing because I feel it does no good it just does harm” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=2222s)

## Is it my duty as a Muslim to preach to others?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/8/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (37:42–40:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Character and virtue
Question as asked: As part of our responsibility according to Islam, should we not preach the religion both ways, calling Muslims and non-Muslims to Islam?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims have a duty to be an example, not a duty to preach; turning religion into preaching information makes people judgmental.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims have a duty to be an example, not a duty to preach.
Evidence, his words at 38:19: “we have a duty to be an example there's a difference not a duty to preach” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=2299s)

## Is someone who prays but commits major sins better than someone who doesn't pray?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dhkc0lo1e18/s/1/
Date: 2022-12-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Not Praying, The Bigger Sin? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–7:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Extremism, crime and justice
Question as asked: An Australian sheikh was caught on camera during a sermon saying that a person who does not commit themselves to salah is worse than someone who prays and commits other sins. Can you explain?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is categorically wrong that someone who prays, however evil, is better than someone who does not, and calls the idea dangerous.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the claim that a murderer or abuser who prays is still better than a person who does not pray is categorically wrong.
Evidence, his words at 2:36: “he prayed Salah he would still be better than a person who doesn't praise Salah or something like this and that's categorically uh wrong okay that's not true at all” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhKc0LO1e18&t=156s)

## Should all religions be free to compete without state backing?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/11/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (55:22–56:41)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Islam and modernity
Question as asked: What about applying rational choice theory to religion: instead of having a state-backed [?] Islam, let every religion flourish and compete?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees religion should not be forced on anyone and that people may criticise it freely, but says criticism with an objective is different from insults meant only to hurt.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says nobody has the right to force religion on others and that people may criticise religions freely, but that analytical criticism differs from insult, which only aims to hurt.
Evidence, his words at 55:31: “people have the right to criticize things if you don't believe in something you have the right to criticize criticize it you have the right to show where it doesn't make sense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=3331s)

## Am I only praying because I fear God will punish me?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gzkvxypy-gi/s/1/
Date: 2022-04-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is there a benefit to Praying Salah? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–8:21)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Goals, habits and willpower
Cites: Quran 74:42-46 (what brought you to Saqar? We were not of those who prayed ... we used to deny) (https://quran.com/74/42-46)
Question as asked: Why do we have to pray only because God is going to punish us if we don't?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says praying only out of fear of punishment is unhealthy: salah is devotion that benefits us, bringing structure and order into our day.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says salah does not benefit God in the slightest and that it is only the worshipper's devotion that reaches God.
Evidence, his words at 0:38: “your salah does not benefit god in the slightest nothing we do benefits god nothing okay it is just your devotion that reaches god” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzKvxYPY-GI&t=38s)

## Is mut'ah (temporary marriage) haram for Sunni Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2kqbncu09ym/s/1/
Date: 2022-03-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mut'ah From The Sunni Point Of View Today? | Differing Opinions | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–9:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Polygamy and mut'ah; Schools of law and following them
Question as asked: Can you give insight into the validity of mut'ah from the Sunni point of view?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says most Sunnis hold mut'ah haram but a minority, including Ibn Ashur, held it is not categorically haram; follow the view you hold and do not fight over it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says mut'ah is one of those matters where, if you follow those who say it is haram, it is haram for you, and that it is not something to fight over.
Evidence, his words at 3:19: “it's one of those things that if you follow those that say it's haram then it's haram if you don't you don't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kQbnCU09YM&t=199s)

## What do you think of the rational readings of the Quran on the Marvelous Quran channel?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1ybpo86bp8y/s/1/
Date: 2022-02-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What Are You Thoughts About The Channel Marvelous Quran? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:59)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Jesus in the Quran; Moses
Question as asked: Can you talk about the shaykh of the Marvelous Quran channel, please?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth welcomes his fresh, reason-based approach to the Quran but does not agree with some readings he understood from him, such as Zakariya being the father of Jesus.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he personally does not agree with the view, if he has understood it correctly, that Zakariya married Mary and was the father of Jesus.
Evidence, his words at 5:05: “i mean i don't agree with that in personally if that is the view” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ybpO86BP8Y&t=305s)

## Where do Neanderthals fit in the Islamic story of Adam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/voxmweq6rz4/s/1/
Date: 2022-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Neanderthals And Denisovans & The Islamic Narrative | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–8:16)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Human origins; Adam and the creation of humans; Quran and evolution
Cites: Quran 2:30 (I will place a khalifah on the earth; verse not numbered by him) (https://quran.com/2/30)
Question as asked: Mufti, where do Neanderthals and Denisovans fit in the Islamic narrative?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Islam is not a science manual and says nothing directly about them, but he says the Quran hints that other hominins came before Adam, who was the final 'successor' in that line.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran hints, without clearly stating it, that other hominins preceded Adam.
Evidence, his words at 1:18: “the quran hints towards um other homonyms that preceded adam ali salam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voxmwEQ6rz4&t=78s)

## Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/voxmweq6rz4/s/3/
Date: 2022-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Neanderthals And Denisovans & The Islamic Narrative | Mufti Abu Layth (10:10–13:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Human origins
Question as asked: Neanderthals mated with humans, resulting in offspring; did humans wipe them out?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, but in his view not much: Neanderthal DNA was diluted over generations, leaving non-Africans with about one to four percent.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred excessively.
Evidence, his words at 10:10: “they did obviously interbreed i don't think they excessively interbred” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voxmwEQ6rz4&t=610s)

## Is it true that Africans have no Neanderthal DNA?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/voxmweq6rz4/s/4/
Date: 2022-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Neanderthals And Denisovans & The Islamic Narrative | Mufti Abu Layth (13:56–15:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Human origins
Question as asked: I never heard that Africans don't have Neanderthal DNA; is that true?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Generally yes: Neanderthals never lived in Africa, though some people seen as African today have mixed ancestry from migration.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says people with only African ancestry have no Neanderthal DNA because Neanderthals were not in Africa.
Evidence, his words at 15:14: “people who have only had african ancestry they won't have any uh neanderthal dna that's the the science behind it it's not just a statement because neanderthals were not in africa” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voxmwEQ6rz4&t=914s)

## What do Sunni Muslims think of the twelve Shia imams?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vrr5cww8asg/s/1/
Date: 2021-12-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: 12 Shia Imams According To Sunni Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunni-Shia dialogue; Scholars and imams of the past
Question as asked: What is your opinion on the twelve imams revered in Shia and Sufi Islam?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Shia imams are generally respected in Sunni Islam but are not used as reference points; he suspects Ja'far al-Sadiq was closer to the Shia picture of him than Sunnis admit, as an assumption. Sunnis and Shia should agree to disagree and be fair to each other.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq may have been closer to what the Shia claim him to be than to what the Sunnis claim, while calling this an assumption and not a known fact.
Evidence, his words at 1:58: “i feel that because maybe he was closer to what the shia claim him to be than what the sunnis claim him to be allah but i i feel that may be the case” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrR5CWw8asg&t=118s)

## Will Allah judge someone who follows only the Quran by the Quran alone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ht0qjv5om9o/s/1/
Date: 2021-10-25 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Should We Debate Quranists? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salvation and non-Muslims; Quran-only movement
Question as asked: If someone follows only the Quran, even if they misinterpret it, would Allah hold them only to the Quran on the Day of Judgement, since the doors of heaven are wide?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 3:13: “this is me personally i always find it very arrogant to to assume on these matters about who will go where in the afterlife” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht0qJv5Om9o&t=193s)

## Is it wrong to want to be rich?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umpepyisc_g/s/1/
Date: 2021-07-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Feeling bad about wanting to be rich? #Shorts (0:00–0:59)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Money and finance; Motivation and purpose
Question as asked: Is it wrong to want to be rich, or to pursue becoming a millionaire, or to have an incredibly lucrative business?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “There's nothing wrong with these things in Islam. Allah is Al-Razzaq, yarzuqu man yasha. Set these dreams, become these things.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umPepYIsc_g&t=0s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think the solution for Kashmir is?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/7/
Date: 2021-05-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth (22:27–25:08)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; India and Hindutva; Middle East and the wider world
Question as asked: Mufti, what about the Kashmir issue?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Independence for at least part of Kashmir, such as the valley, from both India and Pakistan, with buffers so Pakistan is not exposed, though he does not expect it to happen. Kashmir differs from Gaza in being a militarised zone rather than a bombarded prison, and India would not pay to relocate anyone.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that Kashmir, unlike Gaza, is a heavily militarised zone, that India would not pay to relocate its people, and that the ideal solution would be independence for part of Kashmir, such as the valley, with buffers kept so that Pakistan is not left vulnerable, though he expects none of it to happen.
Evidence, his words at 23:12: “ideally for the kashmir issue i would see this is what i ideally opt for is that kashmir could just become independent” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R6PNmTG0w&t=1392s)

## Why did scholars say a slave woman's awrah is the same as a man's?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/49_s1ud7utk/s/1/
Date: 2021-05-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hypocrisy of scholars regarding awrah of free women & slave women | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–7:04)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Sexual ethics; Legal theory and method; Hijab and niqab
Question as asked: Why is the awrah of an amah the same as a man's? Isn't that conflicting with the emphasis on the role of hijab for women, that free women have to cover up while slave girls are allowed to walk around with no shirt on?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says most scholars of the past legitimised the practice of slave girls out of pragmatism, realism and sex, and even presented it as a religious act. He contrasts this with music, which they were less keen to permit, and polygamy, which few manage today.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, if one is honest, the way most scholars of the past dealt with slave girls was simply an issue of pragmatism, realism and, he supposes, sex.
Evidence, his words at 2:30: “the crux is when it comes to the crux of the mata it was simply really if we're going to be honest it was just it was an issue of pragmatism realism and just i suppose sex” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_S1uD7UTk&t=150s)

## What is Lupe Fiasco's view of Kanye West's religious rebirth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/19/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:44:23–1:48:51)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; Music
Question as asked: How was it working alongside Jay-Z and Kanye West, and what are your thoughts on Kanye's rebirth in faith?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest declines to judge Kanye West's faith, praising his work ethic while disagreeing with him, and calls Jay-Z a mentor and a genius with words.

## What inspired Lupe Fiasco's song Words I Never Said?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/20/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:48:51–1:51:28)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Music; Middle East and the wider world
Question as asked: What was your inspiration for 'Words I Never Said'?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says 'Words I Never Said' was his attempt, at the height of his fame, to speak truth to power about wealth disparity and militarism.

## What does Lupe Fiasco think of Killah Priest's song B.I.B.L.E.?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/21/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:51:28–1:53:21)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Music
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Killah Priest's song 'B.I.B.L.E.'?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest calls Killah Priest's 'B.I.B.L.E.' an amazing record about a spiritual journey, noting that studying Islam's Jewish and Christian sources creates intellectual tension.

## Did Lupe Fiasco know DMX?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/22/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:53:21–1:54:40)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations
Question as asked: Did you know DMX?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says he did not know DMX closely, and describes meeting Dave Chappelle.

## How did Lupe Fiasco discover Mufti Abu Layth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:54:40–1:57:50)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Social media
Question as asked: How did you come across me?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says he found Mufti Abu Layth while looking for alternatives to the Salafi content that dominates Muslim YouTube, and values his different point of view.

## How is Lupe Fiasco finding Ramadan during Covid?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/26/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (2:04:44–2:06:40)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Fasting; Covid-19
Question as asked: How has Ramadan been going?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Ramadan has been easy, though he misses the mosque and tarawih after staying away during Covid to protect older worshippers.

## Does a community gathering have to be gender segregated?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/2/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (10:56–12:14)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women
Question as asked: Would there be free mixing between men and women at the get-together?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says adults do not need micromanaging and a gathering of men and women need not be segregated.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says adults do not need to be micromanaged and that the proposed get-together would not be gender segregated.
Evidence, his words at 11:14: “look people are adults they don't need to be micromanaged do they of course it would be it wouldn't be gender segregated” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=674s)

## Are the stories in the Quran true but not historical, like the story of Adam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/12/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (47:50–50:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans; Quran and evolution; Spiritual experience and psychedelics
Question as asked: What do you think of those stories in the Quran being simultaneously true but not historical, for example the nature of evil being demonstrated, the contrast of Adam, one committing a wrong and rationalising and the other repenting?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Adam was the father of humans with modern cognition, and that the tree, which the Quran never calls a fruit or apple, may have been a psychedelic plant that sparked the cognitive revolution.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he holds that Adam was the father of humans with modern cognition and that the forbidden tree may have been a psychedelic plant that triggered the cognitive revolution, the Quran mentioning a tree rather than a fruit.
Evidence, his words at 49:11: “adam alaihi salam i believe would have been the father of you know of of humans today with this modern cognitive explosion and having consciousness the way we do” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=2951s)

## Why does Ramadan fall in different seasons each year?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/23/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:23:41–1:28:55)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Pre-Islamic Arabia; Fasting times, moon sighting and the calendar
Question as asked: Why is Ramadan in different seasons?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the early Islamic calendar was kept in line with the seasons by an extra month, nasi, and Ramadan only began moving through the year after that practice lapsed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his view the calendar in the Prophet's time was lunisolar, kept aligned with the seasons by an intercalary month, nasi, and that Ramadan probably began to rotate through the year only after the practice lapsed during the expansion of the state.
Evidence, his words at 1:24:16: “the islamic calendar in essence was a uh it was a kind of luna solar calendar” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=5056s)

## Why is Salafi content so dominant online?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/24/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:28:55–1:32:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Technology and media
Question as asked: What are the limitations of the Najdi dawah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Najdi dawah is a small puritan movement kept alive by oil money, which dominates Islamic content online only because it invested early in Q&A websites.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Najdi or Salafi dawah is a cultish puritanism sustained by oil money, followed by perhaps three percent of Muslims, but dominating Islamic content online because others did not invest in it.
Evidence, his words at 1:28:55: “the najdi dawa is just a cultish you know it's just a it's a cultish puritanism that's all it is but it has recently um you know being reinvigorated by petrol dollars” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=5335s)

## Where are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/26/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:39:28–1:42:05)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus
Question as asked: I'm a big fan of the Mufti but I'm disappointed; what about the questions on the Jesus debate?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says most of the Jesus debate questions are answered in his long reply, and that the shaykh he answered has substance but is torn between his views and his following.

## Will religious dogmatism ever disappear?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/30/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:51:19–1:52:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Islam and modernity
Question as asked: Once the Salafis are gone, what would the Mufti do with his life?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says dogmatism is built into institutional religion and will survive, so his aim is to keep the voice of reason alive as a choice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says dogmatism will not disappear because it is built into institutionalised religion, and that his aim is not to end it but to keep the voice of reason alive so that people can choose.
Evidence, his words at 1:51:19: “i don't feel dogmatism will go i don't feel it will unfortunately because religion with a capital r an institutionalized religion has dogmatism in its very bones” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=6679s)

## Did Dr Abdul Majid refute Mufti Abu Layth's BukhariGate arguments?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/31/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:52:38–1:59:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Debate challenges and reviews
Question as asked: Dr Abdul Majid did do a good job at refuting your points, didn't he?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says Dr Abdul Majid accepted Bukhari because other scholars had and did not answer the points on its transmission, though he respects him for having the dialogue.

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Adnan Ibrahim?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/32/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:59:15–2:01:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: What do you think of Dr Adnan Ibrahim?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth admires Adnan Ibrahim as a voice of reason in the Arabic-speaking world whose message is close to his own and who is what a real imam should be.

## Is child marriage legal in Western countries?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/33/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:01:53–2:05:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Marriage
Question as asked: Child marriage is still legal in a lot of Western countries, including secular France; they base it on puberty and parental permission, right?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says Western ages of consent cluster around sixteen and do not allow an adult with a child, and imams should condemn child marriage with one voice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Western age-of-consent laws do not permit adults to marry or have relations with children, and that imams should speak with one voice in condemning child marriage.
Evidence, his words at 2:03:48: “there needs to be a strong unified voice in condemning it and nobody says these ridiculous things like nine-year-olds and stuff like that that is just sick” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=7428s)

## When should reason take priority over religious texts?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/35/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:09:48–2:18:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; How to read the Quran; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Question as asked: At what point does one's rationale take precedence, in light of paradigm shifts in knowledge, over textual proof?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Reason always comes first, Mufti Abu Layth says, because every reading of scripture is already an interpretation; hadith dogmatism grew from Ibn Taymiyya's era and revived under colonialism.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says reason necessarily comes first because scripture can only be understood through human interpretation, and that hadith dogmatism took shape in the era of Ibn Taymiyya and revived under colonialism, when attacks on religion amid instability pushed people towards fundamentalism.
Evidence, his words at 2:13:12: “all perception and sensation is based on the human interpreting it it's based on interpretation so whether you like it or not you are already interpreting something” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=7992s)

## Can the soul travel into the spiritual world through meditation or dhikr?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/37/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:24:10–2:33:20)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Soul, nafs and consciousness; Sufism and tasawwuf; Mindfulness and presence
Question as asked: What is going on with the spiritual centres in our bodies? Some people use them to make their souls travel into the spiritual world through dhikr. What are your thoughts?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says such practices may work for the dedicated, and that the soul is not inside the body but a non-local consciousness the brain connects to, like a phone picking up a signal.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he understands the soul not as a ghost inside the body but as a non-local consciousness that the brain connects to, like a handset picking up a signal, and that collective consciousness shifts over time.
Evidence, his words at 2:27:21: “i feel the soul is never in the body anyway in that sense that people think like people think the soul is a ghost kind of figure inside you” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=8841s)

## Did one of al-Bukhari's teachers call Imam Malik a disbeliever?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/38/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:33:20–2:35:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Question as asked: Is it true that the grand teacher of Imam Bukhari made takfir of Imam Malik?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth knows of no such takfir by a teacher of al-Bukhari; harsh words against Malik came from a contemporary who objected to his not acting on some sahih hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he knows of no teacher of al-Bukhari who declared Imam Malik a disbeliever, and that harsh statements against Malik came from a contemporary, Ibn Abi Dhi'b [?], over Malik not acting on some sahih hadith.
Evidence, his words at 2:35:05: “there are some harsh statements that he said about imam malik but he was a contemporary” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=9305s)

## What did Ibn Rushd mean by the 'double truth' of religion and philosophy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/39/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:35:57–2:42:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Philosophy and ideas
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Ibn Rushd's double truth theory?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is not 'double truth', but he agrees fully with Ibn Rushd that the sharia is built for ordinary people while the gifted can find its deeper meanings.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees fully with Ibn Rushd that the sharia is designed for ordinary people, who need structured and visible religion, while those gifted with deeper understanding can discover its deeper meanings.
Evidence, his words at 2:36:22: “so what ibn arush had said is that and i totally agree with that he said that in this world not everybody is a philosopher” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=9382s)

## What was the real crime of the people of Lut?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/40/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:42:28–2:43:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Sexuality and orientation
Question as asked: Can you please talk about the actual crime of the people of Lut?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the people of Lut were destroyed for rejecting God, as in every prophet's story, with their other behaviour secondary.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the crime for which the people of Lut, like the other peoples in the stories of the prophets, were destroyed was their rejection of God, other behaviours mentioned being secondary signs of arrogance.
Evidence, his words at 2:42:28: “it's not the reason that they met their doom it was because they denied god that's the same with every single prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=9748s)

## How can I be sure my reason is not wrong?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/42/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:52:58–2:58:11)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Atheism and the existence of God; Philosophy and ideas; Soul, nafs and consciousness
Question as asked: What is the response to al-Ghazali's formulation of Cartesian doubt in Deliverance from Error? My reason helps me realise my sense faculty can be wrong; how can I be certain my rational faculty is not wrong?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Ghazali answered his doubt by relying on God; today, he says, the very existence of a consciousness that can doubt is itself the sign of God.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Ghazali resolved his doubt by reliance on God, that science has since taken us far beyond his time, and that for him the existence of consciousness is the sign of God.
Evidence, his words at 2:56:43: “to me the fact that god is out there is through consciousness the fact that we are conscious to me is that sign” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=10603s)

## Are the devils really chained up during Ramadan?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/43/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:58:11–2:59:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Fasting; Jinn, angels and the devil
Question as asked: Are there any verses from the Quran from which people infer that hellfire will freeze over during Ramadan?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No verse says so; Mufti Abu Layth reads the hadith on chained devils as meaning that good deeds become easier in Ramadan's shared spirit.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says no verse speaks of hell during Ramadan, and that the hadith on the devils being chained means that doing good becomes easier in the shared spirit of the month.
Evidence, his words at 2:58:11: “no there's no verses like that about hellfire and ramadan etc but this hadith saying that the shayateen will be locked up and stuff and basically that just means it'll be easier to do good deeds” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=10691s)

## Is the pursuit of knowledge a deeper drive than sex?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/44/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:59:31–3:02:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheism and the existence of God; Islamic psychology
Question as asked: I think increasing in knowledge is above sex.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes for the conscious mind, Mufti Abu Layth says, which is driven by curiosity; and the fact that being is intelligible, as DNA shows, points to a creator.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the conscious mind is driven by curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge, and that the intelligibility of being, as seen in the coding of DNA, points to an intelligent creator.
Evidence, his words at 2:59:48: “the intelligibility of being is a necessary proof to me for intelligent creation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=10788s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of al-Shaybani's critique of the Madinan school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/45/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:02:08–3:06:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Maliki school; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Question as asked: Have you read al-Hujja ala ahl al-Madina by al-Shaybani?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls al-Shaybani's book an arrogant reply to Malik that failed from its title, since Islam was lived in Madinah and preserved in Malik's school.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Shaybani's book against the people of Madinah failed from its title, since Islam was lived and taught in Madinah and captured by Imam Malik, whose school tries to preserve the practice of Madinah.
Evidence, his words at 3:02:11: “his what i saw as was just an arrogant attempt to respond to imam malik” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=10931s)

## Was Adam a real person?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/46/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:06:04–3:08:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Question as asked: Is Adam literal?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth believes Adam was a literal person, the father of the cognitive revolution, though he accepts some read him as a metaphor.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Adam was a literal person, the father of the cognitive revolution, while accepting that some see him as a metaphor.
Evidence, his words at 3:06:04: “adam in my understanding is literal yes i do believe that i believe he was the father of the cognitive uh revolution” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=11164s)

## Is it wrong for a Muslim to want to make money?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/47/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:08:42–3:21:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Gratitude, giving and contentment; Money and finance
Question as asked: Is it wrong to want money, and should this be condemned, so that people stick to their means and to necessities?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says make money and enjoy what it brings, but do not love money for itself, and remember that giving opens the way to provision.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is good to be enterprising and make money, provided one loves what money brings rather than money itself, and that provision is counterintuitively increased through giving.
Evidence, his words at 3:11:38: “allah has put you in this world to enjoy this world but i would say don't love money for and of itself love it for these things” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=11498s)

## Can I fast for a fixed 12 hours when the days are very long?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/48/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:21:50–3:28:21)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Fasting times, moon sighting and the calendar; Who is excused from fasting
Question as asked: What is the ruling on the start and finish of the fast in a day?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Follow any timetable you like; Mufti Abu Layth endorses the al-Azhar-derived fatwa that a fast of twelve hours or more is valid for anyone who needs it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says one may follow any reasonable fasting timetable, and that he endorses the fatwa that a fast of twelve hours or more is valid for those who need it, whose need others may not judge.
Evidence, his words at 3:25:43: “i feel that fatwa is valid for people who need it how do you know you need it well i'm not nobody can judge that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=12343s)

## Can I skip fasting because of work, exams or health, and what do I do instead?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/49/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:28:21–3:34:59)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Who is excused from fasting; Making up, fidya and kaffarah; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 2:184 (those who are able to fast may give fidya) (https://quran.com/2/184)
Question as asked: Can people not fast because of certain difficulties, such as exams, their health or their work environment?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is your call: make the fast up later if you can, or give fidya if your situation will not change, which Mufti Abu Layth bases on the plain wording of Quran 2:184.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says whether one can fast is one's own decision, that those who cannot should make the fast up later or, if their situation will not change, give fidya on the apparent reading of 2:184, and that fasting is a personal commitment, not a punishment.
Evidence, his words at 3:28:57: “in that case i would say that you give fidya for each day that you miss okay and this is based on the apparent reading of the quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=12537s)

## I don't feel spiritual in Ramadan; am I a bad Muslim?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/50/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:34:59–3:37:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Fasting; Religious guilt and scrupulosity
Question as asked: If someone doesn't find these things very spiritual in the way everybody else does, are they a bad person?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says not feeling Ramadan's atmosphere is no reflection of your faith, since worship is not measured by how good it feels.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says not feeling the spiritual atmosphere of Ramadan or hajj is no reflection of a person's faith and no cause for guilt, since worship is not measured by how it feels.
Evidence, his words at 3:35:18: “it's not a reflection of your faith okay it's not it's just you know some people may not vibe with certain kind of things” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=12918s)

## Is forex trading halal or haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/5/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (21:11–23:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Money and finance; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: Trading in forex, is it haram or halal?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth refers the question to his earlier videos and says inherited fiqh is so out of date that much of it can no longer be applied.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says inherited fiqh is so out of date that much of it cannot be applied and its teaching has become largely ritual, partly because past jurists closed it to later rulings.
Evidence, his words at 21:58: “FK for the most part is pretty much redundant. You know it's its teaching has become simply ritual in nature” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=1318s)

## Did the Prophet say a wife should prostrate to her husband?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/9/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (49:54–54:49)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Women in Islam; Marriage
Question as asked: Is it true that if it were permissible, the Prophet would have ordered wives to prostrate to their husbands? Is this hadith authentic?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The report is not authentic: it was probably put into circulation to support the family hierarchy of a patriarchal society. The report urging violent jealousy over female relatives is likewise fabricated.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report that the Prophet would have ordered wives to prostrate to their husbands is not authentic and was probably circulated to support the family hierarchy of a patriarchal society, and that the report urging violent jealousy over female relatives is likewise fabricated.
Evidence, his words at 50:44: “no this hadith isn't authentic but um I feel that people may have” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=3044s)

## Are disgusting sexual fetishes between spouses haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/11/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:04:21–1:12:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexual ethics; Intimacy in marriage; Purification
Question as asked: Fetishes: are they haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Such fetishes are not haram, however disgusting most people find them: contact with impurity is unclean but not forbidden, and what a consenting couple do in private is their own business. Nobody is obliged to do them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that fetishes involving impurity, however disgusting, are not haram, since contact with impurity is unclean but not forbidden and only God declares something haram, and that what consenting spouses do in private is their own business.
Evidence, his words at 1:07:07: “So my response which is still the same that these kinks or things like this as sickening as they may be to people doesn't make them haram.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=4027s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of France banning the hijab for girls under 18?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/13/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:21:35–1:28:55)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Current events commentary; Food and drink
Question as asked: I've been asked to speak about France and the recent legislation.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): If France has banned headscarves for girls under 18, he says it is an abhorrent breach of basic rights that he strongly condemns. He also opposes pressuring girls to wear it: it should be their genuine choice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if France has banned the headscarf for girls under eighteen it is an abhorrent breach of basic human rights that he strongly condemns, while he also opposes pressuring girls to wear it and holds that it should be a genuine choice.
Evidence, his words at 1:23:35: “I find that really shocking and abhorrent and so in clash with the basic fundamental human rights that are a cornerstone of modern civilization.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=5015s)

## Is the age of consent in France really 13?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/14/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:28:55–1:31:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary
Question as asked: Is it true that the age of consent in France is 13?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth doubts the claim that France's age of consent is thirteen, and distinguishes laws on relationships between teenagers of similar age from an adult engaging with a child.

## Is it haram to believe the universe will never end?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/16/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:34:16–1:35:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The afterlife; Science, the universe and big questions
Question as asked: Is it haram to believe that the universe is never-ending?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is not haram: creation, including the afterlife, once brought into being remains forever in some form while still being other than God.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is not haram to believe the universe is never-ending, depending on what is meant, since creation once brought into existence, including the afterlife, remains forever in some form while still being other than God.
Evidence, his words at 1:34:29: “Um, no. I mean, it depends what people mean by that because in some way life now that or I suppose creation once put into existence will forever ultimately remain in one way.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=5669s)

## How often does Mufti Abu Layth change his views, and is that a weakness?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/17/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:35:40–1:41:54)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/13/; general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Character and virtue
Question as asked: How often do you find yourself changing views or opinions on subjects?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth changes his views when evidence is compelling and says developing one's opinions over life is a sign of intelligence, not weakness. He advises viewers to do the same.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that when compelling evidence comes he changes his view, that developing one's opinions over life is a hallmark of intelligence, and he advises everyone to investigate and do the same.
Evidence, his words at 1:39:31: “I've changed views and opinions where I found counter evidence. I've investigated uh topics and research them. And I advise you all to do the same.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=5971s)

## How was Mufti Abu Layth's video on Aisha's age received?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/18/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:41:54–1:50:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; The Mufti and the channel; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Question as asked: How do you feel your debunking of Aisha's marital age has impacted Muslims generally? Have you received negative backlash or inspired people to see the truth?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is proud of the video: many people, especially women, told him it brought them back to Islam, while most clergy resent it because questioning the inherited ruling threatens their authority and livelihood.

## Where can I learn the Maliki school in English?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/19/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:50:03–1:52:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Maliki school; How to study Islam
Question as asked: What's a good source to learn about the Maliki madhhab in English?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth suggests the translations of Aisha Bewley, Hamza Yusuf's recorded lessons on a basic Maliki text, Shaykh Ali Laraki's translation, and teachers such as Abdalhaqq Bewley.

## How can I nourish my soul this Ramadan?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/21/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:02:54–2:10:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Fasting; Music; Spiritual experience and psychedelics
Question as asked: Some people have asked me to speak about Ramadan.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): To deepen the bond with God, read even a little Quran daily, make personal dua and give charity; learning, poetry, art and meaningful music can also strengthen a person inwardly, not only more voluntary prayer.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that what nourishes the soul includes reading even a little Quran daily, personal dua and charity, and more generally learning, poetry, art or meaningful music, whatever strengthens a person inwardly, adding that for him personally many voluntary prayers would not do so.
Evidence, his words at 2:07:03: “things which strengthen your inner core and it it could be it could be learning it could be poetry it could be art it could be music I I'm being very serious” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=7623s)

## Does Allah love everybody?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/22/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:10:23–2:13:03)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Food and drink
Question as asked: Does Allah love everybody?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Allah loves His creation and detests harmful actions, not creatures. Pork being forbidden, most likely for hygiene, does not mean God hates pigs.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Allah loves His creation and detests harmful actions rather than creatures, so pork being forbidden, most likely for reasons of hygiene, does not mean God hates pigs.
Evidence, his words at 2:10:23: “Allah loves his creation. Why doesn't he? But there is free will. Um Allah does not despise his creation like that.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=7823s)

## What does the Mufti think of Shaykh Dedew?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tganlc0x_ii/s/1/
Date: 2021-03-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Shaykh Dedew Al-Shanqiti | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: Mufti Saab, thoughts on Shaykh Dedew?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth has a soft spot for Shaykh Dedew and finds some of his fatawa very interesting, though he is critical in some things and dogmatic in others. Take the critical things from him and stay open-minded on the dogmatic ones.

## Who are the Ibadis and what do you think of Ibadism?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vryy1_gzeus/s/1/
Date: 2021-03-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Ibadism | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–6:18)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Succession and the first civil wars
Question as asked: Thoughts on Ibadism?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Ibadis are an early, less extreme offshoot of the Khawarij who survive today in Oman and, as a small minority, became known for coexistence. Their independence from Sunnis and Shia helps corroborate early history, such as the place of Makkah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Ibadis moved away from extremism as time went by, and suggests that this may just have been adaptation.
Evidence, his words at 2:33: “but as time went by they did uh move remove themselves from that extremist um kind of manifesto so they stopped because you see maybe that's just uh maybe that's just adaptation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRYy1_gzEUs&t=153s)

## Is Mufti Abu Layth a Mu'tazili?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wmzc28plysq/s/1/
Date: 2021-03-15 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why isn't Mufti from the Mu'tazilah? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–2:24)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: Why aren't you a Mu'tazili?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is not a Mu'tazili because he is Sunni. The Mu'tazila were an early faction defined by their view of sinners, and calling them 'super rationalists' is later Sunni propaganda.

## Can I have a close non-Muslim friend and answer his salam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cnwajt1i9bo/s/1/
Date: 2021-03-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sheikh Assim on Having Non-Muslim Friend | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–5:21)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Friendship and social life; Views on contemporary scholars; Speech and everyday conduct
Question as asked: I have a very close non-Muslim friend who greets me with salam whenever we meet; he is seriously ill and it is not that he wants to accept Islam. Can I answer his salam, or in general can I answer the salam of a non-Muslim?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects as ignorance and nonsense the view that a Muslim cannot have a close non-Muslim friend or return his greeting. Assim al-Hakeem's answer in the clip, that only acquaintances are allowed and a non-Muslim's salam gets a smile at most, is the view being replied to.

## What counts as khamr, and is a drink with very little alcohol haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/3rpugpmwep0/s/1/
Date: 2021-03-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Intoxicants: Imam Abu Hanifa vs the rest | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Question as asked: What is an intoxicant, and how much does it have to cover the intellect to be khamr?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the Quran khamr is wine; other drinks are haram if they intoxicate similarly, but a drink so weak that normal consumption does not intoxicate is not haram. This was Abu Hanifa's ruling, for which the Hanafi school was attacked for centuries until later Hanafis grew embarrassed by it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in Quranic usage khamr is wine, that other drinks are haram when they intoxicate in a similar way, and that drinks with alcohol so weak that an average consumption does not intoxicate are not haram, which is the ruling Abu Hanifa defended.
Evidence, his words at 1:16: “of that drink would not intoxicate you then in that case they were not haram so if it was a small percentage um you know one two percent” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rPUgpmWEp0&t=76s)

## Is Cardano going to shoot up in value?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/2/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (12:56–15:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Money and finance
Question as asked: Is ADA going to the moon? Is it all about Cardano?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is suspicious of big announcements that funds will move money out of bitcoin into other coins, suspecting they may be ploys to move prices.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is a bit suspicious when big investors announce they will move money out of bitcoin into other coins.
Evidence, his words at 12:56: “they're going to basically remove it from bitcoin and invest in other and others but i really think that when people i don't know i i'm a bit suspicious when people make these kind of claims” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=776s)

## Was Ali born inside the Kaaba?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/3/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (15:22–21:49)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: The companions; The life of the Prophet; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Question as asked: Please can you talk about the birth of Ali: was it in the Kaaba or not?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It may have happened but is uncertain, and most likely means the homes of Banu Hashim attached to the Kaaba rather than the cube itself; Ali's greatness does not depend on it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Ali's value should not be based on whether he was born in the Kaaba or not.
Evidence, his words at 20:35: “so i don't think his value should be based on whether he was born in the kaaba or not” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=1235s)

## Without colonialism and the Mongols, would the Muslim world have had its own enlightenment?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/5/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (24:26–28:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity
Question as asked: If it was not for the misfortunes of the Muslim world, the Reconquista, the Mongol invasion, the Black Death and colonisation, would the Muslim world have undergone a secular enlightenment or revolution?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: he thinks Muslims left to themselves would have pioneered the enlightenment, but Europe's head start in industrialisation, used to subdue the Muslim world, provoked a reactionary rejection instead.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks that, left to their own devices, Muslims would have been the pioneers of enlightenment.
Evidence, his words at 25:40: “because you see i think muslims would have if left to our own devices we would have been the pioneers of enlightenment” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=1540s)

## Does Ibn Hazm contradict himself in The Ring of the Dove?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/6/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (28:09–37:14)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Love stories from history; Scholars and imams of the past; Arabic poetry and men of letters
Question as asked: Does Ibn Hazm contradict himself in The Ring of the Dove?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth knows of no contradiction; he describes The Ring of the Dove as Ibn Hazm's mature study of the psychology of love and retells one of its bawdy stories.

## Was the Prophet Moses actually the pharaoh Akhenaten?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/7/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (37:14–39:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture; Moses
Question as asked: Can you explain the Akhenaten and Moses theory?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth leans towards the theory that Moses was Akhenaten but says his research is ongoing and it is not established; he notes that the Levites bore Egyptian names.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is inclined towards the theory that Moses was Akhenaten, though his research is still ongoing and he cannot say it as a fact.
Evidence, his words at 37:14: “do check that out i go into it i am inclined towards the the theory that moses is was a canarton” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=2234s)

## Do Muslims whitewash their own historical heroes?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/8/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (39:43–43:32)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Al-Andalus and the Maghrib; The companions
Question as asked: Do you think we whitewash Muslim historical figures, the way right-wing Europeans praise Charles Martel for defeating Muslims in France but ignore his slaughter of European pagans?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, every community whitewashes its heroes, because history records what its writers deem accomplishments; a fairer test is what a figure's adversaries said, as with Salah al-Din or Jewish sources on Umar.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that of course everybody, Muslims included, whitewashes their historical figures.
Evidence, his words at 39:43: “mufti do you think we whitewash muslim historical figures of course of course everybody does you know in these kind of things” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=2383s)

## Can the revelation of the Quran be explained without the supernatural?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/9/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (43:32–46:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Soul, nafs and consciousness; Spiritual experience and psychedelics
Question as asked: How do you explain the Quran being revealed to the Prophet as something that isn't supernatural?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The words of revelation manifested in the Prophet's mind rather than being composed by him; whether that counts as supernatural depends on the definition, and trance experiences are only an approximation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is not saying the Prophet was making the words of the Quran, but that the words were manifesting to him.
Evidence, his words at 44:10: “i do say i'm not saying that the prophets was making the words for it but the words were manifesting to him” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=2650s)

## Has Islam become a religion about Muhammad rather than the religion he brought?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/11/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (55:37–59:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tawhid and shirk; Personal stories and reflections; The life of the Prophet
Cites: Quran 33:21 (https://quran.com/33/21); Quran 94:4 (https://quran.com/94/4)
Question as asked: It is prophet worship: the religion brought by Muhammad became a religion about Muhammad.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says human beings have a fundamental need, deep within the psyche, for a human archetype, not one to pray to.
Evidence, his words at 56:14: “need for a human not to pray to but a human that is that ultimate archetype for you this is in all it's it's deep within our psyche” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=3374s)

## Why did Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh leave Islam for a time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/12/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (59:58–1:03:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The companions; Apostasy and blasphemy; The life of the Prophet
Question as asked: Was Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh's [?] apostasy due to doubts about the Quran?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not doubt about the Quran: he feels the man was incentivised by the Makkans and rewarded for intelligence about Madinah, and he later returned to Islam and governed in Egypt.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels the apostasy asked about was not a theological crisis but a case of being incentivised by the Makkans.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:16: “he is rewarded generously for some of the intel that he provides and i feel that that was the situation it was just human all too human you know it wasn't a theological crisis” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=3676s)

## Will you give talks in Mirpuri?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/2/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (4:56–7:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: Can you do talks in Mirpuri?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, he says he could not give talks in Mirpuri; his audience is the younger community, and others already serve the elderly in that language.

## Where are most of the Mufti's viewers from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/6/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (21:38–23:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: I think most of Mufti's fans are from the USA.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His analytics show most of his viewers are in the UK, he says, though the live audience seems to be mostly Canadian and American because of the late hour.

## What does the Mufti think of Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/7/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (23:34–24:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Extremism, crime and justice
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Islam in Malaysia?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His impression is that Malaysians and Indonesians have absorbed Islam naturally into daily life, though he feels extremism has risen there in the last fifteen years.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says his impression is that Malaysia and Indonesia have absorbed the deen in a natural way that does not hinder their day-to-day lives.
Evidence, his words at 23:34: “they seem to have ingratiated themselves kind of immersed themselves absorbed the deen in a way that it doesn't hinder the day-to-day lives it seems to be a natural that's my impression of them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=1414s)

## Why didn't the Prophet explain every verse of the Quran himself?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/8/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (24:40–27:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; Tafsir and verse study
Question as asked: Why didn't the Prophet compose his own tafsir? Why couldn't a sahabi sit with him and go through each ayah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Leaving the Quran undefined was a blessing, he says: a fixed tafsir would have restricted it, while leaving it to each age's understanding gives it timelessness.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that leaving the Quran to human understanding, read in light of each age, rather than defining everything, is what gives it its timelessness.
Evidence, his words at 25:56: “it would have restricted everything and the fact that it was left to human understanding to be able to read it in light of their own day and age is what gives the quran it's kind of timelessness” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=1556s)

## Does the Quran really say Jesus had no father?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/9/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (27:52–33:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; How to read the Quran; Quran and evolution
Cites: Quran 3:59 (https://quran.com/3/59)
Question as asked: Mufti, you say you don't believe in the supernatural... (the rest of the message did not come through)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran's elliptical text leaves readers to fill gaps, and that 3:59 on Jesus and Adam allows many readings; he does not believe in the virgin birth.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe in the virgin birth, as many of the mufassirun do not.
Evidence, his words at 29:10: “but first of all i mean i don't obviously believe in the virgin birth as many of the mufasirin don't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=1750s)

## What does the Mufti think of liberal Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/10/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (33:30–37:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity
Question as asked: What do you think about liberal Islam?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Liberal and conservative are political labels about authority, he says, and they do not truly fit Islam, which never had a church-like hierarchy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says labels such as liberal and conservative are very difficult to apply to Islam, which never really worked in that way.
Evidence, his words at 35:23: “it's very difficult applying these parameters to islam because islam never really worked in that way there was never really a papacy or a pope system in islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=2123s)

## Did the companions actually see the angel Jibril?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/12/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (39:54–42:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Individual hadith explained; Jinn, angels and the devil
Question as asked: Last week you said the companions didn't see Jibril, but the hadith says it was, and then the Prophet confirmed it.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the report that it was Jibril may be the companion's interpretation, not the Prophet's words; repeated 'he said' in Arabic narration makes the speaker unclear.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, depending on how the report is read, its statement that the figure was Jibril is the companion's interpretation rather than something the Prophet taught them.
Evidence, his words at 40:34: “so this hadith is really the interpretation that he says that that was jibril and the he here was the companion now they assumed that it's not that the prophet taught them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=2434s)

## Is the devil a real creature or a symbol of bad impulses?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/13/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (42:20–44:58)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn, angels and the devil
Question as asked: What about the shaytan and the supernatural?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth presents two readings of Shaytan, a literal creature or a personification of negative impulses, and refers viewers to his detailed video.

## Why isn't the Mufti a Mu'tazili?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/14/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (44:58–51:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Sunni-Shia dialogue; Polygamy and mut'ah
Question as asked: Why aren't you a Mu'tazili [?] Muslim?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he is simply Sunni; sects are defined by core doctrines, the Shia by the sacred bloodline's right to rule, and mut'ah was pinned on them as propaganda.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says mut'ah had nothing to do with being a Shia, and that tying it to them was a propaganda campaign.
Evidence, his words at 50:32: “this was just a propaganda compe campaign muta had nothing to do with being a shia shia was about who gets to rule” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=3032s)

## What does the Mufti think of Fethullah Gulen?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/16/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (58:48–59:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Middle East and the wider world
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Gulen? He has been designated a terrorist by the Turkish president, whereas his jamaa promotes peace and dialogue.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he knows little about Gulen beyond his influential network of schools with an Islamic ethos, and will read up on him.

## Do Ash'aris believe the Quran is created?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/17/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (59:57–1:02:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Salafism and Wahhabism; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Question as asked: You talk about reason and the Quran being created so much.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Ash'ari texts do teach that the Arabic Quran is created, but use the word muhdath instead of makhluq because of the stigma; many Ash'aris today do not know this.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Ash'aris believe the Quran was created but, embarrassed by it, hide the wording behind terms the public would not understand.
Evidence, his words at 59:57: “ashadis believe that now but i've mentioned this before you see what they do is they're embarrassed of it so they hide the wording and replace it with words that the common public wouldn't understand” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=3597s)

## Does the Quran say Jesus was raised up alive?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/19/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:10:43–1:11:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; The second coming of Jesus
Question as asked: Explain Jesus' story in the Quran: how does Allah say he was raised up? And can you explain Yajuj and Majuj in detail?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth refers viewers to his detailed videos and says the Quran does not say how Jesus died, which does not mean he did not die, just as it is silent on Moses' death.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not say how Jesus died, which does not mean he did not die, just as it does not say how Moses died.
Evidence, his words at 1:11:20: “there are some things the quran does not highlight how did jesus die it doesn't highlight that okay it doesn't mean he didn't die but then the quran doesn't mention how moses died” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=4280s)

## Did the Prophet order a scribe killed for leaving Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/20/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:11:59–1:14:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Question as asked: Did the Prophet order one of his scribes to be executed because he became an apostate? Islamophobes use that hadith.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not for apostasy, he says: the scribe was not executed, and the issue was treason, since he exposed Madinah's weak points to its enemies; apostasy laws were treason laws.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the apostasy laws of that time were in essence treason laws.
Evidence, his words at 1:13:55: “so yes they did have laws of treason and i've explained this in the past that that is what our apostasy laws were in essence they were treason laws” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=4435s)

## Does the story of Dhul Qarnayn mean the earth is flat?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/21/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:32–1:15:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran and science
Question as asked: How can the story of Dhul Qarnayn not refer to a flat earth?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, he says the story of Dhul Qarnayn does not refer to a flat earth, and Muslims should stop buying into the flat-earth narrative.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the story of Dhul Qarnayn does not refer to a flat earth.
Evidence, his words at 1:14:32: “well it doesn't refer to a flat earth for the love of god stop buying into this dumb young earth christian narrative of a flat earth” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=4472s)

## Does Quran 33:40 mean the Prophet's descendants cannot rule?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/22/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:15:00–1:16:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; Succession and the first civil wars
Cites: Quran 33:40 (https://quran.com/33/40)
Question as asked: How should we understand the verse that Muhammad is not the father of any of your men? Some Sunnis use that to justify descendants not being caliph.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says 33:40 simply states that the Prophet is not the father of their men but the seal of the prophets; it is not a proof that his descendants may not rule.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says verse 33:40 is not a proof that the Prophet's descendants are not to rule.
Evidence, his words at 1:15:39: “you read it it's not a proof that his descendants are not to rule but generally speaking his descendants did not rule” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=4539s)

## Is following the Sunnah like believing in the Trinity?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/23/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:16:17–1:17:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Tawhid and shirk
Question as asked: The Quran is strictly speaking against the Christian Trinity, but at the same time it encourages us to follow the Sunnah. Couldn't that be interpreted similar to the Trinity?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: following the Sunnah is of course not akin to the Trinity.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the quick answer is that following the Sunnah is of course not akin to the Trinity.
Evidence, his words at 1:16:54: “right the quick answer is of course it's not” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=4614s)

## Why does Surah al-Kafirun say 'ma' (what) instead of 'man' (who) for God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/24/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:25–1:21:32)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Reflections on short surahs; Quranic Arabic
Cites: Quran 109:2-5 (https://quran.com/109/2-5)
Question as asked: 109:2 to 5: why is ma used and not man?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thinks ma is used because it qualifies how God is perceived, since the Meccans also worshipped Allah through others, though he says this is his own understanding.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, as he assumes and understands it, God knowing best, ma in 109:2-5 qualifies not just God but how God is to be perceived.
Evidence, his words at 1:19:55: “but i'm assuming that here you're kind of qualifying not just god but how god is to be perceived” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=4795s)

## Why does the Quran focus so much on the Israelites?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/25/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:21:32–1:23:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Stories of the prophets
Question as asked: Why was Bani Isra'il raised as an ummah and given different laws if Allah knew he would raise a new one, and the final messenger wouldn't be from them?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Most peoples had prophets, he says; the Israelites are highlighted because in the Prophet's Arabia they were seen as the scholars of the people of scripture.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Israelites are highlighted in the Quran because around the Prophet's time in Arabia they were seen as the academics of the people of scripture.
Evidence, his words at 1:22:12: “which is where the prophet would have been the israelites was seen as the kind of um you know like the academics of the people of scripture therefore they are highlighted quite a lot” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=4932s)

## Who is the Mufti's favourite Western philosopher?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/26/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:23:18–1:25:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Philosophy and ideas
Question as asked: Who is your favourite Western philosopher?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth names no single favourite but likes Wittgenstein, Nietzsche and Diogenes, and feels Muslims have been left out of philosophy in recent centuries.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that in some ways Muslims have been left out of philosophy in recent centuries, which is a shame.
Evidence, his words at 1:23:54: “i feel in some ways that muslims have been kind of left out of philosophy recently in recent centuries which is a shame” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=5034s)

## Did the Prophet tell people to drink camel urine as medicine?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/28/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:26:20–1:32:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Medical questions; Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: Mo Hijab is trapped as a Salafi but knows it's not right.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says camel urine is not medicine and the Prophet never really told anyone to drink it; the report is weak in its chain and, if taken at all, reads as a rebuke.

## Was Islam spread by the sword?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/30/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:38:37–1:42:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Question as asked: When you get a chance, can you talk about Islam being spread through violence?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Islam spread by zeal, not the sword, he says; forced conversion rarely lasts, as British rule in India showed, though Islam is not pacifist.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Islam spread not by force but by zeal, and that the idea it was spread by the sword is absurd.
Evidence, his words at 1:39:53: “when i say it spread not by force but by zeal because you know this thing that islam was spread by the sword it's absurd because how would you maintain islam by the sword” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=5993s)

## Can atheism explain consciousness?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/31/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:23–1:46:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheism and the existence of God; Soul, nafs and consciousness; Science, the universe and big questions
Question as asked: Can you do a video analysis on 'The Real God: An Epiphany'? It's by an atheist who makes a strong argument.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says atheists have strong points, but their case collapses at consciousness and quantum physics; atheism only works against Newtonian, institutional religion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that while atheists have strong arguments on many things, overall their case collapses when it comes face to face with consciousness.
Evidence, his words at 1:42:23: “i believe they have strong arguments on many things but overall it all collapses when it comes face to face with consciousness all of their arguments collapse” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=6143s)

## Did all prophets after Abraham come from his family?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/32/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:46:51–1:48:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles
Question as asked: The Quran does refer to them as chosen, implying there's something special about that particular line. I thought after Abraham prophets would be only from his line.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Quran nowhere limits prophets to Abraham's line, he says; the Israelites' favour is relative, and other peoples were favoured differently.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran nowhere says that prophets came only from Abraham's line.
Evidence, his words at 1:46:51: “you see it doesn't say in the quran that prophets were only from abraham's line doesn't say that anyway in the quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=6411s)

## Is Sidrat al-Muntaha a real tree?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/33/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:48:43–1:50:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Isra and Mi'raj; How to read the Quran
Question as asked: Is there a reason outside of hadith why the figure at the lote tree was determined to be Gabriel and not a theophany?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the lote tree, Sidrat al-Muntaha, is symbolic language and there is no literal tree.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the language of the lote tree, Sidrat al-Muntaha, is all symbolic and there is no tree.
Evidence, his words at 1:48:43: “sidratul muntaha this kind of language is all really symbolic there's nothing um it's just symbolism there is no tree people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=6523s)

## How did the Maliki school spread to North Africa and Spain?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/34/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:50:00–1:51:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Maliki school; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Question as asked: How did the Maliki madhhab move from the fiqh of central Arabia to the fiqh of North Africa?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school had already spread in Imam Malik's lifetime through North Africa to al-Andalus, and into Iraq, especially Basra.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school had spread in Imam Malik's lifetime all the way to the Iberian peninsula, through North Africa.
Evidence, his words at 1:50:00: “the maliki method had spread in imam malik's lifetime all the way to the iberian peninsula which was spain it went through via north africa” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=6600s)

## Is playing chess haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/35/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:51:49–1:53:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Entertainment, sport and leisure; The Maliki school
Question as asked: Is it true that in Imam Malik's view playing chess is haram? I thought chess was introduced to the Muslim world after the conquest of Persia.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, chess is not haram, he says; Imam Malik discouraged it as a waste of life but never called it haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says playing chess is not haram.
Evidence, his words at 1:51:49: “no playing chess is not haram um yeah chess wasn't there in the time of the prophet not amongst the immediate arabs” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=6709s)

## What does the Mufti think of the Naqshbandi Sufi order?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/41/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:23:08–2:24:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sufism and tasawwuf
Question as asked: What are your views on the Naqshbandi Sufi jamaat? I personally find them a bit out of it, like the Salafis: arrogant and a bit militant.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says many Sufi orders have become institutionalised and dogmatic, the very thing mysticism set out to defy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says many Sufi orders have become very institutionalised, the very monster they originally set out to defy.
Evidence, his words at 2:23:46: “being able to practice out of the box because mysticism was very out of the box but what they've just become is the very monster that they originally had set out to defy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=8626s)

## What does the Mufti think of Shaykh Dedew, and did Imam Ahmad dislike Abu Hanifa?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/42/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:24:25–2:26:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Question as asked: Why did Imam Ja'far and Imam Ahmad hate Imam Abu Hanifa? And, Mufti sahib, your thoughts on Shaykh Dedew [?]?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam Ahmad did say harsh things about Abu Hanifa, he says; of Shaykh Dedew, take his critical views and stay open-minded on his dogmatic ones.

## Does Islam teach us to show affection?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/43/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:26:50–2:28:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Character and virtue; The Indian subcontinent
Question as asked: Please speak about love and proof of affection, also the protection given by Raja Dahir [?] to the always persecuted Prophet's descendants on the run.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There are countless hadith on showing compassion and affection, he says, but he cannot follow the question about Raja Dahir.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there are countless hadith about showing shafaqa, compassion and affection.
Evidence, his words at 2:27:28: “where does it say in islam you should show affection that's an easy one i mean you know this comes in a son there's so many hadith about shafaka about being showing shafakar which is compassion affection” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=8848s)

## Was Adam's garden on earth or in heaven?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/45/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:30:31–2:31:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans
Question as asked: It doesn't say go down to earth; you infer that. Hence scholars like Ibn al-Qayyim [?] said the story was entirely on earth to begin with.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: the story of Adam took place on earth, he says; he was not beamed down from paradise.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the story of Adam obviously took place on earth, and that Adam and his wife were not beamed down.
Evidence, his words at 2:30:31: “yes many ulama felt this is on earth which obviously it was you know it was obviously on earth they weren't kind of beamed down” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=9031s)

## Who are the Ibadis and what does the Mufti think of them?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/46/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:31:10–2:37:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Atheists and polemicists
Question as asked: Thoughts on Ibadism?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Ibadis, an early and now peaceful offshoot of the Khawarij based in Oman, give a third tradition by which to cross-check claims, such as the Petra thesis.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Ibadis help form a kind of triangulation method in Islam because they are very early.
Evidence, his words at 2:31:10: “you see ibadis do help form a kind of triangulation method if we want in islam because they are very early” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=9070s)

## Can I pray in my car if I don't feel safe praying outside?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/47/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:37:32–2:38:10)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Work, study and daily routine
Question as asked: Is praying in a car allowed, either because of a particular job or not feeling safe praying in a parking lot?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: in the worst case, if you need to or do not feel safe praying outside, you can pray in your car.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in the worst case, if one needs to pray in a car or does not feel safe, one can.
Evidence, his words at 2:37:32: “you know worst case if you need to pray in a car you know if you're not feeling safe or things like that you can inshallah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=9452s)

## Are children held accountable in Islam for bullying or hurting others?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/48/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:38:10–2:39:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hudud and punishments; Raising children
Question as asked: How is it fair that kids are not held accountable when they cause lifelong harm to other kids, like bullying?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Children are accountable, he says, in a way suited to their age: the laws for them are lighter, but a child who harms another does not get a free pass.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says children are still accountable in their own way, commensurate with being a child, so the laws for them are more relaxed and less stringent than for adults.
Evidence, his words at 2:38:48: “they would still be accountable in their own way you understand so naturally the laws pertaining to children would be more relaxed and more less stringent than they would to adults” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=9528s)

## Does an Islamic judge always give the maximum punishment for theft?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/49/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:39:59–2:41:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hudud and punishments; Public law and governance
Question as asked: When a qadi in a criminal matter hands down judgment, for example for theft, does he give the maximum punishment or does he hand out less?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says a qadi would weigh the circumstances, much as courts in England do today, and that this is how the Sharia would work; the hudud would be different now.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a qadi's judgement would be not unlike how the courts work in England today, and that is how the Sharia would work, more or less.
Evidence, his words at 2:40:37: “yes he would take into consideration the circumstances it would be very it would be not different from how the courts work let's say in england today that would be how the sharia would work i mean more or less” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=9637s)

## Does the Quran use metaphors, like calling people angels?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/56/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:14:34–3:17:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 2:102 (https://quran.com/2/102); Quran 24:35 (https://quran.com/24/35); Quran 18:77 (https://quran.com/18/77); Quran 12:31 (https://quran.com/12/31)
Question as asked: You said in Surah al-Baqarah that the two angels there refer to saint-like kings. Does Allah use similar metaphors in other parts of the Quran?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, he says the Quran is full of metaphors, from God as light to the wall that 'wanted' to fall, and humans are called angels just as they are called devils.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there are many metaphors in the Quran, such as Allah saying he is light, which is not meant in a literal sense.
Evidence, his words at 3:15:43: “allah himself saying he is light he's the light that we see in the heavens um obviously we don't you know it's not a literal sense that's it's spoken as a metaphor” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=11743s)

## What do you think of Mu'awiya?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dynujs-dtmu/s/1/
Date: 2021-02-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muawiyah? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The companions; Succession and the first civil wars
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Amir Mu'awiya?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth highly respects Mu'awiya as a great figure and admires his statesmanship, citing a story of his generosity to a woman who favoured Ali.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he sees Mu'awiya as a great figure in Islam whom he highly respects.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “i uh see said iran as a great figure in islam i do highly respect him” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYnuJS-DTMU&t=0s)

## What counts as khamr, and is a drink with a little alcohol haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/4/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (23:50–29:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: What is an intoxicant, and how much does it have to cover the intellect to be khamr?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says khamr in the Quran meant wine; other drinks were haram only when they intoxicated like it, which was Abu Hanifa's position.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in Quranic terminology khamr was just wine.
Evidence, his words at 25:05: “in the quranic terminology hammer was just wine other drinks that came about are the kind of beers that were around” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=1505s)

## Was al-Ghazali against science and philosophy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/6/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (34:23–47:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Reason and revelation; Sufism and tasawwuf
Question as asked: Was Imam al-Ghazali against science and reason? Why was he against Greek philosophy?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Ghazali was not against reason at first, but after a crisis of faith he turned to ascetic mysticism, and through later Sufism this indirectly harmed the voice of reason.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is true that al-Ghazali's influence had a detrimental impact on the voice of reason, although he thinks it did so indirectly.
Evidence, his words at 44:35: “hence i would say yes it is true that imam razali uh his influence had a detrimental impact on the voice of reason although i think it did so indirectly” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=2675s)

## Were some of the great imams autistic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/7/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (47:04–49:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past
Question as asked: Don't you think a lot of religious figures were autistic?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Imam Ahmad and Imam al-Shafi'i were autistic, and suspects Ibn Taymiyya had bipolar or a psychotic disorder.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels people like Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Imam al-Shafi'i were autistic.
Evidence, his words at 47:04: “they definitely were i feel that uh people like imam ahmed ibn hambal imam shafi'i i feel they were autistic people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=2824s)

## Is it haram to watch Netflix?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/10/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (56:30–57:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Entertainment, sport and leisure
Question as asked: Is watching Netflix haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says watching Netflix is of course not haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that of course watching Netflix is not haram.
Evidence, his words at 57:10: “of course watching netflix is not haram what what a miserable life one would have if they lived in this day and age and did not watch some form of tv” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=3430s)

## Can al-Firabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, be trusted?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/11/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (57:47–1:00:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Narrator criticism
Question as asked: What is your opinion on al-Firabri, Muhammad ibn Yusuf?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Firabri deserves some suspicion: not evil, but not the great imam later generations made him.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Firabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari, is somewhat dubious and that there must be some level of suspicion towards him.
Evidence, his words at 58:17: “so he's somewhat dubious um i think i'm not saying he's evil or is bad or something but he's somebody there must be some level of suspicion” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=3497s)

## Is the Quran's verse about the stupor of death talking about DMT?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/12/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:00:54–1:07:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics
Cites: Quran 50:19 (the stupor of death brings the truth) (https://quran.com/50/19); Quran 50:22 (your sight this day is sharp) (https://quran.com/50/22); Quran 41:53 (We will show them Our signs until it becomes clear that it is the truth) (https://quran.com/41/53)
Question as asked: Could this ayah be speaking about DMT: 'the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to escape'?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the verse is not about DMT specifically, though the DMT death experience could relate to it; he sees psychedelics as a portal to the hereafter where legal.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think the verse is talking about DMT specifically, but that the DMT death experience could also relate to it.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:30: “do i think it's talking about dmt i don't think it's talking about dmt specifically but could i feel that the dmt death experience could also relate to that verse of course” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=3690s)

## What qualifications does Mufti Abu Layth have?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/13/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:07:09–1:10:12)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Personal stories and reflections
Question as asked: What is Mufti's educational background?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth lists degrees in psychology and education, an alim and mufti course and ijazahs, but says degrees mean little to him.

## Did the companions really see the angel Jibril as a man?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/14/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:10:12–1:12:41)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/12/; general teaching
Topics: Jinn, angels and the devil; Prophethood and miracles
Question as asked: How do you explain the Prophet and the companions seeing Gabriel in human form?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says only the Prophet saw Jibril, in a trance-like vision; companions who thought a stranger was Jibril were assuming.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that when the Prophet sees Jibril it is in a trance-like state, a vision the Prophet is having alone.
Evidence, his words at 1:10:12: “when the prophet sees jibril it's in this trance-like state people are not seeing it it's it's a vision that the prophet is having alone” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=4212s)

## Should I use water or toilet paper after going to the toilet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/16/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:22:19–1:27:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Purification
Question as asked: Which finger?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says a person should always clean with water after the toilet where possible, with paper only as a fallback.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a person should always, if possible, use water when cleaning after the toilet.
Evidence, his words at 1:22:51: “a person should always if possible use water water people water obviously if if you're stuck and you don't have water then you will uh use paper” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=4971s)

## Is it haram to use a sensory deprivation tank or meditation to hallucinate?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/17/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:27:50–1:29:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Spiritual experience and psychedelics
Question as asked: Is there any ruling on intentional hallucination-like experiences, like sensory deprivation tanks or meditation?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says using sensory deprivation tanks or meditation to bring on hallucinations is not haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think setting oneself up to hallucinate through sensory deprivation tanks or meditation is haram.
Evidence, his words at 1:28:29: “i don't think these things are haram if that's what you're asking do i feel this is haram no no um it isn't haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=5309s)

## What is Birmingham really like for Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/18/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:29:06–1:35:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Britain; Intoxicants and substances; Extremism, crime and justice
Question as asked: Is Birmingham a [crude word] hole?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth defends Birmingham but calls drugs a cancer in its Muslim community, and says cannabis should be legalised and regulated.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks several drugs should be legalised, especially things like cannabis.
Evidence, his words at 1:33:35: “drugs should be legalized i i do feel that you know especially things like cannabis and stuff like because it would just cut out this entire market and then it could be regulated” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=5615s)

## What accent does Mufti Abu Layth have?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/20/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:38:06–1:41:20)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Personal stories and reflections; Race, nation and identity
Question as asked: What is your accent?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he has no set accent, and that in Britain one can usually hear a caller's ethnicity in the texture of their voice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in the UK, with British English, one can usually tell a person's ethnicity over the phone from the texture of their voice.
Evidence, his words at 1:39:24: “but definitely over the phone you can tell you see in the uk with british english we can tell over the phone usually your ethnicity by listening to” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=5964s)

## Is it wrong in Islam to want to be rich?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/22/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:43:46–1:54:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Money and finance; Gratitude, giving and contentment; Imam Malik
Question as asked: How much is too much? What is the Islamic view of materialism versus asceticism? The Quran sends some signals against wealth but seems more about the abuse of wealth, with huge emphasis on giving from it.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Islam is not against wealth; what is haram is arrogance and looking down on others, and he encourages people to make money and enjoy it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Islam is not against the aggregation of wealth.
Evidence, his words at 1:44:52: “islam is not against the aggregation of wealth right so you know making money islam is fine with people making money” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=6292s)

## Is trading covered calls on stocks halal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/23/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:54:38–1:55:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Money and finance
Question as asked: Are covered calls in stocks halal or haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says covered calls are halal, and he does not consider any of today's regulated trades haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not feel any of today's trades are haram, since they operate within a framework of statutory regulation.
Evidence, his words at 1:55:17: “i do not feel any of them are haram okay they operate within a framework and greater statutory regulations that uh protect that framework” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=6917s)

## Why is Pakistan so full of religious extremism?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/24/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:55:56–2:04:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; Extremism, crime and justice; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Cites: Quran 9:38 (why do you cling to the earth when told to go forth) (https://quran.com/9/38)
Question as asked: Why is Pakistan full of crazy angry religious people? I thought Muhammad Jinnah was pro-education and pro-secular.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says religious militancy in Pakistan was boosted by the CIA-backed Afghan jihad against the Soviets and is still mass-produced by madrasa networks.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the CIA and the war against the Russians played a facilitating, enabling role in boosting the extremist tradition in Pakistan and the Islamic world, though they are not solely responsible.
Evidence, his words at 1:57:10: “the cia and the war against the russians you see you can't ignore the role that these people played now it's not entirely their fault they're not re solely responsible for the phenomenon but they played a facilitating enabling character” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=7030s)

## Why does every spiritual awakening story have a time of withdrawal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/25/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:04:12–2:05:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrative and story
Question as asked: Every awakening narrative seems to have an ascetic phase: Moses in the desert, Jesus in the forest, the Prophet in the cave, the Buddha under the tree.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees that the ascetic phase in awakening stories is an archetype, like Tolstoy's two plots.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the ascetic phase in awakening narratives is like an archetype.
Evidence, his words at 2:04:12: “yeah i mean these are like archetypes ain't they that you have uh” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=7452s)

## What was Mufti Abu Layth's madrasa in Pakistan like?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/26/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:05:32–2:10:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; Extremism, crime and justice; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Question as asked: How was your madrasa [?] in Pakistan?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says his madrasa's head was not hot-headed, and that Barelvi radicalism is recent while militancy has long existed in parts of the Deobandi world.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Barelvi scene in Pakistan has only recently become extreme.
Evidence, his words at 2:06:08: “you understand like so the brillvi scene in pakistan has only recently become extreme” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=7568s)

## Is it haram to hit someone in the face in boxing or MMA training?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/27/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:10:39–2:14:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Entertainment, sport and leisure; Raising children
Question as asked: What is the ruling on not hitting the face? Is it haram in the context of training?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says hitting the face in sparring is fine; the hadith against striking the face concerned discipline, not fighting practice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith about not hitting the face was about discipline, not about training or practising the art of fighting.
Evidence, his words at 2:13:41: “speaking on discipline mentioned that you shouldn't hit the face of each other oh it didn't say overchampion hit the face or just even casually with people but it wasn't talking about war training” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=8021s)

## Are the Prophet's parents in heaven or hell?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/28/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:14:22–2:15:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salvation and non-Muslims; The life of the Prophet
Question as asked: Are the Prophet's parents going to heaven or hell?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's parents are unquestionably among the saved.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's parents are unquestionably from the people of salvation.
Evidence, his words at 2:14:22: “the prophet's parents are unquestionably from people of salvation just as anybody before the prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=8062s)

## What happened between Mufti Abu Layth and a Moroccan shaykh?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/29/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:15:07–2:20:56)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/31/; general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics
Question as asked: What happened with you and that Moroccan shaykh?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says a Moroccan shaykh he once visited later called him deviant, and he responded by pointing to the shaykh's past conviction.

## What does Islam say about the red pill movement?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/31/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:33:58–2:45:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Masculinity and gender roles; Women in Islam
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on the red pill movement that's popular amongst men nowadays? They talk about female nature and hypergamy.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says hating on women, or men, is ridiculous, though he grants some red pill points about how society treats the sexes.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he finds hating on any gender, whether men or women, to be ridiculous.
Evidence, his words at 2:39:17: “but i i i find hating on any gender whether it's hating on men or hating on women to be ridiculous” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=9557s)

## Is Mufti Abu Layth a feminist?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/32/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:45:32–2:48:08)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: Women in Islam; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: Mufti, are you a male feminist?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he would like to think he is a feminist, though feminists seem not to like him.

## Is it haram to flip a coin to make a decision?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/36/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:16:17–3:22:43)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Speech and everyday conduct; Dreams and visions
Question as asked: Is flipping coins to decide things haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says flipping a coin is not haram, but important decisions should be made by reasoning, not by a coin or a dream.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says flipping coins is not haram.
Evidence, his words at 3:16:17: “no it's not haram flipping coins um clear shukran for the stars it's not haram to flip coins but i would say look” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=11777s)

## Can men wear gold?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/3/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (16:35–19:31)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/3/; general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; The life of the Prophet
Question as asked: Can men wear gold?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Men can wear gold, in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding; the Prophet discouraged it because Medina needed to stay on a war footing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that men can wear gold in his understanding.
Evidence, his words at 16:35: “Can men wear gold? Yes, I've answered that. Uh men can wear gold in my understanding” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=995s)

## Did the early Muslims respect the Torah and Bible, and are they corrupted?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/4/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (19:31–26:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture; Christians and other faiths
Question as asked: How did the Prophet and early Muslims view the Torah and Bible: as a source of knowledge, benefit, etc.? And did that view change over time?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Bible has changed in words, stories and translation, but Mufti Abu Layth says its core message is still valid and the Quran does not call it wholly corrupted.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in much of the Bible words, stories and translations would have changed, but its message would still be very much valid.
Evidence, his words at 25:38: “so much of it that would have happened but the message would still be very much valid that's my take on all of this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=1538s)

## Are near-death experiences real or just chemicals in the brain?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/5/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (26:13–31:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Soul, nafs and consciousness; Spiritual experience and psychedelics
Question as asked: What is your opinion on near-death experiences (NDEs): a gateway, or just chemicals in the brain?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth feels near-death experiences are real portals, not just brain chemistry, pointing to cardiac-arrest studies.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he definitely feels near-death experiences are valid portals and not just chemicals in the brain.
Evidence, his words at 26:48: “NDEs near-death experiences I definitely feel these are valid portals. These are not just” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=1608s)

## Is rejecting embarrassing hadith about the Prophet just whitewashing history?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/6/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (31:34–37:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; The age of Aisha; Atheists and polemicists
Question as asked: How would you respond to non-Muslims who say that disregarding any controversial hadith about the Prophet is an attempt to whitewash Islamic history?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the 'they would not invent it' argument is cogent at face value, but a fair critic must also ask who had a motive to fabricate a report.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, to be fair, one must ask whether one can think of any motive for people to have fabricated a hadith, which critics do not do or do not do fairly.
Evidence, his words at 33:56: “But can I as a person think of any motive for people to have fabricated that hadith? And you see this is what they don't do or they don't do fairly.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=2036s)

## Why not invite your critics to give their side of Islamic history?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/8/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (47:22–49:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: You should invite [the commentator] to talk about Islamic history. It's just not fair to hear your side and not the other.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says his account was analysis, not a 'side', and renews his standing invitation to the commentator to come on Mind Trap.

## Is it haram to have an anal swab test for COVID?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/9/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (49:09–55:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Medical questions; Covid-19
Question as asked: Is it permissible to have a COVID test done by an anal swab?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): An anal-swab COVID test is not haram, Mufti Abu Layth says, any more than a colonoscopy, if that is the test.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that a rectal swab test for COVID is permissible if that is the test, and that it is not haram.
Evidence, his words at 53:22: “So but the question is can is it is it permissible to to do that to have a swab test like that and the answer is of course if if that you know if that's the test that's the test” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=3202s)

## What do you think of Abdur Rahman Mangera?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/11/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:03:22–1:07:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Mufti Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls Abdur Rahman Mangera very talented and respectful, but says his thinking is ultimately closed Deobandi thinking.

## What do you think of Imam al-Shatibi?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/13/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:17–1:20:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; The Maliki school; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Question as asked: What's your opinion on Imam al-Shatibi?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls Imam al-Shatibi an absolute legend and the real founding father of maqasid, the objectives of the Sharia.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Shatibi really brought the objectives of the Sharia to life, so that everybody after him is indebted to him, and that he absolutely loves him for that.
Evidence, his words at 1:19:37: “it may have existed, but he really brings it to life and everybody after him is just indebted to him. So, yeah, I absolutely love him for that aspect.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=4777s)

## Does being fair to two wives mean treating them exactly the same?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/15/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:29:41–1:31:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Polygamy and mut'ah
Question as asked: What does justice between wives mean? Does it mean equal sex or just material things, or spiritual things? I cannot be equal in my feelings for both, but I still want to do polygamy.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Justice between wives is not mirror-image equality but fairness according to the understanding agreed, without oppression, Mufti Abu Layth says.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that justice between wives means a fairness based on the understanding the spouses have.
Evidence, his words at 1:30:37: “It means a fairness based on that understanding that you have. So whatever that fairness is. That's what it would would mean.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=5437s)

## Is the hadith that nobody will believe in Allah at the end of time authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/16/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:31:01–1:32:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; False and fabricated hadith
Question as asked: The hadith that describe the end of times say there will be no one left who believes in Allah. Is this a sahih hadith?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Most end-times hadith are made up, Mufti Abu Layth says, citing Imam Ahmad on genres with no basis.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that most hadith to do with the end of times are usually made up.
Evidence, his words at 1:31:01: “You see most hadith to do with the end of times these es um you know apocalyptic hadith most of them are usually made up.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=5461s)

## How can God be timeless and still perceive time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/25/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:48:29–2:50:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Dress and appearance
Question as asked: How can God be timeless and yet perceive time? Wouldn't that introduce time to the timeless state?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Linear time is our perspective, Mufti Abu Layth says, not necessarily how God sees events; he also says tattoos are not haram for men.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that perceiving events in linear time is our perspective and does not mean that time is like that.
Evidence, his words at 2:49:54: “so what I'm trying to say is it's perspective we perceive events in a linear state of time it does not mean that time is like that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=10194s)

## Is it haram to eat meat that is not halal-slaughtered, like a non-halal burger?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/p4qg7z3o8k4/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can we eat non halal burgers? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–3:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Food and drink
Question as asked: Can we eat non-halal burgers, meat that is not dhabiha?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Eating meat that is not dhabiha is not haram in Mufti Abu Layth's view, because its original purpose of separating Muslims from pagan sacrifice has lapsed. He still supports and advocates halal meat for its identity value and eats it himself.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that eating meat that is not dhabiha is not haram today, because the primary purpose of halal slaughter, distinguishing Muslims from those who offered meat to pagan gods, has lapsed, while he still supports and advocates halal meat for its remaining identity value.
Evidence, his words at 1:17: “if a person ate it i i don't feel it would be haram but i feel because of the identity factor we should stick to halal meat” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4QG7Z3O8k4&t=77s)

## Did Covid-19 come from the Wuhan lab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/5/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (18:58–21:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Covid-19
Question as asked: Be honest: are you here to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth denies spreading conspiracy theories but says Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan laboratory, in his view by accident rather than design, after being engineered there.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Covid-19 escaped, in his view accidentally and not as a plot, from the Wuhan laboratory where it had been engineered.
Evidence, his words at 19:34: “i think it accidentally kind of came out somebody accidentally got infected and it spread but they definitely were engineering it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=1174s)

## Why does the Quran seem focused on men, and why are two women witnesses needed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/6/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (21:34–30:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Women in Islam; Contested verses; Human origins
Cites: Quran 2:282 (two women witnesses for a debt, so that if one errs the other reminds her) (https://quran.com/2/282)
Question as asked: Why is the Quran so centred on men and not women, for example needing four women as witnesses?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran asks for two women witnesses only for debt contracts, because a lone woman was easier to intimidate, not because women are lesser; otherwise one woman equals one man, and the masculine address reflects historically patriarchal societies.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran's requirement of two women witnesses applies only to debt transactions, because a lone woman was easier to intimidate, and not because women are deficient, and that otherwise one woman's testimony equals one man's.
Evidence, his words at 23:18: “hence if there were two women it would complicate that process a bit so that's um and that so it's only to do with that otherwise one woman is equivalent to one man” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=1398s)

## Will the Mufti open an academy to train muftis?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/7/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (30:45–36:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Question as asked: Any more plans to make more muftis like you, who go by rationality and reasoning, for example an academy? The Islamic world needs more like you.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says founding an institution drains one's life and takes away the freedom to think and speak, and that online teaching and books reach more people.

## At what age should children start learning about Islam, and what should they learn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/8/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (36:00–39:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Raising children; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Question as asked: What is your view on religious education: when should it begin, what should the curriculum focus on, and what should a good Islamic education programme for children include?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Keep early religious education basic and natural, such as reading the Quran, the prayer and the stories of the prophets, with deeper study when children are older; he admits it depends on the child.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, as far as he can tell, it is fine for young children to learn only the basics, such as reading the Quran, the prayer and the stories of the prophets, with deeper teaching when they are older, while admitting he is unsure and that it depends on the child.
Evidence, his words at 39:21: “when they get a bit older then maybe teaching them things about islam and a more deeper insight that's what i'm thinking” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=2361s)

## Can I do tayammum instead of wudu if water makes my cough worse?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/9/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (39:55–41:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Purification
Question as asked: Can I do tayammum during the winter season, as my cough gets ridiculously bad even if I touch warm or hot water?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: tayammum is allowed for anyone with an excuse, and whether the excuse applies is for the person to judge.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says someone whose cough worsens with water may perform tayammum, since the Quran allows it for those with an excuse, and that the person judges for themselves whether the excuse applies.
Evidence, his words at 40:39: “if you need to do them you can do it look it's in the quran tiemoue is there as well okay so if you have an excuse it's your excuse to judge” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=2439s)

## If the Prophet couldn't forbid what Allah allowed, how can scholars issue fatwas?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/10/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (41:12–45:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 66:1 (why do you forbid what Allah has made lawful for you, seeking to please your wives) (https://quran.com/66/1)
Question as asked: Regarding Quran 66:1, 'why do you prohibit what Allah has made lawful for you', setting the hadith about it aside: if the Messenger himself is not allowed to declare things haram, how did the ulama justify jurisprudence and fatwas?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse rebukes the Prophet for forbidding himself something permissible to please others, not for legislating; things are permissible by default, so declaring something haram is a weighty step.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says 66:1 addresses the Prophet for forbidding himself something permissible to console others, not for legislating, and that because everything is permissible by default, declaring something haram is a weighty matter, while a prohibition lapses when its reason disappears.
Evidence, his words at 43:51: “you see things are permissible by default making them haram is is a big call okay” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=2631s)

## Is Prophet Shu'ayb the same as Jethro in the Bible?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/11/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (45:11–46:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; The ancient Near East and scripture
Question as asked: Is the Prophet Shu'ayb Jethro?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): At face value they seem to be the same person, since Moses goes to the priest of Midian in both accounts, but he says he has not researched it.

## If a lot of anything can intoxicate, does that make tiny amounts of alcohol haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/12/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (46:28–50:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; Individual hadith explained
Question as asked: Is the hadith in which the Prophet said that anything which intoxicates in a large amount is haram in a small amount authentic, since bananas and water intoxicate in large amounts?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The hadith refers to drinks that intoxicate in the amount normally drunk, so a little of such a drink is haram; foods with trace alcohol that cannot intoxicate are not covered.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith refers to drinks that intoxicate in the amounts normally drunk, so even a small amount of such a drink is haram, while foods with trace alcohol that cannot intoxicate in normal consumption are not covered.
Evidence, his words at 47:30: “that drink which much of intoxicates a small amount of it is equally haram but here when it says much of what does that mean that means what it much of in terms of what is casually drunk” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=2850s)

## Can a woman be an imam and lead the prayer?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/13/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (50:21–52:59)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Women in worship and mosques; Congregation, Friday and Eid prayer
Question as asked: Can a woman become an imam? If not, why? And why can men and women pray next to each other in the Kaaba?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: a woman can be an imam and her leading the prayer is valid, though whether it works in practice depends on her society accepting it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a woman can be an imam and her leading the prayer is permissible and valid, though whether imamship works in practice depends on whether her society accepts it.
Evidence, his words at 50:35: “she can become an imam islam is concerned but then imamship has certain interactions it's it's a working it's a working model” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=3035s)

## Do creation myths in other cultures share a source with the Islamic account?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/14/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (52:59–56:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans; The ancient Near East and scripture
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on the different creation myths in different cultures and the Islamic narratives of the universe's creation?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth feels the world's creation myths probably share a common origin, and suggests the name Adam predates Arabic and Hebrew, possibly from Sanskrit, though he is not sure.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says many cultures' creation myths seem to share a common origin, and that the name Adam is not of Arabic origin and may be older, possibly Sanskrit, though he is not certain.
Evidence, his words at 54:08: “one thing i don't buy that adam has arabic roots it's just later on it's made to match arabic roots but it's not an arabic word” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=3248s)

## Can a woman become a mufti?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/15/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (56:57–1:06:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to study Islam; Women in Islam
Question as asked: Can a woman become a mufti?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: anyone, a woman included, can become a mufti, but must persevere through often dogmatic institutions, in a field he says is neglected and lacks support.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a woman can become a mufti, that the field of Islamic scholarship is neglected and attracts little talent because it lacks support, and that anyone who wants to become a mufti must persevere through often dogmatic institutions.
Evidence, his words at 1:04:27: “anybody can become a a mufti um you know but it does require going through the studies and then you got a soldier through it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=3867s)

## How should I deal with the misogynistic things some scholars wrote about women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/16/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:06:10–1:15:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Women in Islam; The Maliki school
Question as asked: I have read sometimes some of the nonsense scholars have written about women, and it is very disheartening.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Do not let contemporary misogynists hijack your Islam, and read past scholars' views on women as reflections of their own age, which do not confine Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says contemporary misogyny should not be allowed to hijack one's Islam, and that past scholars' writings about women reflect their own age and do not confine Islam, which each age reflects in its own way.
Evidence, his words at 1:08:47: “when you read things of the past just know that this is their day and age this is not a reflection it doesn't um you know it doesn't capture or imprison islam within it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=4127s)

## What does the Mufti think of Pir Naseeruddin Naseer?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/17/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:15:25–1:16:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Sufism and tasawwuf
Question as asked: I wanted to ask your thoughts on Pir Naseeruddin Naseer.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Pir Naseeruddin Naseer was a widely respected authority across the spectrum of Sunnis.

## Would the Mufti make peace with Farid?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/24/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:52:26–1:56:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Question as asked: Would you start peace talks with Farid?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he holds no hatred for Farid and would return respect if shown it, but answers public takfir against him with mockery and sees no reason to stop.

## Should we throw away hadith altogether?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/28/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:22:31–2:25:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Question as asked: Mufti, hadith is cancer.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says the hadith tradition is a beautiful, unparalleled record of the Prophet that should be filtered for corrupted reports, not discarded.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith tradition is a beautiful and unparalleled record of the Prophet that should be filtered for the reports that became corrupted, not thrown away.
Evidence, his words at 2:23:25: “some infection crept in and it's our job to to to clean it but that's it i i don't say that you need to throw hadith away” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=8605s)

## Did Jesus really speak as a newborn baby in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/33/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:47:26–2:50:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran
Cites: Quran 19:29 (how can we speak to one who is in the cradle, a child) (https://quran.com/19/29)
Question as asked: Can you speak about Jesus speaking as a child?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not state that Jesus spoke as a newborn, and that the cradle verse points to the episode in Luke of the boy Jesus arguing with the Temple priests.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not state that Jesus spoke as a newborn, and that its reference to his speaking from the cradle as a boy points to the episode in Luke of the young Jesus arguing with the Temple priests.
Evidence, his words at 2:48:00: “jesus it doesn't mention he's speaking as a baby that's just inferred by people he actually says that kefanu who was a boy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=10080s)

## How could Abu Hurayra narrate 5,000 hadith after only two years with the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/34/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:50:05–2:59:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The companions; Narrator criticism; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Question as asked: Can you speak a bit about Abu Hurayra, who spent the last two years with the Prophet, his five thousand hadith, and Umar asking him to stop narrating hadith?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is implausible that Abu Hurayra narrated so much after about two years with the Prophet, that Umar restrained him, and that impossible reports such as the Ruqayya comb story should be rejected by Sunnis themselves.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is implausible that Abu Hurayra, who spent about two years with the Prophet, narrated some five thousand hadith, that false memories likely entered his reports, and that Sunnis should themselves reject reports that are factually impossible.
Evidence, his words at 2:50:19: “i definitely think that a lot of you know there was a lot of um maybe false memories being transmitted and stuff like that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=10219s)

## Will you discuss reincarnation with a guest on Mind Trap?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/3/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (11:43–15:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Soul, nafs and consciousness; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: I asked you about reincarnation once and you said you'd bring someone on Mind Trap to discuss it. Any updates?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is still looking for the right guest to discuss reincarnation on Mind Trap, and has only skimmed the Shia response a viewer mentions.

## Why are British politicians so bad at interviews?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/5/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (18:19–20:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Britain; Covid-19
Question as asked: Why are the English so bad at handling interviews?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the English are not bad at interviews: Boris Johnson is very intelligent and plays up his clumsiness, and the elite grew richer in the pandemic.

## Will you ever do a Mind Trap with Mohammed Hijab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/6/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (20:49–24:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: Do a Mind Trap with Muhammad Hijab.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth would welcome Mohammed Hijab on Mind Trap but doubts he would risk it, and would be glad to host Shaykh Imran Hosein.

## Does a bald woman have to wear hijab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/7/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (24:30–25:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Beard, moustache and hair
Question as asked: Do bald women have to wear hijab?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth gives no ruling: he jokes about the wording and muses on hair loss in women and men.

## What do you think of the Muslim community in Birmingham?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/8/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (25:37–29:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries; Islam and modernity
Question as asked: What do you think of the Muslim community, both Sunni and Shia, in Birmingham?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Muslim scene everywhere is suffering, and the youth do not listen to scholars because the scholars are irrelevant and outdated.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the youth are not listening to the scholars because the scholars are irrelevant and outdated.
Evidence, his words at 27:31: “but the truth is because you guys are irrelevant okay you are outdated” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=1651s)

## Are video games haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/11/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (37:12–38:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Entertainment, sport and leisure
Question as asked: Some imams are saying video games are haram.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Video games are not haram, Mufti Abu Layth says, and he plans to play some on future streams.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says video games are not haram.
Evidence, his words at 37:12: “some imams are saying video games are Haram no video games ain't Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=2232s)

## Does smoking break my wudu?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/12/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (38:30–40:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Purification
Question as asked: Do cigars break wudu?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Smoking does not break wudu, Mufti Abu Layth says; only relieving oneself and meaningful sexual activity do, not a peck on the cheek or eating.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says smoking does not break wudu.
Evidence, his words at 38:30: “so smoking does not break the woodoo it is only the only thing that breaks the woodoo is is relieving yourself” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=2310s)

## If money was earned in a haram way, is it haram for whoever receives it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/13/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (40:27–47:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Money and finance; Individual hadith explained
Question as asked: Please explain the concept of haram money.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Money is not haram in itself, Mufti Abu Layth says: the sin lies with whoever earned it unlawfully, not with someone who later receives it unknowingly.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says money in and of itself carries no intrinsic moral value; it is how it is earned that makes it haram or halal.
Evidence, his words at 41:05: “it is how you earn that money that is then that gives it a particular moral value” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=2465s)

## Who is Dr Abdul Majid, your Mind Trap guest?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/14/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (47:58–56:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Responses to critics
Question as asked: Who is Abdul Majid?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth will discuss BukhariGate with Dr Abdul Majid on Mind Trap, despite past hostile videos, and hopes it will be positive.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says swearing is not haram.
Evidence, his words at 52:27: “it's not like I say I don't swear I've said openly swearing is not Haram I mean I'm not swearing at someone” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=3147s)

## Will I go to hell for not shaving my pubic hair?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/16/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:38–1:06:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Purification; Beard, moustache and hair
Question as asked: Will a person who doesn't shave their private parts be in the deepest pits of hell, along with the moustache man?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Nobody goes to hell for not shaving pubic hair, Mufti Abu Layth says; it is a matter of hygiene, which religion tied to reward and closeness to God.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says nobody is going to hell for not shaving pubic hair; it is a hygiene matter.
Evidence, his words at 1:03:44: “nobody's going to hell for a mustache and nobody's going to hell for not shaving the uh pubic hair” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=3824s)

## What is the Ark of the Covenant in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/17/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:06:12–1:10:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; The ancient Near East and scripture
Cites: Quran 2:248 (https://quran.com/2/248)
Question as asked: What is the Ark of the Covenant in Islam, compared to other faiths?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran mentions the Ark (tabut) without saying what was in it, Mufti Abu Layth says; one early Maliki linguist described the sakinah in a way that resembles the cherubim.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran briefly mentions the Ark of the Covenant but it is not clear what the things in it were.
Evidence, his words at 1:06:12: “there's a brief in mention of uh this kind of Arc of the Covenant in the Quran but it's not clear what these things are” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=3972s)

## Is it halal to perform music or dance at concerts for a living?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/18/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:10:42–1:17:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Entertainment, sport and leisure; Women in Islam
Question as asked: Would it be halal to perform music or dancing at a concert? Would it be okay to make a living off it? Is it the same for men and women?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Dance is not haram in itself, Mufti Abu Layth says, but Muslim cultures look down on it as a profession, especially for women, so propriety should be kept in mind.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says dance in and of itself is not haram.
Evidence, his words at 1:11:21: “look dance in and of itself is not Haram but obviously there are sociocultural perspectives” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=4281s)

## What can I do if I can't afford to marry but want to avoid zina?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/19/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:06–1:24:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Marriage; Sexual ethics; Polygamy and mut'ah
Question as asked: What is the solution for people who don't have the means to marry, and avoiding zina?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth has no easy answer: religion is failing people here because scholars and cultures will not discuss options, and marriage has become too costly for the young.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says religion is failing people on this, not because it lacks the inbuilt mechanisms, but because scholars are not ready to have that conversation.
Evidence, his words at 1:17:35: “this is why religion is failing people and I'm not saying religion doesn't have the inbuilt mechanisms to deal with it but Scholars ain't ready” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=4655s)

## Why is it so hard to find real, honest people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/20/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:24:37–1:32:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Masculinity and gender roles; Social media; Divorce
Question as asked: It's hard to get to know people's true lives; it's so hard to find real, honest people.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says nobody fully knows anyone, social media feeds an endless search for someone better, and the appalling conduct of some Muslim men pushes women into hardline feminism.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the appalling attitude of some Muslim minority ethnic men in Britain unfortunately pushes many women into hardline feminism.
Evidence, his words at 1:28:14: “you can see why it unfortunately pushes so many women into this kind of Hardline feminism you can see it sometimes why because the attitude of some of these men it's appalling” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=5294s)

## Why does Islam describe Paradise in such sensual terms?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/21/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:32:09–1:33:27)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell
Question as asked: Why is Paradise in Islam described in such sensuous terms?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Paradise is described sensually because that imagery works for people, Mufti Abu Layth says, meaning it functionally rather than cynically.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Paradise is described sensuously because it sells, in a functional rather than a bad sense.
Evidence, his words at 1:32:48: “I don't mean that in a bad way although I suppose it can be understood about but it's in a functional way that this works” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=5568s)

## How do I find the true Sunnah in the hadith books?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/22/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:33:27–1:34:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Question as asked: How to find true Sunnah from hadith books?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The true Sunnah does not clash with reason, the Quran or Islamic principles, Mufti Abu Layth says, and the safer way is to take it from fiqh.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the true Sunnah does not clash with reason, does not go against the Quran and does not uproot an Islamic principle.
Evidence, his words at 1:33:58: “it doesn't clash with [Music] reason doesn't go against the Quran it doesn't upro an Islamic principle” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=5638s)

## Why don't you open an Islamic academy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/23/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:34:36–1:37:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Question as asked: Have you thought of building an academy with more knowledgeable muftis with reasoning?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth will not open an academy because he feels institutions consume their founders and religion is a hard market to sustain one in.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels institutions and academies suck the soul and life out of an individual.
Evidence, his words at 1:35:18: “you see institutions acmy they I feel kind of suck the soul and life out of an individual” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=5718s)

## How does Ibn Rushd compare to other critical-minded scholars?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/31/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:27:24–2:30:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Reason and revelation; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Question as asked: How does Ibn Rushd compare to [?] and [?]?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Rushd is the most philosophical and most inclined to reason of the critical-minded scholars, Mufti Abu Layth says, and steadier in temperament than one he calls quick to takfir.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Rushd is more inclined towards reason than the other critical-minded scholars he was asked about, though all of them are critical-minded.
Evidence, his words at 2:28:03: “I Rush is more inclined towards reason than the others the others are all of these are inclined to some reason” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=8883s)

## Do I pay zakat again on savings that haven't grown?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/32/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:30:37–2:33:07)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Zakat and charity
Question as asked: If I have savings and I pay zakat on them, but by next year they have stayed the same, do I pay zakat on them again or only on the increase?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Zakat is due again each year on the same savings, Mufti Abu Layth says, giving it as what is technically said.

## How do I explain to someone why believing in God matters?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/33/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:33:07–2:34:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheism and the existence of God; Soul, nafs and consciousness
Question as asked: I was recently asked why it matters if I believe in a God or not. I answered using the purpose of life as my main argument and left it without engaging too much. It made me think about how one can approach this subject with someone who is different when it comes to belief in God.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth believes consciousness is the modern gateway back to God, and that following it will lead there.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he honestly believes the modern gateway to God is through consciousness.
Evidence, his words at 2:33:07: “the modern portal and Gateway to God is through Consciousness I honestly do” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=9187s)

## Can I say Prophet Yusuf was more handsome than Prophet Muhammad?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/34/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:34:28–2:36:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Prophethood and miracles
Question as asked: I fell in love with the story of Yusuf and told people how amazing he is, but then I came across hadiths about how the Prophet himself said he had a better story than Yusuf.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Praising Yusuf's beauty takes nothing from the Prophet Muhammad, Mufti Abu Layth says; the prophets are not in a competition.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the prophets are not in a competition, so saying Yusuf was especially handsome does not require insisting the Prophet Muhammad was more handsome.
Evidence, his words at 2:36:10: “does it have to mean the prophet was also stronger you know doesn't it's not a competition so if you say yfam was incredibly you know the most uh you know so handsome” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=9370s)

## Is it haram to eat with my left hand?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/35/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:36:50–2:43:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Individual hadith explained; Food and drink
Question as asked: Could you talk about the man who was eating with his left hand whom the Prophet told to eat with his right hand? I'm left-handed and people are always telling me it should be easy to switch. I use my right hand for food you can eat with your hand and my left for utensils; it's hard to handle a utensil with your non-dominant hand.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Eating with the left hand is not haram, Mufti Abu Layth says; the right hand is good etiquette taught to a child, so do it if you can.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says eating with the left hand is not haram.
Evidence, his words at 2:42:40: “but I'm just saying if you can't fine eat with the left hand it's not Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=9760s)

## Why did Moses have to strike the sea with his staff for it to part?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/36/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:43:20–2:45:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Quran and science
Question as asked: What is your understanding of Moses being instructed to strike the sea with his staff for it to part and save the Children of Israel?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The sea did not part instantly but over a long while, Mufti Abu Layth says; striking it showed the Israelites the way would be through it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the sea did not just part; it took a long while.
Evidence, his words at 2:43:20: “the general description is that the sea didn't just part it took a long while” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=9800s)

## Is America really as wild as you say?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/4/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (21:37–25:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary
Question as asked: They are not crazy; the news is wholly sensational. They are not as wild as Saudi, the Levant or South Asia, and they are the beacon of innovation. The wealth gap is a global phenomenon. I think you need to live in the US a few years; the views you shared are naive, with all due respect.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he was not dissing the US, but that it is a paradox: great wealth and innovation alongside poverty, no free health care and routine school shootings.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the perception of the United States is sometimes quite deceptive.
Evidence, his words at 23:55: “not dissing it i was saying that you see the united states is sometimes the perception of the united states is quite deceptive” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=1435s)

## What do you think of a particular Salafi preacher?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/6/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (30:07–32:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Salafism and Wahhabism
Question as asked: What is your opinion of [name unclear in the captions]?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): From what he has heard, he says the preacher is generally level-headed and balanced within the Salafi dawah, though he has not followed him closely.

## Has Islam become more polarised between puritans and liberals?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/8/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (35:08–39:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: Do you believe that Islam in the post-modern era has become more polarized between the puritans and the liberals?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, he says Islam is far more polarised today than historically, but he is optimistic it is a fever through which a more natural Islam can return.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Islam has become massively polarized in the modern age, in many ways much more than historically.
Evidence, his words at 35:36: “islam has become massively polarized in this modern age in many ways much more than it has historically” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=2136s)

## Are king prawns halal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/10/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (44:32–49:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Food and drink; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; The Maliki school
Cites: Quran 6:145 (I do not find in what was revealed to me anything forbidden ...) (https://quran.com/6/145)
Question as asked: I've been told king prawns aren't halal. What does Islam say?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, prawns are halal: in the school of Medina everything from the sea is halal, and only the pig is haram by its nature.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in Islam everything in the sea is halal, according to the school of Medina.
Evidence, his words at 45:58: “so in islam everything in the sea is halal okay that's according to the school of medina” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=2758s)

## Who is Surah al-Munafiqun about?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/11/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (49:28–50:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Surah al-Munafiqun (https://quran.com/63)
Question as asked: Who is Surah al-Munafiqun actually referring to? I'd appreciate a clarification on this.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says that, though the verses are general, Surah al-Munafiqun referred at the time to the hypocrites of Medina.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, although the verses are general, Surah al-Munafiqun would at the time have referred to the hypocrites within Medina.
Evidence, his words at 50:05: “in general the munafer even though the verses are general but it would be referring at the time to the monafine within medina” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=3005s)

## What do you think of Shaykh al-Sha'rawi?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/12/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (50:44–51:30)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tganlc0x_ii/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: What are your generally positive thoughts on Shaykh al-Sha'rawi?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His thoughts on al-Sha'rawi are positive, though he says he has not been influenced by him.

## What do you think of Harun Yahya and his books?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/13/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (51:30–59:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran and science; Dawah and debate culture; Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: What about Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Harun Yahya's scientific-miracles books spread a lot of wrong information, and mocks the 1,000-year sentence given to Adnan Oktar.

## Why can't there be any prophets after Muhammad?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/16/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:06:52–1:13:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Individual hadith explained
Question as asked: If Muhammad saw prophethood in his son Ibrahim, then shouldn't it theoretically be possible for future prophets? Why would Allah stop revelation and stop talking to us?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says no new prophet or world religion will come after Muhammad; the statement about his son Ibrahim, if true, was hyperbole.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the statement that the Prophet's son Ibrahim would have been a prophet had he lived is, if true, hyperbole.
Evidence, his words at 1:07:32: “would have been a prophet if true is simply an a kind of hype it's hyperbole it's a hyperbolic statement” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=4052s)

## Will you critique Sahih Muslim like you did al-Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/17/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:13:01–1:14:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith collections and their history
Question as asked: When is MuslimGate coming out? Do you have criticisms of Sahih Muslim?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth chose al-Bukhari, not Muslim or others, because it is the symbol of the Salafi-Wahhabi legacy; that is the fortress he wanted to take on.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he went for al-Bukhari because it has become the symbol of the legacy of Islam as promoted by the Salafis and Wahhabis.
Evidence, his words at 1:13:41: “because it's become the symbol of denouncing the the legacy of islam as promoted by the salafia the wahabia this is why i took it apart” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=4421s)

## Why would God stop sending revelation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/18/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:59–1:16:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dreams and visions; Prophethood and miracles
Question as asked: Why would Allah stop revelation?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Revelation as a religion has ended, he says, but the Prophet said it continues in dreams, which can guide a person but are not for preaching.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet did not say revelation per se ends, but that revelation in its formal manner as a religion ends.
Evidence, his words at 1:14:59: “the prophet didn't say that revelation per se ends but revelation in its um formal manner as a religion ends” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=4499s)

## Why wasn't the Quran compiled as a book in the Prophet's time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/19/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:16:57–1:20:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; How to read the Quran
Question as asked: When the Prophet passed away, didn't it sound like there was an emphasis during his time to preserve the Quran in writing? Hadiths claim it was a difficult feat. Does the Quran declare itself a revelation for all times? Does the language of the Quran lend itself towards universal use or temporal context?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran was written but not bound as a book in the Prophet's lifetime because it was dynamic, allowing variations that did not change its meaning.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would feel the Quran was not collected as a book because it was dynamic in nature, allowing substitutable variations that did not change the meaning.
Evidence, his words at 1:18:51: “i would say that the fact that the quran wasn't all collected as a book was because the quran was dynamic in its nature that it allowed certain” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=4731s)

## Does the Quran clearly forbid homosexuality?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/20/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:20:42–1:24:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Sexual ethics
Cites: Quran 5:38 (the thief's hand) (https://quran.com/5/38)
Question as asked: Does the verse [?] clearly prohibit homosexual acts, or is there another understanding of the verse and the story of Lut?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran has no explicit prohibition of homosexuality, though most Muslims have held it haram; he thinks the aim was to push people into marriage.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is nothing in the Quran that explicitly prohibits homosexuality, though it may target it implicitly.
Evidence, his words at 1:20:42: “it is true there is nothing in the quran that um explicitly prohibits just targets homosexuality explicitly so it it may implicitly” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=4842s)

## Should I study at Dar al-Mustafa in Yemen or at al-Azhar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/21/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:24:32–1:28:13)
Status: answer to a specific questioner, not a general ruling
Topics: How to study Islam
Question as asked: Would you recommend studying at Dar al-Mustafa in Yemen or al-Azhar?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth would not go to Yemen now because it is unstable; al-Azhar is still an option, and short stints abroad after local study may be best.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Yemen is not a very stable location right now and he does not think it would be very wise to go there.
Evidence, his words at 1:25:11: “is not a very stable location so um i don't i don't think it'd be very wise going there and you'd probably just be stuck” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=5111s)

## Can a woman lead the prayer or give the khutbah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/24/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:34:44–1:37:49)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/13/; general teaching
Topics: Women in worship and mosques; Congregation, Friday and Eid prayer
Question as asked: Can women lead prayer, make adhan, give khutbah, etc.?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, he says a woman may lead the prayer, give the adhan or the khutbah; it is not invalid, it is just generally not done.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe it is haram or invalid for a woman to lead the prayer, give the khutbah or be the imam.
Evidence, his words at 1:36:31: “i don't believe it's haram i don't believe it's invalid for a woman to lead the prayer um or for her to give a khutbah or to be the imam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=5791s)

## Am I doing wrong if I follow a minority opinion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/25/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:37:49–1:40:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Authenticating hadith; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: Isn't there a hadith which says the majority of my ummah doesn't agree on error? Does it mean we are doomed if we follow minority opinions?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the hadith is weak, and even its valid meaning is about the whole ummah agreeing, not about majorities, so following a minority view is not doom.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith that the ummah will not agree upon misguidance is unfortunately weak, although its meaning is kind of valid.
Evidence, his words at 1:38:28: “this hadith is unfortunately a weak hadith although its meaning is kind of valid that the entire ummah will not agree” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=5908s)

## Can I work as a recruiter if some of the jobs are in banking?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/26/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:40:10–1:41:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Work, study and daily routine; Money and finance
Question as asked: What about working as a recruiter, where some of the jobs one could recruit for are in banking? Should one rather steer clear of working for such a company?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, he says one may work as a recruiter for such a company; it is not haram in his understanding.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says one may work for such a company and that these things are not haram in his understanding.
Evidence, his words at 1:40:50: “one may work for such a company indeed indeed these things are not haram in my understanding” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=6050s)

## Why do you call yourself a Maliki?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/27/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:41:27–1:46:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Maliki school; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: Why do you call yourself Maliki?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls himself Maliki because he follows the lens of the school of Medina: the Quran at the centre, Medinan practice, reason and the aims of the shari'ah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the school of Medina placed the Quran centrally, gave precedence to the inherited practice of Medina and held reason to be vital.
Evidence, his words at 1:42:06: “in the school of medina it was about placing the quran centrally and then the inherited practice of medina took precedence and reason was always vital in determining that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=6126s)

## If you deny the evil eye, why do you cite scholars who believed in it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/28/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:46:32–1:50:22)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Scholars and imams of the past
Question as asked: Why is it, if you deny the evil eye, that you still associate with and allude to scholars like Ibn Ashur or Imam Malik who may have accepted the evil eye?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says scholars who believed in the evil eye were following the science of their day, and one does not take science from them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the evil eye was the science of the day, based on the belief that the eye shoots out rays, rather than a matter of religion for them.
Evidence, his words at 1:47:10: “the evil eye was something that was the science of the day and age” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=6430s)

## Could Socrates or the Buddha have been prophets?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/29/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:50:22–1:51:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles
Question as asked: Your views on influential people in history that could be prophets, e.g. Socrates, Plato, Buddha?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth believes figures such as the Buddha, Socrates and Zarathustra could have been prophets, though we cannot know since Islam does not mention them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes figures such as the Buddha and Socrates could have been prophets, though we just don't know.
Evidence, his words at 1:50:22: “i believe socrates could have been a prophet in fact his whole thing is quite prophetic uh confucius could have been um i don't what i'm saying is that we just don't know” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=6622s)

## Why do clever preachers stay stuck in dogmatism?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/30/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:51:38–1:58:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Reason and revelation
Question as asked: Opinion on Abdul Rahman Hassan? He seems very intelligent, masha'Allah; why is he stuck in this dogmatism?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says knowing a lot is not the same as reasoning well; much of the dogmatist scene relies on rote learning, and Zakir Naik has done Islam real damage.

## Will you invite Javed Ahmad Ghamidi onto Mind Trap?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/32/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:11:08–2:19:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Guest conversations
Question as asked: Have Javed Ahmad Ghamidi on Mind Trap.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says, as his personal view, that Ghamidi himself is down to earth, but the team around him is protective and hard to reach; Dr Shehzad Saleem is the exception.

## What do you think of a particular online activist?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/33/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:19:13–2:22:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on [name unclear in the captions]?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth warns that anyone who says Muslims need to take over the world should set alarm bells ringing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that anybody who tells you that we need to take over the world should set alarm bells ringing.
Evidence, his words at 2:21:08: “anybody who's just after political you know global domination anybody who tells you that we need to take over the world” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=8468s)

## What was the hardest time of your life?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/35/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:29:34–2:38:30)
Status: answer to a specific questioner, not a general ruling
Topics: Personal stories and reflections; Resilience in hardship
Question as asked: Would you mind telling us what was the saddest part of your life, and how did it change you?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Is process theology compatible with the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/37/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:48:51–2:51:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Philosophy and ideas
Question as asked: Do you think that process-relational theology, as theorized by John Cobb and Griffin, is compatible with the Quranic worldview?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says its idea that God depends on creation as creation depends on God is not the Quranic worldview.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the process-relational idea that God is dependent on creation as creation is dependent on God is not the Quranic worldview.
Evidence, his words at 2:50:42: “so god is kind of dependent on creation as creation is dependent on god that isn't the quranic worldview” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=10242s)

## What does Islamic law say about the harms of social media?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/38/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:51:22–2:52:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Social media; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: Don't know if you've seen The Social Dilemma. I wonder if you could explain whether fiqh has any relevance to this phenomenon, and in what manner it might be classified, given that secular society is only just beginning to discuss the damaging impact of these?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees fiqh is out of sync with problems like social media's harms and needs updating.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says fiqh is definitely out of sync and needs to catch up and be updated.
Evidence, his words at 2:51:22: “yeah ferc is definitely out of sync it needs to catch up it needs to be updated” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=10282s)

## Is it unfair that some are born Muslim, and is God's throne literal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/39/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:52:39–2:54:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Salvation and non-Muslims
Cites: Quran 11:7 (His throne was upon the water) (https://quran.com/11/7)
Question as asked: Do you think it's unfair that some people were born Muslim whilst others weren't, and that God says in the Quran that he guides whom he wills? My second question is why God sits on his throne on water; is that non-literal?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 2:52:39: “it just speaks about that the throne is the that the lord established himself over the throne meaning that the kingdom is his” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=10359s)

## Is tahajjud the best way to get close to God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/40/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:54:37–2:56:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Mindfulness and presence
Question as asked: Is the tahajjud prayer, waking and praying at night to worship, the best way to gain favour with Allah and attain closeness? Is the hadith that this is the best time to ask God true?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Night prayer is one good way, he says, but God is always with you; if your lifestyle does not suit it, another practice that works for you is fine.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says God is not restricted to certain times or places but is always with you.
Evidence, his words at 2:54:37: “god is not restricted to certain temporal spatial uh availability he is always with you” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=10477s)

## Is the hadith 'if there were a prophet after me it would be Umar' authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/41/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:56:34–3:02:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: False and fabricated hadith; The companions
Question as asked: One hadith says the Prophet said if there was a prophet after me it would be Umar. For some reason my mind wrestles with this; the Prophet should know the Quran better than the companions.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith is a fabrication, made up to glorify Umar; one may revere Umar and still disagree with his opinions.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith 'if there were a prophet after me it would be Umar' is not an established hadith from the Prophet but a fabrication.
Evidence, his words at 3:01:30: “so just to explain that this hadith is not an established hadith from the prophet sallam is a fabrication” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=10890s)

## Why was Ibn Taymiyya put in prison?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/j9nb1elq56y/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why Ibn Taymiyyah was in jail? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–8:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Apostasy and blasphemy
Question as asked: Why was Ibn Taymiyya in jail?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Taymiyya made powerful enemies by declaring Muslims kafir, and Maliki judges finally jailed him over his fatwa, voiced by his student in Jerusalem, that one may not travel to visit the Prophet's grave. Mufti Abu Layth calls the view foolish but says no one should be punished for an opinion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Taymiyya was imprisoned over his fatwa that one may not travel to visit the Prophet, an opinion he calls foolish but says should not be punished, since people should not be persecuted over religious differences.
Evidence, his words at 7:32: “although i disagree with locking people up and stuff like that and i i do feel his opinion is dumb but i don't feel you can punish them over it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9NB1eLQ56Y&t=452s)

## Do I have to go to jumu'ah every Friday if I live in a non-Muslim country?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r196cq7qkay/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-07 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is it mandatory for Muslims to go to Jummah | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–2:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Congregation, Friday and Eid prayer
Question as asked: Is it mandatory to go to jumu'ah every Friday?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In his understanding jumu'ah is not mandatory on each individual in countries like the UK that are not Muslim countries, though holding it communally is good.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not feel jumu'ah is mandatory on each individual in countries that are not Muslim countries, such as the UK.
Evidence, his words at 1:20: “therefore is Juma mandated in this country I would say that it's I don't feel it's mandated I don't feel it's mandatory” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r196CQ7qkaY&t=80s)

## If I sleep late and wake up at asr, can I pray the missed prayers together then?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/2/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (8:22–10:15)
Status: latest answer on its topic; answer to a specific questioner, not a general ruling
Topics: Missed prayers; Schools of law and following them
Question as asked: I go to sleep very late so I sleep through and join the prayers together when I wake up at asr time.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): If you wake at asr after sleeping late, pray when you wake; he says the religion is meant to be easy, as the Prophet taught.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if someone who sleeps late wakes up at asr time, that is when they pray, as the hadith says: when you wake up, pray.
Evidence, his words at 8:45: “If that's when you wake up, that's when you wake up. You know, when you, as the hadith says, when you wake up, then pray.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=525s)

## Is the great reset or a depopulation plot real?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/4/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (14:02–16:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary
Question as asked: Great reset and depopulation thoughts?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he does not believe in a great reset or depopulation plot by governments, though some individuals may wish for such a thing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think anything like a great reset plot is at play with governments, and that he does not buy into such conspiracies.
Evidence, his words at 15:48: “I don't think anything like this is at play with the governments and things like this. I don't buy into any of those kind of conspiracies.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=948s)

## Which hadith book is the most authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/6/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (17:21–20:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith collections and their history; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The Muwatta and the Mudawwana
Question as asked: What is the most authentic hadith book?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth takes each hadith on its merits rather than trusting one book; if anything, he would call Imam Malik's Muwatta the most authentic.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would not single out a particular hadith book, taking each hadith on its merits, but if anything he supposes he would call the Muwatta of Imam Malik the most authentic.
Evidence, his words at 19:16: “I would not advocate a particular book uh I would say if anything the the most classic book we have of hadith is the m of IM Malik” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=1156s)

## Can we call coronavirus the UK virus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/7/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (20:22–24:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Covid-19; Britain
Question as asked: Can we start calling coronavirus the UK virus, since it originates from there?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the virus did not originate in the UK, which only has a mutation; he believes it came from the Wuhan lab, though not on purpose.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the coronavirus came from the Wuhan lab and was manipulated there, though not released on purpose.
Evidence, his words at 22:27: “I do believe still that it was um it was the kind of result of laboratory kind of work. I think that the corona virus came from the Wuhan lab.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=1347s)

## Is it haram for a mother to kiss her child on the lips?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/8/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (24:28–31:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Parents, children and family; Social media
Question as asked: A video of a mother who makes videos to raise awareness about Down syndrome, criticised as haram for kissing her child on the lips.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is nothing haram in a mother kissing her child; he says the haram lies in the perverted comments, and the Prophet kissed his grandsons.

## Can I take a mortgage, and can I urinate standing up?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/10/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (36:22–40:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Purification
Question as asked: I have a question on two things: one is mortgage, one is urine. Can I undertake a riba mortgage? Can I urinate standing up? What does Islam say about these topics?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Bank interest is not the Quran's riba in his understanding, and urinating standing up is fine, with care over splashing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, the riba of the Quran refers to loan-sharking and not to regular bank interest.
Evidence, his words at 38:14: “my understanding is that ribba is not ribba of the Quran is referring to loan sharky. It is not referring to regular interest that that takes place in the banks.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=2294s)

## Do I lose good deeds if I keep a dog as a pet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/11/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (40:04–48:31)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Animals and pets; Purification; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Question as asked: Do you think one would lose good deeds by owning a dog for pleasure?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, owning a dog does not cost you reward; he reads the dog hadith as hygiene measures against diseases like rabies, citing Ibn Rushd al-Jadd.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says owning a dog does not make you lose rewards.
Evidence, his words at 40:53: “So, you mean can you own a dog? Uh does it impact do you lose rewards? No, you don't.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=2453s)

## Was the woman who refused the Prophet in Bukhari's divorce chapter his wife?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/12/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (48:31–54:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Scholars and imams of the past
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 5255 (give yourself to me; does a queen give herself to a commoner) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5255)
Question as asked: In a previous video you cited a hadith of the Prophet entering the home of a woman who refused his advance. But does the fact that the hadith is in the book of talaq mean she was his wife?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The chapter's reports are confused and defenders strain to reconcile them; he says hadith scholars, like doctors, were institutionalised in their field.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that most scholars of Islam in the past who were invested in a particular field were institutionalised by it and did not critique it the way an outsider does, though a few thought out of the box.
Evidence, his words at 53:07: “Those who were invested in a particular field were institutionalized by that field. They don't critique it the same way as somebody that's looking at it from outside of the box does.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=3187s)

## How can we stop Salafi ideas from dominating how people see Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/13/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (54:29–1:00:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Sunni-Shia dialogue; Extremism, crime and justice
Question as asked: How to stop the spreading of Salafi ideas that dominate the public opinion on Islam, hadith, extremism, everything?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Denounce every preacher of hatred, Shia or Salafi, and spread a reasoned narrative; he feels the Salafi dawah is already losing ground.

## Is the story of Lilith in the Bible?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/16/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:18–1:16:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture
Question as asked: Is the Lilith story in the Bible?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the story comes from Jewish commentary on Genesis; the Bible only names Lilith vaguely in Isaiah as an evil spirit.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the exact story of Lilith is not in the Bible but in the mythology surrounding Genesis, though her name appears in the book of Isaiah.
Evidence, his words at 1:14:48: “So the exact story of Lilith is more mentioned in the kind of uh mythology surrounding Genesis.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=4488s)

## Do you believe in miracles?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/17/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:16:33–1:24:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles
Cites: Quran 88:17-20 (do they not look at the camel, the sky, the mountains and the earth), paraphrased (https://quran.com/88/17-20); Quran 17:90-93 (Quraysh demand springs and signs; say: am I anything but a human messenger?), paraphrased (https://quran.com/17/90-93)
Question as asked: You say that miracles aren't real; why do you say this?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth accepts miracles in the sense of life's wonders and timely help, but says God does not break His laws of nature and the supernatural signs failed their stated purpose.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says God does not break his laws of nature, because they are his laws.
Evidence, his words at 1:19:13: “Now, I have explained that God does not break his laws of nature because they are his laws. Why would he tell us to go and learn from nature?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=4753s)

## If miracles don't break nature's laws, what is the point of miracles?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/19/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:29:58–1:33:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Dawah and debate culture
Question as asked: Somebody may ask, what then is the point of miracles?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Belief does not need supernatural miracles; private belief in them is fine, but preaching them as standard Islam damages Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims may privately believe in supernatural miracle stories, though he does not think they are correct; his only problem is when they are preached as standard Islam.
Evidence, his words at 1:32:09: “I will say that I don't believe they're correct but I'm not going to try to force you or strongarm you. My only problem is when you preach them as standard Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=5529s)

## Will Hamza Tzortzis or Nouman Ali Khan come on Mind Trap?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/20/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:33:00–1:35:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Guest conversations
Question as asked: Are Hamza Tzortzis and Firas Zahabi friends of yours? Mind Trap? What about Nouman Ali Khan?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth would love to host them on Mind Trap and will resume after his Covid recovery; Shady Nasser has agreed to come on.

## As an actor, are there scenes that would be haram for me to perform?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/22/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:44:35–1:45:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Entertainment, sport and leisure
Question as asked: As an actor, would there be any scenes to perform that would be haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth jokes rather than answers, saying he could think of one or two such scenes.

## Is it haram to celebrate my birthday?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/23/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:45:33–1:50:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Non-Muslim festivals and greetings; Friendship and social life
Question as asked: Is there a real basis to not celebrating one's birthday?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Celebrating birthdays is fine and entirely your choice; he also recommends older friends for perspective when age brings anxiety.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is absolutely fine to celebrate your birthday if you want to, since there is no religion attached to it.
Evidence, his words at 1:45:33: “It is absolutely fine to celebrate your birthday if you want to.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=6333s)

## Will Lupe Fiasco come on Mind Trap?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/24/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:50:48–1:51:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: World-renowned Muslim rapper Lupe Fiasco follows your Instagram and seems to be a fan of your work. Have you thought about having him on Mind Trap?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Lupe Fiasco has agreed in principle, and Mufti Abu Layth says he will follow it up.

## Can a Christian really speak with God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/25/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:51:46–1:57:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Atheism and the existence of God; Salvation and non-Muslims
Question as asked: My Christian stepdad says he speaks with God. He told me other people he knows do too. I believe Islam brings us closer to God. What are your thoughts?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Anyone can have a direct line to God whatever they call Him; he says the atheist one-god-further argument is a fallacy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes that anybody and everybody has a direct line to Allah, whatever they call him.
Evidence, his words at 1:52:12: “God is not the God just of Muslims or of Islam. I believe that anybody and everybody has that direct line to Allah whether they call him God” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=6732s)

## What does rightly guided caliph mean, and did Muawiya see Ali as one?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/26/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:57:08–2:05:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; The companions; Caliphate
Question as asked: Can you explain what does rightly guided caliph mean? Are you saying Muawiya thought Imam Ali was rightly guided when he went to war against him?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The term rashidun came later; he thinks Muawiya saw Ali as more pious but himself as the better ruler, and that piety and governing skill rarely coincide.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his assessment, Muawiya would have thought that from a political perspective he could run the show better than Ali.
Evidence, his words at 2:00:25: “But from a political perspective, I think Muawia would have thought that he can run the show better than Ali.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=7225s)

## Did early Muslims really not count Ali as the fourth rightly guided caliph?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/27/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:05:12–2:13:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunni-Shia dialogue; The companions; Succession and the first civil wars
Question as asked: The earlier Muslims didn't count Ali as the fourth rightly guided caliph?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ali is a hero of Islam and preferring him is a personal matter, but he rejects the story of Umar burning Fatima's door and urges moving on.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if somebody considers Ali the best of all the companions, to him that is not a problematic statement but a personal preference.
Evidence, his words at 2:08:10: “So, if somebody did feel to them saying Ali was number one from all the companions, I don't to me there's that's not a problematic statement.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=7690s)

## Was Christianity still a true religion until Muhammad's first revelation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/28/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:13:21–2:14:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Jesus in the Quran
Question as asked: Was Christianity a true religion up until the exact point when Muhammad received his first revelation from God, or was it corrupted before then?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reframes the question: Jesus was sent to the Israelites, not the Arabs, and monotheists existed in Arabia before the Prophet.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Jesus was never sent to the Arabs but to the Israelites.
Evidence, his words at 2:14:15: “So um and and and Jesus was never sent to the Arabs. So Jesus was sent to the Israelites.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=8055s)

## Do Shia scholars treat ordinary people better than Salafi scholars do?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/29/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:14:41–2:17:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunni-Shia dialogue; Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: A lot of Shia scholars have a better approach to the common person than lots of Salafis.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The problem lies in the extremes of both; from the few clips he has seen he cannot promote Ammar Nakshawani, though he may be wrong.

## What miracle do you have as a saint?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/30/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:17:07–2:18:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sufism and tasawwuf
Question as asked: What is your karama as a wali?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth answers with a joke about Sufi hagiographies rather than claiming any karama.

## Why is Yasir Qadhi saying the Prophet was infatuated with Zaynab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/33/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:29:10–2:38:27)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The wives of the Prophet
Question as asked: What is the story with Shaykh Yasir Qadhi? Why is he making certain comments? Is he doing them on purpose or by accident? Is he giving material to Islamophobes?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth finds Yasir Qadhi's recent claim, that the Prophet's infatuation with Zaynab was the early normative account, baffling and harmful, and plays clips to show it.

## Why do some women feel they must wear the niqab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/he3wjiqoxaa/s/2/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Chechnya's grand mufti having women remove their niqab? | Mufti Abu Layth (6:31–10:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Women in Islam
Question as asked: If women think they need a niqab, why do they leave their houses at all?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth blames men rather than women: men convince women they need the niqab by making them fear hell, sometimes out of insecurity. He calls the extreme mindsets this produces worrying.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, although women who wear the niqab will not admit it, it is really men who have convinced them they need it.
Evidence, his words at 6:31: “although even the women that wear nihab won't admit to this but really it's the men who've convinced” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE3WjiQoxAA&t=391s)

## Why don't Sunni imams like Malik and Abu Hanifa transmit from Imam Jafar al-Sadiq?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/phrss-nir30/s/1/
Date: 2020-12-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why don't sunni imams transmit from Imam Jafar? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–6:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith collections and their history; Sunni-Shia dialogue; Scholars and imams of the past
Question as asked: Can you talk about Imam Jafar al-Sadiq and his relationship with Abu Hanifa and Imam Malik?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth's theory is that the early imams of the Ahl al-Bayt were for the most part as the Shia describe them, so Malik and Abu Hanifa, though respectful of them, did not transmit from them because it would have caused a political storm. He adds that this does not make the Shia theological claims more authentic.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth offers as his own theory that the early imams of the Ahl al-Bayt up to Jafar al-Sadiq were for the most part as the Shia describe them rather than Sunni, and that Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa, though on good terms with them, did not transmit from them because their views would have caused a political storm, while adding that this does not in his view make the Shia theological claims more authentic.
Evidence, his words at 4:20: “that's in my view the reason why imam malik doesn't transmit views from uh imam jaffar it's the reason why uh imam abu hanifa doesn't transmit from them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhrSS-NiR30&t=260s)

## Did Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa study under Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, and what did they learn from him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/phrss-nir30/s/2/
Date: 2020-12-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why don't sunni imams transmit from Imam Jafar? | Mufti Abu Layth (6:37–8:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith collections and their history; Sunni-Shia dialogue; Scholars and imams of the past
Question as asked: Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa learned from Imam Jafar and were his students; what are you on about?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Malik and Abu Hanifa kept Imam Jafar's company and attended his circles but transmitted nothing from him, which Mufti Abu Layth explains by their disagreement with teaching that largely reflected the Shia da'wah. He calls the claim that they took only 'spirituality' from him absurd.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth thinks Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa attended Imam Jafar's circles and kept his company but transmitted nothing from him to Sunni circles because the bulk of his teaching reflected the Shia da'wah, which they did not agree with, and he calls the explanation that they took only 'spirituality' from him absurd.
Evidence, his words at 7:32: “i think that they did used to attend their circles where they taught generally about islam but i feel the bulk of the da'wah of those imams of albeit would reflect to a great part the shia dawa” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhrSS-NiR30&t=452s)

## Would the Mufti debate a Salafi scholar on aqidah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cv8zmcmypk0/s/1/
Date: 2020-11-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Debate challenge to any salafi scholar on aqeedah | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Salafism and Wahhabism; Creed and the schools of theology
Question as asked: Will the Mufti debate Salafi scholars?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: he challenges any learned Salafi to prove their aqidah obligatory from the Quran alone. He says he is sure none can do it clearly.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he guarantees that no Salafi scholar can clearly prove from the Quran alone that the Salafi aqidah, as they preach it, is valid and a must.
Evidence, his words at 1:25: “i guarantee you they won't be able to prove their ah either from the quran quran only” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV8ZMcMyPk0&t=85s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bpbif_hakgq/s/1/
Date: 2020-11-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Shaykh Hamza Yusuf | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: What is your opinion on Shaykh Hamza Yusuf?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth loves Hamza Yusuf as an icon for Western Muslims and a key inspiration for his own studies, while disagreeing with his neo-traditionalist views. He adds second-hand reports that his personal manner can seem unwelcoming, and says their personalities would probably not match.

## If God never commanded the sacrifice, why do the early sources all say he did?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/9/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (25:03–29:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran; God and the divine attributes
Question as asked: The argument logically checks out, but how is it that there is no body of primary sources resonating with this view?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees that no primary sources support his reading and explains it by early Muslims absorbing Israelite material, by the brutal environment of the age being projected onto God, and by the absence of anything from the Prophet saying God commanded it. He repeats that a God who stages a mock execution of a child is unacceptable, and that Allah never says the command was his.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the absence of early sources for his reading is explained by early Muslims absorbing Israelite narratives and projecting a brutal environment onto God, that nothing established from the Prophet says God commanded the sacrifice, and that Allah's silence on the command's origin ends the debate.
Evidence, his words at 29:23: “it's not from god and allah clearly did not say it was from him and he could have so that to me ends the debate” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=1763s)

## Which civil war did early Muslims mean by 'the fitnah'?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (7:47–12:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; Umayyads and Abbasids
Question as asked: Which civil war was being referred to when he said they would not ask before the fitnah occurred? Did he not die around a decade before the third fitnah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is often unclear which civil war early scholars meant by 'the fitnah', as several upheavals were each called the great one.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the numbering of the early fitnahs is sometimes quite arbitrary, and not everybody agrees on which they call the greatest.
Evidence, his words at 8:24: “sometimes it's quite arbitrary it's not a a clear you know not everybody's in agreement in what they call the greatest fitnner” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=504s)

## How do I heal my inner child, and how should I raise my children?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/3/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (12:11–26:02)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Trauma and healing; Raising children
Question as asked: What is your advice on healing the inner child, and what is your advice on bringing up children?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says we are an extension of our inner child and that reconnecting with it can be unnerving but healing; with children, go with your heart and build a qualitative bond.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks we ultimately are an extension of our inner child.
Evidence, his words at 12:50: “I think we ultimately are an extension of our inner child.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=770s)

## Why don't scholars like Yasir Qadhi come on Mind Trap with you?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/4/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (26:02–33:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Question as asked: Do a Mind Trap with Yasir Qadhi.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says critics such as Yasir Qadhi will not join him on Mind Trap, and he feels the real reason is that they are intimidated by him.

## Who do you think will win the US election?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/6/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (42:58–46:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary
Question as asked: Who is winning the election?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth has a scary feeling that Trump will win again but says it would not be the end of the world; he cannot understand Americans' resistance to free health care.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he has a scary feeling that Donald Trump is going to win again.
Evidence, his words at 43:23: “I I I I have this scary feeling that Donald Trump is just going to win again.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=2603s)

## What does 'justice' mean in the Quran's verse on marrying more than one wife?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/8/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (50:22–1:00:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Polygamy and mut'ah; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 4:3 (https://quran.com/4/3); Quran 4:129 (https://quran.com/4/129)
Question as asked: If you think you can't do justice to the orphans, can you explain what justice here means?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the verse requires equal treatment of wives as the benchmark, accepting human shortfalls, and does not rule polygamy out.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the verse on never being truly just does not mean that polygamy cannot really be done.
Evidence, his words at 59:13: “some people said that that meant that oh you can't really do polygamy then I think that that's not what the verse is saying” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=3553s)

## Is Sharia-compliant investing really different from normal investing?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/9/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:00:13–1:10:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: What do you think about Sharia-compliant ethical investing? How extensive is your knowledge in this space?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says ethical investing is fine, but interest loopholes are absurd: bank interest is not Quranic riba and mortgages are permissible.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe the modern interest system is the riba of the Quran, and that mortgages are permissible.
Evidence, his words at 1:04:25: “So I don't believe that this is the ribba of the Quran. Mortgages are permissible.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=3865s)

## Did the Prophet forbid Ali from taking a second wife?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/12/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:18:40–1:21:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Individual hadith explained; Polygamy and mut'ah
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on the hadith from Bukhari, 'Fatima is a part of my body, and what hurts Fatima hurts me'? Ali could not take a second wife.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet objected not to Ali taking a second wife but to his marrying the daughter of Abu Jahl.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, to be honest, he does not think the Prophet would have stopped Ali from taking a second wife.
Evidence, his words at 1:18:40: “I don't think the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would have uh stopped Ali from taking a second wife.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=4720s)

## Why do imams in the West wear 'Islamic' robes?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/13/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:21:12–1:27:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; Islam and modernity
Question as asked: Why do shaykhs in the West wear Islamic clothing amongst the people? I feel it has created a barrier with the people, not just non-Muslims but Muslims as well. It comes off as very intimidating, a status differentiation. Thoughts?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says there was never an Islamic clothing; clerical dress came centuries later as a symbol of status that distances scholars from people.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there was never an Islamic clothing to begin with.
Evidence, his words at 1:21:34: “There was never an Islamic clothing to begin with.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=4894s)

## Are there other narrations of Aisha's age besides Bukhari's?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/14/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:27:50–1:33:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Narrator criticism
Question as asked: You made a great video on Bukhari and the famous topic of Aisha's age. Muslim and other books also narrate it; does that mean there are more?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says every chain on Aisha's age was engineered, with Hisham as the common link and Iraqi narrators throughout.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says every single chain of narration about the age of Aisha was fabricated, which he rephrases as engineered.
Evidence, his words at 1:27:50: “Every single chain of narration to do with the age of Aisha was fabricated.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=5270s)

## Are jinn just archetypes in our unconscious mind?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/15/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:33:46–1:41:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn, angels and the devil; Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Soul, nafs and consciousness
Cites: Quran 27:18 (the ant) (https://quran.com/27/18)
Question as asked: Have you ever looked into the notion that the jinn are actually Jungian archetypes residing in our collective unconscious?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thinks the jinn are beings in a dimension of consciousness we cannot normally reach, not mental archetypes.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks the jinn are things that exist in a dimension of consciousness that we generally do not have access to.
Evidence, his words at 1:34:17: “I think that these are the things that exist in a dimension of consciousness that we generally don't have access to” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=5657s)

## Would you debate Mohammed Hijab or talk with Richard Dawkins?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/18/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:07:42–2:09:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Atheists and polemicists
Question as asked: Please debate Hijab. Can you have a chat with Dawkins?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth doubts Mohammed Hijab would come on Mind Trap, and says he would love to talk with Richard Dawkins, whom he admires.

## Was it right to slap someone for insulting Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/19/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:09:02–2:18:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Dawah and debate culture
Question as asked: What do you think about the slap?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth condemns the assault outright, but says provocative critics should be wary and take precautions, since some will not be as civil.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he condemns any kind of assault.
Evidence, his words at 2:10:59: “I condemn any kind of assault okay I look we are not look look at the entire animal kingdom” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=7859s)

## Would you debate a Salafi scholar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/20/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:18:30–2:21:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Salafism and Wahhabism
Question as asked: Will you debate any Salafi scholars?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth challenges any Salafi scholar to debate him and prove a practice they call obligatory from the Quran or sunnah alone.

## Who were the Bedouin Arabs criticised in Surah al-Tawbah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/21/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:21:31–2:27:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; Pre-Islamic Arabia
Cites: Quran 9:97-99 (https://quran.com/9/97-99)
Question as asked: Who are the a'rab as understood in the time of the Prophet? Can you provide some context in light of Surah al-Tawbah verse 97?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the a'rab of Surah al-Tawbah were semi-nomadic raiding tribes not under settled rule, some of whom joined only as a power play.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the verses speak of the tribes of the Hijaz and beyond that were not under established rule.
Evidence, his words at 2:24:40: “he's speaking of the kind of tribes that were in the hij and I suppose expanded out as well, but that weren't under established rule.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=8680s)

## Can a non-Muslim descendant of the Prophet claim sharif status?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/22/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:27:42–2:31:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Race, nation and identity
Question as asked: Can a Christian claim sharif or sayyid status?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says sharif status is a political institution rather than something Islam brought, and descendants of the Prophet can be non-Muslims.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says sharif status is more a political thing and not really something Islam inherently brings with it.
Evidence, his words at 2:28:39: “this sharif status is more a political thing. It's not really something that Islam inherently brings with it.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=8919s)

## Is non-halal chicken and beef actually haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/23/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:31:27–2:35:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Food and drink
Question as asked: According to the Quran there is no such thing as dhabiha, meaning all forms of chicken and beef are halal, because it sounds pretty backwards, right?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says eating non-dhabiha meat is not haram, since its original purpose has gone, but he advocates halal meat for the sake of identity.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not feel it would be haram if a person ate non-dhabiha meat, but that because of identity Muslims should stick to halal meat.
Evidence, his words at 2:32:52: “So if a person ate it, I I don't feel it would be haram, but I feel because of the identity factor, we should stick to halal meat.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=9172s)

## What do you think about men who 'simp' for women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/24/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:35:59–2:44:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Masculinity and gender roles
Question as asked: What do you think about simping?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says self-respect matters and feels distinct manliness is becoming rarer among young men, though he says each to their own.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels there is something distinctively manly that is becoming a rarer quality in the current younger generation.
Evidence, his words at 2:38:02: “there is something distinctively manly that I feel is a a real it's becoming a rarer quality uh in the current younger generation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=9482s)

## Can I recite the Quran in the shower?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/27/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:49:56–2:51:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Memorisation and recitation
Question as asked: Can you recite the Quran in the shower?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says deliberately reciting the Quran in the shower is bad etiquette, though a verse slipping out by habit is fine.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says intentionally reciting the Quran in the shower is very bad etiquette, because the Quran has a sanctity.
Evidence, his words at 2:49:56: “it's very bad etiquette to do something like look the Quran is has a sanctity to it.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=10196s)

## Why do you believe in God and that the Quran is from God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/28/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:51:02–2:52:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheism and the existence of God; Reason and revelation
Question as asked: Watched your video on reason and religion. What is your personal reasoning for the existence of God and the Quran being his divine word?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says consciousness points to the transcendent divine, and that among world religions only Islam passes the test of reason for him.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels consciousness cannot come from nothing and is, to him, reflective of the transcendent divine.
Evidence, his words at 2:51:26: “consciousness cannot just come from just nothing. To me, it is reflective of the transcendent divine to me.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=10286s)

## Do people with schizophrenia have real religious insight?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/29/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:52:19–2:53:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Islamic psychology
Question as asked: Do schizophrenics have profound religious insight? Many have religious delusions and many prophets are accused of being mad.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says an overlap between such disorders and religiosity is plausible, but it would be a correlation, not proof of cause.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there could be an overlap between certain disorders and high religiosity, both linked with high temporal-lobe activity, but that it would be a correlation, not a causative demonstration.
Evidence, his words at 2:52:56: “I think there could be an overlap, but there it's not, you know, it's not a causitative demonstration.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=10376s)

## Why criticise Sahih al-Bukhari but not Imam Malik's Muwatta?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4urwiwu3x7o/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-21 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why criticize Bukhari but not the Muwatta of Imam Malik? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:03–1:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Muwatta and the Mudawwana; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Question as asked: Can you discuss the transmission of the books by Imam Malik: how did they meet the challenge of transmission that Bukhari struggled with?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Muwatta is not caught up in the same debate: many people transmitted it, and Imam Malik himself shows in it that some well-chained hadith are not acted upon, so there is no dogmatism around it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the debate over al-Bukhari does not apply to Imam Malik's book because Imam Malik himself teaches in it that a hadith with a good chain may not be acted upon.
Evidence, his words at 0:32: “the reason this debate does not apply to the motto of imam malik is because imam malik himself in the mother is teaching you to reject hadith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4URwiwu3X7o&t=32s)

## Was Yazid a kafir, and is it right to curse him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/16/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (56:51–1:00:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; Karbala
Question as asked: Do you absolve Yazid? And do you accept the claim that he personally would not have killed Husayn if it had come to him?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth calls Yazid a wretched, arrogant tyrant, but he does not call him a kafir or curse him, since he rejects a culture of cursing. He can believe Yazid would not have killed Husayn himself.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not curse Yazid or encourage people to curse him, because he does not believe in a culture of cursing.
Evidence, his words at 58:13: “I don't believe he was a kafir and I don't I don't curse him I don't encourage people to curse him I but that's generally I don't believe in a culture of cursing” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=3493s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth hold views that most scholars disagree with?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (0:07–3:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; The second coming of Jesus
Question as asked: When you make these interpretations or beliefs yourself, how are you basing them differently from all the other madhhabs, even the Malikis? What are you using as a source?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth takes his beliefs from the Quran in the light of reason, since God calls people to faith through reason, and tests whether a belief is coherent as a whole.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he takes his beliefs from the Quran in the light of reason, since God calls people to faith based on reason.
Evidence, his words at 2:03: “i'm getting my beliefs from the quran but in light of the voice of reason so i do i believe that look allah calls us to faith based on reason” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=123s)

## If I commit a crime, was it my free will or my destiny?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/14/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (1:04:33–1:07:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Free will and destiny
Question as asked: If I have a gun and I go and kill someone, was that my free will or was that qadar?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Humans have real free will: as in a video game, every outcome was designed, but where you go and what you do is your own doing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says human beings do have free will, likening it to a video game whose outcomes were all designed but whose course is up to the player.
Evidence, his words at 1:04:33: “free will is human beings do have free will and i kind of in uh have given an analogy or made it analogous to somewhat of a computer game” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=3873s)

## Is the preacher Muhammad ibn Munir actually a qualified mufti?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/by3zp-4lyfi/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti's thoughts on Mufti Muhammad ibn Munir? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Mufti Muhammad ibn Munir, an American graduate from Medina University?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Mufti Munir turned out not to be a certified mufti, the title being a nickname, but seems a cool, funny and charismatic person he would like to host.

## Was Adam's garden of Eden on earth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/4/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (27:58–31:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans; Quranic Arabic
Question as asked: Adam, the garden and the tree: was this on earth?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Adam lived on earth: jannah simply means garden, and Adam's Eden was somewhere in this world.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the common understanding is that Adam was on earth and that his jannah simply means a garden.
Evidence, his words at 29:15: “the common understanding is that adam was on earth okay that his janna just means garden in arabic” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=1755s)

## Do brain chemicals shape my personality?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/5/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (31:14–38:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Soul, nafs and consciousness; Depression and anxiety
Question as asked: Do your brain's neurotransmitters heavily affect personality?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says personality comes from DNA, environment and, in his personal view, the soul too, and that people can improve their predisposition through diet and training.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, as his personal take, he feels the ruh plays some role in personality alongside DNA and environment.
Evidence, his words at 32:59: “that i do feel that that's my you know my personal take in the that i feel the ruach plays some role in in how we” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=1979s)

## Can we appreciate good in paradise if there is no evil there?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/6/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (38:10–40:41)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell; Evil and suffering
Question as asked: Could we appreciate the good without evil on earth, and what is going to happen to this appreciation in jannah where there is no evil?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says nobody knows how appreciation will work in the afterlife, because it is beyond what the human mind can comprehend.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says we do not know how the afterlife will work, because it is not within our current comprehension.
Evidence, his words at 38:47: “the truth is we don't know what's how it's going to work because you're asking us to conceptualize something which is not our current state of conscientious comprehension” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=2327s)

## Doesn't the Quran say Adam was created in heaven?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/7/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (40:41–43:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans
Cites: Quran 2:30 (I will place a khalifa on the earth) (https://quran.com/2/30)
Question as asked: The Quran disproves you: Adam was created in heaven.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Adam's garden was in this world, since the paradise of the afterlife has not happened yet, and the Quran speaks of placing him on the earth.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think any Muslim really believes Adam lived in the paradise of the afterlife, because the afterlife has not happened yet.
Evidence, his words at 41:58: “i don't think any muslim really believes he lived in the paradise of the afterlife because the afterlife hasn't happened yet that would just be dumb” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=2518s)

## Can I take back a promise I made to Allah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/8/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (43:54–44:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Speech and everyday conduct
Question as asked: Can I take back my promise from Allah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth answers in jest: don't worry, take the promise back.

## Do women have to cover their wrists and ankles in prayer?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/9/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (44:33–52:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Conditions of a valid prayer; Religious guilt and scrupulosity
Cites: Quran 6:38 (We have not neglected anything in the Book) (https://quran.com/6/38); Quran 16:89 (a clarification of all things) (https://quran.com/16/89)
Question as asked: Should the wrist bone and the ankle be covered outside of and inside of prayer? I've been told by my Hanafi relatives it should be covered, but it is cumbersome.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says relax: the deen is natural, and obsessing over whether a wrist, ankle or hair shows came centuries after the Prophet.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says people should not obsess over whether a hair or some small part of the body is showing.
Evidence, his words at 51:32: “the dean is natural take it naturally do not obsess over these little oh my god is this showing is that showing oh my god one hair came out two hairs came” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=3092s)

## How do I stop being obsessive and fearful about prayer?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/10/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (52:47–57:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Goals, habits and willpower
Cites: Quran 51:56 (I did not create jinn and humans except to worship Me), paraphrased (https://quran.com/51/56)
Question as asked: Mufti, can you talk about OCD over prayer?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says pray out of gratitude, not fear: missing salah should feel disappointing, and the answer is to renew your resolve every day.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says prayer is really an expression of gratitude, not something people should be scared or threatened into.
Evidence, his words at 53:26: “prayer is really an expression of gratitude it's not this scary scaremongering you know threatening” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=3206s)

## Are there enemies of Islam today?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/11/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (57:56–1:04:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheists and polemicists; Technology and media; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Question as asked: Are there any enemies of Islam in today's society? What do you think about the term 'enemies of Islam'?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says some people do hate Islam, but criticising or leaving Islam is not the same as hating it, and he will not engage those driven by hatred.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that a person criticising Islam does not, to him, mean that the person hates Islam.
Evidence, his words at 59:49: “if a person is an islam critic or they criticize islam that does not translate to me as they hate islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=3589s)

## Can a Muslim woman marry a non-Muslim man?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/12/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:04:58–1:14:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Choosing a spouse
Question as asked: What do you think about Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men, considering the woman is independent and can have her identity and follow her religion?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that such a nikah would be valid, though not meeting every condition, but advises couples to think hard because faith often becomes a conflict once children arrive.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels the nikah between a Muslim and a non-Muslim would in and of itself be valid.
Evidence, his words at 1:05:37: “i do explain in that video that the nikah in and of itself i feel would be valid between a muslim and a non-muslim” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=3937s)

## Is it right to build very elaborate mosques?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/13/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:37–1:17:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Umayyads and Abbasids
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on extremely elaborate mosques, assuming their costs in time and resources are in line with Islamic principles, or are they borrowed ideas from Byzantine structures?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says there is little need for so many lavish mosques, and that mosques should suit their local surroundings.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says mosques should really have structures that harmonise with the local geography.
Evidence, his words at 1:16:36: “whereas really they should have structures that harmonize with the local local kind of geography” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=4596s)

## Did Patricia Crone accept that the Prophet Muhammad existed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/14/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:16–1:18:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Replies to attacks on the Prophet; Atheists and polemicists
Question as asked: Patricia Crone believes the Prophet was alive because of the fragment of the Arab conquest which mentions the Prophet.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees with Patricia Crone that the Prophet's existence is certain, since sources document him from his last year or just after.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Agreeing with Patricia Crone, Mufti Abu Layth holds that it is very clear the Prophet existed, because he is documented in sources from his final year or a couple of years after.
Evidence, his words at 1:17:53: “because he is documented by people that are either the documentations are in the final year of the prophet's life or maybe a couple of years after but it's very clear that he existed” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=4673s)

## Who were the Murji'a and why do Salafis talk about them so much?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/15/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:18:25–1:24:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Scholars and imams of the past; Creed and the schools of theology
Question as asked: Can you talk about the Murji'a, specifically why Salafis hate them?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Salafis fixate on long-extinct sects because they read Ibn Taymiyya, whom he sees as a troubled man with mental health issues whom they all but worship.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Taymiyya suffered from a lot of mental health issues.
Evidence, his words at 1:22:15: “but he you have to understand he was he suffered from a lot of mental health issues” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=4935s)

## What do you think of the Mu'tazila?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/21/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:06:56–2:13:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Reason and revelation; Salafism and Wahhabism
Question as asked: Thoughts on the Mu'tazila?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Mu'tazila were an extinct, extremist yet rationalist sect, and mocks calling anyone who uses reason a Mu'tazili.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Mu'tazila were an ancient sect that has not existed for something like six or seven hundred years.
Evidence, his words at 2:06:56: “they don't really exist they haven't existed for something like six seven hundred years if not more they've been non-existent they were an extremist sect” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=7616s)

## Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/
Date: 2020-08-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Edip Yuksel & the Quran only methodology | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–8:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Guest conversations; Sunnah versus hadith
Cites: Quran 12:41 (one of you will pour wine for his master) (https://quran.com/12/41)
Question as asked: Does Dr Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thinks Edip Yuksel accepts the five prayers but not as the primary objective. Mufti calls rejecting all hadith the opposite extreme to hadith dogmatism, since all we know of early Islam comes through the living tradition.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not buy rejecting all hadith, which he feels is the opposite extreme to hadith dogmatism.
Evidence, his words at 0:38: “i don't buy the whole rejecting all hadith i feel it's the opposite extreme of you know you have hadith dogmatists” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAjsGNs9EiY&t=38s)

## Is music allowed in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/2/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (7:08–10:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music
Question as asked: Is music permissible?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Music is permissible; he says people have made far more things haram for themselves than God has.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that of course music is permissible.
Evidence, his words at 7:44: “of course first of all of course music is permissible but you see look how” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=464s)

## Why isn't bank interest riba?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/4/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (14:40–21:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Question as asked: Why don't you think bank interest is riba?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that today's bank interest is not the riba the Quran addresses, arguing that the usual definition of riba as 'something extra' does not hold together.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not address interest today as riba.
Evidence, his words at 15:56: “the quran does not address interest today to be ripper the question isn't why don't i think this interest is very bad” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=956s)

## Is my divorce automatic if my husband has been unreachable for over a year?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/5/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (21:17–23:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Divorce
Question as asked: Women want a divorce from cheating husbands: is it automatic if he has not been contactable for over a year, since khul' costs money?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is not automatic: there are processes for a woman to obtain a divorce, and though they cost money, mosques will usually ask for proof of talaq before a new nikah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that most mosques will ask for proof of talaq before conducting a new nikah for someone previously married.
Evidence, his words at 22:31: “usually masjids at the time of future nikkas will ask you if you've been married before and if you state yes they will ask you for proof of your talaq” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=1351s)

## Does a civil divorce count as an Islamic divorce?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/6/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (23:48–25:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Divorce
Question as asked: Is a decree absolute enough?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Usually not: a civil divorce is not an Islamic divorce by default, unless the husband intended talaq, and an irrevocable divorce from a Sharia council is better.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a civil divorce is not an Islamic divorce by default.
Evidence, his words at 23:48: “a civil divorce is not an islamic divorce and a civil marriage is not an islamic marriage per se” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=1428s)

## Were the hadith about the black flags against the Abbasids?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/7/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (25:06–26:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Umayyads and Abbasids; False and fabricated hadith
Question as asked: Are the [black flag] hadith in general [against the Abbasids]?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth doubts the black-flag hadith were anti-Abbasid; if anything, he says, they were part of Abbasid propaganda.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith that the Mahdi's army will come with black flags were, if anything, part and parcel of Abbasid propaganda rather than directed against the Abbasids.
Evidence, his words at 25:41: “the mahdi's army will be coming with the black flags so i don't think they would have served auntie uh if anything they were part and parcel of the abbasid propaganda” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=1541s)

## Doesn't the practice of Medina show that music is haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/9/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (28:39–29:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; The Maliki school; Sunnah versus hadith
Question as asked: When you say music is halal because there is no sahih hadith to make it haram, what of the living tradition: would that not indicate prohibition?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not necessarily: Malik disliked music by temperament, but Medina after the Prophet was known for its musical instruments.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the living tradition does not necessarily indicate that music is prohibited.
Evidence, his words at 28:39: “no not necessarily in fact what's interesting you see what's interesting is even though imam malik i accept he didn't like music” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=1719s)

## Are psychedelics like DMT haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/10/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (29:57–39:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Philosophy and ideas
Question as asked: I have tried DMT and it was amazing. What is the Islamic view on psychedelics, and are you open to trying it?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth does not consider psychedelics such as DMT haram or intoxicants, and advocates them as entheogens for spiritual discovery rather than recreation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not feel psychedelics are haram.
Evidence, his words at 36:44: “reality so i'm a huge advocate of that i don't feel it's haram and yes it does alter certain your states of mind” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=2204s)

## If alcohol is haram, aren't drugs like DMT haram too?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/11/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (39:51–41:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Psychedelics; Legal theory and method
Cites: Quran 16:89 (a clarification of all things) (https://quran.com/16/89)
Question as asked: Alcohol is a drug; you can't change what is haram, period.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees that what is haram cannot be changed, but says neither the Quran nor the Sunnah forbids substances like mushrooms or DMT.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran and the Sunnah do not say that things like mushrooms or DMT are haram.
Evidence, his words at 40:29: “things like mushrooms or things like um dmt's haram you show me where it says that it doesn't say that in the quran doesn't say that in the sunnah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=2429s)

## Is it OK for Quran teachers to beat students?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/12/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (41:40–46:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries; Raising children; Personal stories and reflections
Question as asked: Why do maulvis say that beating saves [the student] from the punishment of hell?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Beating students is categorically haram; he says even a classical manual for teachers forbade forceful discipline of children.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that beating students in the way he saw teachers do it is categorically haram.
Evidence, his words at 46:10: “the stick would break give me another stick bang bang bang whoa it was crazy man and it's categorically haram these things” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=2770s)

## Can I hit my children if they don't pray?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/13/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (46:48–48:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Raising children; Individual hadith explained; Prayer
Question as asked: Is it forbidden to hit your children if they don't pray?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: he says hitting children over prayer misreads the hadith, and that children should be drawn to prayer by example and love, not fear.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if you take the hadith on hitting children who do not pray literally, you have misunderstood the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 46:48: “i would say that this hadith if you're taking if you try to take that hadith literally you have misunderstood the prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=2808s)

## Should the zakat threshold be different in each country?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/15/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (49:56–58:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Zakat and charity; Authenticating hadith
Question as asked: Regarding zakat, there is a specific amount until you are obligated to pay, but shouldn't it be a different amount in every country?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says regional thresholds make sense to him, since the nisab rests on weak hadith and the detailed zakat system was largely built by later scholars.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no real sahih hadith on the nisab of zakat, all the reports being weak.
Evidence, his words at 52:22: “you'll be surprised that there is no real sahih hadith to do with any of this stuff um it in fact all the hadith are weak but the scholars just accepted it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=3142s)

## Does paying taxes count as paying zakat?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/16/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (58:11–1:00:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Zakat and charity
Question as asked: Could paying taxes cover the obligation of zakat?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, he believes paying taxes suffices for zakat today, provided the person also gives charity at various points in the year.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, if a person pays taxes and makes a personal practice of giving charity through the year, it suffices for zakat.
Evidence, his words at 59:30: “they do have an art of giving to them that is in my understanding and if you pay taxes it would suffice for zakat” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=3570s)

## Does giving charity protect me from bad things happening?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/17/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:00:09–1:03:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Zakat and charity; Gratitude, giving and contentment
Question as asked: What is your view on giving sadaqah as protection against something bad?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: he says giving brings good back, beginning with family, and recalls receiving much more after giving when money was tight.

## Is it a problem that Muslim scholars today have no secular education?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/18/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:03:21–1:10:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Views on contemporary scholars; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Muslim scholars nowadays completely lacking secular education?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees secular education matters but says it is no cure for obsession, and holds that other people being gay does not make anyone gay.

## Doesn't Aisha's marriage age justify child marriage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/19/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:10:44–1:17:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Dawah and debate culture
Question as asked: What about paedophilia: do we normalise that too?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Paedophilia is unacceptable; he says defending the Prophet by comparing him to kings who married children is no defence and, in his view, blasphemous.

## What is the solution to the Kashmir conflict?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/29/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:03:33–2:06:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; India and Hindutva
Question as asked: What about the Kashmir issue?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ideally, he says, Kashmir, or at least part of it such as the valley, should become independent of both India and Pakistan.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that ideally Kashmir could just become independent, part of neither Pakistan nor India.
Evidence, his words at 2:04:51: “this is what i ideally opt for is that kashmir could just become independent um so as in not part of pakistan not part of india” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=7491s)

## Did the Prophet really order Jews and Christians expelled from Arabia?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/30/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:06:49–2:17:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; False and fabricated hadith; Christians and other faiths
Question as asked: Could you explain the hadith in which the Prophet said, expel the Christians and the Jews from the Arabian Peninsula?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth finds the hadith ordering the expulsion of Jews and Christians from Arabia suspect, since the Prophet traded with a Jewish man days before he died, and sees it as a later fabrication.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he finds the hadith ordering the expulsion of the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula incredibly suspect and does not believe it is true.
Evidence, his words at 2:11:50: “leave that this doesn't add up you see so i find this hadith incredibly suspect” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=7910s)

## If Muslims focus too much on the beard, what deserves more focus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/31/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:17:34–2:20:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; Arabic poetry and men of letters
Question as asked: You once said the beard has had too much focus. Which part of Islam do you feel has not had enough focus?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth answers by mocking the focus on beards and shaved moustaches, quoting al-Mutanabbi that such an ummah has become a laughing stock.

## Is a secret nikah allowed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/33/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:22:34–2:26:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Polygamy and mut'ah; Marriage
Question as asked: What about secret nikah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A secret nikah that deceives the woman is exploitation he condemns, but a low-commitment marriage both adults openly agree to is, he says, permissible.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that a low-commitment marriage that both adults understand and are comfortable with is, he would feel, permissible.
Evidence, his words at 2:25:08: “so i i don't see that like the first one which is more ice i see as exploitation so that i'm against but this i would feel is permissible” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=8708s)

## Why do Salafis ignore Imam Malik's Muwatta?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/foizott_sog/s/1/
Date: 2020-08-23 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why do the salafis struggle with the Muwatta? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Muwatta and the Mudawwana; Salafism and Wahhabism; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Question as asked: Mufti, why is al-Muwatta disregarded by Salafis?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth feels Salafis struggle with Imam Malik because he is a master of hadith who also rejects hadith that go against established practice. In the Muwatta he narrates a hadith and then says it is not acted upon.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that deep down Salafis struggle with Imam Malik, who is an unquestionable authority in hadith yet rejects hadith that go against certain practices.
Evidence, his words at 0:01: “i feel that the selfies because they i think deep down the salafi struggle with imam malik” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foIzotT_sog&t=1s)

## Is it haram to sit at a table where people are drinking alcohol?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/5/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (16:30–20:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; Individual hadith explained
Question as asked: What about the instruction not to sit at a table where alcohol is served?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is not a sin to sit at a table where alcohol is served; the hadith was part of a gradual move away from alcohol.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no sin in sitting at a table where there is alcohol.
Evidence, his words at 16:58: “there is no sin in sitting at a table with is alcohol. But this hadith uh if true is part of a series a systematized approach to distance people from alcohol” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=1018s)

## Will there be a video on the Zaydi and Ibadi sects?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/6/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (20:06–26:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; Responses to critics; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Question as asked: Will there be a talk or a video about the Zaydi and the Ibadi sects?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the agreement of Sunnis, Shia and Ibadis, who would never have conspired together, supports the Kaaba being where it always was.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Sunnis, the Shia and the Ibadis, who cannot tolerate each other, would never have co-conspired over the original Kaaba and would have exposed each other.
Evidence, his words at 25:43: “they would never have agreed like they you know cannot tolerate each other. Um so they would never have co-conspired to arrive at the original Kaa.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=1543s)

## Was Aisha a feminist?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/8/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (36:32–41:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Women in Islam; The wives of the Prophet; Reports demeaning women
Question as asked: Was Aisha a feminist?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, if a feminist means someone who stands up for women's rights, says Mufti Abu Layth; Aisha did, including by rejecting misattributed hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Aisha unquestionably stood up for women's rights.
Evidence, his words at 37:33: “that unquestionably Aisha was somebody who stood up for women's rights and she has many hadith critiquing certain narrations that people were misattributing to the prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=2253s)

## Is it okay to celebrate the Mawlid?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/10/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (45:55–47:45)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: Non-Muslim festivals and greetings; The Maliki school
Question as asked: What is your opinion on celebrating the Mawlid of the Prophet?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says people may celebrate the Mawlid if they wish, though he does not, but road-blocking processions are a nuisance he condemns.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if people want to celebrate the Mawlid he feels why not, though it is not really established as part of the religion.
Evidence, his words at 46:21: “Yeah, sure. I think people can if they wanted to. Uh it's not um it's not really established as part and parcel of the religion but if people want to celebrate it I feel why not.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=2781s)

## Should I give up my career plans to study full time at a madrasa?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/12/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (51:41–1:04:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries; How to study Islam
Question as asked: I am passionate about learning the deen but I am on a career path; should I leave it to join a madrasa for five or more years, and what would I do for a career afterwards?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth would maybe not advise leaving a career for a madrasa: it offers structure and companionship but dumbs students down.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the drawback of going through the madrasa system is that, unfortunately, it dumbs you down.
Evidence, his words at 57:25: “the cons or the negative the drawbacks of going to a madrasa system through a madras is that it dumbs you down unfortunately because a lot of the assata are so insecure” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=3445s)

## How common is sexual abuse in madrasas?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/15/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:14:42–1:23:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Question as asked: How common is sexual abuse in the madrasa?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says abuse in madrasas is far more common outside the West and is often taken lightly; he would never send young boys to a madrasa in Pakistan.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would never recommend that young boys go to a madrasa in Pakistan.
Evidence, his words at 1:19:23: “This is why I would never recommend for young boys young um to ever go to a madrasa in Pakistan ever. Ever.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=4763s)

## Will there be a discussion with someone from Hizb ut-Tahrir?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/16/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:23:35–1:24:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: Hizb ut-Tahrir has grown rapidly in my country; will you contact one of its figures for a discussion?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not respect Hizb ut-Tahrir but respects one of its members personally and will reach out for a discussion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not respect HT at all and thinks they are a cancer in this ummah.
Evidence, his words at 1:23:35: “Yeah, sure. I mean, I'm, you know, I don't respect his at all. I think they are a cancer in this ummah.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=5015s)

## Is hijama (cupping) a sunnah I should practise?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/17/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:24:29–1:27:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Medical questions; Sunnah versus hadith
Question as asked: What are your views on hijama?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says hijama is an Arab custom rather than an Islamic practice, and nothing about it is proven scientifically.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that hijama to him is not something Islamic.
Evidence, his words at 1:24:29: “hijama is uh you see hijama to me is not something Islamic but it was being practiced not only by ancient Arabs in the medieval times it was a huge Christian thing” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=5069s)

## Don't madrasas expel students for sexual abuse?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/19/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:30:19–1:33:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Question as asked: Madrasas are strict on this issue and have zero tolerance; students have been expelled for these acts. Is that not the case?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says madrasas now respond to abuse claims more because they fear the police and the press than from conviction.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks madrasa teachers' heightened response to sexual abuse in recent years comes from worry about trouble with the police, not personal conviction.
Evidence, his words at 1:31:30: “they're worried they will get into trouble with the police. It's not because of their personal conviction.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=5490s)

## Is it haram to show the Prophet in a movie?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/23/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:55:05–2:00:05)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Film and popular culture; Entertainment, sport and leisure
Question as asked: What is your opinion on prophets being depicted in movies?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims should never depict the Prophet in films, mainly from common sense about the reaction; non-Muslim depictions need not upset Muslims.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, as Muslims, we definitely should not enact the Prophet in a movie.
Evidence, his words at 1:59:33: “but as Muslims we shouldn't and as Muslims we shouldn't definitely shouldn't um kind of enact him like that in a movie” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=7173s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of a young Leicester mufti?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/24/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:00:05–2:02:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on a young mufti from Leicester?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Leicester mufti seems enlightened but, like others from his background, is too worried about backlash to speak out.

## Why did Imam Malik prefer the practice of Medina over hadith chains?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/25/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:02:45–2:13:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Authenticating hadith; The Maliki school; Sunnah versus hadith
Question as asked: The Malikis rejected hadith that contradict the practice of Medina for the same reason that the Shafiis rejected Medinan practice in favour of sound hadith: distrust of the other method. What do you say?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the chain was once subordinate to the living tradition of Medina; al-Shafii's isnad project replaced regional trust with loyalty to the chain.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in Imam Malik's time the chain was still subservient to the living tradition.
Evidence, his words at 2:07:02: “Now the issue is the chain in this stage is still subservient to the living tradition. So the isnad exists but we have more trust in the inherited living tradition of Islam.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=7622s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of preachers linked to extremism?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/27/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:19:29–2:23:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on two named preachers?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says extremist sympathisers are poison and that he retracted earlier praise of one preacher after learning of his past.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that his approach is that any extremist sympathisers are poison.
Evidence, his words at 2:22:51: “That's that's my approach that any extremist sympathizers definitely the these people are poison.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=8571s)

## Do the Hanafis allow beer?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/28/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:23:18–2:26:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Question as asked: What is the Hanafi position on alcohol such as beer?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the classical Hanafis restricted khamr to grape and date wine, and today's Deobandis do not reflect Abu Hanifa.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Deobandi school, for example, is not really a reflection of Imam Abu Hanifa at all.
Evidence, his words at 2:25:25: “Like the Diabundi school for example isn't really a reflection of Imam Abu Hanifh at all.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=8725s)

## Is wearing my hijab turban-style allowed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/3/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (17:03–23:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Dress and appearance; Umayyads and Abbasids
Question as asked: Does the turban-style hijab come under the Quranic command of the khimar?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, he says a turban-style covering is fine, because covering the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran or Sunnah; the emphasis was on modesty.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, according to him, a turban-style hijab is fine because covering the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran or the Sunnah.
Evidence, his words at 17:42: “according to me that's fine because the covering of the hair is not clearly proven from the Quran wasana it is something part of Muslim culture” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=1062s)

## What do you think of the Wayfair trafficking rumours and Epstein?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/4/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (23:51–30:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Current events commentary
Question as asked: Can you speak about the Wayfair affair?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth suspects Epstein was blackmailing powerful figures and was protected by the CIA in return for that leverage; the Wayfair rumours he cannot confirm but hopes are investigated.

## What do you think of Shah Wali Allah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/5/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (30:50–33:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Indian subcontinent; Scholars and imams of the past; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Shah Wali Allah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls Shah Wali Allah an amazing scholar, ahead of his time, who revived hadith studies and wrote on the objectives of the Sharia without using the word maqasid.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Shah Wali Allah was an amazing individual, ahead of the curve, who reinvigorated hadith studies.
Evidence, his words at 32:07: “he was an amazing individual very you know ahead of a head of the curve really and something he did was he reinvigorated hadith studies” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=1927s)

## What parts of the body count as 'awrah for men and women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/6/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (33:22–38:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; Conditions of a valid prayer; The Maliki school
Question as asked: What is the 'awrah for men and women?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth follows the school of Madinah: the core 'awrah is the private parts (for women, from below the navel to the thighs), and uncovering the rest in prayer does not invalidate it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he goes with the school of Madinah's understanding that a woman's core 'awrah is her private parts and the area from beneath the navel to the thighs, the rest being extended 'awrah whose uncovering in prayer does not invalidate it.
Evidence, his words at 36:32: “that would be my understanding that I would go with the the understanding that the school of Medina presents that the core aura is really the woman's kind of private parts” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=2192s)

## What do Illiyyin and Sijjin mean in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/7/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (38:24–40:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell; Tafsir and verse study
Question as asked: What are Illiyyin and Sijjin?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): They refer to a record or place of the righteous and the wicked; he takes afterlife imagery as symbolic and promises more next week.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, to him, the descriptions of the afterlife are more symbolic, an approximation of something we can never conceptualise.
Evidence, his words at 39:42: “to me these things all about the afterlife are more so kind of symbolic so they're not like I don't take these things as I think that we can never conceptualize the afterlife” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=2382s)

## Did the Prophet Muhammad ever kill anyone himself?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/8/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (40:56–42:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Replies to attacks on the Prophet; The life of the Prophet
Question as asked: Did the Prophet really kill a man with a spear while riding a horse?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is not aware of such a killing and doubts the usual example, though it may have happened in battle; the Prophet's battles were all defensive in essence.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says all of the Prophet's battles were in essence defensive, even if pre-emptively defensive.
Evidence, his words at 42:13: “to be fair all of the prophets battles in his lifetime were in essence were always defensive even if you feel that they were preemptive ly defensive” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=2533s)

## What do you think of the scholars on Mohammed Hijab's podcast?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/9/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (42:49–45:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: Have you seen Mohammed Hijab's guests on his podcast?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says those now promoted as representatives of mainstream Islam have only mediocre knowledge, while those with more knowledge, like himself, lack the image.

## Is al-Zamakhshari's tafsir al-Kashshaf worth reading?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/10/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (45:21–49:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Creed and the schools of theology; Scholars and imams of the past
Question as asked: Can you please review al-Kashshaf of al-Zamakhshari, if you have studied it?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth praises al-Kashshaf as linguistically overwhelming and al-Zamakhshari as a legend, while noting the Mu'tazili oddities in it; the Mu'tazila were great scholars, often over-demonised.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says some scholars over-demonise the Mu'tazila, who were in their own right great and intelligent scholars of Islam, though some of their views were a bit warped.
Evidence, his words at 47:09: “I think sometimes some scholars just over demonize them it's not that's not really fear they were in their own right legends you know they they were really intelligent really great scholars of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=2829s)

## Was Aisha really 48 when she married the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/12/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (52:19–54:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; The wives of the Prophet
Question as asked: A book by Dr Shabbir Ahmed states that Abd al-Jabbar is the early source for Aisha being 48 when married to the Prophet; is that so?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he has never heard of 48, but says it is clear Aisha was in her late teens to about twenty when she married, not six or nine.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is very clear that Aisha was probably between her very late teens and twenty when she married the Prophet, and by no means a child.
Evidence, his words at 53:27: “she was probably anything between her very late teens to 20 anything between that she was around that kind of age she was not by any means a child” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=3207s)

## Does 'leave what makes you doubt' mean I should always follow the strictest opinion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/14/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (59:03–1:01:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Individual hadith explained; Legal theory and method; Religious guilt and scrupulosity
Question as asked: Leave that which is in doubt for that in which there is no doubt: does it mean we are to follow the strictest of all possible opinions?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he reads it the opposite way, since nothing should be made binding unless proven with certainty; it is a general rule about dubious matters, not a call to strictness.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith telling people to leave what makes them doubt does not mean following the strictest of all opinions.
Evidence, his words at 1:00:22: “it doesn't mean I don't see it at all about the strictest thing that doesn't make any sense to me” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=3622s)

## How do I make sense of the hadith that the Prophet banned mut'ah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/15/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:01:01–1:03:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Polygamy and mut'ah; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Question as asked: How do you reconcile the report in al-Bukhari that mut'ah was banned by the Prophet?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the reports on the banning of mut'ah are inconsistent and contradict each other, so they are hard to rely on.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith about mut'ah are very inconsistent and turbulent, seeming to contradict each other.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:01: “the hadith about Mota are very inconsistent and they're very turbulent they seem to they seem to contradict each other” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=3661s)

## Was Aisha Abu Bakr's sister rather than his daughter?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/16/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:03:34–1:06:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; The companions
Question as asked: According to early sources from Abd al-Jabbar, Abu Bakr was Aisha's brother; is that right?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, she was definitely Abu Bakr's daughter; her being in her twenties during the Prophet's lifetime fits her personality, not her being fifty.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would not buy the claim that Aisha was Abu Bakr's sister, as she was definitely his daughter.
Evidence, his words at 1:04:12: “something like that that is too too far stretch but she was not over Kurt she was definitely his daughter not his sister” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=3852s)

## Why does the Quran talk about something as small as the Prophet's dinner guests?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/17/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:06:38–1:13:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Character and virtue; Speech and everyday conduct
Cites: Quran 33:53 (the Prophet's dinner guests) (https://quran.com/33/53); Quran 2:26 (the example of a mosquito or what is above it) (https://quran.com/2/26)
Question as asked: Can you explain why God would talk about such specific things as in al-Ahzab and the Prophet's dinner guests? Aren't these trivial issues for the word of God?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): They are not trivial: the verse teaches that small transgressions like imposing on people matter, and such etiquettes build a healthy society.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the verse on the Prophet's dinner guests shows that micro-transgressions such as imposing on people are not to be disregarded, and that these etiquettes are building blocks of a healthy society.
Evidence, his words at 1:12:58: “he also mentions micro transgressions that don't harass people don't become a burden on people unnecessarily don't kind of impose yourself that these etiquettes two are the building block of a healthy society” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=4378s)

## Why follow hadith if the Quran is complete?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/27/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:44:49–1:46:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Sunnah versus hadith
Question as asked: Why do you go by hadith when Allah says in the Quran not to go by any other statements other than the Quran, and the Quran is explained in full detail?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth follows hadith because some of the hadith and Sunnah are clearly accurate and the Prophet legislated in addition to the Quran.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it makes absolute sense to him that the Prophet would have legislated in addition to the Quran and that this should be followed.
Evidence, his words at 1:45:25: “it makes absolute sense to me to follow that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would have legislated as well in addition to the Quran and to follow that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6325s)

## Is the hadith about conquering Constantinople authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/28/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:46:03–1:47:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: False and fabricated hadith; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Question as asked: What about the hadith that the army will conquer Constantinople?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It may be authentic, since Constantinople symbolised Byzantine power, but he feels many further hadith about it were fabricated to encourage campaigns.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it seems very plausible to him that the Prophet may have foretold the conquest of Constantinople, because it symbolised power in that region.
Evidence, his words at 1:46:40: “I do feel that it may have had a a significant that the Prophet may have said it seems very plausible because not so much of because of it but more so” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6400s)

## Are there Sharia courts in the UK?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/29/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:47:19–1:47:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Britain; Divorce
Question as asked: What about Sharia courts in the UK?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There are no Sharia courts in the UK, only Sharia councils dealing with religious marriages and divorces.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there are no Sharia courts in the UK, only Sharia councils dealing with religious marriages and divorces.
Evidence, his words at 1:47:19: “there are no Sharia Courts in the UK there are Sharia councils which deal with religious divorces and things like that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6439s)

## Isn't the Prophet clearing the Kaaba of idols a precedent for the Hagia Sophia?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/30/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:47:58–1:50:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Middle East and the wider world; Public law and governance
Question as asked: The Prophet cleansed the Kaaba of idols and rededicated it as the house of Allah; it is cited as a precedent. How do you address that?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: removing the idols from the Kaaba was about ending superstition, and cannot justify converting a museum in a secular country, which he calls a political stunt.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's removal of the idols from the Kaaba, which were tied to superstition, cannot be linked to converting a museum in a secular country today.
Evidence, his words at 1:49:15: “I'm absolutely again for removing superstition that you can't link that to today in a city in a country that first of all is not an Islamic country” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6555s)

## Can I wear perfume that contains alcohol?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/31/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:50:34–1:52:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Purification; Intoxicants and substances; The Maliki school
Question as asked: Is perfume with an alcohol base halal, or is it najis?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is pure and nothing to worry about: alcohol is not impure for many scholars of Madinah, and perfume alcohol is not the drinking kind anyway.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says perfume with an alcohol base is pure and there is nothing to worry about.
Evidence, his words at 1:50:34: “is it pure or is it nudges it's pure absolutely there's nothing to worry about” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6634s)

## Is it halal to eat crocodile?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/32/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:52:30–1:54:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Food and drink; The Maliki school
Question as asked: Is crocodile meat halal?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, crocodile is halal in the school of Madinah, where only pig is categorically forbidden besides carrion and what is sacrificed to idols.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says crocodile meat is halal in the school of Madinah, in which only pig is categorically haram.
Evidence, his words at 1:52:30: “crocodile meat is halal in the school of Medina all kind of marine life in a sense all anything that's from the sea” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6750s)

## Is it haram to eat dog meat?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/33/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:54:56–1:58:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Food and drink; The Maliki school
Cites: Quran 6:145 (I do not find in what was revealed to me anything forbidden to eat except ...) (https://quran.com/6/145)
Question as asked: Is eating dog haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Dog is not haram in the school of Madinah, which follows Quran 6:145, but not being haram does not mean people eat it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says dogs are not haram to eat according to the school of Madinah, though people do not really eat them.
Evidence, his words at 1:55:35: “it's not Haram in the Sharia to eat it so dogs are not Haram but people don't really eat dogs” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6935s)

## Does Islam want me to sacrifice sleep?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/37/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (2:10:28–2:12:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Goals, habits and willpower
Question as asked: Do you feel there is an emphasis on giving up sleep in Islam?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Islam emphasises being effective, not losing sleep, and you can get your full sleep and still be effective.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think Islam emphasises giving up sleep, but rather being effective.
Evidence, his words at 2:11:35: “it's not necessarily an T sleep it's just trying to say that be you know effective so you could still get all your hours of sleeping but just be effective” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=7895s)

## Is bank interest the riba that the Quran forbids?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/35/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (2:19:01–2:22:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Question as asked: I didn't catch what your view on riba is.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth's view: the riba of the Quran means loan sharking, not interest-based bank loans, though banks are not philanthropists.

## Should Pakistan allow a Hindu temple to be built in Islamabad?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/36/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (2:22:12–2:25:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; Christians and other faiths
Question as asked: Comment on Pakistan's Hindu temple controversy.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thinks building a temple for Pakistani Hindus is a kind gesture and that Muslims have no reason to feel insecure about it.

## Was it right for Turkey to turn the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/37/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (2:25:24–2:27:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Christians and other faiths
Question as asked: What is your view on Turkey converting the Hagia Sophia back to a mosque?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth would not issue a fatwa against praying in the Hagia Sophia, but says Muslims should stop being insecure and be comfortable in their skin.

## Is love one of God's attributes in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/19/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:33:10–1:35:02)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Christians and other faiths; Sufism and tasawwuf
Question as asked: Did love not being a fundamental attribute of God play a role in historical discussions between Islam and Christianity?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Sufi traditions understand God's mercy as love even though Kalam rarely speaks of it, and rejects the polemic that the God of Islam is not loving.

## If the Quran wasn't a book, why is it on a heavenly tablet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/20/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:35:02–1:36:51)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Preservation and variant readings
Cites: Quran 85:21-22 (https://quran.com/85/21-22)
Question as asked: Why would the Quran be on a tablet if it wasn't originally a book or a text?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the one verse on the guarded tablet refers to 'a recitation', not an Arabic text, and that the Quran became Arabic for its audience.

## Is the Quran eternal, or was it created?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/21/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:36:51–1:38:38)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; God and the divine attributes
Question as asked: What does the professor say about the Quran having a beginning? Has it always existed?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Arabic Quran in the tablet is, on most views, pre-existent but created; only God's languageless speech is eternal for Ash'aris and Maturidis.

## Does God not love non-believers?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/22/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:38:38–1:40:08)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Contested verses; God and the divine attributes
Question as asked: The Quran says Allah loves not the disbeliever. Are there any quick words on that?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest reads the verse as saying that certain deeds block God's love from reaching a person, not that God's love is selective.

## Did the number 19 appear in the guest's life before he discovered it in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/20/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:02:04–2:04:43)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; How to read the Quran
Question as asked: When you first fell in love, was she nineteen years old?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Before he knew anything about the number 19 the guest had named his youth activist group FT-19, which he sees as an early connection to the number.

## Does the Quran allow a husband to hit his wife?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/21/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:04:43–2:12:32)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; Women in Islam; Abuse in marriage
Cites: Quran 4:34 (the 'hitting verse') (https://quran.com/4/34)
Question as asked: How have you interpreted the hitting verse, 4:34, which you have said was historically mistranslated as permission to hit?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest reads 4:34 as telling a persistently flirting wife to leave rather than as permission to beat, and says four words in the verse were mistranslated to create male authority. Mufti Abu Layth says the statement that men provide is descriptive, not prescriptive.

## Does khatam al-nabiyyin mean the last prophet or the best prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/23/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:16:30–2:17:50)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; End times and the Day of Judgement; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 33:40 (khatam al-nabiyyin) (https://quran.com/33/40)
Question as asked: What is your view on the definition of khatam al-nabiyyin as the best and not the last prophet, and of nabi being synonymous with rasul, given that Ismail is called both a rasul and a nabi?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest understands khatam al-nabiyyin as the last prophet, since the Quran addresses all people until the end of the world, and says the Quran gives the time of the end of the world.

## Is seeing the number 19 everywhere a sign or a superstition?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/24/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:17:50–2:20:30)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; How to read the Quran; Debate challenges and reviews
Question as asked: How do you feel about someone saying the number 19 reoccurs in their life before something bad happens to them, and about associating 19 with superstition?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest rejects personal and anecdotal sightings of 19 as numerology and chance, distinguishing them from the Quran's structure, and invites Zakir Naik and Nouman Ali Khan to debate him.

## What is Mufti Abu Layth's own position on hadith compared with the Quran-only view?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/25/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:20:30–2:21:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Quran-only movement; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Question as asked: Some people have asked about my position: where do I stand in relation to the guest's rejection of hadith?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is a Sunni who is critical of parts of the hadith literature without rejecting it wholesale, and he opposes labelling Quran-only Muslims as deviants or misguided.

## Does the number 19 structure work in all the readings of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/26/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:21:49–2:24:24)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Quran-only movement
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on the different recitations of the Quran: do you feel all of them are equally valid?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the 19 structure is found in the Hafs reading, where it revealed two spelling errors and two added verses, and that the Warsh reading differs little; he also expresses regard for Ghulam Ahmad Parwez.

## Does the Quran say the Israelites were slaves in Egypt?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/27/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:24:24–2:26:56)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Moses; The ancient Near East and scripture
Cites: Quran 26:22 (that you enslaved the Children of Israel) (https://quran.com/26/22)
Question as asked: Does 26:22 not indicate that the Israelites had been enslaved by Pharaoh?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A chat question cites 26:22, where Moses says Pharaoh enslaved the Israelites; Mufti Abu Layth says historians describe them as outcast second-class citizens rather than slaves but grants the verse deserves a closer look.

## What does Edip Yuksel think of Sam Gerrans?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/28/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:26:56–2:29:34)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; How to read the Quran
Question as asked: What do you think of Sam Gerrans, who also follows the Quran alone?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest respects Sam Gerrans as articulate but says his failure to see the number 19 leads him to invent arbitrary meanings for the initial letters, and that 19 is a divine test of one's bigotry.

## If you reject all hadith, how do you know how to pray?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/30/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:32:11–2:36:06)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Prayer; Sunnah versus hadith
Cites: Quran 2:67-71 (the heifer of the Children of Israel) (https://quran.com/2/67-71)
Question as asked: Do you reject all books of hadith, or are there some you accept, such as Nahj al-Balagha? And how do you determine the five prayers?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest rejects every hadith collection, including Nahj al-Balagha, as a source of religion, and says the objection that the Quran does not detail the five prayers is a circular argument built on fabricated details.

## Does prayer have to be physical, or is remembering God enough?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/33/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:42:40–2:45:14)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prayer; Quran-only movement; Mindfulness and presence
Cites: Quran 4:43 (do not approach prayer while intoxicated) (https://quran.com/4/43)
Question as asked: Are you against the physical exercise aspect of salah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest is not against the physical form of prayer but says it is only an expression; the one necessary component of salat according to the Quran is conscious connection with God, so one may pray sitting or while travelling.

## Why did Mufti Abu Layth change from how he looked and spoke in his old videos?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ociaphx4cgi/s/1/
Date: 2020-06-20 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Old me? Why did I change? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–17:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Personal stories and reflections
Question as asked: Some people have come across an old clip of me and asked: what happened, how did you change, why did you lose this iman, this faith of yours?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The change in his look and views came gradually over more than a decade through study, reading and new circles, not from any event or loss of faith. His personality, he says, was always the same; the old clip only shows the serious speaking style he was taught.

## Is the guest's approach to the Quran's history just confirmation bias?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/17/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:24:40–1:27:17)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Dawah and debate culture; Guest conversations
Question as asked: People should not discount Western academia and should look at this without a confirmation bias; is what you are doing in essence a confirmation bias?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says his questions came from the Muslim sources themselves, not from Western scholars, who have merely extracted the same data from Muslim books. Muslims must answer such questions rather than snub them, since the Quran is a book for all mankind.

## If Allah promised to preserve the Quran, why are there variant readings at all?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/18/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:27:17–1:31:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Free will and destiny; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 15:9 (We sent down the reminder and We are its guardian) (https://quran.com/15/9)
Question as asked: If Allah has taken it upon himself to preserve the Quran, and the real Quran is the common reading, is the existence of the other qira'at and the popular view that they are all mutawatir not in itself a lack of preservation? Could Allah not have preserved it without this confusion?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Allah preserved his part, the real Quran, and left people the discretion that produced the other readings, just as he allowed hadith to be misreported; the test is in seeking the truth through them. Mufti Abu Layth states his own view that the Quran we have is from an umbrella revelation that allowed variations.

## Was there ever a verse of stoning in the Quran, and does stoning still apply?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/19/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:31:11–1:36:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hudud and punishments; Preservation and variant readings; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 5:33 (the muharaba verse) (https://quran.com/5/33); Quran 24:2 (the verse of lashing) (https://quran.com/24/2); Quran 4:25 (married slave women receive half the punishment) (https://quran.com/4/25)
Question as asked: How do you explain the verse of rajm appearing in some hadith, where Umar and others felt it was a verse of the Quran?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Umar's 'verse of rajm' refers to the muharaba verse 5:33, from which exemplary punishment including stoning derives, and that it still applies to extreme crimes under strict conditions. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet only condoned stoning from Jewish practice until the lashing verse, and that under Maliki scholars like al-Burzuli the hudud change with the age.

## Does a reciter's chain of teachers back to the Prophet prove the Quran's text?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/20/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:36:25–1:37:31)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Memorisation and recitation; Guest conversations
Question as asked: How much importance do you give to the sanad of the huffaz which traces back to the Prophet, from someone who memorised from someone?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Was Ibn Mas'ud's Quran different from the Quran we have?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/21/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:37:31–1:41:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Hudud and punishments; Guest conversations
Cites: Surah al-Fatiha (https://quran.com/1)
Question as asked: Do you believe Ibn Mas'ud's version of the Quran was substantially different from the common reading and the Quran we have today?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the guest says the reports that Ibn Mas'ud rejected al-Fatiha or the last two surahs are wrongly ascribed to him, and the major companions vouched for the same Quran, the only traceable dispute being over the word 'qul'. Mufti Abu Layth also says he would not advocate cutting the hand today, since for him the hudud have already changed with the age.

## Did the variant readings of the Quran come from missing dots and vowel marks?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/22/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:41:28–1:42:47)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Quranic Arabic; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 5:33 (the muharaba verse) (https://quran.com/5/33)
Question as asked: Are the variations in the Quran because the early script did not have diacritical marks?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Partly: the guest says the lack of diacritics let words like ya'lamun and ta'lamun be read either way where both were ascribed to the Prophet, one of several causes he lists. Mufti Abu Layth clarifies that nobody is claiming a verse of rajm exists in the Quran.

## In what sense is the Quran a miracle?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/23/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:42:47–1:46:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; How to read the Quran; Guest conversations
Question as asked: Do you believe the Quranic language to be miraculous, and how can there be multiple versions if it is miraculous?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Quran's miracle is linguistic, a composition that cannot be emulated, not mathematical. Mufti Abu Layth adds that for him it is a miracle in the subjective experience of reading it, in its civilisational impact and in its literary symmetry, not in bending the laws of nature or in scientific foreknowledge.

## Which reading of the Quran reached India, Malaysia and Indonesia, and why?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/24/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:46:43–1:51:36)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; The Indian subcontinent; Guest conversations
Question as asked: Which qira'a was first introduced in India or the Indian subcontinent?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The common reading, later called the reading of Hafs, reached the subcontinent and the Far East through the masses, while the other readings took root only where scholars arrived first. Mufti Abu Layth sums up: the Quran is preserved as the qira'a al-'amma of the Prophet's final recitation, and Hafs coincides with it because he made no choices of his own.

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Hasan Farhan al-Maliki?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x27zzbcseyg/s/1/
Date: 2020-06-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Farhan Al-Maliki from Saudi Arabia? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; The companions; Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Hasan Farhan al-Maliki?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth admires Hasan Farhan al-Maliki's open-minded rejection of folkloric Islam but disagrees with his dismissive, Shia-inclined stance on companions such as Mu'awiya.

## I stopped praying because it feels mechanical and forced; will I go to hell?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ixsylbrg6a0/s/1/
Date: 2020-05-25 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "I don't want to pray salah" | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–11:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Individual hadith explained
Question as asked: I don't pray five times anymore, I just feel it's mechanical and forced. I don't like feeling pressured. Will I be sent to hell?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Pray out of gratitude and connection, not fear of hell, and do not develop hatred for the prayer even if you slack or combine prayers; each person's journey is their own. The Prophet told a Companion who slept past dawn simply to pray when he wakes.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he personally prays out of gratitude and connection rather than fear of hell and that this is the best way to pray, that each person's journey is their own and others should not condemn them, and that someone struggling with prayer should not develop hatred for it.
Evidence, his words at 5:31: “I don't personally pray out of this kind of fear of burning in hell and things like this I just pray out of a kind of sense of gratitude” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXSyLbrg6A0&t=331s)

## How could men in early Islam have sex with their female slaves?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/5is8qpu5llu/s/2/
Date: 2020-04-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sex Slaves: Concubines and Collective Consciousness -Mufti Abu Layth (2:37–11:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexual ethics; Legal theory and method; Islam and modernity
Question as asked: How were men allowed to have sex with female slaves, and how were they different from wives?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sexual relations with female slaves were condoned because the society Islam was revealed in had a very different mindset: its slavery resembled servitude rather than transatlantic slavery, and it drew no line between a slave's labour and sexual utility, so the practice could not be changed at once.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, one reason sexual relations with female slaves were condoned is that the society in which Islam was revealed had a very different mindset: its slavery resembled servitude rather than transatlantic slavery, and it drew no line between a slave's labour and sexual utility, a mindset that could not be changed at once.
Evidence, his words at 11:18: “you couldn't change entire mindsets so this is one of the reasons I think that that that was condoned because they saw that they didn't have a delineating kind of factor to sex” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5is8qPu5lLU&t=678s)

## Does Surat al-Falaq confirm that black magic is real?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/21/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:40:04–1:42:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Reflections on short surahs; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 113:4 (from the evil of those who blow on knots) (https://quran.com/113/4)
Question as asked: What does the ayah 'wa min sharri al-naffathati fi al-uqad' mean, if it is not about black magic? And is Islam feudal or anti-feudal?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse about those who blow on knots does not establish that magic is effective: the guest says it asks protection from the fear such practices create, and Mufti Abu Layth says the surah names things not harmful in themselves but the superstitions attached to them. The question whether Islam is feudal went unanswered.

## What does the Quran mean by 'what your right hands possess', and did the Prophet have a concubine?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/22/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:42:42–1:49:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; The wives of the Prophet; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 4:25 (marrying believing slave girls) (https://quran.com/4/25)
Question as asked: Somebody has asked about 'what your right hands possess', and somebody on Facebook has asked about concubines.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest reads the Quran's 'right-hand possessions' as a category of wife who was not free, since 4:25 speaks of marrying slave girls, and thinks Mariya al-Qibtiyya may have been a wife misunderstood as a concubine. Mufti Abu Layth says Mariya was a wife, as he has taught, and that under trajectory hermeneutics slavery would have become haram.

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/g57bdmdaukm/s/1/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahab? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:29)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/19/; general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Scholars and imams of the past; Extremism, crime and justice
Question as asked: What are my thoughts on Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): On balance Mufti Abu Layth places Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in the negative: a puritan dogmatist who demolished tombs, killed pilgrims and inspired the Salafi movement, which he feels did more harm than good and is a springboard for extremism. He adds that the movement also revived hadith and challenged blind following and superstition.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, forced to choose, he would probably classify Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab as negative, a puritan dogmatist allied with the Saud family who demolished tombs and killed pilgrims, and that the Salafi movement he inspired did more harm than good and is the number one springboard for extremism, though it also revived hadith and challenged blind following and superstition.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “if I was to group him in one and I could only group him in negative or positive then at a simple level I would probably put him in negative” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g57BdMdAUKM&t=0s)

## Does watching porn fuel sex trafficking?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/33/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:45:11–2:54:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexual ethics; Extremism, crime and justice; Guest conversations
Question as asked: Does the consumption of pornography lead to and create a demand for sex trafficking, and does it assist it in this way?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says saying pornography is not categorically haram is not condoning abuses in the industry and does not in itself aid the market; the guest says people should be told its harms and follow the majority who forbid it.

## Why is demanding that a scholar make takfir a form of bullying?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mlnpcjxypqm/s/5/
Date: 2020-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: People Attacking Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi | Mufti Abu Layth (15:27–16:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Views on contemporary scholars
Question as asked: How is that bullying?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is bullying because it pushes a sectarian agenda by threatening to declare al-Yaqoubi a deviant or a kafir for refusing to pronounce on others' beliefs. The deen belongs to Allah, and it is nobody's duty to expel people from it.

## Did the Prophet marry his cousin?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nivzcdjxc2o/s/1/
Date: 2020-03-08 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Genetics and marrying relatives | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Choosing a spouse; The marriage contract; The wives of the Prophet
Question as asked: Can one get married without a wali? Didn't your Prophet get married to his cousin?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh, a relative only through her mother, is unlike families where everyone marries cousins; he also says marriage without a wali is valid.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes that a person can get married without a wali.
Evidence, his words at 2:16: “can one get married without a Wally I do believe I do believe that you can get married without a Willie and I've got a whole video detailed on that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIVZcdJxC2o&t=136s)

## What does the Mufti think of Shaykh Ramadan al-Buti?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tzngkxyiaxu/s/1/
Date: 2020-03-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Shaykh Ramadan Al-Bouti | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Middle East and the wider world
Question as asked: Mufti Saab, what is your view on Shaykh Ramadan al-Buti?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth regards al-Buti as a great scholar of his time whose books, especially Ma'a al-Nas, he benefited from. He says it is a shame al-Buti got caught up in Syrian politics.

## Was Abu Bakr wrong to refuse Fatima Fadak?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/7/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (28:19–30:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; The companions
Question as asked: So what Abu Bakr did was wrong?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not in his view: Abu Bakr was right that Fadak was public fay', while Fatima was right that prophets can be inherited from, so both were right from different angles.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Abu Bakr and Fatima were both right, from different perspectives.
Evidence, his words at 28:56: “so I feel they're kind of both right but from different perspectives” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=1736s)

## Is it halal to buy bad loans and foreclose on people's homes?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/8/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (30:52–31:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Question as asked: Is it permissible to purchase non-performing loans, turn them into performing ones, and foreclose on properties paid for by borrowers?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Buying property as a business is permissible in his view, but exploiting people who cannot pay and evicting them is oppression he is against.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is against exploiting people who lack money by throwing them out of their homes.
Evidence, his words at 30:52: “I don't think it's fair to just kind of exploit people because they don't have money and to kind of chuck them out of their homes” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=1852s)

## Do Muslims believe in reincarnation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/9/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (31:30–33:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Soul, nafs and consciousness; The afterlife
Question as asked: Do you believe in reincarnation?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he does not believe in past lives in this world, though he feels souls are connected to each other and to God, which may explain the feeling of having lived before.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe in reincarnation as it is generally understood, the soul returning to this world as another.
Evidence, his words at 32:48: “I don't believe that they have had a past life in this dunya I believe that in this world our lives are just limited” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=1968s)

## Should election campaigns only be publicly funded?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/10/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (33:27–34:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Public law and governance; Current events commentary
Question as asked: Should we as a principle have only public funding of elections, compared to the bribery of politicians that exists today?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thinks there should be some regulation of election funding, though banning private funding outright would restrict liberties, so it is a tough question.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there should be some regulation of election funding, while calling it a really tough question.
Evidence, his words at 33:27: “the issue will be I think there should be some regulation I think it's fair to say that people can kind of invest” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=2007s)

## What did Mufti Abu Layth think of Mu'awiya?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/11/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (34:46–36:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The companions; Umayyads and Abbasids
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Amir Mu'awiya?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth highly respects Mu'awiya as a great figure and an astute statesman, while acknowledging the Companions' disagreements.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he highly respects Mu'awiya and likes his statesmanship, calling him cut out to rule.
Evidence, his words at 34:46: “some people are cut out to rule and I would feel that Mario was one of those people that was cut out” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=2086s)

## Is it Sunnah to drink camel urine as medicine?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ecabhd3hf6u/s/1/
Date: 2020-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Drinking Camel Urine? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Medical questions
Question as asked: Can you drink camel urine, or should you drink it?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, you should not drink camel urine: he calls it nonsense and says the report is problematic in its chain and its text, even though it is in al-Bukhari.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that one should not drink camel urine and calls the idea nonsense.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “can you drink camel's urine or should you drink it no you should not okay that is nonsense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcabHd3Hf6U&t=0s)

## Is DMT haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8jx1u0qqyae/s/1/
Date: 2020-01-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ruling on DMT | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Soul, nafs and consciousness
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on DMT?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says DMT is not haram and calls it an entheogen, though it is not for everyone; legality and health are separate questions. He holds the same for psilocybin.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think DMT is haram.
Evidence, his words at 0:38: “things like DMT may be the hidden cheats in this world a gateway into the realm of consciousness I'm very intrigued by these things I don't think they're Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JX1u0qQYAE&t=38s)

## Did angels really fight at the Battle of Badr?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gxbzy_ph7bg/s/1/
Date: 2019-12-31 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Did the angels assist in the Battle of Badr? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–7:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Jinn, angels and the devil; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 48:10 (the hand of Allah is over their hands) (https://quran.com/48/10)
Question as asked: How did angels fight against the hostile polytheists at Badr?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says many take the angelic help at Badr as symbolic language for strengthened resolve, and the companions' later descriptions as storytelling or what they felt they saw.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the evidence suggests the Quraysh army at Badr was probably at least a thousand strong, outnumbering the believers.
Evidence, his words at 0:38: “they were outnumbered that part seems to be you know what the evidence clearly suggests that the army of grace were probably at least a thousand strong” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBZY_ph7Bg&t=38s)

## Who is Uzair mentioned in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gdlcbtkyhgm/s/1/
Date: 2019-12-29 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who is Uzair in the Quran? Ezra or Osiris? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; The ancient Near East and scripture; Christians and other faiths
Cites: Quran 9:30 (https://quran.com/9/30)
Question as asked: Who is Uzair in the Quran?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the common reading of Uzair as Ezra does not really fit, since Jews never called Ezra the son of God.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the interpretation of Uzair as Ezra does not really fit the bill and can only be a forced fit.
Evidence, his words at 3:47: “this interpretation of it being Ezra doesn't really fit the bill I mean you can you can do a force fit” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlCbTkYHgM&t=227s)

## Is growing a beard compulsory in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ln_vir6lni/s/1/
Date: 2019-12-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Beard in Islam & Arab Culture | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–7:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; Sunnah versus hadith; The Indian subcontinent
Question as asked: Can you speak about the beard?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Growing a beard was an ancient Arab custom shared by Muslims and their opponents, not an Islamic requirement in itself. The command to grow it is worded like commands to dye the hair and pray in shoes that nobody treats as obligatory, and no sahih hadith says how to grow it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the beard was an ancient Arab custom shared by the Prophet's opponents, that the command to grow it and differ from the Jews and Christians is worded like commands to dye the hair and pray in shoes that nobody treats as obligatory, and that no sahih hadith says how to grow it.
Evidence, his words at 4:24: “do we consider coloring or dyeing the hair to be obligatory or Sunnah or necessary or strongly recommended no let me give you another one” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ln_viR6LnI&t=264s)

## Was Islam spread by the sword?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/_dsmpiar0bm/s/1/
Date: 2019-12-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi: "Islam was spread by the sword" | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–3:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Question as asked: A question about compulsion: Yasir Qadhi has said in a recent talk that Islam was spread by force and that people embraced Islam because their kings did; is that the case?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is simply not true that Islam was spread by the sword, though there was surely compulsion in some places, and that it was wrong.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the claim that Islam was spread by the sword is simply not true, though he is sure there was compulsion in certain places.
Evidence, his words at 2:32: “the truth is that that's that that is no way the case it isn't simply not true now I'm not saying that there was never compulsion I'm sure there was compulsion in certain places it would have been wrong” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSMPIAR0BM&t=152s)

## Is it haram to kiss my wife in public?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yjgrp8cvk-m/s/1/
Date: 2019-12-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is It Haram to Kiss in Public? -Mufti Abu Layhth (0:00–5:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Marriage
Question as asked: Kissing one's wife in public: is it allowed?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A greeting kiss on the cheek or forehead in public, as is common in the Gulf and seen in the Haram, is no problem because it is affectionate rather than sensual. A passionate kiss in public would be a problem.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a greeting kiss on the cheek or forehead in public, such as those exchanged in the Gulf and seen in the Haram between men and their wives or mahram women, is not sexual and is no problem, whereas a passionate kiss in public would be.
Evidence, his words at 1:50: “and personally stuff like that I think is no problem stuff like that okay” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJGrP8cVk-M&t=110s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Imran Hosein?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2cei2vntjes/s/1/
Date: 2019-11-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My Thoughts on Sheikh Imran Hosein | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; End times and the Day of Judgement; Motivation and purpose
Question as asked: What do I think of Shaykh Imran Hosein?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## What is the difference between the Ash'ari and Athari (Hanbali) creeds?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fz6mtrfzudi/s/1/
Date: 2019-11-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The differences between the Ashari & Athari School | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; God and the divine attributes; Salafism and Wahhabism
Question as asked: What are the doctrinal differences between the Ash'ari and Athari schools of theology?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The core difference is that the Athari (Hanbali) creed attributes body parts to God and the Ash'ari creed does not. Mufti Abu Layth would broadly align himself with the Ash'aris, with reservations, and ranks the philosophers above all the theologians.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth dismisses the Athari (Hanbali) creed, which he says attributes body parts to God, says he would broadly align himself with the Ash'ari school while disagreeing with it on certain points, and ranks the philosophers above all the theologians.
Evidence, his words at 3:47: “broadly speaking I would align myself with a shoddy even though I would disagree on certain things that they say” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz6mtRfzUDI&t=227s)

## Is mut'ah (temporary marriage) haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/awhva-p9rto/s/1/
Date: 2019-11-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Banning Mutah? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:03–8:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Polygamy and mut'ah; The marriage contract; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Question as asked: What about banning mut'ah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mut'ah is not haram in his understanding: the reports prohibiting it are contradictory and it is very hard to prove haram. Nobody is obliged to do it, and much of the hostility to it is anti-Shia sentiment.

## Does the Quran actually tell women to cover their hair, or only their chest?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/trr4o2jzizc/s/1/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Verse in Surah Al-Nur about the Hijab | Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–9:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 24:31 (let them draw their khimars over their jayb) (https://quran.com/24/31)
Question as asked: The verse in Surah al-Nur on the subject of hijab speaks more about covering the jayb than covering the head, does it not?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is nothing explicit in the Quran or Sunnah about covering the head; the verse of al-Nur tells women to cover the jayb (the chest opening) with the khimar they already wore, and whether the khimar itself is obligatory or circumstantial is an open question. Covering the hair became the settled teaching within a generation of the companions.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is nothing explicit in the Quran or the established Sunnah about covering the head: hijab is a modern term, the verse of al-Nur commands covering the jayb with the khimar women already wore, and whether the khimar itself is an obligation or a circumstance of the time is an open question.
Evidence, his words at 1:22: “is there anything in the Quran and Sunnah that clearly speaks about the head covering the truth is there isn't there's nothing explicit in the or are nor in the Sun neither speaks about the head covering” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRR4o2JZIZc&t=82s)

## Who were the Mu'tazila and what did they believe?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/7/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (25:33–28:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Reason and revelation
Question as asked: Can you define what the Mu'tazila were?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Mu'tazila were an extinct early sect who held that a sinning Muslim is neither believer nor kafir; Mufti Abu Layth says later theologians' defensive reaction left some Muslims thinking the intellect is bad, which he calls the dumbest idea.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the belief of some Muslims that the intellect is bad is the dumbest thing anybody could say.
Evidence, his words at 27:28: “it created a problem which we're still dealing with today that some Muslims believed think that maybe the intellect is bad which is the dumbest the dumbest thing anybody could say” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=1648s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Mufti Menk?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/azjbapbsjdo/s/1/
Date: 2019-10-18 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Mufti Menk | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–9:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Stories of the prophets; Dawah and debate culture
Question as asked: What are your thoughts on Mufti Menk? Do you know him?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mixed: Menk fills a real demand for simple, uplifting stories and is likeable and funny, but Mufti Abu Layth says such preachers spread inauthentic stories and cement false beliefs, and he suspects Menk is less strict than he portrays himself.

## Did the Prophet really split the moon in half?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/grh2zu4awqi/s/1/
Date: 2019-10-18 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith on The Moon Splitting | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–2:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Individual hadith explained; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 54:1 (the Hour has drawn near and the moon has split) (https://quran.com/54/1)
Question as asked: Can you tell us more about the hadith of the Prophet splitting the moon in half, if the hadith is authentic?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the moon was not split; the companions described what they perceived, most likely a lunar eclipse, and Quran 54:1 is about the end of the world.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the moon was not split and that the verse of the Quran on the moon splitting has nothing to do with that alleged event.
Evidence, his words at 0:39: “I have explained that there is no the moon was not split okay this and then the verse of the Quran earth and has nothing to do with that alleged phenomenon” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grh2ZU4awQI&t=39s)

## Is a prayer mark on the forehead a sign of piety in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7najzrtcnz0/s/1/
Date: 2019-10-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sajdah Mark on Forehead | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–4:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Tafsir and verse study
Question as asked: Why do some Muslims rub or burn their forehead in prayer?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A burn mark on the forehead from prostration has nothing to do with Islam and is not a sign of piety. The verse about the believers' mark on their faces refers to a glow of commitment, and an early report rebukes a man who bore such a mark.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that a burn mark on the forehead from prostration has nothing to do with Islam and is not a sign of piety, and that the verse about the believers' mark on their faces refers to a radiance and visible commitment rather than a burnt forehead.
Evidence, his words at 0:37: “now this is this is nothing to do with Islam okay this is ridiculous it's a misunderstanding it's a misconception” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NAjZrtcNZ0&t=37s)

## Can I hug my female friends?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/psummzjvfri/s/1/
Date: 2019-10-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can I hug friends of a different gender? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:21)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Friendship and social life
Question as asked: Can I hug my friends who are girls?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No ruling is given: Mufti Abu Layth answers the question with jokes about the questioner being friend-zoned and declines to issue a fatwa. He moves on saying the questioner has bigger issues to worry about.

## If some hadith are unreliable, doesn't that make the Quran unreliable too?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nndcs2uhoqe/s/1/
Date: 2019-09-28 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Does criticising Hadith transmission mean criticising the Quran tranmssion? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–7:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Question as asked: If you claim there are systemic issues with how some hadith were transmitted, why can't the same be said about the Quran?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Quran was passed on en masse as a recited living tradition, so doubts about particular hadith chains do not carry over to it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says those who argue that weakening hadith weakens the Quran have not truly understood how the Quran was transmitted.
Evidence, his words at 2:35: “not truly understood how the Koran was transmitted okay these people who are saying this they have just been institutionalized” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nndcs2uHoqE&t=155s)

## Is it okay to criticise the companions of the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ahty-xxh79g/s/1/
Date: 2019-09-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can we criticise the companions of the Prophet (s) | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–13:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The companions; Succession and the first civil wars; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Question as asked: In an earlier video you seemed to justify some of Mu'awiya's actions and, by quoting Imam Malik's ranking of Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman without mentioning Ali's virtues, may have put Ali in a negative light; can you shed some light on how we should look at the companions?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth advises most people to view the companions with veneration, but says anyone who chooses critical, academic study must apply it to every companion, Ali included, rather than selectively.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says one may either venerate the companions or study them critically as fully human, that critical study must then apply equally to every companion including Ali, and that he personally advises people to take the venerating approach.
Evidence, his words at 9:32: “the truth is that if you take this doorway everybody is gonna get scrutinized there's gonna be no exception” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhTy-xxH79g&t=572s)

## Is listening to music haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/3/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (10:31–15:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Reason and revelation
Question as asked: Is music haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In Mufti Abu Layth's understanding music is not forbidden, because no text is at once conclusive, sahih and explicit: the Bukhari hadith speaks of entertainment, not music, and the texts naming music are not authentic. People find this hard to accept because they come to religion expecting it to oppose entertainment and desire.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding music is not forbidden, since nothing in Islam is at once conclusive, sahih and explicit in prohibiting it, the Bukhari hadith speaks of entertainment rather than music, and the texts that name music are not authentic.
Evidence, his words at 12:09: “the word doesn't actually say music it actually says entertainment but you seen that this the leave of interpretation going on and all the texts actually say music are not authentic” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=729s)

## Is music with explicit or violent lyrics haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/4/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (15:47–22:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Arabic poetry and men of letters
Question as asked: Some music swears and is all about sex; does that not make it haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Lyrics do not make music haram: Arabic poetry about sex and alcohol was recited in the Prophet's mosque and is still studied by every scholar, and Ka'b ibn Zuhayr recited his love-opening ode from the Prophet's minbar. Mufti Abu Layth does not promote a culture of violence and drugs but says people can judge content for themselves.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that lyrics do not make music haram, since Arabic poetry about sex and alcohol was recited in the Prophet's mosque, and that while he does not promote a culture of violence and drugs, people are intelligent enough to judge content for themselves.
Evidence, his words at 21:40: “music is to do with the music it's not to do with the words that's a separate matter” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=1300s)

## Who has the authority to declare music haram if God has not?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/5/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (22:21–26:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Legal theory and method
Cites: Quran 16:116 (do not say this is halal and this is haram, attributing falsehood to Allah) (https://quran.com/16/116)
Question as asked: How about strip clubs and nightclubs; has God not made music haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): God has not made music haram and neither Mufti Abu Layth nor the scholars have the authority to do so: the authentic hadith speak of entertainment, which could mean many things, and the scholars' prohibition is their own interpretation. Those who dislike music need not listen to it, but it is allowed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says God has not made music haram, so no one may make it haram, since the authentic hadith speak of entertainment rather than music and the scholars who prohibited it did so by their own interpretation.
Evidence, his words at 22:21: “so if God didn't make it Haram who are we to make it Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=1341s)

## Is it haram to write or sing lyrics about alcohol?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/6/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (26:09–30:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Legal theory and method; God and the divine attributes
Question as asked: Is writing lyrics about alcohol haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Lyrics about alcohol are not haram, since such poetry was recited in the Prophet's mosque, and declaring something haram because it might lead to bad behaviour is lying on God's behalf. Enjoining good is not policing, scholars need not be followed blindly, and God understands sarcasm as well as we do.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the scholars who called music haram gave their reasons but need not be followed blindly, since not all scholars said so and many challenged it from the Prophet's time on.
Evidence, his words at 27:02: “we don't have to blindly follow them do you blindly follow all the scholars so then why are you blindly following these” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=1622s)

## Is it a sin to pee standing up?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wnchzwuztf4/s/1/
Date: 2019-09-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is urinating whilst standing allowed? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Purification; Dress and appearance
Question as asked: Is it sinful to stand up and urinate? It is sometimes hard in public toilets as they are very dirty.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is not a sin at all; scholars only disliked it because the loose clothing of the past made splashes likely.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says urinating standing up is absolutely fine and there is no sin in it at all.
Evidence, his words at 1:17: “so it's absolutely fine don't worry about it relieve yourself” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnchZwuZtf4&t=77s)

## How do I answer Christians who say the Quran could be corrupted like the Bible?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/143df7icoyu/s/1/
Date: 2019-09-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is the Quran corrupted? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–8:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Preservation and variant readings; Moses
Cites: Quran 5:45 (https://quran.com/5/45); Quran 3:50 (https://quran.com/3/50)
Question as asked: How do I respond to Christians claiming that the Quran can be corrupted if we claim the Bible and the scriptures of other religions have been corrupted?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Earlier revelation was not like the Quran: the Quran is a recitation meant to be preserved word for word, while the Torah was a message and laws and the Injil was the good news Jesus preached.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims wrongly assume that earlier revelation was like the revelation they have, the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 0:39: “you see we as Muslims assume that revelation in the past reflected revelation that we have which is Quran that's not true not true at all” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=143df7icoYU&t=39s)

## If God knew earlier scriptures would change, why not send the Quran first?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/143df7icoyu/s/3/
Date: 2019-09-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is the Quran corrupted? | Mufti Abu Layth (11:21–13:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Prophethood and miracles; Preservation and variant readings
Question as asked: If God knew that the previous books would be corrupted or changed, why wasn't the Quran sent down and preserved from the beginning?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The earlier prophets were sent only to the Israelites and their books were never meant to be preserved word for word, so the question rests on a misunderstanding.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, as far as Muslims are concerned, Jesus came only for the Israelites and not for mankind.
Evidence, his words at 11:21: “you have to remember Jesus came just for the Israelites he didn't come for mankind like as far as Muslims are concerned” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=143df7icoYU&t=681s)

## Is today's Bible the same one Christians and Jews read in the Prophet's time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/143df7icoyu/s/4/
Date: 2019-09-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is the Quran corrupted? | Mufti Abu Layth (13:16–15:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths
Question as asked: Do we believe these books are correct? Then why do we quote them? And does the Quran imply that the Torah and the Bible we have now are the same ones the Christians and Jews were reading during Muhammad's time?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Quoting the Bible where it makes sense is fine. Whether today's Bible matches the one of the Prophet's time he does not know, though it most likely may, and the Quran does not address it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in all honesty he does not know whether the scripture Jews and Christians had in the Prophet's time was identical to today's, though it most likely may have been.
Evidence, his words at 13:52: “in all honesty I don't know whether it was identical or not I know that there are several it most likely may have been” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=143df7icoYU&t=832s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Saqib Shaami?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/v8ploq2vpuy/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My Thoughts on Shaykh Saqib Shaami | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:47)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/32/; general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Sufism and tasawwuf
Question as asked: What do you think of Pir Saqib Shaami?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth respects Saqib Shaami for turning people lost to drugs and crime into good human beings and finds his influence in the East unique for a Western-raised shaykh. He sees him as focused on spirituality and tasawwuf rather than academic or contemporary intellectual issues.

## Does Islam allow gender transition for someone diagnosed with gender dysphoria?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/llllbkdgra4/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What does Islam say about Gender Dysphoria? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Medical questions; Raising children
Question as asked: What does Islam say about gender dysphoria? If diagnosed, can one undergo a gender transformation?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Where there are legitimate biological concerns and medical input, he believes it is permissible, but he opposes sowing doubt about gender in children.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes there is permissibility where there are legitimate biological concerns, with medical experts giving their input.
Evidence, his words at 1:18: “where these cases are legitimate biological concerns I believe that there is permissibility where there are legitimate biological concerns and the medical experts can have their input” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llllbKdGrA4&t=78s)

## Is music haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k9v9am16g1k/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is Music Haram? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Science, the universe and big questions
Question as asked: Is music haram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says music is not haram and is arguably nourishment for the soul, pointing to its use for healing in medieval Muslim hospitals.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says music is not haram and is arguably the nourishment of the soul.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “music is not Haram music is arguably it is the nourishment of the soul okay and you can see the reality to that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9V9aM16G1k&t=0s)

## Why does Islam forbid homosexual activity?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ejs0ibhhpg0/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why are homosexual activities forbidden? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–5:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Sexual ethics; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: What is the rationale for the prohibition of homosexual activity in your religion?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Islam did not address homosexuality directly; it outlawed all sex outside marriage to build strong family units, and homosexuality was prohibited as a by-product. There are no clear sahih hadith on it, and scholars differed on related questions such as anal sex.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that Islam did not address homosexuality directly but outlawed all sexual activity outside marriage in order to build strong family units, so that homosexuality was prohibited as a by-product, and that there are no clear sahih hadith on it.
Evidence, his words at 2:32: “homosexuality became outlawed as a byproduct the main thing what Islam was trying to do was set up a family unit that's in my understanding because there are no clear hadith to do with homosexuality at all” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJS0IBhhPg0&t=152s)

## Does the Quran say there are three or five daily prayers?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ljpcqxiii98/s/1/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Does the Quran say how many Prayers? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–3:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Sunnah versus hadith; Quran-only movement
Question as asked: Are there three or five salah in the Quran?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran does not spell out the number of prayers, but Sunnis, Shia and Ibadis all hold there are five, which Mufti Abu Layth takes as proof of an early living tradition that preceded the hadith books. The Shia combine the five rather than reducing them to three.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he personally feels the Quran does not address how many daily prayers there are, and that the agreement of Sunnis, Shia and Ibadis on five prayers shows, in his understanding irrefutably, a proto-Sunnah living tradition that preceded the hadith books.
Evidence, his words at 2:31: “demonstrate in my understanding irrefutably that they must have been some very clear proto source that was part of the early living tradition in early Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpCQXiII98&t=151s)

## Was the first qibla really Petra, as Dan Gibson claims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/3ux_blolsf8/s/1/
Date: 2019-07-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My thoughts on Dan Gibson's Petra research | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheists and polemicists; Pre-Islamic Arabia; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Question as asked: Have you emailed Dan Gibson, and what do you make of his research claiming that the early qibla pointed to Petra rather than Makkah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is not convinced that the first qibla was Petra: the statistical argument is a fallacy and Sunnis, Shia and Khawarij would never all have agreed on the Ka'bah. He still finds revisionist research compelling on some other matters and says Muslims should engage with it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is not convinced by Dan Gibson's thesis that the early qibla was Petra, since its statistical argument is a fallacy and Sunnis, Shia and Khawarij would never all have agreed on the Ka'bah, though he finds revisionist research compelling on some other matters and says Muslims should engage with it.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “I'm not convinced by his research although I give it to him I feel that he has done some amazing research” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ux_bLoLSf8&t=0s)

## What is al-Suyuti's book about sex?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/noe0z72gubs/s/1/
Date: 2019-07-18 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My thoughts on Imam Suyuti's book on sex | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intimacy in marriage; Scholars and imams of the past
Question as asked: Someone asks about a book on sexology by Imam al-Suyuti.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Al-Suyuti wrote about sex, including a section on names for the penis, and endorsed a saying that the two greatest worldly pleasures are horse riding and sex. Mufti Abu Layth agrees with al-Ghazali that orgasm is the closest worldly pleasure to those of paradise.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he cannot object to al-Ghazali's point that the closest worldly pleasure to the pleasures of paradise is orgasm.
Evidence, his words at 1:14: “the pleasures of paradise is an orgasm I totally I cannot object to your mama has early on that point” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noE0Z72gUbs&t=74s)

## Why did God stop Abraha's army but let the Qaramita steal the Black Stone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-opjez12nq8/s/1/
Date: 2019-07-08 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Between Authenticity & Paganism: The Black Stone and Safa & Marwa -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–15:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pre-Islamic Arabia; Hajj and umrah
Cites: Quran 105:1 (have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the people of the elephant) (https://quran.com/105/1); Quran 2:158 (Safa and Marwa are among the symbols of Allah) (https://quran.com/2/158)
Question as asked: How was a breakaway Shia sect able to steal the Black Stone in the Kaaba and take control of the Haram, when Allah had earlier destroyed the approaching army with birds dropping pellets?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Black Stone has no sanctity of its own: it was most likely a remnant of pre-Islamic stone worship that Islam kept as a ritual of submission to God, so its theft by the Qaramita, though wrong, was no great matter. Umar himself said it was only a stone that can neither harm nor benefit.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Black Stone has no sanctity in itself and was most likely a remnant of pre-Islamic pagan worship, kept by Muslims and kissed by the Prophet only as a ritual of submission to God, so its theft by the Qaramita, though not a good thing, was no great matter.
Evidence, his words at 2:36: “there is no true sanctity to the black stone the only thing was that the black stone happened to be in the Kaaba” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oPJEZ12NQ8&t=156s)

## Is the story of Hajar running seven times between Safa and Marwa true?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-opjez12nq8/s/2/
Date: 2019-07-08 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Between Authenticity & Paganism: The Black Stone and Safa & Marwa -Mufti Abu Layth (15:38–24:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hajj and umrah; Stories of the prophets; Pre-Islamic Arabia
Cites: Quran 2:158 (Safa and Marwa are among the symbols of Allah) (https://quran.com/2/158)
Question as asked: What about the story of Hajar and Ismail, and the running seven times between Safa and Marwa?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thinks the story of Hajar running seven times between Safa and Marwa was most likely added later to give the ritual an Abrahamic link, though he believes the Zamzam story is true. The Quran mentions Safa and Marwa only as a remembrance of God, without linking them to Hajar or Abraham.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the story that Hajar ran seven times between Safa and Marwa was most likely invented later to give the ritual an Abrahamic link, while he believes the story of the Zamzam spring is most likely true.
Evidence, his words at 21:31: “what I'm trying to say is that story seems to be manufactured” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oPJEZ12NQ8&t=1291s)

## Did the Prophet restore the original rituals of Ibrahim at the Kaaba?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-opjez12nq8/s/3/
Date: 2019-07-08 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Between Authenticity & Paganism: The Black Stone and Safa & Marwa -Mufti Abu Layth (24:46–26:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hajj and umrah; Tafsir and verse study; Pre-Islamic Arabia
Cites: Quran 2:127 (Ibrahim and Ismail raising the foundations of the House) (https://quran.com/2/127); Quran 2:158 (Safa and Marwa are among the symbols of Allah) (https://quran.com/2/158)
Question as asked: What if the Kaaba and the Black Stone were special, and the Prophet chose to bring back the real rituals of the Kaaba, Safa and Marwa and the Black Stone; is that possible?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: nothing was in Makkah when Ibrahim arrived, and although he and Ismail built the house of remembrance, Safa and Marwa are never linked to him. The Quran presents them only as symbols for remembering God, so there is no point guessing at older origins.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet could not have restored original Abrahamic rituals of Safa and Marwa, since nothing was in Makkah when Ibrahim arrived and the Quran presents Safa and Marwa only as symbols for remembering God, without linking them to Ibrahim.
Evidence, his words at 24:46: “is that possible no because it's not possible because you have to remember when Ibrahim aleihsalaam goes to Makkah there's nobody there” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oPJEZ12NQ8&t=1486s)

## Does a nicotine patch or vaping break my fast?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2hezqyp_s4m/s/1/
Date: 2019-05-25 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can we use nicotine packs or smoke/vape while fasting? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–4:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: What breaks the fast; Intoxicants and substances
Question as asked: Many Muslims smoke, so what is the ruling on wearing a nicotine patch while fasting?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says a nicotine patch does not break the fast, and he feels vaping is the same, though neither is being encouraged.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says wearing a nicotine patch does not violate the fast.
Evidence, his words at 1:17: “patch is fine people it does not violate the fast right so this has been discussed by the grande Maliki mufti of his era” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HeZQyp_S4M&t=77s)

## If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/5phygjpjmmw/s/1/
Date: 2019-05-24 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Does drinking alcohol or doing drugs invalidate your prayer or fast for 40 days? (0:00–10:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Intoxicants and substances; Fasting
Question as asked: If a person drinks alcohol, is their salah not accepted for forty days, and does the same apply to the fast?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the fast and prayer are valid. He calls the forty-days hadith an isolated, weak report that clashes with the Quran and reason, though alcohol stays haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the salah and fast of someone who has drunk alcohol or taken drugs remain valid.
Evidence, his words at 10:16: “so the fasts the Salah is valid still and if once again things like alcohol and drugs are bad they are wrong” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5phyGJpJMMw&t=616s)

## I converted to Islam but my husband didn't. Do I have to leave him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/1/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (0:00–5:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Converts and newcomers
Question as asked: When someone converts to Islam and their spouse does not, especially a woman whose husband does not convert, must she leave her husband?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he agrees with scholars such as Abdullah bin Bayyah that a convert wife may stay with her non-Muslim husband, and vice versa. Telling converts to leave their spouses is home-wrecking.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees with these scholars that a woman who embraces Islam does not need to leave her non-Muslim husband, and vice versa.
Evidence, his words at 3:14: “so I to agree with these scholars that the woman does not need to leave her husband” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fjy8MceZM&t=194s)

## What is fiqh, and is it the same as Shari'ah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uixtl3pqp-q/s/1/
Date: 2019-03-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why did I Choose Maliki Fiqh? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Schools of law and following them
Question as asked: Why did you choose Maliki fiqh?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Fiqh is our understanding of what is expected of us towards God and towards people. It overlaps with Shari'ah, which people usually keep for the legal side, and it has different ways of deriving rulings.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says fiqh is our understanding of what is expected of us towards God and towards people, partly synonymous with Shari'ah, a word people tend to reserve for the legal side.
Evidence, his words at 1:11: “it's our understanding of what is kind of expected from us okay towards God or towards people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiXtl3PQP-Q&t=71s)

## Is my prayer valid if I pray in a bikini or swimwear?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gv69xfzfuek/s/1/
Date: 2019-03-04 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can Women Pray in Bikinis? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–10:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Conditions of a valid prayer; The Maliki school; Character and virtue
Question as asked: What do I think about the viral clip of a girl praying her salah poolside in her bikini?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): On the Maliki view of Qadi Isma'il, which he finds strong, her prayer would have been valid, since covering is an obligation separate from salah; it is still not something he recommends. Either way nobody has the right to attack her.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he personally feels Qadi Isma'il and the Malikis have a strong point in holding that covering oneself in salah is a separate obligation, not a condition of the prayer.
Evidence, his words at 8:22: “i personally do feel that ismail and the malikiah the school of medina have a strong point on what they've said that covering yourself in salah is a separate obligation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV69XFzFuEk&t=502s)

## Did Jesus really speak as a baby in the cradle?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2axjjfrnd20/s/1/
Date: 2019-02-23 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Did Jesus (a.s.) Speak in the Cradle? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–13:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Contested verses; Christians and other faiths
Cites: Quran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity) (https://quran.com/3/46); Quran 19:27-33 (Mary brings Jesus to her people; he speaks from the cradle) (https://quran.com/19/27-33)
Question as asked: That Al Imran verse states that you will talk in the cradle and in maturity. How is it a miracle to speak as an adult?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not say Jesus spoke as a baby; the Maryam passage most likely refers to Jesus at twelve debating the priests in the Temple, as in Luke.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the popular story of the baby Jesus speaking to save Mary from being stoned is, in his understanding, not true at all.
Evidence, his words at 2:32: “this is what a lot of Muslims do believe this unfortunately it's not actually true in my understanding at all” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AxJjFrnD20&t=152s)

## Did Adam come from Neanderthals?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rje0sl67qzm/s/1/
Date: 2018-11-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Neanderthals, Sapiens & Adam (a.s.) - Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–7:11)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/voxmweq6rz4/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: Human origins; Adam and the creation of humans; Quran and evolution
Question as asked: Does Dr Abd al-Sabur Shahin say that Adam developed in a Neanderthal womb?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Neanderthals were cousins of Homo sapiens, not ancestors. He believes Adam was the father of the cognitive revolution about 70,000 years ago.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Adam was the father of the cognitive revolution of about 70,000 years ago.
Evidence, his words at 2:34: “what they call the cognitive revolution I believe that was Adam Adam was that the father of that the cognitive revolution” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJe0SL67QzM&t=154s)

## Do Muslims really get 72 virgins in Paradise?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4pesnmaho20/s/1/
Date: 2018-10-08 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What Islam says about '72 Virgins' in Paradise -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell; False and fabricated hadith
Question as asked: Do Muslims get 72 or 73 virgins in Paradise?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The number 72 or 73 has no basis and comes from a fabricated or very weak report that became an old wives' tale. The Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms, and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no mention anywhere of a number of 72 or 73 virgins, which he thinks may come from a fabricated or extremely weak report, while the Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “this number I don't know I think it comes in some fabricated or extremely weak hadith maybe and for some reason people have just circulated it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PESNMaHO20&t=0s)

## Was the Prophet Muhammad poisoned, and did he die from it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gcid83kra2i/s/1/
Date: 2018-09-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: False Hadith: The Prophet ﷺ Was Poisoned Before He Died (0:01–3:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet; Atheists and polemicists
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 4428 (I still feel the pain of the food I ate; the poison cutting my aorta) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4428)
Question as asked: I've been asked the question: was the Prophet poisoned before his death?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet did not die of poisoning. The report in Bukhari that he felt the poison cutting his aorta in his final illness is, in his view, a fabricated story that contradicts itself and fails on its chain.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet did not die of poisoning and that the report in which the Prophet says in his final illness that he feels the poison cutting his aorta is a fabricated story.
Evidence, his words at 2:31: “Now first of all this is nonsense. Okay the prophet did not die of poisoning.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCid83kRA2I&t=151s)

## What is BukhariGate and why does Mufti Abu Layth say Sahih al-Bukhari is not reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/1/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Sunnah versus hadith; Hadith collections and their history
Question as asked: BukhariGate: what do you say?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sahih al-Bukhari cannot reliably be traced to its author because it reaches us through one transmitter, al-Farabri, whom nobody vouched for in his lifetime, and because transmission and memory reconstruct what they pass on. Mufti Abu Layth accepts hadith by the scholars' own standards, that a report not contradict reason, the Quran or an Islamic principle, while relying on the living tradition that Imam Malik called the Sunnah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Sahih al-Bukhari cannot reliably be traced to al-Bukhari because it reaches us through al-Farabri alone, whom nobody vouched for in his lifetime, that the deen is conveyed by the living tradition which Imam Malik distinguished from hadith, and that he accepts hadith only by the muhaddithin's own standards: a report must not contradict reason, the Quran and transmitted sources, or an Islamic principle.
Evidence, his words at 3:51: “nobody that knew thoroughly in his lifetime ever vouched for him as a reliable person in hadith so we are taking all of this from one guy who nobody vouched for” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=231s)

## Is it haram for men to wear gold or silk?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f4r0nxnympc/s/1/
Date: 2018-07-10 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why it is Not Haram for Men to Wear Gold or Silk -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–15:13)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/3/; general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: What is your view on men wearing gold, and on men wearing silk?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In Mufti Abu Layth's view the prohibition of gold and silk for men is a matter of dislike (karaha), not a categorical haram, since many Companions wore both all their lives and the Prophet's aim was to keep people focused in hard times. He notes the popular opinion is that it is haram and says nobody has to follow his understanding.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is in line with the ulama who held that the Prophet's prohibition of gold and silk for men was a matter of karaha intended to keep the early community focused and away from luxury in a dangerous time, not a categorical haram, while noting that the popular opinion is that it is haram.
Evidence, his words at 14:00: “when he told people off from gold and silk in I fall in line with those Olimar who felt that this was who say who felt that this was to do with the kuraha and to keep people focused” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4R0NXnYmpc&t=840s)

## Are the descriptions of paradise in the Quran meant literally?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kdsbnntrjko/s/1/
Date: 2018-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jannah & Jahannum: Their Reality Between Literalism and Symbolism -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 3:7 (clear and ambiguous verses) (https://quran.com/3/7)
Question as asked: Is the imagery of paradise in the Quran real, or just to incentivise people?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The afterlife is real, but he believes the Quran's imagery of paradise was an encouragement suited to its first audience rather than a literal description. Anyone who takes it literally is free to do so.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the afterlife itself is literal but he does not personally believe the Quran's imagery of paradise is, thinking it was just an encouragement.
Evidence, his words at 3:46: “I don't personally believe it I think it was just an encouragement the” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDSBNnTRJKo&t=226s)

## Are tattoos haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tph6tdxxlh4/s/1/
Date: 2018-05-03 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why Tattoos are NOT Haram by Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–10:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; Legal theory and method; The Maliki school
Question as asked: There was a question about tattoos, whether they are haram.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Tattoos are permissible in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding, though he notes most scholars held them haram and some Malikis only makruh. He reads the prohibition in its historical context of branding slaves and cattle rather than beautification.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says tattoos are permissible in his understanding, because the hadith condemning tattooing addressed the branding and disfigurement of slaves and cattle in its historical context rather than beautification, while noting that most scholars held them haram and some Malikis only makruh.
Evidence, his words at 7:08: “so it's very important to understand the context in which the Prophet spoke when he said these things were Haram now” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPH6TdXXLh4&t=428s)

## Can a woman travel without a mahram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–9:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Women in Islam; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Question as asked: Can a woman travel without a mahram?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says a woman can travel without a mahram, since the ruling was about safety. The reports behind it disagree on how long a journey they mean.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that of course a woman can travel without a mahram, the ruling having been simply about safety.
Evidence, his words at 1:11: “yes of course a woman can travel in Islam without a guardian I'm explaining that first of all so I'm gonna give you the ruling first of all of course she can and this ruling was simply about safety” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=71s)

## Did Musa's staff really turn into a snake?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkp3itoskjc/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-20 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Did the Staff of Moses (AS) really turn into a snake? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:01–6:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Prophethood and miracles; Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Cites: Quran 20:59 (the meeting at forenoon on the day of the festival) (https://quran.com/20/59); Quran 20:66 (their ropes and sticks seemed to him to move) (https://quran.com/20/66); Quran 7:116 (they bewitched the eyes of the people and terrified them) (https://quran.com/7/116)
Question as asked: Why did the staff of Musa become a snake when he threw it?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth holds the staff was described as moving as though it were a snake, while the magicians' sticks moved by a chemical trick.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding the staff of Musa was not an actual snake but was described as though it were one.
Evidence, his words at 1:17: “now in my understanding that it was not a snake okay when he threw the thing it was not a snake but it was described as though it was a snake” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkP3itoSKJc&t=77s)

## Does the Dajjal (Antichrist) exist in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ubblk0ehdgk/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why the Anti-Christ (Dajjal)? Concept is problematic in Islam - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–6:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; The second coming of Jesus; God and the divine attributes
Question as asked: Do you believe in the Dajjal?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Dajjal as the Antichrist is a myth that does not exist in Islam, since a God who tested people with a miracle-working devil child would contradict al-Rahman and al-Rahim. The Dajjal hadith refer either to Shaytan or, tentatively, to an age where the virtual becomes indistinguishable from the real.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Dajjal as an Antichrist figure is a myth that does not exist in Islam, that the hadith linking the Dajjal with the second coming of Jesus and the Mahdi are unacceptable because a God who tested people with a miracle-working devil child would be unreasonable and clash with al-Rahman and al-Rahim, and that the Dajjal reports refer either to Shaytan or, on his tentative reading, to an age in which the virtual becomes indistinguishable from the real.
Evidence, his words at 0:39: “I've told people before that gel as the Antichrist is a myth does not exist in Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBbLk0EhDGk&t=39s)

## Why make a big deal of whether Jesus returns, and who is the message for?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/5/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (17:41–20:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Responses to critics
Question as asked: Why am I making this a big deal? And who am I addressing when I say Jesus Christ is not coming back in Islam?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says his critics, not he, made this a big deal; he has taught it for a year and stands by his position. He is addressing only one of two broad camps of religious people.

## Why do other scholars not see what Mufti Abu Layth sees about the return of Jesus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/9/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (32:00–34:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: Some people have asked: why can I see this and other people don't see this?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Others do see it but fear their own group; Mufti Abu Layth says belonging to no sect lets him follow what makes sense in light of the Quran and Sunnah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that belonging to no sect frees him to follow whatever makes sense in light of the Quran and Sunnah, while scholars bound to a group fear expressing views their group rejects.
Evidence, his words at 32:23: “then you have no allegiance to a group think tality all you then need is for something to make sense to you like I don't fear a group backlash against me” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=1943s)

## Why would Jesus need to return if the Prophet Muhammad completed the religion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/13/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (42:18–47:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Responses to critics; Christians and other faiths
Cites: Quran 12:76 (https://quran.com/12/76)
Question as asked: Why do Muslims believe Jesus is going to come back when we believe the Prophet Muhammad completed his message? Why not another prophet, why not Moses, why not our own Prophet?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muslims have no reason of their own for Jesus to return; Mufti Abu Layth rejects the descent hadith because they clash with the Quran and other hadith, not from any misunderstanding of yanzilu.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not accept the hadith of Jesus's descent because they clash with the Quran and with other hadith, not because of any misunderstanding of the Arabic yanzilu.
Evidence, his words at 46:30: “no it's not that I don't understand the word yinz Luffy come it's that I don't accept these are these because they clash with the Quran and with other hadith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=2790s)

## If Jesus comes down from the sky, what is the point of faith after that?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/14/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (47:33–50:12)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Responses to critics
Question as asked: If Jesus was to come down from the sky, then what is the purpose of faith?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Siddina's answer was that once Jesus descends, taklif ends and faith is no longer accepted; Mufti Abu Layth presents this answer for examination and finds it confused.

## What about the Dajjal? Doesn't Jesus have to return to kill him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/18/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:05:51–1:12:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; The second coming of Jesus; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Question as asked: People say: what about the Dajjal?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Dajjal is not a man: the reports are defective or refer to the devil, he is absent from the Quran, and the narrations conflict and are tied to a conquest of Constantinople that happened centuries ago.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Dajjal is definitely not a man: the reports are fabricated in meaning or defective, refer to the devil or at best to a future illusion, and the Dajjal is not mentioned in the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 1:09:30: “in my understanding that the gel is definitely not a man 100% not a man he's in the hadith the hadith are either wrong and fabricated or Mis related” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=4170s)

## How could fabricated hadith have crept into mainstream Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/22/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:22:57–1:26:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith collections and their history; Succession and the first civil wars; False and fabricated hadith
Question as asked: People ask: how is it possible that all these hadith crept into Islam?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Fear of questioning drives the backlash; Mufti Abu Layth says the murder of Uthman, Karbala, the sack of Madinah and the catapulting of the Kaaba all happened within decades, long before hadith were documented, so corruption of reports was possible.

## Isn't the return of Jesus established by ijma and mutawatir hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/24/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:33:26–1:37:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Mutawatir and certainty; Legal theory and method; The second coming of Jesus
Question as asked: People keep saying this is ijma and mutawatir hadith.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is no consensus on what ijma is, and tawatur is applied selectively: the same scholars reject the Gospels, Hindu miracle reports and Shia transmissions that would qualify by their own definition.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that there is no consensus on what consensus is, that ijma began as collective assurance rather than a source of Sharia, and that accepting only one's own mutawatir while rejecting others' is inconsistent.
Evidence, his words at 1:34:37: “secondly there is no consensus on what consensus it's absurd there is no this is one of those myths” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=5677s)

## Why would Jesus need to come back at all?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/37/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:15:21–2:19:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Question as asked: The big question is: why is he actually coming?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muslims have had to invent a reason for Jesus's return; killing a Dajjal who melts on sight is an anti-climax, and the other tasks contradict Jesus's own character and the Quran.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims seem to try hard to invent a reason for Jesus to return, and that the tasks the reports give him contradict the love and compassion of his life.
Evidence, his words at 2:17:02: “so it seems that Muslims are almost trying really hard to make up a reason for why Jesus has to come back because oh he has to kill the Jews” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=8222s)

## Why do you dress in a t-shirt and joke around while teaching Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/47ghxxhtln8/s/1/
Date: 2018-03-08 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why I look & dress the way I do? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–7:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: Some people say you mostly sit in a t-shirt while speaking about Islam, and that you would not go to a business interview looking like that; why do you look and dress the way you do?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth dresses and acts the same on and off screen so that nobody meets a different person in real life. Putting on a pious appearance for the camera would be a double standard and would create cognitive dissonance in viewers.

## Do Muslim women have to wear the niqab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jqmaijjjvoi/s/1/
Date: 2018-03-08 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Should women wear the Niqab? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–10:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; The wives of the Prophet; The Maliki school
Cites: Quran 33:53 (addressing the Prophet's wives from behind a screen; not marrying them after him) (https://quran.com/33/53); Quran 33:6 (his wives are their mothers) (https://quran.com/33/6); Quran 33:28-29 (the choice given to the Prophet's wives) (https://quran.com/33/28-29)
Question as asked: Should women wear the niqab? And what about the wives of the Prophet covering their faces: does that mean it is part of the Sunnah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth does not consider the niqab part of the religion: it is a cultural measure, sensible only where a woman's safety requires it, and in the West he thinks it should not be worn. The screen rules for the Prophet's wives were specific to them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, as far as religion is concerned, he does not consider the niqab to be part of the religion at all.
Evidence, his words at 3:51: “in this part it becomes then a religious statement and as far as religion is concerned I do not consider the niqab to be at all part of the religion” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQMaIJJJVoI&t=231s)

## Is zina today the same issue it was in the past?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zs1rln2djss/s/1/
Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Zina, Marriage and Relationships - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–5:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Marriage; Sexual ethics; Islam and modernity
Question as asked: Is zina really today what it was back then?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Much of the inherited social theory on relationships and marriage no longer matches today's reality, and Mufti Abu Layth calls for ulama to re-examine the context with fresh ijtihad. He describes marriage today as costly and idealised, with divorce and polygamy stigmatised.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that much of the inherited social theory on relationships and marriage no longer matches today's circumstances and that ulama should re-analyse the context and offer suitable ijtihad.
Evidence, his words at 1:17: “we are in a huge kind of crisis almost that a lot of our theory is outdated it doesn't match what we are facing today” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1rLN2Djss&t=77s)

## Does an exclusive boyfriend-girlfriend relationship count as a nikah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zs1rln2djss/s/3/
Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Zina, Marriage and Relationships - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (10:25–13:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Marriage; Sexual ethics
Question as asked: When a boyfriend and girlfriend go exclusive with each other and everybody knows and treats them as a couple, would that not fall under nikah in a sense, as people recognising their exclusivity?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth does not endorse the idea but calls it a good question that the ulama should discuss. He says the past had simple marriage, unstigmatised divorce and other accepted outlets, whereas Muslims today have only a culturally dramatised, expensive nikah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that in the past marriage was simple, divorce was not stigmatised and other outlets were accepted, so earlier scholars never stressed this topic, whereas Muslims today have only a culturally dramatised and expensive nikah; he leaves the question whether an exclusive relationship amounts to nikah for the ulama to discuss.
Evidence, his words at 12:06: “this is why they never stressed in the past on this topic what we have today is society has flipped things on its heads” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1rLN2Djss&t=726s)

## Is it haram for men to wear earrings?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uvrr1jjbles/s/1/
Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fatwa: Can men wear earrings? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–1:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Dress and appearance
Question as asked: Can men wear earrings?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is not haram for men to wear earrings, though it is not the general custom. Boys wore them in the early period, and Imam Malik objected only to gold, not to the earring.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that it is not haram for men to wear earrings, although it is not the general custom, noting that boys wore them in the medieval period and that Imam Malik objected only to a boy wearing gold, not to the earring itself.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “I don't believe it's Haram for men to wear earrings why would it be Haram although the custom generally in the medieval ages was that men did not generally wear earrings but boys did” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVRr1jjbLEs&t=0s)

## Why don't most scholars say what Mufti Abu Layth says?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wl7wikke16q/s/1/
Date: 2018-02-15 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Maulana/Madrassa crisis & Why my views appear to be different? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–5:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries; The Indian subcontinent
Question as asked: If you are saying these things, why are many other ulema not saying them?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Scholars who are articulate leaders able to meet the challenges of the time usually become so in spite of the madrasa system, which does not teach these skills or, in some places, critical thinking.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that scholars who turn out articulate, charismatic and able to meet the challenges of the time usually do so in spite of having gone through the madrasa system, not because of it.
Evidence, his words at 3:03: “people who turn out like that are usually they turn out like that in spite of having gone through the system not because of having gone through the system” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7wIKke16Q&t=183s)

## Does a mufti have to be appointed by the government?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wl7wikke16q/s/4/
Date: 2018-02-15 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Maulana/Madrassa crisis & Why my views appear to be different? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (17:50–18:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Public law and governance
Question as asked: Is a mufti meant to be somebody appointed by the state?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No. Being a mufti can be a salaried professional role, as in fatwa institutions, or a voluntary, freelance one.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a mufti does not have to be appointed by the state and can hold a voluntary or a professional role.
Evidence, his words at 17:50: “is a Mufti meant to be somebody appointed by the state doesn't have to be appointed by the state it can be a muscly can be a voluntary or a professional role” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7wIKke16Q&t=1070s)

## What happens if I miss a prayer?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/g0igietcklk/s/1/
Date: 2018-02-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: If you have missed prayers? & not to obsess over punishments - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (0:00–6:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Missed prayers; Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Prayer
Question as asked: What is the punishment of missing a prayer?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A missed prayer is made up; Mufti Abu Layth says to stop obsessing over punishments and just pray the obligatory prayers, even late or together. He cites the Prophet telling a companion whose people slept past sunrise simply to pray when he woke up.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the heart of Islam's message on prayer is encouragement rather than punishment: a missed prayer is made up, and praying the obligatory prayers even late or combined is better than not praying, as the Prophet told the companion whose people slept past sunrise to pray when he woke.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “I don't believe that that is the true the kind of message that the heart of the message of Islam the message of Islam is look why don't you want to pray” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0iGieTCklk&t=0s)

## Can Islamic punishments like stoning and cutting off hands change with time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lyzck5dygjk/s/1/
Date: 2017-09-14 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can Hudood Punishments change? Mufti Abu Layth & Shaykh Akram Nadwi (0:00–5:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hudud and punishments; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 21:107 (a mercy to the worlds) (https://quran.com/21/107)
Question as asked: Can the hudud punishments, such as stoning to death and cutting off the hands, change with time?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, in his understanding: the Sharia itself asks for punishments fitting the age, so today they would be replaced by penalties such as prison, following Maliki and other precedents.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding the hudud would today be substituted, by demand of the Sharia, with penalties relevant to the age such as custodial sentences.
Evidence, his words at 2:36: “in my understanding in this day and age the ha dude would be substituted by demand of the sharia so they would not be things like in my understanding definitely not things like stoning” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyZCk5dygJk&t=156s)

## Can I brush my teeth with toothpaste or use mouthwash while fasting?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0bomippdvgo/s/1/
Date: 2017-05-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Q: Can I brush my teeth with toothpaste whilst Fasting? Mufti Abu Layth (0:05–8:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: What breaks the fast; Purification
Question as asked: Can I brush my teeth whilst fasting, including using flavoured toothpaste? What about using mouthwash?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says you can brush with toothpaste and use mouthwash while fasting, and encourages it; the aftertaste does not break the fast.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would encourage all people to brush their teeth when they are fasting.
Evidence, his words at 5:44: “so I would actually encourage people I would encourage all people to brush their teeth when they're fast especially” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BOmiPpDvgo&t=344s)

## Should Muslims in the UK follow Saudi Arabia for moon sighting?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/3tquslwseto/s/1/
Date: 2017-05-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Moon Sighting issues in the UK- Should we follow Saudi Arabia? Mufti Abu Layth (0:05–13:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Fasting times, moon sighting and the calendar; Non-Muslim festivals and greetings
Question as asked: What is your take on moon sighting issues in the UK? Should we follow Saudi Arabia? Can I go against my family or local mosque if I believe they are wrong?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not necessarily: he would follow countries on the same horizon such as Morocco, distrusting Saudi sightings that contradict calculations, while not condemning those who follow Saudi.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, since the UK cannot follow its own sighting, it would make sense to follow countries sharing its horizon such as Morocco.
Evidence, his words at 3:19: “given the fact that we're in the UK and we can't really go with our own region in that sense then looking at our Horizon countries like Morocco” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQUslWseTo&t=199s)

## Should I pray 8 or 20 rak'ahs of tarawih?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bu0xxok5oiu/s/1/
Date: 2017-05-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Q: Is Taraweeh 8 or 20 Raka'at? Mufti Abu Layth (0:20–4:56)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Taraweeh, i'tikaf and Laylat al-Qadr; Schools of law and following them
Question as asked: Tarawih: is it eight or twenty rak'ahs according to the madhahib?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Tarawih has no fixed number: eight, the least the Prophet prayed, is the base and anything above it is valid. Twenty was the common practice and the schools' broad view, but neither eight nor twenty is wrong.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would go with and promote the understanding that tarawih has no set number, with eight, the least the Prophet prayed, as the base and anything above it valid.
Evidence, his words at 4:01: “I would actually go with that understanding and promote it that we know that the least amount the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam prayed was eight. So, you have that base kind of number. And anything above that is is valid,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0XXOk5oIU&t=241s)

## Does masturbation break my fast?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zlxm19mte2a/s/1/
Date: 2017-05-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Q: Does Masturbation Invalidate the Fast? Mufti Abu Layth (0:05–5:24)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: What breaks the fast; Sexual ethics
Question as asked: Does masturbation invalidate the fast?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Scholars differ: the majority hold that masturbation with ejaculation breaks the fast, by analogy with intercourse, while a minority including Ibn Hazm and some Hanafis hold that it does not, since no text says so. Mufti Abu Layth presents both views without committing to one.

## Do women pray differently from men in the Maliki school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/6/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (34:34–36:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; The Maliki school; Women in Islam
Question as asked: Is there a distinction between the salah of men and women within the Maliki madhhab?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Maliki school makes no distinction in principle between men's and women's salah. Some scholars only advise that a woman be mindful of modesty in ruku' and sujud.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school draws no distinction in principle between the salah of men and women, with only advisory guidelines that a woman may be more mindful of modesty in ruku' and sujud.
Evidence, his words at 35:05: “the school of Medina the Maliki maab from a principal perspective it does not highlight any differences between men and women in Salah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2105s)

## Can I pray Fajr at sunrise if I woke up late?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/7/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (36:30–37:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer
Question as asked: When the hadith mentions forbidden times of prayer, what does that mean? Does it mean there are certain times in which we cannot pray our salah?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: the forbidden times apply only to voluntary prayers. An obligatory prayer can be prayed at any time, including sunrise and sunset.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the forbidden times in the hadith apply only to voluntary (nafl) prayers, so an obligatory prayer such as a late Subh may and should be prayed even at sunrise.
Evidence, his words at 36:59: “so that is not a Prohibition to pray any obligatory prayer it's only referring to the na the voluntary kind of prayers” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2219s)

## How should I stand in congregational prayer, and should my feet touch my neighbour's?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/8/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (37:40–39:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; The Maliki school
Question as asked: When praying in congregation, how do we stand?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Stand naturally, shoulder to shoulder in a straight line, without squeezing or leaving gaps. Touching feet or joining heels is not required or advised, and the school of Madinah sets no rule on how far apart the feet should be.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in congregation one stands naturally shoulder to shoulder in a straight line without joining heels or touching feet, and that the Maliki school pays no attention to how far apart the feet should be.
Evidence, his words at 38:17: “how far apart should your feet be the school of Medina does not pay any attention to these kind of things” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2297s)

## What do I do if I forgot to perform sujud al-sahw after my prayer?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/9/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (39:23–41:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; The Maliki school
Question as asked: What if you forget to do sujud al-sahw: not only have you forgotten something in salah, but you have then forgotten to do the sujud al-sahw?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Perform the missed sujud al-sahw as soon as you remember, even a short while after the prayer, followed by a salam. If a long time has passed, leave it; some scholars allow the after-salam type to be made up even later.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a forgotten sujud al-sahw should be performed as soon as it is remembered, even after some time has passed while one is still in the mosque, and is simply left if a considerable time has lapsed.
Evidence, his words at 40:12: “just do it there and then followed by Salam even if a certain amount of time has lapsed but not an immense amount of time” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2412s)

## Can I pray in a t-shirt or vest, or in clothes with a picture on them?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/10/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (41:27–43:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Dress and appearance
Question as asked: What do I wear for salah? What if I have a picture on my t-shirt? Do I need to wear a shirt or jacket over a t-shirt or vest? What if there are pictures in the room?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, as long as the 'awrah is covered: no special dress is needed, and pictures on clothes or in the room do not invalidate the prayer. One should not deliberately dress down for salah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says no particular dress is required for salah beyond covering the 'awrah, so a picture on one's clothes, a t-shirt or vest one is already wearing, or pictures in the room do not invalidate the prayer, though one should not dress down for salah.
Evidence, his words at 42:45: “if you were already in a t-shirt or you happen to be in a vest as it was and you were now praying that is fine the Salah is accepted” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2565s)

## Can I pray with my trousers below my ankles, or in tight jeans?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/11/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (43:53–45:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Dress and appearance
Question as asked: What if my trousers are below the ankle during salah, does that impact the salah? And does it impact the salah if men wear tight jeans?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: trousers below the ankle or tight trousers do not affect the salah. Mufti Abu Layth does not consider trousers below the ankle forbidden, since the old ruling rested on arrogance.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says trousers below the ankle or tight trousers do not affect a man's salah, and he does not consider trousers below the ankle forbidden because the past ruling rested on an arrogance that no longer attaches to the practice.
Evidence, his words at 44:42: “with men it does not impact the Salah although they can be mindful to dress perhaps more appropriately but that does not impact the Salah in any way” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2682s)

## Do men need to cover their head to pray, and can I pray in shorts?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/12/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (45:56–47:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Dress and appearance; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: What about covering the head for men, is this something we ought to do, and is it discouraged if we are not doing it? And can someone pray in long sports shorts?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: covering the head is custom and convention, not a sunnah of salah, so praying bareheaded is fine and not makruh. Long shorts are fine if they cover the 'awrah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school does not regard covering the head as a sunnah of salah but as a matter of custom and convention, so praying bareheaded is neither makruh nor a defect, and long sports shorts that cover the 'awrah are fine to pray in.
Evidence, his words at 46:38: “this is seen as really in essence especially within the school of Medina as part of convention and Custom it is not seen as a Sunnah which people have to have to be doing” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2798s)

## Is my prayer valid if my trousers slip and part of my backside shows for a moment in sujud?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/13/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (47:35–50:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Dress and appearance
Question as asked: What if, during sujud, the trousers hang down and some part of the buttocks is momentarily exposed? What is the ruling on this?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, the prayer is still valid: a momentary exposure of the extended 'awrah in sujud does not invalidate it, though one should dress more modestly. The core 'awrah may never be exposed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a momentary exposure of the extended 'awrah, such as the upper buttocks or thigh slipping into view during sujud, does not invalidate the salah, though one should dress more modestly in the mosque, while the core 'awrah may never be exposed.
Evidence, his words at 48:37: “that kind of partial revealing um for that short dur duration within Salah within sujud let's say because mostly it would occur in sujud does not violate the Salah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN9UQPOpMA&t=2917s)

## Which books argue that Aisha was in her late teens when she married the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/10/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:38–1:17:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Question as asked: Have works been written arguing that Aisha was in her late teens when she married the Prophet?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Several works argue Aisha was in her late teens, including ones by Habib al-Rahman Kandhlawi, Salah al-Din al-Idlibi and Khalid al-Jundi. Mufti Abu Layth has read them and the refutations written against them.

## Why is Aisha's age only being questioned now, and is it just to appease the West?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/11/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:16–1:27:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Islam and modernity; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Question as asked: Why is this an issue now when historically the age was not disputed, and is this an attempt to appease the West?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The age was treated as an issue historically through rulings against marrying girls incapable of marriage, and it is prominent now because Islam faces more scrutiny. Mufti Abu Layth rejects the report with certainty and calls the appeasement charge preposterous.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he rejects the six-and-nine report with personal certainty and that doing so is a matter of consistency, not appeasement of the West.
Evidence, his words at 1:24:04: “so I don't think this is a matter of sucking up I I believe this is a matter of consistency” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=5044s)

## Why is the report that Aisha was six and nine so much better known than the others?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/12/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:27:41–1:35:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Question as asked: If other reports exist, why are the reports that Aisha was six and nine more popular?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The six-and-nine report became prominent as a by-product of hadith absolutism and the later sanctification of Bukhari and Muslim. Ordinary Muslims historically knew only that Aisha was young.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the prominence of the six-and-nine report is a by-product of hadith absolutism and the later sanctification of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, not the view of the earliest Muslims.
Evidence, his words at 1:31:44: “this view of popularizing these two books was a byproduct to that phenomenon of Hadith absolutism” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=5504s)

## If ethics change over time, how can today's ethics judge the Prophet's marriage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/13/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:35:34–1:38:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Legal theory and method
Question as asked: Ethics change with time, so how can today's ethics be a yardstick; what if in fifty years people come to accept this?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Base ethics such as the wrongness of harm do not change, and the issue is consent, which a minor cannot give. Mufti Abu Layth does not believe people will ever come to accept otherwise.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the question turns on consent, which a minor cannot give, and says he does not believe people will ever come to accept such a marriage, since the prevention of harm is a universal ethical base.
Evidence, his words at 1:36:50: “this issue rests upon the concept of consent and how can there be consent from a girl who is a minor and since she can't reason” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=5810s)

## Doesn't the hadith about Aisha playing with dolls show she was a child?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/14/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:38:13–1:42:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Individual hadith explained
Question as asked: Some reports suggest Aisha used to play with dolls; does this not indicate that she was quite young?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The word 'play' is also used of adults, and the detailed figures described in the report read as figurines rather than a child's toys. The report does not show Aisha was a child.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the dolls report does not show Aisha was a child, since 'play' applies to adults and the objects described read as figurines.
Evidence, his words at 1:41:13: “the Hadith does not mean she was a child yes it does use the word play but play could be interpreted for adults as well” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=6073s)

## Can an ordinary Muslim reject a hadith that seems irrational?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/15/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:08–1:49:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Authenticating hadith; Quran-only movement
Question as asked: Can a common person reject hadith that do not make sense or are irrational?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): An ordinary Muslim should refer puzzling hadith to scholars rather than reject them, but may decline to act on a report that clearly clashes with Islam's universal teachings. Going through the hadith books one by one is not the duty of the unskilled.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that ordinary Muslims should refer puzzling reports to scholars but may decline to act on a report that plainly clashes with Islam's universal teachings.
Evidence, his words at 1:48:56: “where something is so obvious and as broad as daylight and it clashes with our our general Universal kind of Islamic teaching then that they do not need to act according to” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=6536s)

## Is judging hadith by their content a modern invention of jurists rather than hadith scholars?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/16/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:49:58–1:55:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Authenticating hadith; Sunnah versus hadith
Question as asked: Some say that this approach of reasoning with the content of hadith is not the approach of the hadith scholars but of some later jurists; is it a modern approach?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Judging a report by its content is not modern; it goes back to Ibn Abbas and Imam Malik, who left authentic reports they did not hold to be the sunnah. Hadith absolutism displaced it only at times.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that reasoning with the content of hadith is not a modern approach but one practised by the companions and Imam Malik from the beginning.
Evidence, his words at 1:50:52: “well I would like to say well this is not modern this is part of this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=6652s)

## If Aisha's age is a problem, aren't polygamy and the Prophet's wars problems too?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/17/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:55:11–2:00:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Polygamy and mut'ah; Islam and modernity
Question as asked: If the marriage of the Prophet with a young girl is a problem, then polygamy and the wars he engaged in are also considered problematic today; where do we stop aligning our ethics with our age?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Polygamy and the Prophet's wars are not irrational and differ from marrying a child, where consent is impossible. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet remains a perfect role model and that he does not accept Aisha was that age.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet is a perfect role model for all times and that polygamy and his wars, unlike a marriage to a child who cannot consent, are not irrational.
Evidence, his words at 1:55:11: “I do believe that the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam is a a a great role model a perfect role model for all times” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=6911s)

## Why did jurists like Imam Malik let a father marry off his young daughter without her consent?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/18/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (2:00:23–2:09:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Legal theory and method; Scholars and imams of the past
Question as asked: If consent is so paramount, why do most jurists allow the father to marry off his daughter while she is under age?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Marrying off an underage girl is impermissible today. Imam Malik's exception was a contract only, without intimacy, tied to welfare in his own circumstances and not based on a clear verse or report.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that a father marrying off an underage daughter is impermissible in our age, and that Imam Malik's contractual exception was tied to welfare in his own circumstances.
Evidence, his words at 2:01:12: “make it very clear that this is impermissible in our understanding in light of our age absolutely impermissible to do that right in in our context” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=7272s)

## Is it wrong to watch Bollywood films and TV series?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/9/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (54:46–1:02:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Entertainment, sport and leisure; Islam and modernity
Question as asked: When you give a fatwa as a mufti living here you have to take the conditions of our time into account, but there are things that could be detrimental to our deen; how do you reconcile the good and the bad, for example with Bollywood films?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth does not see films and TV as a priority issue: entertainment is human, as poetry was for the companions, so focus on adding good rather than pushing people away.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in the bigger picture, he does not necessarily see movies or TV series as high on the priority list.
Evidence, his words at 56:03: “given the the the bigger picture I don't necessarily see these things as up there on the priority list uh things like movies or TV series” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=3363s)

## How can I help someone stop drinking without pushing them away?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/10/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (1:02:22–1:12:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; Character and virtue
Question as asked: How do you convince someone to abstain from drinking in a positive way? What is the standing of a person who offers prayers, does umrah and Hajj, but engages in drinking?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Drinking is unacceptable, but like any addiction it needs wisdom: offer an alternative and help with the person's problems, as Abu Hanifa did with his drinking neighbour.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that with someone who drinks there has to be wisdom and encouragement to good, giving them an alternative rather than only telling them to stop.
Evidence, his words at 1:08:52: “there has to be wisdom there has to be more than wisdom encouragement to good don't focus on the bad give people an alternative” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=4132s)

## Is a short back and sides or faded haircut haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--ojaswltlu/s/1/
Date: 2015-05-05 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Explanation: Are uneven (such as faded) haircuts haram? (0:00–15:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; Individual hadith explained
Question as asked: Is it haram to have a haircut that is shorter around the back and sides than on top, with the hair at varied lengths?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A short back and sides, or hair of unequal lengths, is permissible and does not fall under the hadith forbidding qaza'. Shaving patches and leaving others (qaza') is at most disliked, not haram, in the view he presents, unless done to disfigure or to imitate a religious practice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): A haircut with hair of unequal lengths, such as a short back and sides, is permissible and is not the qaza' the hadith forbids; shaving patches and leaving others is at most makruh rather than haram unless it is done to disfigure or to imitate a religious practice.
Evidence, his words at 13:03: “having a haircut like 'short back and sides' or something like this which is very common this is in no way forbidden it is” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--OJasWltLU&t=783s)

## Why was Mufti Abu Layth sent to prison?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/1/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (0:10–2:48)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: Personal stories and reflections; The Mufti and the channel; Extremism, crime and justice
Question as asked: You were recently released from prison. What was that all about?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth was charged with aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office after contacting a police officer to arrange mediation for a friend whose children were missing, and served about seven weeks of a six-month sentence. He says he did nothing wrong and was treated unfairly for refusing to testify against the officer.

## What was Mufti Abu Layth's time in prison like?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/2/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (2:48–5:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Personal stories and reflections; Extremism, crime and justice
Question as asked: How was your experience in custody?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Contrary to expectation it went well, and he is grateful for the insight it gave him into people from all walks of life whom he would never otherwise have met.

## Should Muslims engage with the Prevent programme?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/3/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (5:23–8:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Britain
Question as asked: What was your involvement with the Prevent programme, and do you encourage Muslims to engage in it?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, not at this stage: he says Prevent began with good objectives but has become toxic and lost its purpose, as a former Met Chief Superintendent said, so engagement is now counterproductive. Tackling radicalisation itself remains a duty of Muslims.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Prevent began with good objectives but has become toxic and lost its purpose, so he would no longer advise Muslims to engage with it, while tackling radicalisation remains a duty of Muslims and especially of the learned.
Evidence, his words at 7:08: “based on that I wouldn't at this stage having now known what I do know advise engagement with it because I see it as counterproductive” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=428s)

## Did Mufti Abu Layth call a Birmingham school the Trojan Horse school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/6/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (21:06–26:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Britain; Extremism, crime and justice; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: You have been quoted in the papers as labelling a particular school the 'Trojan Horse school'. Could you shed more light on this?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the quote was aimed at the police, not the school: he was asking why counter-terrorism officers shared confidential data about him with a school they themselves were calling a Trojan Horse school. He was not validating the allegations but questioning the officers' sincerity.

## Why did some Islamophobic journalists defend Mufti Abu Layth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/7/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (26:19–27:36)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: Britain; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: It appears some Islamophobes have even come out to defend you publicly. How do you respond to that?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it was mutual interest, not support: those concerned with the school highlighted his criticism of the counter-terrorism officers. Being shared by someone does not make them a friend, and most of them would disagree with most of what he says.

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of ISIS?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/8/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (27:36–31:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Middle East and the wider world
Question as asked: Please share your views regarding the ISIS threat.
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): ISIS is a ruthless takfiri threat to everyone, Muslims most of all, and he signed the first British fatwa against it. He rejects collective guilt for Muslims and says Western foreign policy and the Iraq prisons helped create it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says ISIS is a ruthless takfiri ideology that threatens Muslims and non-Muslims alike, that holding Muslims collectively guilty for it is unfair, and that Western foreign policy, including the prisons of the war in Iraq, contributed to its creation.
Evidence, his words at 28:51: “so it's not that they're just a threat to non-muslims they're a threat to each and all really they do have a mentality that um shows no mercy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=1731s)

## Is extremism among Muslims really on the rise?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/10/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (35:25–39:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Islam and modernity; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Question as asked: The media says there is a rise in extremism and radicalisation. Would you agree?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In one sense yes, since groups like ISIS did not exist in this form two decades ago, but he says the far greater rise is in Muslims awakening to traditional Islam, with some bad elements awoken alongside it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that while militant groups have risen compared with two decades ago, the far greater rise is a worldwide awakening of Muslims to traditional Islam, of which some extremist elements are a side effect.
Evidence, his words at 35:54: “I think there is a much greater rise towards true traditional Islam uh by the Muslims in large and in general as opposed to what there was let's say two decades ago” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=2154s)

## Is Mufti Abu Layth a modernist?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/11/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (39:21–44:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; The Maliki school; Schools of law and following them
Question as asked: Speaking of traditional Islam, you have been branded a modernist by some. How do you respond to that?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he follows the school of Madinah and Imam Malik, teaches thousand-year-old texts and holds chains back to the Prophet, and calls boycotting classical thought a heresy. Looking modern in dress, he says, is not modernism, and Abu Hanifa too was criticised for his dress.

## Why is Islamophobia rising?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/12/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (44:32–47:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Race, nation and identity; Islam and modernity; Middle East and the wider world
Question as asked: In your opinion, is there a rise in Islamophobia in recent times? If so, why is this happening?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is rising as a reaction to the worldwide awakening of Muslims to their faith, because people fear what they do not understand, and because of scaremongering and a few fools who misportray Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the rise in Islamophobia is a reaction to the collective awakening of Muslims to their faith, fed by fear of what people do not understand, by scaremongering and misrepresentation, and marginally by fools who misportray Islam.
Evidence, his words at 44:52: “I feel that the part of that rise in islamophobia is associated with the collective Awakening of Islam and the Muslims as a as a as a type of social phenomenon” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=2692s)

## How should Muslims respond to Islamophobia?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/13/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (47:10–49:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Race, nation and identity; Dawah and debate culture; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Question as asked: How should Muslims, and imams in particular, deal with this rise of Islamophobia?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Begin with yourself: learn properly, since much Islamophobia is fed by Muslims saying things they do not understand, keep links with the ulama, and work on communicating the right ideas in the right words.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims should respond to Islamophobia by beginning with themselves: learning so as not to misstate Islam, keeping links with the ulama as the community's lifeline, and improving how they communicate.
Evidence, his words at 47:24: “we need to correct our own understanding I feel that we do need to all Muslims need to be proactively engaged in learning” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=2844s)

## What is Mufti Abu Layth currently teaching?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/14/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (49:46–55:04)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; The Risalah and the Ashmawiya; 'The Foundations of Islam' by Qadi Iyad
Question as asked: What projects are you currently involved in?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): An online fiqh course on the Risalah of Ibn Abi Zayd, al-Ashmawiyyah, a completed reading of Qadi Iyad's Foundations of Islam and a sirah series, with hadith categorisation, an Andalusi poem in hadith terms and a Maliki retreat planned. He believes the school of Madinah would make the deen a way of life for Muslims in the West.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the principles of the school of Madinah would lend the deen an angle that makes it comfortable for people in the West to embrace it themselves.
Evidence, his words at 54:21: “because I do believe it would lend a an angle it would let lend some type of light to the dean that would afford great com comfortability almost for people to embrace the Deen themselves” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=3261s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth plan to do next?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/15/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (55:04–57:33)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Extremism, crime and justice
Question as asked: What are the next steps for Mufti Abu Layth?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Continue teaching and counselling, start some form of voluntary work in prisons for people abandoned by society, and pursue international projects once travel restrictions after his release allow.

## Do I have to wear my trousers above my ankles?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/awbo9rhpvpu/s/1/
Date: 2015-03-20 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Do I have to wear my trousers above my ankles? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–12:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; Legal theory and method; The Risalah and the Ashmawiya
Question as asked: Is isbal, wearing trousers or a garment so that it hangs below the ankles, haram for men?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: for men, wearing the garment below the ankles is not haram unless it is done out of arrogance, in which case the hadith apply; otherwise it is at most makruh. In today's societies covering the ankles is normal and carries no arrogance, so insisting on it misses the purpose of the ruling.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that a man letting his garment hang below the ankles is not haram unless it is done out of arrogance and is at most makruh otherwise, adding that in present-day societies covering the ankles is normal and is not a sign of arrogance.
Evidence, his words at 12:34: “so that's once again in summary it is permissible as long as it is not done with an intention of arrogance which once again in our societies seldom exists” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awbO9rHPvpU&t=754s)

## How did Mufti Abu Layth become a mufti?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/1/
Date: 2014-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (0:11–6:27)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Personal stories and reflections; How to study Islam
Question as asked: Who are you? Why did you choose to study? When did you decide you wanted to become a mufti?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It was not planned: an interest in Arabic and the Quran grew step by step, taking him from self-study to Syria and then Pakistan, where he trained as a mufti.

## Why did Mufti Abu Layth choose the Maliki madhhab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/2/
Date: 2014-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (6:27–10:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Maliki school; Schools of law and following them
Question as asked: Why the Maliki madhhab?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Its personality matched his own: the Maliki school keeps things natural, for example in how one stands, holds the hands and makes du'a in salah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki madhhab emphasises keeping things natural, as a theme running throughout the school.
Evidence, his words at 8:21: “the Maliki m is really big on keeping things natural and you'll see this as a as almost like an U an underpinning theme that goes right throughout the” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXKLQH8-ig&t=501s)

## What is Mufti Abu Layth's favourite Islamic science?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/3/
Date: 2014-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (10:20–12:53)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t9ei_hrzl84/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Quranic Arabic
Question as asked: What is your favourite Islamic science and why?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Fiqh, because he loves debate and argument between the schools, though he also has a strong interest in hadith and Arabic grammar.

## Why is al-Andalus so important to Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/4/
Date: 2014-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (12:53–18:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Al-Andalus and the Maghrib; The Maliki school
Question as asked: What's the hype with Islamic Spain?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Al-Andalus was eight centuries of native Muslim civilisation in Europe, shaped by the Maliki school, and its rise and fall hold lessons for Muslims today.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels the Maliki madhhab was instrumental in the survival of al-Andalus.
Evidence, his words at 14:10: “I do believe that having the Maliki maab as almost its you know as one of its kind of driving forces in shaping the society was instrumental in its survival” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXKLQH8-ig&t=850s)

## Is difference of opinion in Islam a mercy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/5/
Date: 2014-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (18:32–19:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Social media
Question as asked: Is difference in Islam a mercy?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, definitely: difference of opinion is a mercy and a message of tolerance. He also calls social media vital for da'wah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says difference in Islam is definitely a mercy and a message of tolerance and acceptance.
Evidence, his words at 18:32: “difference in Islam is is definitely a mercy and anybody I cannot understand anybody that would wish to contradict that message” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXKLQH8-ig&t=1112s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth not dress like a traditional mufti?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/6/
Date: 2014-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (19:08–22:07)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: Do the attacks on your appearance bother you?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The attacks do not bother him much: he holds his appearance permissible and wants to be a role model for Muslims who cannot relate to the traditional look.

## Does Islam require a particular dress or beard style for scholars?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/7/
Date: 2014-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (22:13–24:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; Dress and appearance
Question as asked: What is your message to those who attack you?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: respect the difference of opinion. Many esteemed Maliki scholars were clean-shaven or wore suits, and the din mandates no uniform.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the din does not mandate a particular type of uniform.
Evidence, his words at 24:09: “there's many people who have you know exercised that the dean has not actually um you know it does not mandate a particular type of” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXKLQH8-ig&t=1449s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth hope to achieve?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/8/
Date: 2014-07-02 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (24:53–27:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Maliki school; The Mufti and the channel
Question as asked: What does the future hold for MALM?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth hopes to spread inclusivity and compassion and a wider understanding of the Maliki school, which he feels the West needs.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels the outlook of the school of Madinah, the Maliki madhhab, is greatly needed in the West.
Evidence, his words at 26:10: “I feel that this is a perspective or an outlook on the dean which is so needed in the west” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXKLQH8-ig&t=1570s)

## Can I trim my beard short or to a goatee, below a fist's length?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/d95_pyj6nia/s/1/
Date: 2014-04-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cutting-edge Perspective: Trimming the beard in Islam (pt 1)- Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–4:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; Schools of law and following them
Question as asked: What is the ruling, or is it permissible, to have a beard which is trimmed from the sides, or a goatee, or trimmed to quite an extent so that it is quite small and all round?
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Trimming the beard from the sides, to a goatee or to less than a fist's length is permissible and not haram, though a difference of opinion exists and others may follow it. Mufti Abu Layth's aim is to show that this opinion has a long and continuing place in the tradition.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that trimming the beard from the sides, to a goatee or to less than a fist's length is permissible and not haram, while recognising a valid difference of opinion that others may follow.
Evidence, his words at 1:25: “so first of all I'd like to say that this is permissible this is not Haram okay I do recognize that there is a difference of opinion amongst the” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95_pYj6NiA&t=85s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth see the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/4/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (7:32–10:44)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; False and fabricated hadith; The age of Aisha
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth sees the Quran-only movement as a reaction of anger, sometimes justified, to hadith that are misused, such as the Bukhari report on Aisha's age, the report on killing apostates and reports used to justify abuse; the question is what Quranists actually mean by rejecting hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he perceives the Quranist movement as a reaction of anger to hadith that are misused, an anger sometimes justified, and he holds that Aisha married in her late teens, that the hadith on killing the apostate is fabricated and its application was political, and that hadith are wrongly used to justify abuse and misogyny.
Evidence, his words at 7:32: “I feel that the Quranist movement is really it's you know it's a kind of reaction with a lot of rage a lot of anger almost and negativity” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzjD7XMDhE&t=452s)

## Is there a middle way between rejecting all hadith and accepting every hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/5/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (10:44–15:38)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Personal stories and reflections
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is a middle way between rejecting hadith and hadith absolutism: Malik and Abu Hanifa distinguished Sunnah from hadith and accepted reports only if they do not contradict reason, the Quran, the living tradition or a principle of Islam. Mufti Abu Layth says Quranists should be met with love, not cornered, and recalls his own past anger.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds the middle position of Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa that the Sunnah is what is followed and hadith only document it, so a report is accepted unless it contradicts reason, the Quran or the living tradition or uproots a principle of Islam, and that discarding the Sunnah is a disservice to faith.
Evidence, his words at 12:28: “to discard the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam who is to Muslims the most beloved of creation is a disservice to I feel faith as a whole” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzjD7XMDhE&t=748s)

## Why is lanasfa'an in Quran 96:15 written with an alif, and is it a mistake?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hmurvu2c9yq/s/4/
Date: 2024-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (14:51–20:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quranic Arabic; Preservation and variant readings
Cites: Quran 96:15 (lanasfa'an bil-nasiyah) (https://quran.com/96/15)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is not a mistake: Mufti Abu Layth shows from Sibawayh that the emphatic nun becomes an alif when stopping on it, so the alif spelling is the traditional one.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that writing the emphatic nun of lanasfa'an with an alif is the traditional way of writing it.
Evidence, his words at 20:18: “that is actually the traditional way of writing it now as time developed and generations became much more a writing people they popularly started to write it the other way” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUrvU2c9YQ&t=1218s)

## Spread love, and take account of the damage our words have done
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hmurvu2c9yq/s/5/
Date: 2024-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (20:58–22:28)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Character and virtue; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says this deen is one of love and hope, and everyone, himself included, must reckon with the harm their words may have done.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that all Muslims, himself included, have to take themselves to account for the damage their past words may have done.
Evidence, his words at 21:34: “include myself in this that what damage we may have done already with our words you know I I we all have to take ourselves into account for that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUrvU2c9YQ&t=1294s)

## Which verse of the Quran promises more blessings for being grateful?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c-9mcspqqwe/s/1/
Date: 2024-03-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Secret To Abundance - Quranic Gems - #Shorts #Perspective #MALM (0:03–1:02)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Gratitude, giving and contentment; Quranic guidance for living
Cites: Quran 14:7 (if you are grateful, I will increase you) (https://quran.com/14/7)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth points to Quran 14:7: Allah promises abundance to the grateful, so by giving you receive.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in Quran 14:7 Allah promises abundance to those who express gratitude.
Evidence, his words at 0:03: “one of the most powerful verses of the Quran that will unlock its abundance Surah ibraim verse 7 and Allah announces it if you Express gratitude Allah promises” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-9MCspQqwE&t=3s)

## How much does Allah love me?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/
Date: 2024-03-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Take A Chance On Yourself #Shorts #Perspective #MALM (0:02–1:02)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Motivation and purpose
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Allah has an unimaginable love for every one of us, so we should take a chance on ourselves.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Allah has an unimaginable love for each and every one of us.
Evidence, his words at 0:02: “so simple yet profound and we know it but we need to deeply realize it and that is the unimaginable love that Allah has for each and every one of us” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fko_FZwwNbA&t=2s)

## A fate worse than death: each of us is a mirror for divine potential
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/chvpqwz6bee/s/1/
Date: 2024-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Fate Worse Than Death - #Shorts #Perspective #MALM (0:02–1:00)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Motivation and purpose; Sufism and tasawwuf
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 0:42: “each and every one of us folks is a mirror for the Divine potential that Allah has gifted do not let that go to waste” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVPqWZ6BeE&t=42s)

## What can the death of a parent teach us?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/awxumqnpbw0/s/1/
Date: 2023-06-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Brief Foreword @ My Mum's Khatm - Lessons from Life & Death - Ghamkol Mosque (0:01–4:29)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Grief and loss; Facing death; Gratitude, giving and contentment
Cites: Quran 36:68 (whoever We grant long life, We reverse in creation) (https://quran.com/36/68)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says death is the greatest admonition and grief brings families together; one lesson may be to serve those who have no one around them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that maybe one of the great lessons of death is to try to give forward, helping and serving other people.
Evidence, his words at 3:48: “people who don't have that gift and maybe this one of the great lessons is to try to give forward to people maybe to ponder and help and serve other people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwxuMQnPbw0&t=228s)

## What is the funeral prayer and what do you say in it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/y-jdmojfgnu/s/1/
Date: 2023-05-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Before my Mum's Burial - Final Farewell #Duas #LoveYouMum الله يرحمك ❤️🙏🏽 (0:01–4:49)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Funerals and burial; Facing death; Grief and loss
Cites: Quran 67:2 (He created death and life to test which of you is best in deeds) (https://quran.com/67/2); Quran 3:185 (every soul shall taste death) (https://quran.com/3/185); Quran 89:27-30 (O soul at peace, return to your Lord) (https://quran.com/89/27-30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The funeral prayer is in essence a sincere du'a for the deceased; many scholars allow any du'a, in any language, across its four takbirs.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the janazah is in essence a du'a for the deceased.
Evidence, his words at 3:14: “The janazah is really in essence a dua. The hadith of the prophet is either salatum ala al-mayyit fa akhlisu lahu dua.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JDMojFGnU&t=194s)

## Was the Prophet harsh with people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oag-f3hxcdy/s/2/
Date: 2023-05-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (6:18–10:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Dawah and debate culture; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet was soft and attentive with people and came from mercy, unlike harsh dawah that puts others down.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet did not come from intimidation but from mercy and compassion for the world.
Evidence, his words at 8:46: “even if they do work they work from a fear angle an intimidation the prophet came from a mercy a compassion for the world” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAG-F3hxCDY&t=526s)

## How did the Prophet balance gentleness and strength?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oag-f3hxcdy/s/3/
Date: 2023-05-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (10:04–13:09)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Masculinity and gender roles; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet was tender, kissing his children, yet firm when safety demanded, riding out alone at night to check on a frightening sound.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet combined compassion with firmness, being firm for the well-being of people and not in an intimidating way.
Evidence, his words at 12:30: “it's not about you have the compassion but where the time comes a person is firm firm for the well-being of people not in a thugly intimidation kind of way” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAG-F3hxCDY&t=750s)

## Did Imam Malik reject the hadith he did not act on?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zkklciv1tk8/s/1/
Date: 2023-04-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Methodology Of Imam Malik | How To Treat Hadith | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–6:49)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; The Muwatta and the Mudawwana; Imam Malik
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says Imam Malik respected such hadith by recording them in the Muwatta while noting that Madinah did not act on them, a model of hadith relativism he recommends following.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says, as his own thought, that someone choosing an imam to guide them in a broad methodology should look to legends like Imam Malik.
Evidence, his words at 3:37: “you're going to see these names come up again in a very problematic way look to Legends like Imam Malik they were in the time of the salaf” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkklciv1TK8&t=217s)

## Why does the practice of Madinah matter more than a single hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zkklciv1tk8/s/2/
Date: 2023-04-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Methodology Of Imam Malik | How To Treat Hadith | Mufti Abu Layth (6:49–12:04)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; The Maliki school; Narrator criticism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the inherited practice of Madinah, like its adhan, outweighs an isolated report, since not every Sunnah was documented and narrators made honest mistakes; this is why he favours the school of Madinah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he greatly favours the method of the school of Madinah.
Evidence, his words at 11:42: “there's so much volumes can be written on how this is why I so favor them the method of the school of matina” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkklciv1TK8&t=702s)

## Who was Imam Malik and where did he come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/1/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:36)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zkklciv1tk8/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam Malik was born in Madinah around 93 AH into an Arab family of Himyarite origin, with a Companion great-grandfather and a grandfather among the tabi'un.

## Can a pregnancy last for years, as was said of Imam Malik's birth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/2/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (5:36–12:43)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Medical questions; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: reports of years-long pregnancies are best explained by phantom pregnancies followed by real conception, not dismissed as lies or taken literally.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the old reports of pregnancies lasting years, as with Imam Malik's, can be explained by phantom pregnancies.
Evidence, his words at 6:53: “so research in recent times has shown and several Muslim researchers and medical researchers have found have researched what they call Phantom pregnancies” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=413s)

## Is it haram for men to wear earrings?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/3/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (12:43–17:40)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Music
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Early imams including Malik wore earrings as boys; Malik disliked golden earrings for boys because of the gold, not the earring.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says many of the great imams of the early period, Imam Malik among them, used to wear earrings.
Evidence, his words at 13:22: “many of the Great imams in the early Islamic period especially in Arabia uh the great had the theme like Imam Malik like Sofia like all these people used to wear earrings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=802s)

## How did Imam Malik come to study religion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/4/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (17:40–22:12)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Raising children
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His mother gently steered him from singing to study, and that choice made him one of the most influential figures in Islamic history.

## What did Imam Malik's teachers teach him about hadith and Sunnah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/5/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (22:12–23:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Sunnah versus hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Rabi'a taught him that a practice transmitted by a thousand from a thousand outweighs a hadith passed one from one, the living tradition of Madinah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Rabi'a's saying 'a thousand from a thousand is more beloved to me than one from one' perfectly instantiates the debate of hadith versus Sunnah.
Evidence, his words at 22:46: “this was the living tradition in Medina is such a powerful concept that not only that perfectly um instantiates this this debate of Hadith versus Sunnah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=1366s)

## Was Imam Malik an ascetic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/6/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (23:27–26:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Gratitude, giving and contentment
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Imam Malik was a wealthy merchant who enjoyed fine clothes and daily meat, unlike the ascetic tradition, and was criticised for it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Imam Malik was not from the ascetic tradition in Islam; he enjoyed the wealth God had given him.
Evidence, his words at 24:44: “there is a tradition like that in Islam but Imam Malik was not from that tradition he spent money he enjoyed money” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=1484s)

## Is the Muwatta of Imam Malik more authentic than Sahih al-Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/7/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (26:01–31:02)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Hadith collections and their history
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Muwatta, with Malik's 'golden chain', is arguably the most authentic book of hadith and predates al-Bukhari, though others do not rank it first.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Muwatta is arguably the most authentic book of hadith from a hadith perspective.
Evidence, his words at 28:33: “it is the mother is arguably the most authentic book in Hadith from a hadithi perspective” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=1713s)

## Why did Imam Malik sometimes reject authentic hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/8/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (31:02–37:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Sunnah versus hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Malik would cite a hadith and say Madinah did not act on it, a devastating stance for later hadith-centred scholars, given his unmatched authority.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth calls Malik's saying that his city does not act upon a hadith a catastrophe for the later hadith dogmatists.
Evidence, his words at 31:37: “so he says we in our city do not act upon this Hadith this is a catastrophic meteor hahaha in the face of the second wave mahadithin project” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=1897s)

## What is the difference between a hadith and the Sunnah in the Maliki school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/9/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (37:24–42:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Sunnah versus hadith; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The school of Madinah is 'hadith relativist': it accepts a hadith where it matches the living Sunnah and not otherwise, since hadith is historical data and the Sunnah is the Prophet's teaching.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says those who follow the school of Madinah are not hadith dogmatists but hadith relativists, embracing a hadith where it correlates with the Sunnah.
Evidence, his words at 38:42: “we who follow the school of Medina are not Hadith dogmatists Hadith relativists as in we embrace the Sunnah where the Hadith correlates with the Sunnah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=2322s)

## Is studying religious knowledge better than voluntary prayer?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/10/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (42:25–46:44)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; How to study Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam Malik taught that devotion to learning is not lesser than voluntary worship, the paths to God being many, and Mufti Abu Layth urges not underestimating it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says one should not underestimate the value of devotion to learning, or think voluntary prayer is somehow more valuable to God.
Evidence, his words at 45:25: “there is something about the Legacy about being devoted to learning that don't don't don't don't as underestimate its value” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=2725s)

## Why did Imam Malik never leave Madinah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/11/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (46:44–49:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Out of love for the Prophet, Malik held Madinah above Makkah, never left it except once for Hajj, and would not wear shoes or ride near the Prophet's mosque.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school holds Madinah to be more virtuous than Makkah, while the other schools disagree.
Evidence, his words at 47:22: “in the Maliki method we consider Medina to be more virtuous than Makkah the other methods disagree” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=2842s)

## Why was Imam Malik flogged?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/12/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (49:58–57:27)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zkklciv1tk8/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Umayyads and Abbasids; Divorce
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Malik was flogged for refusing to stop transmitting that a coerced divorce is invalid, which undercut forced oaths of allegiance to the Abbasids.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he doubts Malik stayed away from the mosque because of ill health, since he kept teaching at home for hours until his death.
Evidence, his words at 55:33: “some people say maybe it was because he his health was really bad after the beating and I doubt it I mean it could be but then he used to teach at home” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=3333s)

## Can we ever be completely certain about religious answers?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/13/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (57:27–1:02:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; The Maliki school; Reason and revelation
Cites: Quran 3:173 (God is sufficient for us) (https://quran.com/3/173); Quran 45:32 (we only think it is conjecture and we are not certain) (https://quran.com/45/32)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Only God is certain; every answer we hold is limited by our own understanding and that of those we learned from, a humility Imam Malik modelled.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the ultimate certainty is God alone, and whatever we think is the answer is ultimately limited by our understanding.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:08: “the ultimate certainty is just Allah we have to understand that whatever we think is an answer is ultimately our understanding of what we think is the answer” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=3668s)

## Who carried on Imam Malik's teaching after him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/14/
Date: 2023-03-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Legendary Imam Malik Ibn Anas | Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:17–1:06:29)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Imam Malik; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His daughter, who had memorised his hadith and taught his classes after him, while his sons showed little interest.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it was Imam Malik's daughter who carried his legacy forward, continuing to teach his classes after him.
Evidence, his words at 1:02:54: “it was actually his daughter that that took the the lamp of his legacy and marched forward with it she continued to teach his classes and things after him” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVM47pNS0&t=3774s)

## What should Muslims focus on in confusing times?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/9/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (40:07–42:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Character and virtue; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the best thing is to focus on yourself and be an example of light, inviting and welcoming people rather than condemning them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the best possible thing a person can do is focus on themselves and be an example of light.
Evidence, his words at 40:42: “the best possible thing you could do is focus on yourself be an example of” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=2442s)

## The birth of orthodoxy: a nameless main body and the hadith project
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f_4jnua3arq/s/1/
Date: 2023-02-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Birth Of Islamic Orthodoxy And Institutionalisation | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:46)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Creed and the schools of theology; Sunnah versus hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Orthodoxy means belief deemed correct by those with power. For two centuries the main body of Muslims had no name and was marked out by involvement in hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the name Ahl al-Sunnah did not exist until over two hundred years after the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 1:57: “this name Allah Sunnah didn't exist for until over you know decades over 200 years after the prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4jnUA3ARQ&t=117s)

## Apophatic definition: the early main body defined by what it was not
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f_4jnua3arq/s/2/
Date: 2023-02-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Birth Of Islamic Orthodoxy And Institutionalisation | Mufti Abu Layth (5:46–10:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Creed and the schools of theology; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Early Muslims had no creed checklist: you belonged to the main body as long as you did not hold the positions of the known sects.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in the time of the salaf the main body of Muslims was identified by contrast with outgroups, with no checklist of what to believe.
Evidence, his words at 8:14: “there is no checklist to believe there is only the in-group is identified in contrast to the elk group” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4jnUA3ARQ&t=494s)

## The created Quran controversy and the birth of a creedal checklist
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f_4jnua3arq/s/3/
Date: 2023-02-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Birth Of Islamic Orthodoxy And Institutionalisation | Mufti Abu Layth (10:49–19:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In his research, orthodoxy began with the created-Quran controversy, which gave rise to the language of divine attributes and to growing creedal checklists.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his research he feels orthodoxy originates with the question of the creation of the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 10:49: “in my research I feel this originates the birth of this is with the Hulk the creation of the Quran Masala” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4jnUA3ARQ&t=649s)

## Orthodoxy and power: adding to the checklist, ijma and cancel culture
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f_4jnua3arq/s/4/
Date: 2023-02-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Birth Of Islamic Orthodoxy And Institutionalisation | Mufti Abu Layth (19:10–26:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Once creed became a checklist, those in power could keep adding to it, as with ijma; everyone acts from power, even when sincere.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says everybody acts from power and that doing so does not mean one is disingenuous.
Evidence, his words at 25:38: “it's naive to assume that only people that are disingenuous Act from Power that that's incredibly that that that's totally not true everybody acts from Power and and doesn't mean you're disingenuous” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4jnUA3ARQ&t=1538s)

## Language embeds power: 'inconvenience' versus 'hardship' in tayammum
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f_4jnua3arq/s/5/
Date: 2023-02-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Birth Of Islamic Orthodoxy And Institutionalisation | Mufti Abu Layth (26:17–30:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Purification
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The words scholars choose, such as 'inconvenience' or 'hardship', already decide the ruling, embedding power even when used sincerely.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the moment we deploy words we embed power structures, maybe subconsciously.
Evidence, his words at 28:50: “the moment we deploy words we are agents of power we select words maybe subconsciously but we embed power structures by the use of words” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4jnUA3ARQ&t=1730s)

## Why orthodoxy took hold, and who wrote the checklist
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f_4jnua3arq/s/6/
Date: 2023-02-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Birth Of Islamic Orthodoxy And Institutionalisation | Mufti Abu Layth (30:09–34:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Orthodoxy offered clarity, but its checklist was written by men from their own school and position, not by Allah and his Messenger.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the creedal list was taught not by Allah and his Messenger but by men, who wrote from their own perspective.
Evidence, his words at 31:27: “hasn't been taught to you by Allah and his messenger it's been taught by men righteous men you know inshallah but the thing is they're still men” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4jnUA3ARQ&t=1887s)

## Is Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza consistent in how he criticises hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dnueakqqzxy/s/1/
Date: 2023-02-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Engineer Muhammad Mirza's Methods | Hadith Vs Sunnah | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–8:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Narrator criticism; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not fully, says Mufti Abu Layth: Engineer Mirza's rational critique of others' hadith stops short of scrutinising how sahih hadith were authenticated. Mufti still calls him a legend and a much-needed voice.

## Is worship or how I treat people the real sign of faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dhkc0lo1e18/s/2/
Date: 2022-12-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Not Praying, The Bigger Sin? | Mufti Abu Layth (7:08–9:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Character and virtue; God and the divine attributes
Cites: Quran 2:177 (https://quran.com/2/177); Quran 21:107 (https://quran.com/21/107)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says worship is a personal matter between you and God, while how you behave among people is the true measure of your iman.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that how you behave amongst people is your true sign of faith.
Evidence, his words at 8:22: “you have been put on this Earth to be amongst people as well so how do you behave amongst them that's your true sign of Faith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhKc0LO1e18&t=502s)

## Who was Imam Abu Hanifa and where did he come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/1/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:36)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa, a kunya that became his name, was of Persian ancestry with roots in Kabul, was born in Kufa in 80 AH and grew up as a stylish, successful cloth trader before turning to knowledge.

## How did Abu Hanifa become a scholar after starting out as a merchant?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/2/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (6:36–13:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Encouraged by al-Sha'bi to join the circles of knowledge, the merchant Abu Hanifa studied with Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman, succeeded him as the central figure of Kufa and became the voice of the school of reason.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Abu Hanifa concretised the school of reason in Kufa and was a legendary voice of reason whose story is inspiring.
Evidence, his words at 12:11: “he concretizes this school which becomes known as the school of reason and he was a legendary voice for the voice of reason honestly a legend and it's so inspiring” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Vm6mgbLl8&t=731s)

## Why was Abu Hanifa criticised so much in his own time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/3/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (13:05–17:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Imam Malik
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa was accused in his lifetime of following desire and opinion over the Quran, partly by rivals such as Sufyan al-Thawri, though the imams generally stayed respectful of one another.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hostility Sufyan al-Thawri often showed towards Abu Hanifa was not a good thing, and that he has never read Abu Hanifa being venomous about others.
Evidence, his words at 15:22: “sophiana thori who's a great Imam but he often hated on Imam which wasn't really you know a good thing to be honest” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Vm6mgbLl8&t=922s)

## Why did Abu Hanifa allow things like praying in Persian?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/4/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (17:01–22:16)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Legal theory and method; Conditions of a valid prayer
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa's legal stratagems, such as letting someone who knew no Arabic pray in Persian, were meant to create ease for new Muslims, not to change Islam, and Mufti Abu Layth says that spirit is needed today.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Abu Hanifa's legal stratagems, such as allowing prayer in Persian, were meant to create ease and welcome people rather than to change Islam, and that this spirit is the one needed today.
Evidence, his words at 21:03: “he wasn't trying to say change Islam he was trying to make it easy for them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Vm6mgbLl8&t=1263s)

## Was Abu Hanifa involved in politics?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/5/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (22:16–24:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa supported Zayd ibn Ali's uprising and fled to Makkah under the Umayyads, and the Abbasids later made him chief supervisor of the building of Baghdad.

## How did the Hanafi school develop from Abu Hanifa's teaching?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/6/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (24:52–28:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa's students, above all Imam Muhammad, turned his spirit into an institution through the six books of the zahir al-riwaya, and Mufti Abu Layth feels the madhhab later lost that spirit and became focused on the letter of the law.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Hanafi madhhab, over the generations, lost the spirit Abu Hanifa brought, became radically institutionalised and focused on the letter of the law, declaring most things haram, contrary to his concern to create ease.
Evidence, his words at 27:29: “I feel that his method kind of along the way as the generations went by they lost our spirit and and the more centuries that went by became radically kind of institutionalized” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Vm6mgbLl8&t=1649s)

## Did Abu Hanifa allow wudu with nabidh when there was no water?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/7/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (28:48–32:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Purification; Divorce
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the early school of Abu Hanifa, someone without water could make wudu with nabidh, a weak fermented date drink, and he helped people out of rash conditional divorce oaths, unlike the sterner Imam Malik.

## How did Abu Hanifa solve the case of two brides sent to the wrong grooms?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/8/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (32:42–41:54)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Strength in Stories and why history matters; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; The marriage contract
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Where Sufyan al-Thawri advised divorces, a waiting period and remarriage to the original spouses, Abu Hanifa had each man marry on the spot the woman he had spent the night with, sparing a waiting period and jealousy.

## How did Abu Hanifa die, and what was he known for among people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/9/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (41:54–45:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Umayyads and Abbasids; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa was imprisoned by the Abbasids for supporting an uprising from the Prophet's family and died, perhaps poisoned, in prison; he was loved above all for his compassion and generosity.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the feature that most made Abu Hanifa's legacy glow and won people's hearts was his compassion and generosity towards students, teachers and people in need.
Evidence, his words at 42:15: “the thing about Imam one of that that really stands out was his compassion for people you know this is what really won the heart of so many people around him was his compassion” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Vm6mgbLl8&t=2535s)

## What did Abu Hanifa do about his neighbour who drank and sang at night?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/10/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (45:49–56:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Strength in Stories and why history matters; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Rather than punishing his drunken, noisy neighbour, Abu Hanifa had him released from custody and asked whether he had let him go to waste, a kindness that transformed the man's life.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth draws from the story of Abu Hanifa's drunkard neighbour that doing kindness to people conquers their hearts.
Evidence, his words at 54:43: “but you know that you you do kindness to people it conquers the hearts this person was so he had like an existential profound moment” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Vm6mgbLl8&t=3283s)

## What is the story of the woman who tricked Abu Hanifa into a marriage proposal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/11/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (56:24–1:08:15)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Strength in Stories and why history matters; Choosing a spouse; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa died in 150 AH and is buried in Baghdad. In a story of uncertain accuracy, a woman tricked him into a marriage with a different bride to get him back for the clever reference he once gave a poor suitor.

## What did Abu Hanifa say about Imam Malik?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/12/
Date: 2022-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa | Mufti Abu Layth (1:08:15–1:10:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Imam Malik; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa called the younger Imam Malik a blonde, blue-eyed lad. Mufti Abu Layth closes that the Hanafi madhhab became restrictive in recent centuries while schools such as the Maliki kept their freedoms.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Hanafi madhhab became very restrictive and controlling, especially in the last two or three centuries, whereas other schools such as the Maliki kept their freedoms.
Evidence, his words at 1:09:37: “the mother did become quite regimental of especially in the latter centuries you know the last maybe two through 200 300 years whereas some of the other meth have still kept their freedoms” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Vm6mgbLl8&t=4177s)

## Does Islam allow attacking Salman Rushdie?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/1/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–5:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Extremism, crime and justice; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he condemns the attack on Salman Rushdie as cowardly and contrary to Islam, saying ideas must be answered with speech and that the attack only demonised Islam and revived Rushdie's fame.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth condemns the attack on Salman Rushdie as cowardly and an abomination, saying Islam does not teach such acts and that those who speak against Islam must be answered with speech.
Evidence, his words at 0:01: “i want to first of all very clearly in categorical terms condemn this attack for the cowardice and the abomination that it is okay islam does not teach anybody to do things like this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=1s)

## What does the Mufti think of Salman Rushdie as a person?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/2/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (5:17–9:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he personally finds Rushdie's personality abhorrent and senses a strong negativity from him, and that he researched him in order to be fair.

## What was Salman Rushdie's family background?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/3/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (9:18–15:50)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary; The Indian subcontinent
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth describes Rushdie's privileged Muslim family in Bombay, a father who took the name Rushdie from Ibn Rushd, and an English boarding-school education shaped by admiration for the British ruling class.

## What made Salman Rushdie so hostile to Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/4/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (15:50–25:03)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Islamic psychology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth suggests that Rushdie's hostility to Islam is rooted in an unresolved resentment of his father, who embraced his Muslim identity and moved to Pakistan.

## Identity, Midnight's Children, the fatwa and the years in hiding
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/5/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (25:03–27:41)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Book Lounge and book reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Rushdie's lack of a secure identity runs through his books, and recounts Midnight's Children, Khomeini's fatwa and the years in hiding before turning to The Satanic Verses.

## Is there a difference between criticising Islam and insulting it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/6/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (27:41–32:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: he says everyone may criticise a religion they do not believe in, even if it offends, but that this is not a right to insult, and no society allows speech without limits.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says everyone has the right to criticise what they do not believe in, even if it offends, but that freedom to criticise is not freedom to insult, and every society sets some limits on speech.
Evidence, his words at 28:05: “every person i i firmly believe they have the right to criticize if they don't believe in something they have the right to criticize it even if it offends but there is a difference between just criticizing and insulting” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=1685s)

## What is The Satanic Verses actually about?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/7/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (32:57–42:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Book Lounge and book reviews; Blasphemy, insult and free speech
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth summarises the novel's plot, including the Mahound episode and the brothel whose women bear the names of the Prophet's wives, and says this part, though short, shows the book's hostility to Islam.

## Is The Satanic Verses a critique of Islam or an insult?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/8/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (42:08–44:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Book Lounge and book reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the novel is an insult rather than a critique, since it makes no argument and only portrays the Prophet and his wives offensively.

## Why did Salman Rushdie write The Satanic Verses?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/9/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (44:48–52:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Islamic psychology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In his personal opinion, Rushdie wrote the novel chiefly as defiance of his father, did not expect the backlash, and has since been abandoned even by the left he championed.

## What does holding on to bitterness do to a person?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/12/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (56:41–1:00:37)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Anger and forgiveness; Blasphemy, insult and free speech
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): After jokes about Rushdie's marriages, he says bitterness consumes the person who carries it and hurts those around them, and prays for such hearts to be healed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says bitterness harboured against others destroys the one who carries it and hurts those closest to them, and he prays that God heals such hearts.
Evidence, his words at 58:20: “i tell you something about being bitter in life it never ends well” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=3500s)

## What are the satanic verses in Islamic history?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/13/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:00:37–1:09:22)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 53:1-4 (by the star; your companion has not strayed, nor does he speak from desire) (https://quran.com/53/1-4); Quran 53:19-20 (al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat) (https://quran.com/53/19-20)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth explains that the Prophet's recitation of Surah al-Najm and the prostration of everyone present are documented, but that the added story of him praising the three goddesses is false.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the prostration of everyone present when the Prophet recited Surah al-Najm is documented, possibly out of respect at the mention of their gods, but that the narrations claiming the Prophet praised the three goddesses are false.
Evidence, his words at 1:05:26: “the people fall into sujud they go into such that this incident is documented it is in bukhari it is in muslim” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=3926s)

## Is Quran 22:52 about the satanic verses incident?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/14/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:09:22–1:14:40)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Contested verses; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Cites: Quran 22:52 (Satan cast into the prophet's wish, then God annulled it) (https://quran.com/22/52)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he rejects the link to 22:52, noting that Surah al-Hajj is Madinan, that the Prophet refused the Makkans' offers of compromise, and that the Quran calls the idols mere stone.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the story that the Prophet praised the idols, or that Satan spoke in his voice, is absurd, and that 22:52, in a Madinan surah, has nothing to do with it.
Evidence, his words at 1:11:50: “first of all this verse is not speaking about anything to do with that okay this verse suratul hajj right is in the surah of hajj which is an issue of madinah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=4310s)

## What did the classical Maliki scholars say about the satanic verses story?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/15/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:40–1:18:40)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; The Maliki school
Cites: Quran 22:52 (Satan cast into the prophet's wish, then God annulled it) (https://quran.com/22/52)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki scholars, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and Qadi Iyad among them, rejected the story as fabricated, and that al-Tabari records the narrations but concludes they are false.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki scholars rightly rejected the satanic verses narrations as fabricated, and that even a sahih report contradicting the Quran would be rejected, let alone weak ones.
Evidence, his words at 1:14:40: “this is why many of the ulama of islam oh sorry especially the malikiah very clearly made it very clear that look all of these things are utterly absurd they have no standing” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=4480s)

## Why did Ibn Hajar say the satanic verses story has some basis?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/16/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:18:40–1:26:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Authenticating hadith; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar wrongly argued that the many weak chains give the story a basis, and attributes the mistake to passion for the hadith project rather than malice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar was wrong to argue that the many weak chains give the satanic verses story a basis, a mistake he attributes to passion for the hadith project rather than to malice.
Evidence, his words at 1:25:04: “this is ibn hajjar's clear blind mistake that he it's and i'm not saying he he i'm not saying he did this out of malice he didn't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=5104s)

## What does the Quran say against the satanic verses story?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/17/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:26:29–1:34:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 53:1-4 (by the star; your companion has not strayed, nor does he speak from desire) (https://quran.com/53/1-4); Quran 69:44-46 (had he invented sayings against Us, We would have seized him) (https://quran.com/69/44-46); Quran 14:22 (Shaytan on the Day of Judgement: I had no authority over you except that I called you) (https://quran.com/14/22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Suyuti repeated Ibn Hajar's mistake, while the Quran rules the story out: the Prophet does not speak from desire and Satan has no power to speak in his voice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran itself rules out the satanic verses story, since it says the Prophet does not speak from desire and that Satan has no power over people beyond calling them, so he cannot speak in the Prophet's voice.
Evidence, his words at 1:30:52: “shaytan does not have the power to be talking impersonating your voice this is what qadha yad mentions this is what ibn arabi mentions” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=5452s)

## Which scholars accepted the satanic verses story and which rejected it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/18/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:34:20–1:42:10)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; False and fabricated hadith; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Albani and Ibn Khuzayma rejected the story as a fabrication, while Ibn Taymiyya, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Ibn Hajar leaned towards giving it some basis.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the satanic verses story was fabricated by people unhappy with Islam, as Ibn Khuzayma said, and that Ibn Taymiyya and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab were wrong to incline towards accepting it.
Evidence, his words at 1:40:57: “who clearly said look this was people who weren't happy with islam just kind of built on that story that was about all the people prostrating” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=6057s)

## What does the Mufti think of Ibn Taymiyya and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/19/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:10–1:47:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Taymiyya's contribution is mainly to the Salafis and that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's misplaced zeal did great harm, while stressing that all scholars are human and make mistakes.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Hajar and al-Suyuti contributed greatly to Islam and Ibn Taymiyya to a lesser degree, while Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, in his view not a scholar of depth, had a misplaced zeal that did great harm to Muslims.
Evidence, his words at 1:44:46: “misplaced passion like his passion was very passionate about islam wanted to do something but ended up doing a lot of harm” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=6286s)

## Should loyalty to a scholar ever come before the honour of the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/20/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:47:24–1:52:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Replies to attacks on the Prophet; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Imam Malik
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says loyalty belongs first to the Prophet, so a report that disparages him must be rejected whoever accepted it, citing Imam Malik's maxim that everyone's words can be accepted or rejected except the Prophet's.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that when a report disparages the Prophet, loyalty belongs to the Prophet rather than to any scholar who accepted it, and that everyone's words may be accepted or rejected except the Prophet's.
Evidence, his words at 1:49:23: “if you find an incident that is doing that your loyalty is first and foremost with the prophet salallahu not with this great mahadev great person” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pHQRNJjBY&t=6563s)

## Recap: the novel, insult versus critique, and the false story summarised
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/21/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (1:52:45–1:58:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Blasphemy, insult and free speech
Cites: Quran 22:52 (Satan cast into the prophet's wish, then God annulled it) (https://quran.com/22/52)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recaps that Rushdie's novel was an insult rather than a critique and that the satanic verses story is a fabrication rejected by al-Tabari, Ibn Khuzayma and Qadi Iyad, recommending al-Shifa and al-Albani's book.

## Neanderthals were more intelligent than people think
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/voxmweq6rz4/s/2/
Date: 2022-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Neanderthals And Denisovans & The Islamic Narrative | Mufti Abu Layth (8:16–10:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Human origins
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Neanderthals were not stupid: he puts their intelligence at roughly that of an eight or nine year old child, far above chimpanzees.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Neanderthals were probably about as intelligent as an eight or nine year old child.
Evidence, his words at 8:53: “they were probably as intelligent as maybe like an eight nine year old child which is pretty intelligent” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voxmwEQ6rz4&t=533s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth say he wronged Dawah Man?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/udmzrayygfi/s/1/
Date: 2022-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dawahman I Have Wronged Him | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he wronged Dawah Man by picking on him repeatedly although Dawah Man never publicly criticised him, breaking his own rule, and he wishes him well despite their differences.

## Is it wrong to joke about people who are seriously ill with covid?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/626jfce_j_8/s/1/
Date: 2021-11-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sheikh Asrar Was In Hospital | Mufti Abu Layth (0:14–5:31)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Covid-19; Facing death; Gratitude, giving and contentment
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Do not make fun of people who are ill with covid: it is a roll of the dice, as a neighbour's sudden death showed, and it should make us grateful.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he advises people not to make fun of those who are hospitalised or ill with covid.
Evidence, his words at 4:41: “this is why i i advise not to kind of make fun or this a lot of people who are hospitalized and or ill with this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626JfCE_j_8&t=281s)

## What does the Mufti think of Quran-only Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/_lwqz9dm5zs/s/1/
Date: 2021-11-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Quranist/Quran-Only Muslims? Hadith Relativists Vs Hadith Absolutists | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Sunnah versus hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth commends Quranists' love for the Quran but feels they have misunderstood the living tradition. Most of the ummah, Hanafi and Maliki, were hadith relativists who put the sunnah before hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that Quran-only Muslims have misunderstood, or not appreciated, the living tradition in its totality.
Evidence, his words at 0:40: “i also feel that they've misunderstood the tradition and the living tradition” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lwqZ9dM5Zs&t=40s)

## Did Muslims learn how to pray from hadith books?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ht0qjv5om9o/s/2/
Date: 2021-10-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Should We Debate Quranists? | Mufti Abu Layth (4:30–7:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Sunnah versus hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the practice of Islam reached us through the living tradition, taught from parent to child, not through hadith collections compiled two centuries later. Quranists are not one group, and many only doubt the accuracy of hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, personally, he would say the practice of Islam has not reached us through hadith but through the living tradition.
Evidence, his words at 5:49: “i personally you see i would say that the islam the practice of islam has not reached us through hadith it's reached us through the living tradition” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht0qJv5Om9o&t=349s)

## Should I debate Quranists?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ht0qjv5om9o/s/3/
Date: 2021-10-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Should We Debate Quranists? | Mufti Abu Layth (7:07–12:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Dawah and debate culture; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: arguing never changes anyone's mind and only breeds hatred, so give your view if asked and see Quranists with compassion. He finds their case weaker than they think, since fiqh was built on the living tradition, not on hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think debates really yield results, since humiliating someone in an argument only makes them hate you more.
Evidence, his words at 8:24: “if it's a debate i don't think these really uh yield results” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht0qJv5Om9o&t=504s)

## Is there a sahih hadith on where to put my hands in salah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z6ay73o7dug/s/1/
Date: 2021-10-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sunnah vs Hadith (Case Study: Hands in Salah) | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–9:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Prayer; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is no sahih hadith fixing where the hands go in salah; sadl, praying with the hands at the sides, is a sunnah of the school of Madinah without a hadith. Not every hadith is sunnah and not every sunnah was recorded in a hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is not a single sahih hadith establishing where the hands are placed in prayer, that sadl is a sunnah of the school of Madinah without a hadith, and that people should not be guilt-tripped over how they hold their hands.
Evidence, his words at 5:49: “really as astonishing as this may seem there isn't a single sahih hadith to prove where to place the hands in prayer” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Ay73O7Dug&t=349s)

## Is a DMT ego death the same as the Sufi idea of fana?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cipm_chv0kw/s/1/
Date: 2021-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: 5 MEO DMT "The God Molecule" #Shorts #MALM (0:00–1:00)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Psychedelics; Ibn Arabi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the ego death reported with 5-MeO-DMT is, he believes, what Ibn Arabi meant by fana fillah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the ego death reported with 5-MeO-DMT is what great scholars like Ibn Arabi meant by fana fillah.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “i believe this is what the great scholars like ibn arabi meant when they said fanafilla the ego death” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIPm_CHV0Kw&t=0s)

## Are Bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf to blame for the UAE's deal with Israel?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/1/
Date: 2021-05-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–4:00)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Views on contemporary scholars; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, in Mufti Abu Layth's view: the UAE's ruler does not take direction from scholars, Bin Bayyah is said to have disliked the treaty while deferring to the ruler's decision, and Hamza Yusuf had nothing to do with it. He opens with condolences for the losses in Gaza.

## Has the UAE's recognition of Israel brought any peace?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/2/
Date: 2021-05-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth (4:00–7:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says two weeks of bombardment followed the deal, so it is not a solution. He calls Israel a terrorist state at the state level, with war crimes documented by the UN and academics such as Chomsky and Finkelstein, and stresses this is not antisemitism.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that at a state level Israel is a terrorist state that has committed documented war crimes against Palestinians, that saying so is not antisemitism, and that the UAE's recognition deal has brought no peace and is not a solution.
Evidence, his words at 4:00: “israel is a at a state level it is a terrorist at a state level okay this is not anti-semitism i'm not against jewish people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R6PNmTG0w&t=240s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think should happen to the Palestinians in Gaza?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/3/
Date: 2021-05-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth (7:57–13:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Since Israel is here to stay and a two-state solution will not happen, Mufti Abu Layth proposes relocating the Palestinians of Gaza and the blockaded areas across the Arab world with compensation, housing and education, spread out rather than in ghettos. He says Muslims guilt-trip Palestinians into staying and Arab states value them as a buffer zone.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Israel is here to stay, that a two-state solution would be ideal but will never happen, and that the Palestinians of Gaza and the blockaded areas should instead be relocated with compensation, housing and education across the Arab world rather than guilt-tripped into staying.
Evidence, his words at 9:39: “i then would argue for a complete exile of all palestinians i would say that all palestinians should leave palestine and it should be facilitated for them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R6PNmTG0w&t=579s)

## Is Jerusalem really a holy city in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/4/
Date: 2021-05-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth (13:14–15:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Umayyads and Abbasids
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In Mufti Abu Layth's view Jerusalem was never that sacred in Islam: its glorification began with Abd al-Malik's Dome of the Rock as a rival to Makkah, and he holds that al-Aqsa, 'the farthest' mosque, was in the heavens. Even if holy, it is bricks and mortar, and life comes before buildings.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that from an Islamic viewpoint Jerusalem was never as sacred as it is now held to be, that its glorification began when the caliph Abd al-Malik built the Dome of the Rock as a rival to Makkah, and that in his understanding al-Masjid al-Aqsa, 'the farthest', was in the heavens rather than in Jerusalem.
Evidence, his words at 14:15: “al-aqsa the farthest point is not jerusalem why is that the farthest point on earth so the al-aqsa would have been in the heavens in my understanding” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R6PNmTG0w&t=855s)

## Should Palestinians stay and defend the holy land at the cost of their lives?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/5/
Date: 2021-05-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth (15:51–18:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, in Mufti Abu Layth's view: life comes before place, a Muslim's honour outweighs the Kaaba rebuilt seven times, and the whole earth is a place of prayer. He says the war is lost and that those who insist Palestinians stay would stop caring about them once they were safe elsewhere.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the war against Israel is lost, that the preservation of life comes before holy places since a Muslim's honour outweighs the Kaaba destroyed and rebuilt seven times, and that Muslims guilt-trip Palestinians into staying and dying.
Evidence, his words at 16:09: “life comes before place like if you had if you had the choice to save a life or the kaaba” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R6PNmTG0w&t=969s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth compare the Palestinian situation to facing a knife?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/6/
Date: 2021-05-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth (18:30–22:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Views on contemporary scholars; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His escrima teacher's rule was to run from a knife and fight only when running is impossible, and he applies it to an enemy that will not back down. He repeats that the UAE deal has brought nothing and that Bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf should not be blamed for it.

## What are the layers behind the Palestinian crisis of May 2021?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/1/
Date: 2021-05-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–6:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The crisis has an occupation layer, which Mufti Abu Layth calls clear oppression and a crime against humanity, and a political layer: Gulf normalisation with Israel, Netanyahu's domestic insecurity and fear politics, and Arab neighbours' interest in a Palestinian buffer zone.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Palestinian crisis has an occupation layer, the illegal Israeli occupation and forced removals that are clear oppression and a crime against humanity, and a political layer involving Gulf normalisation with Israel, Netanyahu's domestic position and Arab neighbours' interest in a buffer zone.
Evidence, his words at 1:19: “i mean there are layers to this crisis one layer is that of the illegal israeli occupancy that they have moved in illegally they have expanded” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=79s)

## What can ordinary people do about the Palestinian crisis, and do social-media posts help?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/2/
Date: 2021-05-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth (6:34–11:49)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Global outcry and boycotts are necessary even though Israel ignores them and acts with impunity, but Instagram posts make no difference to the crisis, which is not caused by lack of awareness, so Muslims should not guilt-trip one another.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a global outcry is necessary even though Israel acts with impunity and people can boycott Israeli products, but that social-media posts make no difference to the crisis, so Muslims should not guilt-trip others who do not make them.
Evidence, his words at 10:19: “people doing this in all honesty makes zero difference to the actual crisis israel is not going to stop because you posted something on instagram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=619s)

## Do protests help Palestine, and was blocking the roads in Birmingham justified?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/3/
Date: 2021-05-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth (11:49–14:26)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Britain
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Protests put slow pressure on politicians who can only request, and blocking Birmingham's roads at rush hour was a disservice to the Palestinian cause: it broke the law, harmed civilians and turned sentiment against Palestine.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says blocking the roads into Birmingham at rush hour was an utter disservice to the Palestinian cause, since frustration gives nobody the right to break the law, it distressed uninvolved civilians and it increased sentiment against Palestine.
Evidence, his words at 12:54: “this is an utter disservice to the palestinian cause you have to understand that people trying to justify this by stating that oh but we are frustrated and angry one it does not give anybody the right” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=774s)

## What solutions are possible for Palestine?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/4/
Date: 2021-05-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth (14:26–18:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Israel is here to stay, so the realistic options are a two-state solution, naturalising Palestinians within Israel, or relocation, for which al-Albani gave a fatwa of hijrah, compared to evacuating a house whose fire cannot be put out.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that Israel is here to stay, which leaves a limited set of solutions: a two-state solution, naturalisation of Palestine within Israel, or relocation as in al-Albani's fatwa of hijrah, which he compares to evacuating a house whose fire cannot be put out.
Evidence, his words at 15:31: “tyrannical as israel is it is here to stay it is not going anywhere now that only leaves a certain amount of solutions one would be a two-state solution” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=931s)

## Is the Gaza conflict a war or a genocide, and who is egging Palestinians on?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/5/
Date: 2021-05-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth (18:19–20:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls the conflict a genocide rather than a war and says urging Palestinians towards martyrdom from the comfort of one's home is armchair cowardice, driven by Arab buffer-zone interests and a religious-centre mentality.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the conflict is a genocide rather than a war, and that egging Palestinians on towards martyrdom from the comfort of one's home is an armchair-coward approach.
Evidence, his words at 18:19: “so this this raza israel war is not a war it is a genocide and people have to you see the reality is that that's all it is” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=1099s)

## Is there archaeological evidence for David's kingdom, and how did Jerusalem become holy for Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/6/
Date: 2021-05-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth (20:57–24:49)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; The ancient Near East and scripture; Isra and Mi'raj
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Archaeology has not found the kingdoms of David and Solomon, and Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims should apply the same scrutiny to their own narrations, where early scholars differed over al-Aqsa and the first qibla and the Umayyads under Abd al-Malik promoted Jerusalem with fabricated hadith to rival Ibn al-Zubayr.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says archaeology has not substantiated the kingdoms of David and Solomon, that early Muslim scholars differed over whether al-Masjid al-Aqsa was in Jerusalem or the heavens and whether the night journey was a vision, and that the Umayyads under Abd al-Malik fabricated hadith to promote Jerusalem against Ibn al-Zubayr in Makkah.
Evidence, his words at 23:50: “the truth is it was abdul malik and it was the umayyad caliphate that did a huge amount of jerusalem propaganda to rival abdullah zubair in mecca and they fabricated a hell of a lot of hadith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=1430s)

## What can people realistically do for Palestine, and is migration an option?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/7/
Date: 2021-05-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth (24:49–31:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Middle East and the wider world; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Politics runs through every side of the crisis, and ordinary people are largely helpless beyond pressuring MPs, boycotts and dua; Mufti Abu Layth says no land is worth a genocide and that the Prophet taught migration where an assessment calls for it, or else meaningful negotiation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says ordinary people are largely helpless beyond pressuring members of parliament, economic boycotts and dua, that no land is worth a genocide, and that, since the Prophet taught people to migrate, an assessment that a genocide is under way calls for migration or else meaningful negotiation.
Evidence, his words at 29:02: “it is not this land is never worth the genocide the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did teach people to migrate” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=1742s)

## Did scholars let slave women uncover more than free women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/49_s1ud7utk/s/2/
Date: 2021-05-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hypocrisy of scholars regarding awrah of free women & slave women | Mufti Abu Layth (7:04–12:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the scholars dropped their concern for modesty when it came to slave women, and calls the claim that nobody would desire them nonsense. He thinks slave women probably wore working clothes, with arms and lower legs uncovered, rather than walking about topless.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the claim in the books that nobody would desire a slave girl is the biggest nonsense, since men would of course desire them.
Evidence, his words at 8:21: “and the most the biggest bs is people say in the books oh yeah but it's okay she's a slave girl who who would desire her” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_S1uD7UTk&t=501s)

## Does today's Hanafi madhhab reflect Imam Abu Hanifa?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wcgxqdwchks/s/1/
Date: 2021-04-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Aslam & Sectarian Jealousy of the Molvis | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:23)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s-vm6mgbll8/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not in spirit: Mufti Abu Layth calls later Hanafi rulings fossilised and pedantic, behind the sectarian attacks on Shaykh Aslam, and praises Shaykh Atabek as a fresh voice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Hanafi madhhab as it is today is like a Frankenstein compared to what Imam Abu Hanifa was.
Evidence, his words at 1:57: “the math hub itself is it's like a completely it's a it's a different it's like a frankenstein uh to what imam of hanifa was” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgxQDwCHKs&t=117s)

## Can I pray while carrying my child?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wcgxqdwchks/s/2/
Date: 2021-04-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Aslam & Sectarian Jealousy of the Molvis | Mufti Abu Layth (4:23–12:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Conditions of a valid prayer; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: the Hanafi rule that three consecutive movements break the prayer is made up, and the Prophet prayed carrying Umama; Mufti Abu Layth puts the attacks on Shaykh Aslam down to jealousy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says rulings such as prayer breaking after three consecutive movements are made up.
Evidence, his words at 6:20: “if you do more than three consecutive movements in salah your salah breaks obviously needless to say all these things are made up” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgxQDwCHKs&t=380s)

## Why do Mufti Abu Layth's critics defend Bukhari reports that demean the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8zy0ndqvl2u/s/1/
Date: 2021-04-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Saudi Arabia & Sahih Al-Bukhari | Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–8:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Replies to attacks on the Prophet; Salafism and Wahhabism
Cites: Quran 33:6 (his wives are their mothers) (https://quran.com/33/6)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Critics who defend Bukhari reports Mufti Abu Layth regards as insulting to the Prophet, such as marrying a child, forcing Safiyya, forgetting the Quran or being made impotent by magic, cannot claim to love the Prophet. Mariya al-Qibtiyya was a wife, not a concubine, and the critics' real concern is a fantasy caliphate and power.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Mariya al-Qibtiyya was a wife of the Prophet and not a concubine, and calls nonsense the teachings, some of them in Sahih al-Bukhari, that the Prophet married a child, forcibly took Safiyya, tried to force himself on a woman, forgot the Quran or was made impotent by magic.
Evidence, his words at 1:11: “she was the only wife of the prophet alaihi wasallam that brought him a child that lived in this world after prophethood” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zY0NDQvL2U&t=71s)

## Should my faith make me happy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/7/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (29:29–32:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Motivation and purpose; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says faith should make you happy, not hateful or bitter, because Islam is meant to complement daily life.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 30:27: “if you say you have faith in your life you ought it ought to make you happy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=1827s)

## Should Muslims judge their own sources by the standards they apply to other religions?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/9/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (33:26–36:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims should hold their own sources to the standard they use for others, giving the example of Bukhari resting on one unvouched-for transmitter.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims should apply to their own tradition the critical standards they apply to other faiths, noting that Sahih al-Bukhari rests on one transmitter whom no one vouched for for about 150 years.
Evidence, his words at 34:56: “but then when it comes to islam we completely just put blinkers on our eyes” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=2096s)

## How has the internet changed who gets to speak about Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/10/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (36:04–40:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Technology and media; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the internet let him reach people without the backing of mosques or organisations, which would never have given him a platform.

## Are there answers to the hardest ethical questions about stories in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/11/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (40:01–47:50)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Moses; Atheists and polemicists; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he has answered every hard question on his 2016 list, such as the killing of the boy in Moses' story, by research true to the text, and others can build on it.

## Why are some clerics so hostile to Mufti Abu Layth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/13/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (50:26–54:24)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says clerics who oppose him see in his approach the end of their institutional religion, and calls their reaction its final pangs.

## Is it obligatory for Muslims to establish a caliphate?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/14/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (54:24–1:01:00)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Caliphate; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says there is no obligation to establish a caliphate, citing classical Maliki scholars and Akram Nadwi against the claim of consensus.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no obligation in Islam to establish a caliphate system, that classical Maliki scholars held this, so the claimed consensus fails, and that Akram Nadwi takes the same view.
Evidence, his words at 55:26: “there's no such thing in islam as an obligation for a caliphate system” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=3326s)

## Will traditional religious institutions survive if they do not adapt?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/15/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:01:00–1:03:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth predicts that institutions refusing to adapt, such as many Deobandi madrasas, will fossilise, while Barelvis who modernised their style stay approachable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth predicts that denominations which refuse to adapt, including many Deobandi institutions in the UK, will become fossilised, while those that adapted, as many Barelvis have, remain approachable to young people.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:14: “five years from today some of these very kind of neanderthal kind of like uh denominations will just be absolutely fossilized they'll either have to adapt or they'll just become fossils” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=3674s)

## Is everything halal unless proven haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/16/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:03:39–1:06:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says things are halal by default and prohibiting is a heavy task, and teachers should say 'in my understanding' because they could be wrong.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says things are halal by default and declaring something haram is a heavy task, and that a teacher should present rulings as his own understanding of what God wants, acknowledging that he could be wrong.
Evidence, his words at 1:03:47: “i don't make things halal things are halal by default i say that making something haram is so such a difficult task” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=3827s)

## Do I need a religious authority to own my faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/17/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:06:16–1:07:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says Islam has no papacy, the deen belongs to everyone equally, and no one can throw you out of it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims can take ownership of their own faith, since Islam has no papacy and no one can expel a person from the deen.
Evidence, his words at 1:06:16: “we can once again take ownership of our own faith i we don't need this is not a you know a papacy we don't need to go through the pope” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=3976s)

## Is God someone I should mainly be afraid of?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/18/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:07:35–1:10:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says seeing God as an angry disciplinarian is a distortion, and that Allah is the Most Merciful who invites people to reflect.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the picture of God as an angry, strict disciplinarian or tyrant is a distortion, and that Allah is al-Rahman al-Rahim, who invites people to ponder the cosmos.
Evidence, his words at 1:09:24: “they also infantilize him so they almost at times turn him into like an infant who throws a tantrum gets angry easily he that is wallahi is a distortion of allah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=4164s)

## Why do some religious people dislike laughter?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/19/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:10:13–1:14:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says humour lets ordinary people see absurdity and question authority, which is why institutional religion dislikes it and why reports against laughter were fabricated.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says institutionalised religion has always disliked humour because satire lets ordinary people see absurdity and question authority, and that reports against laughing much were fabricated for this reason.
Evidence, his words at 1:12:01: “i feel that institutionalized religion has always hated uh humor because it's felt that humor hmm you know it's just this is something that if you allow it to enter the realm of religion authority will disappear” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=4321s)

## Is Mufti Abu Layth against Salafis?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/21/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:18:09–1:22:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says he has no problem with anyone being Salafi; his objection is to cult-like dogmatism in any group.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says his objection is not to Salafis as a denomination but to dogmatic, cult-like mentality in any group, which he says suffocates religion.
Evidence, his words at 1:18:59: “it's not about by the way it's not about speaking against a denomination per se it's more about the cult-like mentality” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=4739s)

## How should I deal with online hate preachers?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/25/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:32:53–1:39:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Social media; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says critics who use him for views, especially hate preachers, should be mocked and blocked, and that their obsession harms them more than him.

## Can critics cancel an independent preacher?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/27/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:05–1:46:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Social media; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says efforts to cancel him cannot work, because he is independent and speaks to the silent majority of ordinary Muslims, not his critics' followers.

## What is the most important thing to get right in life?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/28/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:46:01–1:48:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Character and virtue; Anger and forgiveness
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Try never to be hurtful or hateful; Mufti Abu Layth says that validates your Islam as a human being, and that disliking what people do is not the same as hating them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that living one's life trying never to be hurtful or hateful is what validates one's Islam as a human being, and that disliking what people do is different from hating them.
Evidence, his words at 1:46:22: “as far as being a human being is concerned that is your islam validated as long you know you have lived to the best of your capacity to not be hurtful and not be hateful” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=6382s)

## Will Mufti Abu Layth invite his critics onto MindTrap?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/29/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:48:40–1:51:19)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says he has invited many of his critics onto MindTrap for respectful dialogue, but not hate preachers or extremists.

## Can I pray for a non-Muslim who has died?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/36/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:18:55–2:24:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salvation and non-Muslims; Music
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Are many people's frustrations really about unmet sexual needs?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/41/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:43:47–2:52:58)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Intimacy in marriage; Islamic psychology; Sexual ethics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says much bitterness comes from unmet sexual needs, that Islam itself does not see sex negatively, and that Freud should be judged on his ideas, not his character.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says unmet sexual needs underlie much unhappiness and bitterness, that Islam does not view sex negatively though institutionalised religion does, and that Freud's insights should be judged on their merits rather than on his character.
Evidence, his words at 2:46:34: “i'm not saying islam sees it like this islam does not see sex negatively but institutionalized islam does” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=9994s)

## Can I carry a child while I pray?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/6/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (23:17–36:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Conditions of a valid prayer; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says one may carry a child while praying and that Hanafi rulings such as the three-movement rule, or that laughing or reading something breaks the prayer, are made up. He sees the campaign against the preacher who showed this as sectarian jealousy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that one may carry a child while praying and that Hanafi rulings such as the invalidation of prayer by three consecutive movements, by laughing or by mentally processing information are made up.
Evidence, his words at 30:29: “Obviously, needless to say, all these things are made up and don't mean anything. You can do it all in salah.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=1829s)

## Did Mufti Abu Layth say incest is natural, and is homosexuality unnatural?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/10/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (54:49–1:04:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth never said incest is natural. He says that calling homosexuality unnatural is not scientific because it occurs in most species, though one may still hold it haram, and that he cited Imam Malik only for not interfering in other people's way of life.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he never said incest is natural; he said that calling homosexuality unnatural is not scientifically accurate because it occurs in most species, while one may still hold it haram, and he cited Imam Malik's ruling not to interfere in other people's way of life.
Evidence, his words at 59:50: “So to say the statement that homosexuality is not natural, it's not scientifically accurate and it's not a it's not to to make statements about nature is not the realm of religion.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=3590s)

## Why are some clerics so harsh in their rulings on women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/12/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:12:51–1:21:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Education, madrasas and seminaries; Hijab and niqab
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says harsh rulings from some clergy, especially towards women, come from sexual deprivation and a closed madrasa culture, and that love and a normal life soften people.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that many clergy issue harsh rulings, especially towards women, out of sexual deprivation and frustration, and that their rulings would change if they lived normal lives.
Evidence, his words at 1:16:13: “if these moolas had access to, if they lived a normal life and had normal, healthy sexual relationships and enjoyed life, you'd see the rulings would start radically changing.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=4573s)

## Are insects haram to eat in the Maliki school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/20/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:52:50–2:02:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Food and drink; The Maliki school
Cites: Quran 6:145 (I do not find in what was revealed to me anything forbidden to eat except ...) (https://quran.com/6/145)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Insects are not haram in the Maliki school: almost everything is halal except pork and what is sacrificed to other than God. Ritual slaughter applies only to domesticated livestock, not insects.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in the Maliki school almost everything is halal to eat except pork and what is sacrificed to other than God, that carrion is avoided for health, that insects are not haram, and that ritual slaughter applies only to domesticated livestock.
Evidence, his words at 1:56:20: “So similarly, people generally don't eat insects. But insects are not haram. Okay, that doesn't make it haram.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=6980s)

## What does Yasir Qadhi argue about Malikis and the return of Jesus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/23/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:13:03–2:17:23)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yasir Qadhi argues in the clip that the return of Jesus is established by mutawatir hadith and affirmed by the great Maliki scholars, so a Maliki cannot deny it. Mufti Abu Layth sets out the points he will answer.

## Did Imam Malik believe Jesus will return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/24/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:17:23–2:25:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Imam Malik; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is a statement from Imam Malik that Jesus died, and Malik never taught the second coming in his fatwas or the Muwatta, so it is no huge claim that he did not hold it. Transmitting a report is not endorsing it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is a statement from Imam Malik that Jesus died, that Malik never taught the second coming in his fatwas or the Muwatta, and that transmitting a report is not endorsing it, so it is not a huge claim that Malik did not hold the belief.
Evidence, his words at 2:21:19: “He never teaches you that, oh, I'm telling you that you should or that we should believe in the second coming of Jesus.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=8479s)

## Why does the Muwatta contain hadith that Imam Malik did not follow?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/25/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:25:05–2:30:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Muwatta and the Mudawwana; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Malik included in the Muwatta reports he did not practise, and the only report about Jesus there shows him telling a pig to pass in peace. Mufti Abu Layth reads this as a sign Malik rejected the reports that Jesus will return to kill pigs.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Imam Malik included in the Muwatta reports he did not practise, and infers from the only report about Jesus there, in which Jesus tells a pig to pass in peace, that Malik had a problem with the reports that Jesus will return and kill pigs.
Evidence, his words at 2:29:08: “I infer from this that he is showing that we have a problem with the narrations that people are saying Jesus will come flag and he will kill pigs.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=8948s)

## Did the Prophet really spy on a boy he thought was the Dajjal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/26/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:30:54–2:43:30)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Ibn Sayyad and Dajjal reports are absurd and insult the Prophet's dignity, and their contradictory accounts of who and where the Dajjal is show they are not revelation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the reports in which the Prophet spies on the child Ibn Sayyad suspecting him to be the Dajjal, and related reports in Sahih Muslim and Bukhari, are absurd and insulting to the Prophet's dignity, and that their contradictory accounts of the Dajjal's identity and location show they are not revelation.
Evidence, his words at 2:35:49: “The prophet had an immensely dignified character. He didn't used to run around hiding behind trees, spying on children” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=9349s)

## Where does the belief in the Mahdi come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/27/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:43:30–2:51:30)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; False and fabricated hadith; Modern reformers and movements
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Mahdi belief is disrespectful to the Prophet, who was the rightly guided saviour, and entered Sunni Islam from early Shia political movements; the Mahdi hadith describe figures of that time.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the belief in a Mahdi is disrespectful to the Prophet, who was the rightly guided saviour, and that it entered Sunni Islam from early Shia political movements, the Mahdi hadith being fabricated descriptions of figures of that time.
Evidence, his words at 2:44:43: “I find this concept disrespectful to the prophet because there the rightly guided person for this um was the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=9883s)

## Are the signs of the Hour part of Islamic creed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/28/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:51:30–2:58:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Creed and the schools of theology; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): One can be a Maliki and doubt these reports: Ibn Ashur, Shaykh al-Islam of the Malikis, classed the signs of the Hour as information rather than creed, and Imam Ahmad said the malahim reports have no foundation.

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth say it is not a huge claim that Imam Malik denied the second coming?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/29/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:58:36–3:06:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus; Modern reformers and movements
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Malik's record and Ibn Ashur's standing show a Maliki can deny the second coming, and the Dajjal reports insult the Prophet. He invites Qadhi to a dialogue on MindTrap.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is not a huge claim that Imam Malik did not believe in the second coming, given his statement that Jesus died, the contents of the Muwatta and his fatwas, and that the reports of the one-eyed Dajjal and of the Prophet spying on Ibn Sayyad insult the Prophet's dignity.
Evidence, his words at 3:01:01: “I find that insulting and blasphemous to the honor and dignity of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to attribute this stuff to him.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=10861s)

## Does Mufti Abu Layth have any scholarly precedent for his views?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/31/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:10:56–3:14:46)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Hudud and punishments; Speech and everyday conduct
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His views have respected precedents: al-Burzuli, a Maliki Shaykh al-Islam, held that punishments change with the age, and the subcontinent scholars he quotes were Ahl al-Hadith, not heretics. Not every untrue statement is a sin punished with hell.

## Did Noah really live 950 years?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/32/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:14:46–3:19:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; The ancient Near East and scripture; Responses to critics
Cites: Quran 29:14 (a thousand years less fifty) (https://quran.com/29/14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Noah's 950 years refers to an ancient counting system like those of the Sumerian king lists, signalled by the verse's unusual wording, not to ordinary years; he never said the Quran copied an error from the Bible.

## Did Abraham really cut up birds that came back to life?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/33/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:19:16–3:26:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran; Prophethood and miracles
Cites: Quran 2:260 (Abraham and the four birds) (https://quran.com/2/260)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the verse of Abraham and the birds he reads a symbol: birds nurtured by Abraham come to him from afar, a sign of the soul's affinity to God, rather than birds cut up and revived.

## Did the parting of the sea have a natural explanation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/34/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:26:41–3:33:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Moses; The ancient Near East and scripture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): God acts through the laws of nature, so the parting of the sea can have a natural explanation such as a strong wind, and Moses exposed the magicians' tricks rather than outdoing them with magic.

## Was the murdered man in the story of the cow brought back to life?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/35/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:33:04–3:36:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; How to read the Quran; Hudud and punishments
Cites: Quran 2:73 (thus Allah gives life to the dead) (https://quran.com/2/73); Quran 2:179 (in retaliation there is life for you) (https://quran.com/2/179)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse of the heifer does not say the dead man was revived; like 'in retaliation there is life', it refers to lives saved when a ritual of justice averted tribal war.

## Was Solomon's hudhud really a bird?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/36/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:36:01–3:40:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The hudhud is addressed in Arabic forms used only for humans, so Mufti Abu Layth reads it as a person, perhaps an agent of Solomon's intelligence service, and he rejects a reading that makes a prophet steal a throne.

## Did Jesus survive the crucifixion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/37/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:40:28–3:45:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Christians and other faiths; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads the cradle verse as the priests' indignation at being debated by a boy, and says Jesus was taken down from the cross alive after a few hours, which he finds more plausible than a substitute transformed to look like him.

## What actually separates Sunnis and Shia, and is mut'ah really a Shia thing?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wmzc28plysq/s/2/
Date: 2021-03-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why isn't Mufti from the Mu'tazilah? | Mufti Abu Layth (2:24–6:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunni-Shia dialogue; Succession and the first civil wars; Polygamy and mut'ah
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Sunni-Shia split is only about who has the right to rule, the Shia holding it stays in the Prophet's bloodline. Mut'ah and wiping the feet have nothing to do with being Shia; Sunnis used them as propaganda.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the whole Sunni-Shia split is based on who has the right to rule, the Shia holding that it must remain within the Prophet's sacred bloodline.
Evidence, his words at 2:24: “the whole split of sunnishi adam is based on this factor who has the right to rule and they say that it must remain within the sacred bloodline that is what defines a shia” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmzC28PLYSQ&t=144s)

## Does using reason in Islam make someone a Mu'tazili?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wmzc28plysq/s/3/
Date: 2021-03-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why isn't Mufti from the Mu'tazilah? | Mufti Abu Layth (6:58–14:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Mu'tazila were defined by doctrines about sin and God's obligations, not by reason; the Sunni distrust of reason was a later reaction to losing debates. Calling someone Mu'tazili for using reason is a tactic to avoid debate.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Sunnis started to say that the deen is not built on intellect only as a reaction, to get back at their opponents in debate, and that later generations inherited this narrative.
Evidence, his words at 9:34: “sunnis tried to say oh but the deen isn't built on intellect and they started to pump this narrative just to get back at them it was all a reaction that's all it was and later subsequent generations just inherited” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmzC28PLYSQ&t=574s)

## Which Quranic verses does Yasir Qadhi say point to the return of Jesus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/2/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (2:46–10:34)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Jesus in the Quran
Cites: Quran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity) (https://quran.com/3/46); Quran 4:159 (none of the People of the Book but will believe in him before his death) (https://quran.com/4/159); Quran 43:61 (he is a sign, or knowledge, of the Hour) (https://quran.com/43/61)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's clip cites three or four Quranic phrases, Jesus speaking in maturity, the People of the Book believing before his death, and Jesus as a sign of the Hour, and concedes they only strongly suggest a return. Mufti Abu Layth interjects that the sign of the Hour would then have come two thousand years ago.

## What does Yasir Qadhi claim about the hadith on Jesus's return being mutawatir?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/3/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (10:34–15:50)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Mutawatir and certainty; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's clip claims the hadith of the return are too numerous to discount, narrated from about ten companions, held to be mutawatir and found in dozens of theological works, including those of the Maliki school's leading figures. Mufti Abu Layth responds with sarcasm and says the reply is still to come.

## Who does Yasir Qadhi say first denied the return of Jesus, and what is the Ahmadiyya connection?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/4/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (15:50–22:25)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Modern reformers and movements
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's clip claims ijma on the return, names Muhammad Abduh as the first to deny it and links deniers to the Ahmadiyya. Mufti Abu Layth calls the association ironic, since that movement is itself messianic, and says Qadhi's own evolution theory comes from Abduh.

## Do those who deny Jesus's return reject the unseen, as Yasir Qadhi claims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/5/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (22:25–26:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Soul, nafs and consciousness; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects Qadhi's charge that deniers of the return refuse the unseen: belief itself concerns the unseen God, and Mufti is preoccupied with consciousness, which science cannot explain and which he understands to be non-local. Qadhi's clip names Mufti among the heretics.

## Is distinguishing the Sunnah from hadith a modernist invention?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/6/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (26:18–30:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says distinguishing hadith from the Sunnah is the teaching of the madhhabs and of Imam Malik, not an invention of Muhammad Abduh, and that he does not treat Bukhari as special but judges every hadith by the same criteria. Qadhi's clip calls this separation a bigger problem than denying Jesus's return.

## What does Yasir Qadhi say about the claim that the return of Jesus came from Judeo-Christian sources?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/7/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (30:17–32:51)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/23/; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Mutawatir and certainty; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's clip calls the claim that the return of Jesus entered Islam from Judeo-Christian sources through Wahb, Ka'b or al-Zuhri a preposterous charge without evidence that would mean the faith was corrupted and the ummah misguided for fourteen centuries. Mufti Abu Layth asks listeners to remember these words.

## How does Yasir Qadhi answer the objection that Jesus killing pigs and refusing jizya makes no sense?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/8/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (32:51–35:30)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's clip concedes that one early authority held Jesus died a natural death, and answers the objection that the return reports are irrational, Jesus killing pigs and refusing jizya, with 'Allah said so' and the claim that there will be no middle category between Islam and the Dajjal.

## Was Yasir Qadhi's video on the return of Jesus an academic discussion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/9/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (35:30–38:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's video, announced as academic, ended by fabricating a modernist-school narrative and declaring deniers heretics guilty of bid'ah, which he calls a preachy khutbah rather than academic discussion.

## What did Yasir Qadhi himself say about problematic signs of the Hour such as Gog and Magog?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/10/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (38:07–43:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays Qadhi's earlier talk calling Gog and Magog the most problematic sign of the Hour and a cause of people leaving Islam. He accuses Qadhi of half truths, such as omitting that the Maliki authorities held the Jesus reports unestablished, and says a Jesus who descends from the sky to chase pigs is a reasonable thing to question.

## Does the Muslim account of the Mahdi, Jesus and Gog and Magog parallel Jewish messianic literature?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/11/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (43:24–47:19)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Christians and other faiths; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's own clip lays out the Midrash's two messiahs, Gog and Magog and judgement, notes the parallel with the Muslim Mahdi, Messiah and Gog and Magog, and suggests both traditions simply had it. Mufti Abu Layth responds with sarcasm and notes Qadhi's admission that Muslim books contain bizarre material.

## Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish sources through Abu Hurayra?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/12/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (47:19–49:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Narrator criticism; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's clip endorses Ibn Kathir's view that the Gog and Magog report is defective and came from Israelite material through Abu Hurayra and Ka'b al-Ahbar. Mufti Abu Layth calls this hypocrisy, since Qadhi called the same claim about the Jesus reports preposterous.

## What is Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory about Gog and Magog?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/13/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (49:56–55:19)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's clip calls a hidden tribe of billions ludicrous and floats, through a friend, the idea that Gog and Magog could be zombie-like humans. Mufti Abu Layth responds with jokes and introduces Qadhi's answer to the Google Earth objection.

## Is Yasir Qadhi consistent about whether Gog and Magog could be hidden underground?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/14/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (55:19–57:59)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In one clip Qadhi says it is not impossible, since Allah is all-powerful and Ibn Taymiyya's rule allows what astounds the mind, that thousands live underground; in another he says he cannot believe a tribe has been trapped for four thousand years. Mufti Abu Layth asks where the consistency is.

## What has Yasir Qadhi said about challenging the giants of the Islamic tradition?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/15/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (57:59–1:01:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Views on contemporary scholars; How to study Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A clip circulated by a critic shows Qadhi saying that even the giants' views should not matter to a true researcher and that scholarship has become regurgitation. Mufti Abu Layth notes that the critic accuses Qadhi of exactly what Qadhi accuses Mufti of.

## Did Yasir Qadhi say that majority scholarly opinion rests on socio-political factors?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/16/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:01:57–1:05:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Mutawatir and certainty; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi says correct opinion is independent of the names and number of scholars and that dominant positions rest on socio-political factors such as the Ghaznavids, the Hanbalis of Baghdad and the Seljuks. Mufti Abu Layth says this is exactly what modernists say and contradicts Qadhi's appeal to the giants on the return of Jesus.

## Does Yasir Qadhi hold that even positions in aqidah lie within a spectrum of opinion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/17/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:05:54–1:09:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi says that even in aqidah positions lie within a spectrum, that absorbing one's teachers' view does not make it true, and that no scholar's word is evidence in itself. Mufti Abu Layth says this sits ill with Qadhi declaring him a heretic for departing from the majority on the return of Jesus.

## Is there really ijma that Jesus will return, and did Muhammad Abduh invent the denial?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/18/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:09:48–1:15:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Mutawatir and certainty; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says none of Qadhi's claims hold: not one of the hundred narrations is sound, Ibn Hazm recorded Muslim disagreement on the return nine centuries ago, major creed works omit it, and the Maliki authorities Qadhi cites held the reports not to be mutawatir. He announces a reply series, Disclosure with a big D.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Qadhi's claims fail: the Quran does not suggest a second coming, none of the hundred narrations is sound, Ibn Hazm recorded Muslim disagreement on the return nine centuries ago, major creed works omit it, and the Maliki authorities Qadhi cites held the reports to carry doubt rather than to be mutawatir.
Evidence, his words at 1:09:48: “the quran strongly suggests the second coming uh it doesn't there are four verses show this to be true i'm afraid not these leave no doubt uh that's utter nonsense hundred narrations not a single one sound” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=4188s)

## Is separating hadith from the Sunnah a Hanafi and Maliki principle, and what does Mufti Abu Layth say about Salafi creed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/19/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:15:01–1:20:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Creed and the schools of theology; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Distinguishing hadith from the Sunnah is the usul of the Hanafi and Maliki schools, not Abduh's invention, and Qadhi applies to Gog and Magog the very reasoning he condemns in others. Mufti Abu Layth adds that Salafi kalam rests on fabricated chains, such as companions debating whether the Quran is created, a debate that arose only around 190 to 210 AH.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that distinguishing hadith from the Sunnah is the usul of the Hanafi and Maliki schools rather than an innovation of Abduh, that Qadhi applies to Gog and Magog the reasoning he condemns in others, and that Salafi kalam rests on fabrications such as chains to companions debating whether the Quran is created, a debate that arose only around 190 to 210 AH.
Evidence, his words at 1:15:01: “this is the usual of the hanafi madhyab and the maliki method that we do tafriq al hadith sunnah unlike the shepherd's” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=4501s)

## Does 'he will speak to people in maturity' or 'before his death' prove that Jesus will return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/20/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:20:13–1:25:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; The second coming of Jesus; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity) (https://quran.com/3/46); Quran 5:110 (you spoke to people in the cradle and in maturity) (https://quran.com/5/110); Quran 4:159 (none of the People of the Book but will believe in him before his death) (https://quran.com/4/159)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse about Jesus speaking in the cradle and in maturity concerns those he addresses, children and grown men, and the first to read it as a return was al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl, who died in 282 AH and transmitted strange reports. 'Before his death' was recited by Ubayy and Ibn Abbas as 'before their death' and read by commentators as referring to Jesus, the Prophet, the truth or Allah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that 'he will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity' refers to those Jesus addresses, children and grown men, not to a return, that the first to read it as a return was al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali (d. 282 AH), a transmitter of strange reports, and that 'before his death' was recited as 'before their death' and read by commentators as referring to Jesus, the Prophet, the truth or Allah.
Evidence, his words at 1:20:17: “it's not jesus who's going to be speaking like that it's the people he will address he will address the child in the crib and he will address the old man or the mature man” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=4817s)

## Which Quranic verses count against Jesus returning?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/21/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:25:27–1:30:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Jesus in the Quran; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 43:61 (he is a sign, or knowledge, of the Hour) (https://quran.com/43/61); Quran 5:75 (the Messiah was only a messenger; they both ate food) (https://quran.com/5/75); Quran 21:34 (we gave no human before you eternal life) (https://quran.com/21/34); Quran 43:59 (he is only a slave whom we favoured and made an example for the children of Israel) (https://quran.com/43/59); Quran 5:110 (remember my blessings upon you) (https://quran.com/5/110)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads 43:61 as the Quran being knowledge of the Hour, as Hasan and others said, and cites 5:75, 21:34 and 43:59 against a return: Jesus ate food and was subject to natural laws, no human before the Prophet was given eternal life, and Jesus is called an example for the children of Israel alone.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that 43:61 means the Quran is knowledge of the Hour, as Hasan and others said, and that 5:75, 21:34 and 43:59 count against a second coming, since Jesus ate food and was subject to natural laws, no human before the Prophet was given eternal life, and Jesus is called an example for the children of Israel alone.
Evidence, his words at 1:28:10: “notice that this is actually a verse to show that jesus will not be coming back” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=5290s)

## Does the Quran say Jesus died, and how did the Prophet understand the verse 'when you took me'?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/22/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:30:41–1:35:56)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Jesus in the Quran; Individual hadith explained
Cites: Quran 5:110 (remember my blessings upon you) (https://quran.com/5/110); Quran 5:116-118 (did you tell people to take you and your mother as lords?) (https://quran.com/5/116-118)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse 'I will give you death' and Jesus's words in 5:117 that he does not know what his people did after he was taken show, in Mufti Abu Layth's reading, that Jesus died; the Prophet himself, in a Bukhari report, applies the same verse to his own absence from his companions, confirming the reading.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the verse 'I will give you death' and the dialogue of 5:116-118, in which Jesus says he does not know what his people did after he was taken, show that Jesus died and will not return, and that the Prophet's own use of the verse in a Bukhari report about his companions turning bad after him confirms this reading.
Evidence, his words at 1:30:41: “this verse where allah says that i will give you death now note that this counts against the second coming because jesus has died” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=5441s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth say the Bukhari chain for Jesus's descent is unreliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/23/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:35:56–1:45:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The first Bukhari chain leaves two narrators' names ambiguous, a practice al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar record of al-Bukhari, and passes through al-Zuhri, whom the critics describe as inserting his own words into reports and making mursal reports reach the Prophet.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the first Bukhari chain for Jesus's descent is unreliable because al-Bukhari left the names of Ishaq and Salih ambiguous, which he says al-Bukhari did on purpose with teachers' names so as to deceive readers, as al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar record, and because al-Zuhri was known to insert his own words into reports and to make mursal reports reach the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 1:36:44: “buhari actually is known on several occasions to do to to kind of make names ambiguous so as to deceive his readers” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=5804s)

## What problems does Mufti Abu Layth find in the Sahih Muslim chains for Jesus's return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/24/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:45:14–1:50:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Hadith collections and their history; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The second Bukhari chain passes through Qutayba, who once concealed a known forger in a chain, and the Sahih Muslim chains pass through narrators faulted for lax or inaccurate transmission from al-Zuhri, notably Yunus ibn Yazid, with al-Zuhri himself recurring in each.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the second Bukhari chain passes through Qutayba, who once concealed a known forger in a chain and presented the report as heard from al-Layth, and that the Sahih Muslim chains pass through Yunus ibn Yazid and other narrators whose transmission from al-Zuhri the critics faulted, with al-Zuhri recurring in each.
Evidence, his words at 1:45:57: “there was a famous forger who quraiba sits with he hears this hadith from laith uh he doesn't hear it he hears khalid he drops him and himself presents it as though he heard it from leith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=6357s)

## Who are the problematic narrators in the Sahih Muslim reports on Jesus's return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/25/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:50:30–1:57:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Hadith collections and their history; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Sahih Muslim chains include a narrator who suffered memory loss, a narrator who cannot be identified and could not have met Abu Hurayra, a major mudallis whose reports some critics discarded as fabrications, and Abu al-Zubayr, whom Abu Hatim did not consider reliable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Sahih Muslim chains for Jesus's return include a narrator who suffered memory loss, a narrator who cannot be identified and could not have met Abu Hurayra, a major mudallis whose reports some critics discarded as fabrications, and Abu al-Zubayr, whom Abu Hatim did not consider reliable.
Evidence, his words at 1:51:37: “years before his death he suffered huge memory loss and possibly dementia and this is why he becomes unreliable and he's in this chain” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=6697s)

## Is there a single hadith on Jesus's return with an unproblematic chain?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/26/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (1:57:02–2:02:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; The second coming of Jesus; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Every chain Mufti Abu Layth examined for the strongest reports in Bukhari and Muslim contains a criticised narrator, so Qadhi's claim that they leave no doubt fails; accepting a report because al-Bukhari included it, while ignoring critics who were his equals or seniors, is arbitrary.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says every chain he examined for the strongest reports of Jesus's return in Bukhari and Muslim has a criticised narrator, so Qadhi's claim that they leave no doubt fails, and that accepting a report because al-Bukhari included it while ignoring critics who were his equals or seniors is arbitrary.
Evidence, his words at 1:59:21: “all of these chains are problematic every single chain has had a problem in it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=7161s)

## Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/27/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (2:02:15–2:07:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The hadith of Aisha on Jesus's return rests on a lone transmitter, an undervalued narrator who dictated 41,000 reports from memory in Isbahan with a thousand errors, and whose version alone has the Dajjal emerging from the Jews of Isbahan, which Mufti Abu Layth finds suspicious.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Aisha on Jesus's return rests on a lone transmitter, an undervalued narrator who dictated some forty-one thousand reports from memory in Isbahan with at least a thousand errors and whose version alone has the Dajjal emerging from the Jews of Isbahan, which he finds suspicious.
Evidence, his words at 2:07:05: “he's the only person to have ever said that and that's where he was massively undervalued now you tell me is that not suspicious” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=7625s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Ibn Mas'ud hadith on the end of time and Jesus's return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/28/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (2:07:24–2:11:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Narrator criticism; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Ibn Mas'ud report has unknown narrators, opens by noting the Christians' claim that Jesus will return, and ends with life regrowing from a seminal fluid sent from beneath the Throne, a detail Mufti Abu Layth calls preposterous and uses to argue that such reports can be questioned.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Ibn Mas'ud report of the return opens by noting the Christians' claim that Jesus will return, which shows the belief creeping in, has unidentifiable narrators in its chain, and ends with life regrowing from a seminal fluid sent from beneath the Throne, a detail he calls preposterous.
Evidence, his words at 2:07:40: “ibn masawa begins by saying that the christians claim jesus will come back you see this belief creeping in” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=7660s)

## Who was the blind narrator of the return hadith who relied on his slave girl?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/29/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (2:11:22–2:13:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): One transmitter of the return reports went blind, lost his memory and relied on his slave girl to check what he doubted; Mufti Abu Layth uses the case, with extended mockery, to argue that these hadith can be questioned.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a transmitter of the return reports, Yazid, went blind, lost his memory and relied on his slave girl to check what he doubted, which shows the state of some of those transmitting these hadith and why they can be questioned.
Evidence, his words at 2:11:50: “he became blind later on in life and his memory naturally got weak fakhana yesterday so how would he know what is going on he would get his slave girl to he would ask her whatever he was doubtful about” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=7910s)

## Can the hadith on Jesus's return be questioned, and how many of them depend on Abu Hurayra?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/30/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (2:13:58–2:17:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Mutawatir and certainty; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Reports that go against reason can be questioned, and not one unquestionable hadith establishes the return: eighty percent of them come through Abu Hurayra alone, about half through one man, and the other companions cited are obscure. Mufti Abu Layth promises a continuing series, Disclosure with a big D.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that reports which go against reason may be questioned, that eighty percent of the hadith on Jesus's return come through Abu Hurayra alone and about half through one man, and that the other companions cited are obscure, so no unquestionable hadith establishes the return.
Evidence, his words at 2:14:44: “bring me one unquestionable hadith just one to prove this that there's no question about anything in its chain” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=8084s)

## Why did Imam Malik say nothing between spouses is haram and only pork is forbidden to eat?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/3rpugpmwep0/s/2/
Date: 2021-03-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Intoxicants: Imam Abu Hanifa vs the rest | Mufti Abu Layth (3:59–9:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Food and drink; Sexual ethics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam Malik held that nothing sexual between spouses is haram and that no meat is haram in itself except pig, and Mufti Abu Layth says such rulings defend the principle that only Allah declares things haram. Saying something is not haram is not the same as recommending it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that imams such as Malik, in ruling that nothing sexual between spouses is haram and that no meat but pig is haram in itself, were not advocating those practices but defending the principle that no one may declare haram what Allah has not, since a scholar is not God.
Evidence, his words at 4:21: “what imam malik was doing was he was defending the principle it's not about whether people do these things or not” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rPUgpmWEp0&t=261s)

## Do I have to believe Umar and Uthman were better than Ali?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/4/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (21:49–24:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The companions; Sunni-Shia dialogue; Succession and the first civil wars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: preferring one close companion over another is a personal preference, and he calls arguing over the ranking childish; treating Ali as infallible is equally wrong.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his opinion, arguing over which of the Prophet's close companions was better is just childishness.
Evidence, his words at 23:08: “but amongst the close friends of the companions of the prophet it's difficult really you know saying well he's friend number one he's friend number two you know this kind of stuff is it's really childish isn't it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=1388s)

## Is the great love Muslims have for the Prophet a kind of prophet worship?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/10/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (46:41–55:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tawhid and shirk; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Which Quranic verses does Yasir Qadhi say point to Jesus coming back?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/14/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:06:29–1:13:56)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Jesus in the Quran
Cites: Quran 3:46 (https://quran.com/3/46); Quran 4:159 (https://quran.com/4/159); Quran 43:61 (https://quran.com/43/61)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi says three verses strongly suggest Jesus's return; Mufti Abu Layth mocks the readings and says the return is not in the Quran.

## Are the hadith about Jesus's return mutawatir, as Yasir Qadhi claims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/15/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:13:56–1:19:40)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Mutawatir and certainty; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi says the hadith on Jesus's return are mutawatir, found in dozens of tafsir and creed works and held by the Maliki authorities; Mufti Abu Layth answers with sarcasm.

## Was Muhammad Abduh the first Muslim to deny the return of Jesus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/16/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:19:40–1:26:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Modern reformers and movements
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi claims ijma on the return, names Muhammad Abduh as the first to deny it and links deniers to the Ahmadiyya; Mufti Abu Layth calls the link ironic, since the Ahmadiyya is built on a messianic claim.

## Do people who deny Jesus's return reject the unseen?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/17/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:26:08–1:29:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Soul, nafs and consciousness; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects Qadhi's charge that deniers of the return reject the unseen: belief itself is in the unseen God, and he is himself preoccupied with consciousness, which science cannot explain.

## Is distinguishing the Sunnah from hadith a modernist invention?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/18/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:29:15–1:33:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi calls the hadith-Sunnah distinction a modernist invention worse than denying the return; Mufti Abu Layth says it is what the madhhabs and Imam Malik actually teach, and that Bukhari is not beyond criticism.

## What does Yasir Qadhi say about the return of Jesus coming from Jewish and Christian sources?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/19/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:33:47–1:36:30)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Mutawatir and certainty; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi calls the claim that the return came from Judeo-Christian sources baseless and says it would destroy Islamic epistemology; Mufti Abu Layth marks his words for later.

## How does Yasir Qadhi answer the objection that Jesus killing pigs makes no sense?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/20/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:36:30–1:39:06)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi admits one early authority held that Jesus died, and answers objections to Jesus killing pigs and refusing the jizya with 'Allah said so'.

## Was Yasir Qadhi's lecture on Jesus's return really academic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/21/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:39:06–1:42:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's lecture, billed as academic, ended by branding deniers of the return innovators and heretics, making it a preachy Friday sermon rather than an academic discussion.

## Is Yasir Qadhi giving the whole picture on the Maliki scholars and Jesus's return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/22/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:06–1:46:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Using Qadhi's own talk on Gog and Magog, Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi tells half truths, citing the Maliki authorities without their view that the hadith on Jesus are not conclusively established.

## Do Muslim beliefs about the Mahdi, Jesus and Gog and Magog mirror Jewish messianic texts?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/23/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:46:36–1:50:26)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Christians and other faiths; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi sets out the Jewish belief in a minor and a major messiah alongside Gog and Magog, mirroring Muslim end-time beliefs; Mufti Abu Layth mocks his 'what a coincidence'.

## Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish lore?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/24/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:50:26–1:53:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Narrator criticism; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi is inconsistent: he calls Israelite origins for the return preposterous, yet with Ibn Kathir firmly believes the Gog and Magog report came from Israelite lore through Abu Hurayra's circle.

## What is Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/25/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:53:29–1:57:36)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Qadhi rejects a hidden tribe of Gog and Magog as irrational and floats a zombie theory instead, which Mufti Abu Layth mocks.

## Has Yasir Qadhi been consistent about whether Gog and Magog could be hidden underground?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/26/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:57:36–2:01:49)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth sets an older Qadhi clip defending the Gog and Magog hadith as 'not impossible' against his later statement that he cannot believe it.

## Has Yasir Qadhi said that the views of great scholars should not bind a researcher?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/27/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:01:49–2:05:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Views on contemporary scholars; How to study Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays a clip of Qadhi urging researchers to break from inherited scholarship, and notes that the critic sharing it accuses Qadhi of the modernism Qadhi charges others with.

## Does the majority of scholars holding a view make it right?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/28/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:05:05–2:09:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Mutawatir and certainty; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth shows Qadhi saying that majority opinion rests on socio-political factors and that numbers do not make a view right, against his own appeal to the giants on the second coming.

## Can positions in aqidah fall within a range of scholarly opinion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/29/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:09:14–2:12:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth shows Qadhi teaching that even aqidah positions lie on a spectrum and that no scholar's word is evidence in itself, while calling Mufti a heretic for departing from the majority.

## Is there really scholarly consensus that Jesus will return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/30/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:12:52–2:18:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Mutawatir and certainty; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects Qadhi's claims one by one: the Quran does not suggest a return, no narration is sound, Ibn Hazm recorded disagreement on it, and the Maliki authorities did not hold the reports to be mutawatir.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not strongly suggest a second coming of Jesus, contrary to Qadhi's claim.
Evidence, his words at 2:13:28: “these were some of the key things that below it has made that the response would be academic clearly wasn't the quran strongly suggests the second coming it doesn't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=8008s)

## Is separating hadith from the Sunnah a Hanafi and Maliki principle?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/31/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:18:13–2:23:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Creed and the schools of theology; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The hadith-Sunnah distinction is Hanafi and Maliki usul, not Abduh's invention; Mufti Abu Layth lists Qadhi's inconsistencies and says Salafi kalam rests on fabricated chains.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that distinguishing hadith from the Sunnah is the usul of the Hanafi and Maliki madhhabs.
Evidence, his words at 2:18:13: “this is the usual of the hanafi matab and the maliki method that we do tafriq hadith sunnah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=8293s)

## Does the verse about Jesus speaking 'in maturity' mean he will come back?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/32/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:23:16–2:28:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; The second coming of Jesus; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 3:46 (https://quran.com/3/46); Quran 5:110 (https://quran.com/5/110); Quran 4:159 (https://quran.com/4/159)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Neither verse proves a return: 'in the cradle and in maturity' refers to the people Jesus addresses, the return reading began with a late transmitter of strange reports, and 'before his death' has several readings.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in the verse on speaking in the cradle and in maturity it is the people Jesus addresses, the child and the mature man, who are meant, not Jesus speaking at an older age.
Evidence, his words at 2:23:53: “it's not jesus who's going to be speaking like that it's the people he will address he will address the child in the crib and he will address the old man or the mature man” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=8633s)

## Which verses of the Quran count against Jesus coming back?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/33/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:28:09–2:33:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Jesus in the Quran; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 43:61 (https://quran.com/43/61); Quran 5:75 (https://quran.com/5/75); Quran 21:34 (https://quran.com/21/34); Quran 43:59 (https://quran.com/43/59)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 43:61 refers to the Quran as knowledge of the Hour, not to Jesus; 5:75, 21:34 and 43:59, which Qadhi does not mention, count against a return.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it makes much more sense to read 43:61 as speaking of the Quran, since revelation ends with it, than of Jesus as a sign of the Hour.
Evidence, his words at 2:28:47: “and that actually makes much more sense if you think about it that the entire revelation will now end makes a lot more sense than rather saying jesus is a sign for the hour” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=8927s)

## Does the Quran say that Jesus died?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/34/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:33:59–2:38:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Jesus in the Quran; Individual hadith explained
Cites: Quran 5:110 (https://quran.com/5/110); Quran 3:55 (https://quran.com/3/55); Quran 5:116-118 (https://quran.com/5/116-118)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 'I will give you death' and Jesus's words at the Judgement show that he died, and the Prophet applied those words to himself in a Bukhari report, which settles the reading.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's use of Jesus's words 'when you took me' for himself, in a report in Bukhari, shows that he understood the verse to mean Jesus had died.
Evidence, his words at 2:38:20: “according to bukhari as saying that this that jesus had died because he is saying that oh what about my companions” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=9500s)

## Is the hadith in Bukhari about Jesus coming down reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/35/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:38:55–2:48:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The first Bukhari chain is doubtful: al-Bukhari left two narrators unnamed, which he is known to have done deliberately, and the chain runs through al-Zuhri, who was known to insert his own words into hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Bukhari on purpose referred to his teacher Muhammad ibn Yahya by names he was not known by, so as to deceive his readers.
Evidence, his words at 2:42:00: “avoiding the name that he's known by so as to deceive the readers or the listeners into thinking this is one of his other teachers” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=9720s)

## What is wrong with the other Bukhari and Muslim chains on Jesus's return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/36/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:48:28–2:54:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Hadith collections and their history; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The second Bukhari chain passes through Qutayba, who once concealed a forger, and al-Zuhri; the Sahih Muslim chains include Harmala, Yunus ibn Yazid and others the critics faulted.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Qutayba heard a fabricated hadith from a known forger, dropped him and presented it as heard from al-Layth, which puts at least a question mark over him.
Evidence, his words at 2:49:33: “there was a famous forger who quraiba sits with he hears this hadith from laith he doesn't hear it he hears khalid he drops him and himself presents it as though he heard it from leith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=10173s)

## Are the Sahih Muslim reports about Jesus's return reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/37/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:54:10–3:00:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Hadith collections and their history; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Further Sahih Muslim chains contain a narrator with memory loss, an unidentifiable narrator who could not have met Abu Hurayra, Ibn Jurayj, whom he calls a major mudallis, and Abu al-Zubayr.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says one narrator from Abu Hurayra in a Sahih Muslim chain for the return transmits no other hadith and is a ghost who does not exist.
Evidence, his words at 2:56:02: “he doesn't transmit any other hadith and what's shocking is he doesn't exist this guy is a is a ghost right there are the attacks that transmit from abu hurairah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=10562s)

## Is there a single hadith on Jesus's return with a flawless chain?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/38/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:00:24–3:06:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; The second coming of Jesus; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Every chain he examined among the strongest Bukhari and Muslim reports, including that of al-Nawwas ibn Sam'an, has a criticised narrator, so Qadhi's 'no doubt' fails; preferring al-Bukhari over equal critics is arbitrary.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says every single chain he examined among the strongest reports in Bukhari and Muslim has a problem in it.
Evidence, his words at 3:02:57: “where he said this is it doesn't leave there's no doubt how is there no doubt all of these chains are problematic single chain has had a problem in it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=10977s)

## Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/39/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:06:13–3:10:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Aisha report rests on one transmitter who dictated tens of thousands of hadith from memory in Isbahan, and only his version has the Dajjal emerge from the Jews of Isbahan, which Mufti Abu Layth finds suspicious.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says only one transmitter relates from Aisha the report with Jesus in it.
Evidence, his words at 3:07:30: “he transmits this hadith of jesus he's the only one to transmit it from aisha check this out people i want you to grasp this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=11250s)

## What does the Ibn Mas'ud hadith about the end of time say, and is it reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/40/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:10:42–3:14:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Narrator criticism; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Ibn Mas'ud report has unknown narrators, opens by citing the Christians' claim that Jesus will return, and ends with life regrowing from a fluid sent from beneath the Throne, which Mufti Abu Layth calls preposterous.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says one report begins with the statement that the Christians claim Jesus will come back, which shows the belief creeping in.
Evidence, his words at 3:11:09: “there is this hadith of namaste begins by saying that the christians claim jesus will come back you see this belief creeping in” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=11469s)

## Who was the blind narrator of the return hadith who relied on his slave girl?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/41/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:14:47–3:17:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): One transmitter of the return reports went blind, lost his memory and relied on his slave girl to check his hadith, which Mufti Abu Layth says shows the state of some of these narrators.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a narrator in one of the chains who transmits that Jesus will come back is not reliable.
Evidence, his words at 3:14:47: “check this out this is a person who's transmitting this that jesus will come back not only is he not reliable and people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=11687s)

## Can the hadith about Jesus's return be questioned?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/42/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:17:49–3:21:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Mutawatir and certainty; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No report on the return is beyond question: about eighty percent come through Abu Hurayra and about half through one narrator, none from Abu Bakr, Umar or Ali; the series will continue.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says eighty percent of the hadith on Jesus's return come through Abu Hurayra alone.
Evidence, his words at 3:18:27: “you know eighty percent of these entire hadith are just through abu hurairah just through him and almost 50 percent of the entire narration is just through one man” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=11907s)

## Is the hadith about a woman breastfeeding the adult Salim authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/43/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:21:30–3:27:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: False and fabricated hadith; Interaction between men and women; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls the report of the adult Salim being suckled fabricated and mocks al-Albani's fatwa permitting it directly, welcoming Mohammed Hijab's attack on it as a sign he is outgrowing Salafism.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report that the Prophet told a woman to let the grown Salim drink her milk is fabricated, because it is ridiculous.
Evidence, his words at 3:23:55: “allegedly the prophet said well why don't you let him drink your milk now he doesn't mention how to drink that milk and this hadith is fabricated anyway because it's ridiculous” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=12235s)

## Is Mohammed Hijab breaking away from the Salafis?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/44/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:27:30–3:33:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Salafism and Wahhabism; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thinks Hijab's point against the fatwa is fair, though his language was crude and not Mufti's style, and welcomes what he sees as Hijab outgrowing Salafism.

## Abdul Rahman Hassan's clip: the first Khariji, protest, and never criticising rulers
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/krigi3omjd4/s/1/
Date: 2021-02-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Abdul Rahman Hassan Misquoting Hadith & Invite Challenge | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–5:30)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Responses to critics; Public law and governance; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks a clip in which Abdul Rahman Hassan presents protest against rulers as the mentality of the first Khariji, reading it as a defence of the Saudi rulers.

## Did the Prophet say he would kill the lineage of the first Khariji?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/krigi3omjd4/s/2/
Date: 2021-02-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Abdul Rahman Hassan Misquoting Hadith & Invite Challenge | Mufti Abu Layth (5:30–10:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Individual hadith explained; Responses to critics; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the speaker, carried away defending the Saudi rulers, attributed to the Prophet words he did not say: in the hadith the Prophet stopped Umar from killing the man. Respect for the Prophet comes before kings.

## An invitation to MindTrap on aqidah and Bukhari, and an open challenge to Salafi imams
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/krigi3omjd4/s/3/
Date: 2021-02-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Abdul Rahman Hassan Misquoting Hadith & Invite Challenge | Mufti Abu Layth (10:01–13:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Salafism and Wahhabism; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth invites Abdul Rahman Hassan, and any Salafi imam, to discuss aqidah or Bukhari on MindTrap, challenging them to prove the Salafi creed from the Quran and Sunnah alone.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says his challenge is that Salafi imams will not be able to prove their aqidah from the Quran or Sunnah alone.
Evidence, his words at 12:03: “any salafi Imam on the rakida that we can have a discussion they have to be able to prove there are either just from the Quran or Sunnah and Mike challenge is that they won't be able to” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrIGi3OmJD4&t=723s)

## Is celebrating Valentine's Day haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/5/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (14:11–21:38)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Love and romance; Non-Muslim festivals and greetings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Valentine's Day is not haram and need not be bad, he says, but do not let relationships become your identity or worth; keep your own goals and purpose.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Valentine's Day is not in itself forbidden or haram, and need not even be a bad thing.
Evidence, his words at 21:00: “i'm not saying that the thing in and of itself is forbidden or haram it's not and i'm not even saying it's a bad thing it doesn't have to be” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=1260s)

## Were the Mu'tazila really defined by their use of reason?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/15/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (51:46–58:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Reason and revelation; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Mu'tazila were defined by doctrines like a sinner leaving Islam and God being duty-bound, not by reason; the Sunni rejection of reason came later as a reaction.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says what split the Mu'tazila off was nothing to do with reason, but doctrines such as a sinner no longer being a Muslim and God being duty-bound to reward good.
Evidence, his words at 53:01: “therefore there has to be that god is duty bound to recompense and so these issues are what split them off it was nothing to do with reason nothing to do with oh they were rationalists” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=3181s)

## Did Imam Ahmad really refuse to say the Quran is created?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/18/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:31–1:10:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Creed and the schools of theology; God and the divine attributes
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says later Hanbalis made Imam Ahmad a hero of the Mihna, though he likely said the Quran was created to save himself; Ash'ari books also call the worded Quran created.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, to be honest, the account that Imam Ahmad said the Quran was created to please the caliph and was let off is not hard to believe, since saying so to save one's life would not be haram.
Evidence, his words at 1:07:40: “he said yes the quran is created to please the caliph and then got let off and to be honest with you this is not hard to believe because it wouldn't be haram to do that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=4060s)

## Why is quoting science to defend hadith like camel urine risky?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/29/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:32:50–1:38:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Quran and science; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Hijab cannot yet leave his Salafi audience, and that using science to prove absurd claims usually backfires, as with camel-urine research and earlier polemics.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that when you quote scientific material to prove absurdities, it will more often than not come back and sting you.
Evidence, his words at 1:34:07: “you see when you quote scientific stuff to prove absurdities it will more often than not come back and sting you and bite you in the rear end” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=5647s)

## A mufti's clip on ear piercing: 'decency', 'manipulation' and muthla
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/36/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:53:05–2:00:50)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth mocks a mufti's argument that piercing beyond the earlobe is abnormal and amounts to muthla, saying muthla means disfiguring a body, not piercing it.

## Can a Muslim have a close non-Muslim friend?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/37/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:00:50–2:06:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Friendship and social life; Non-Muslim festivals and greetings; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls the teaching that Muslims cannot have close non-Muslim friends ignorance and venom that makes the deen suffer.

## Did the Prophet say he would kill the first Khariji's descendants?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/38/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:06:20–2:16:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Public law and governance; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet never said 'I will kill his lineage'; in the Bukhari report he stopped Umar from killing the man, so the clip misrepresents the Prophet to defend rulers.

## Did Abu Hanifa allow nabidh only as medicine?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/50/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:41:57–2:54:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the reports Abu Hanifa's school transmitted, of Umar and Ibn Mas'ud drinking and diluting nabidh, are about drinking with food, not medicine.

## Is cannabis an intoxicant like alcohol in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/51/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:54:22–2:59:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says marijuana is not an intoxicant in the way alcohol is, and accuses the preacher of not understanding the difference between psychoactive substances and intoxicants.

## The preacher on DMT: 'no proof of the unseen', and tahajjud instead
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/52/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:59:48–3:05:48)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth ridicules the preacher's claim that there is no scientific proof DMT users reach the unseen, asking what such proof could even look like.

## Is smoking marijuana haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/53/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:05:48–3:08:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Marijuana is haram for the young because of the harm, he says, but not for an adult whose brain has developed, though Islam does not encourage it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that once a person's brain has developed, usually around 25, it would not be haram for them to take marijuana, though Islam does not encourage it.
Evidence, his words at 3:07:04: “after that i've said that it's not something islam encourages in fact you know it doesn't encourage it at all how but it would not be haram if a person was to be to take marijuana” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=11224s)

## Are DMT and magic mushrooms haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/54/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:08:23–3:10:59)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/12/; general teaching
Topics: Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Soul, nafs and consciousness
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): DMT and psilocybin are not haram, he says, though they raise legal issues; brain studies give abundant evidence of their effect on consciousness.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says DMT is definitely not haram, nor is psilocybin, though these are issues of legality.
Evidence, his words at 3:08:23: “so that is the understanding as to dmt that is definitely not haram um neither is psilocybin and stuff like that mushrooms but these things are issues of legality” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=11303s)

## Is drinking poison haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/55/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:10:59–3:14:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Drinking poison is categorically haram, he says, so it is inconsistent to call DMT haram while justifying publicly drinking poison.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says drinking poison is categorically haram in Islam, with no ifs or buts.
Evidence, his words at 3:10:59: “drinking poison is categorically haram in islam it is there's no ifs no but” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=11459s)

## Why does Bukhari accept a narrator who praised Ali's killer while Shia narrators are rejected?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hlhgb2tyt-c/s/1/
Date: 2021-02-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hypocrisy in the Sunni Hadith Methodology | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Sunni-Shia dialogue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls it a double standard that al-Bukhari accepts as trustworthy a narrator who praised Ibn Muljam for killing Ali, while reports from Imam Jafar and other Shia imams are rejected because of their source.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is prejudice and a double standard that al-Bukhari accepts as trustworthy a narrator who openly praised Ibn Muljam for killing Ali, while reports from Imam Jafar and the other Shia imams are rejected because they come from Shia sources.
Evidence, his words at 1:54: “so why do we accept the the one who's praising the person who murdered the ali like this is just this is just ridiculous like we are just so drowned in prejudice and bias” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLHgB2tyt-c&t=114s)

## Is pork the only meat that is haram in the Maliki school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/5/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (29:59–34:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Food and drink; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says that in the Maliki school no meat is haram in itself except the pig, which does not mean the imams urged people to eat everything.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in the Maliki school no meat is haram to eat in and of itself except the pig.
Evidence, his words at 30:36: “but in and of themselves no meat was haram on earth whether it was from the sea the land or the sky nothing is haram bar pig in the maliki method” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=1836s)

## Why does Birmingham have so many different Muslim sects?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/19/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:35:19–1:38:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Britain
Cites: Quran 30:41 (corruption has appeared on land and sea), alluded to as a joke (https://quran.com/30/41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Birmingham's many strong sects cancel each other out, which he thinks is a good thing compared with towns one sect dominates.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in Birmingham every sect has a strong presence, and that he thinks that is a good thing.
Evidence, his words at 1:36:08: “you've got everybody here you know and and i think that's a good thing because there's certain towns like leicester is close to birmingham which is heavily diopandi” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=5768s)

## Who is right in India's farmers' protests?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/30/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:20:56–2:33:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: India and Hindutva
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth stands with India's protesting farmers, saying laws affecting them must not be imposed without their consent.

## Why do critics keep attacking Shabir Ally?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/34/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:59:51–3:05:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the critics target Shabir Ally as a soft target who will not hit back, and repeats his offer to debate them.

## Did Maliki scholars really allow fines instead of hudud punishments?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/35/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:05:51–3:16:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hudud and punishments; The Maliki school; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki fatwa allowing punishment through wealth was the work of a major scholar and was practised as law for centuries, not a forgotten opinion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the fatwa on punishing with wealth that he cites was acted upon as the law and understood as the sharia for hundreds of years.
Evidence, his words at 3:14:58: “but some great people have said this and it was acted as the law it was understood as the sharia for hundreds and hundreds of years” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=11698s)

## Did Ibn Ashur say Muslims must believe Jesus was raised alive?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xttbk-ral6a/s/1/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Messiah, Masri & Misquotations | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–8:00)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Responses to critics; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 4:157-158 (they did not kill him nor crucify him; God raised him to Himself) (https://quran.com/4/157-158)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth shows that Ibn Ashur, quoted in Shadee Elmasry's post, held only that Jesus was not killed or crucified and was raised and saved, leaving how it happened open to interpretation.

## Did Ibn Ashur believe Jesus died?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xttbk-ral6a/s/2/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Messiah, Masri & Misquotations | Mufti Abu Layth (8:00–13:20)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Contested verses; Jesus in the Quran
Cites: Quran 3:55 (inni mutawaffika: I will take you / give you death) (https://quran.com/3/55); Quran 5:117 (when You took me, You were the watcher over them) (https://quran.com/5/117)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth shows that Ibn Ashur read 'inni mutawaffika' as real death, cited Imam Malik for it, and took texts calling Jesus alive as an honorific life like that of martyrs.

## Did Ibn Ashur say nothing in the Quran goes against the second coming of Jesus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xttbk-ral6a/s/3/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Messiah, Masri & Misquotations | Mufti Abu Layth (13:20–21:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Quranic Arabic; Responses to critics
Cites: Quran 5:110 (God's favours upon Jesus enumerated) (https://quran.com/5/110)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Ashur wrote that the Quran does not deal with the second coming, not that nothing in it opposes it; the post confused yata'arrad with a verb meaning 'to oppose'.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in Ibn Ashur's words the Quran does not deal with the second coming when it counts out the blessings of Jesus, rather than saying nothing in the Quran opposes it.
Evidence, his words at 19:16: “the quran does not encounter this argument doesn't when it's counting out the blessings of jesus” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttbK-raL6A&t=1156s)

## Did Shadee Elmasry mistranslate Ibn Ashur on purpose?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xttbk-ral6a/s/4/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Messiah, Masri & Misquotations | Mufti Abu Layth (21:10–23:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the mistranslation shows either incompetence in Arabic or deliberate misleading.

## Umayyad, Abbasid and Zubayrid politics behind the recording of history
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/7/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (37:45–47:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; False and fabricated hadith; Succession and the first civil wars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that rival Umayyad, Abbasid and Zubayrid narratives gave motives to shape reports such as those through Hisham ibn Urwa.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the Abbasid movement, when it rose to overthrow the Umayyads, was a Shia movement.
Evidence, his words at 39:25: “But initially the Abbasid movement rose like when it rose from and to overthrow Bunny, it was a Shia movement.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=2365s)

## If the hijab has become sexualised, should scholars still push it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/14/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:20:04–1:29:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Sexual ethics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that since the hijab is now widely sexualised, fatwas should not keep pushing it, though people may wear it as culture.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would argue that, under these circumstances of sexualisation, the hijab should not still be pushed forward by fatwas.
Evidence, his words at 1:24:54: “So it's so in these circumstances should these things still be pushed forward by fatawa and you know the shar and I would argue that under those circumstances it shouldn't.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=5094s)

## What does the raven in the story of Cain and Abel mean?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/18/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:48:21–1:57:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 5:27-31 (https://quran.com/5/27-31)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads the Cain and Abel verses as allowing more than one grammatical reading, and takes God to be the one teaching Cain.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, the one teaching Cain in the verse is God, though some have understood it as the raven.
Evidence, his words at 1:54:47: “who's trying to teach here. In my understanding, this is talking about God. Um, but some people have understood from it the raven.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=6887s)

## Did Cain invent burial after watching the raven?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/19/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:57:04–2:10:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans; Quran and science
Cites: Quran 5:31 (https://quran.com/5/31)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Cain did not invent burial, Mufti Abu Layth says; a raven mourning its dead shamed him into burying his brother.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think Cain was the first person to invent a burial.
Evidence, his words at 1:57:31: “they said oh maybe he's the first person to invent a burial. I don't think that was the case at all.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=7051s)

## What happened with GameStop, Reddit and Wall Street?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/21/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:14:58–2:28:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Money and finance; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth explains margin trading, short selling and how Reddit traders squeezed Wall Street funds over GameStop.

## Is trading stocks, crypto or on margin halal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/22/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:28:10–2:36:33)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/23/; general teaching
Topics: Money and finance; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth believes modern trading, including crypto and margin trading, is permissible with sensible risk management; risk was never the reason for a ban.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes trading such as CFDs, stocks, forex and crypto is permissible, while noting there are regulations.
Evidence, his words at 2:30:11: “I do believe all of this is permissible. Obviously, there's regulations, but this kind of trading, whether it's uh CFDs and stocks or shares or whether it's going to be um forex or whether it's going to be crypto” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwBevcC6o8&t=9011s)

## Is jinn possession real?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/26/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:50:29–3:04:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Cites: Quran 14:22 (https://quran.com/14/22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is no such thing as jinn possession, Mufti Abu Layth says; these are mental health issues, and exorcisms can be abuse.

## Was Covid-19 made in a lab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/3/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (11:03–16:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Covid-19
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Covid-19 came out of a laboratory and was engineered, pointing to reports that it spares children and relies on cholesterol.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Covid-19 came out of a laboratory and was bioengineered, citing reports that it spares children and relies on cholesterol to infect.
Evidence, his words at 14:31: “when i read this kind of stuff i feel um this definitely came out of a lab and it was definitely it was you know bioengineering tweaked” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=871s)

## Did the debate with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid answer the BukhariGate challenge?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/18/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:16:45–1:21:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Debate challenges and reviews; Mutawatir and certainty
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the discussion did not settle BukhariGate but strengthened it, since doubts about the book's transmission mean reports contradicting reason or the Quran should be set aside.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the discussion did not put BukhariGate to rest but further cemented it, and that because Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be shown with certainty to reach us exactly from its author, reports in it that contradict reason, the Quran or Islam's principles should be set aside.
Evidence, his words at 1:21:10: “if we can't establish with utter certainty which we can't that this book reaches us exactly from let's say source a which is allegedly imam bukhari himself” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=4870s)

## How did the BukhariGate discussion go on manuscripts and problematic hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/19/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:21:59–1:32:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Debate challenges and reviews; Hadith collections and their history
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the guest did not contest the manuscript evidence, and that defending the problematic reports amounts to claiming the Prophet could err but al-Bukhari could not.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that defending reports in Bukhari which portray the Prophet as bewitched or forgetting the Quran amounts to claiming the Prophet could err but al-Bukhari could not, when errors in the book's transmission are far more likely.
Evidence, his words at 1:31:23: “the prophet could forget the quran the prophet could be clumsy the prophet could forget surahs and verses the prophet could do all of these things but bukhari could never have made a mistake” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=5483s)

## Is Mufti Abu Layth against Imam Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/20/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:32:28–1:37:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith collections and their history; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says he respects al-Bukhari as an outstanding hadith scholar, though not infallible, but holds that the book reaching us was altered in transmission, so troubling reports deserve caution.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he has never been against Imam Bukhari, whom he regards as an outstanding though fallible hadith scholar, but holds that the book reaching us was altered in transmission, so reports in it that disrespect the prophets or concern killing should be treated with caution.
Evidence, his words at 1:34:36: “he wasn't a prophet and he wasn't infallible and you have to remember the book that comes to us from him 100 of it is probably not from him but maybe 90 of it was his” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=5676s)

## If a hadith is also in other books besides Bukhari, does that confirm it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/25/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:56:22–2:04:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith collections and their history; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Mutawatir and certainty
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not necessarily: he says transmitters and editors, often with good intentions, aligned names and texts with versions they knew, as Ahmad Shakir did in al-Muhalla, so parallel versions may not be independent.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that later transmitters and editors, even with good intentions, may have altered reports and names to match versions they knew, so that the same hadith appearing in other books need not be independent of al-Bukhari.
Evidence, his words at 1:56:29: “my question to that is how do you know this is not a bounce effect or a ripple and boomerang effect that basically because imam buhari was a uh you know he was a great person” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=6989s)

## How could hadith chains and texts have been standardised over time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/26/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:04:13–2:12:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith collections and their history; Narrator criticism; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says editors who standardised variant chains and texts, as Ahmad Shakir did with Ibn Jurayj's version, erased how reports were really transmitted, and that this may have happened unnoticed in the classical collections.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says editors who standardise variant chains and texts to match the majority, even with good intentions, erase evidence of how reports were actually transmitted, and that this may also have happened unnoticed with the classical hadith collections.
Evidence, his words at 2:10:28: “you're standardizing a model and this is exactly what may have happened in the past see you're just catching it out now because ahmad shakir highlighted this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=7828s)

## Could the hadith tradition evolve like a living organism?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/27/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:12:03–2:22:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Philosophy and ideas; Hadith collections and their history; Soul, nafs and consciousness
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): As food for thought, he suggests that the hadith system, like other belief systems, behaves like an evolving organism that drives people to standardise and preserve it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth suggests, as food for thought, that the hadith system behaves like an evolving organism that, without consciousness, drives those engaged with it to standardise and correct it so that it survives.
Evidence, his words at 2:19:52: “as a kind of psychosocial organism this belief system it would be driven to make people do that to kind of ensure its longevity to survive” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=8392s)

## Was docetism about someone else being crucified in Jesus's place?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/31/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:30:22–2:40:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Jesus in the Quran
Cites: Quran 4:157 (they did not kill him nor crucify him, but it was made to appear so to them) (https://quran.com/4/157); Quran 19:23-25 (the pains of labour drove her to the trunk of the palm tree) (https://quran.com/19/23-25)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says docetism was a debate over whether Jesus was truly human, and that the Quran says the crucifixion only appeared to succeed, not that a look-alike was crucified.

## What does the Mufti think of Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/32/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:40:53–2:47:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Sufism and tasawwuf
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah exceptionally talented, with remarkable Arabic, but says his later turn to a pir-style spiritual role wastes that talent.

## Does joking and laughing a lot mean I lack high aspiration?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/9/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (29:53–34:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Character and virtue; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects a preacher's claim that joking and laughing show low aspiration, calling laughter the very definition of happiness and joy.

## A debater, Saqib Shaami's crew and a conference on the finality of prophethood
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/15/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (56:57–1:02:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recalls a debater facing down Saqib Shaami's entourage when it disrupted a finality-of-prophethood conference in Birmingham.

## Has Zaytuna College limited what Hamza Yusuf can say?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/24/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:37:44–1:44:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Hamza Yusuf's rise was remarkable but that Zaytuna now constrains him, so he avoids anything controversial; Mufti prefers his own freedom.

## Who was Ibn Rushd (Averroes)?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/27/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:56:13–2:08:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Al-Andalus and the Maghrib; Scholars and imams of the past; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth presents Ibn Rushd as a Maliki judge, physician and the great commentator on Aristotle, honoured in Europe but exiled and neglected by Muslims.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is a shame that Muslims ignored Ibn Rushd, since he was such a legend in philosophy.
Evidence, his words at 2:07:04: “you see it's a shame that Muslims because he was such a legend in philosophy Muslims kind of turned a uh they they kind of ignored him” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=7624s)

## Why did Ibn Rushd fall from favour with the caliph?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/28/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:08:59–2:16:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Al-Andalus and the Maghrib; Race, nation and identity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth relates two accounts of Ibn Rushd's fall, a remark on a storm and an insult to the caliph, and finds the first believable though unproven.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is not sure the report that Ibn Rushd doubted the reality of a Quranic story is true, but that it is believable he said such things because his views were very philosophical.
Evidence, his words at 2:10:51: “I'm not sure whether that's true but it's believable that he could have said things because his views were kind of very philosophical” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=7851s)

## How did Ibn Rushd answer al-Ghazali's attack on the philosophers?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/29/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:16:37–2:20:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Philosophy and ideas; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth explains that Ibn Rushd answered al-Ghazali by showing that what he refuted was mostly neoplatonism, not Aristotle.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it was true that al-Ghazali's sources on the philosophers had been ill-informed, because early translations mixed up Aristotle's and Plato's views.
Evidence, his words at 2:17:53: “they've been ill informed and that was actually true because what happened in the early days when things were being translated” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=8273s)

## What did Ibn Rushd say about women's abilities?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/30/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:20:29–2:27:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Women in Islam; Philosophy and ideas; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth highlights Ibn Rushd's argument, 900 years ago, that women equal men in ability and that confining them to the home impoverished his cities.

## Did Ibn Ashur say Jesus was raised alive and will return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/37/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:45:11–2:58:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Responses to critics; Jesus in the Quran
Cites: Quran 3:55 (https://quran.com/3/55); Quran 4:157-158 (https://quran.com/4/157-158); Quran 5:117 (https://quran.com/5/117)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says a preacher's post misquotes the tafsir it cites, which takes the verse to mean Jesus really died and leaves how he was raised open to interpretation.

## Does the Quran say nothing against Jesus' second coming?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/38/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:58:04–3:07:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Quranic Arabic; Responses to critics
Cites: Quran 5:110 (https://quran.com/5/110)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the post mistranslates the tafsir: it says the Quran does not address the second coming, not that nothing in the Quran opposes it.

## Not just Trump: why he sees the Capitol riot as reflective of the United States
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/3/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (13:29–21:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary; Race, nation and identity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth sees the Capitol riot as a symptom of the United States as a whole, not just of Trump, pointing to school shootings, inequality and race relations.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think the Capitol riot is just Trump, but that it is in many ways reflective of the United States.
Evidence, his words at 18:25: “this is not in my understanding just a trumpian issue i think that's like that's naive thinking that this is just trump” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=1105s)

## Has the Salafi movement done more good or harm?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/7/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (32:40–35:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Salafi dawah revived interest in hadith and forced a re-evaluation, but its dislodging of the tradition did far more damage overall.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the biggest problem of the Salafi dawah was that it dislodged the entire tradition that was the general understanding of Islam.
Evidence, his words at 33:53: “the biggest problem of the salafi dawa was to dislodge the entire tradition of which was our general understanding of islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=2033s)

## Do I have to be in a state of purity to say verses of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/9/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (39:18–44:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Purification; False and fabricated hadith; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says religion should be natural, not ritualistic: the menstrual state is not impure, and revelation came to the Prophet while in bed with Aisha.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says these kinds of hadiths are to him an encouragement showing that the deen ought to be very natural to our lives.
Evidence, his words at 43:52: “these kind of hadiths are to me and an encouragement to show that the deen ought to be very natural to our lives” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=2632s)

## Does Sahih al-Bukhari really say God dangled in front of the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/31/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:58:33–2:11:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; God and the divine attributes; Isra and Mi'raj
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 7517 (the night journey; al-Jabbar drew near and came down) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:7517); Quran 53:8 (then he drew near and came down) (https://quran.com/53/8)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of God 'dangling' before the Prophet is unacceptable, and any hadith that clashes with reason or the Quran must be rejected.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that describing God as dangling in front of the Prophet, as in this hadith, is utterly unacceptable.
Evidence, his words at 2:07:10: “this is utterly uh unacceptable and it is indicative and reflective of the greater problem with the the salafi creed” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=7630s)

## How do I deal with toxic people and negativity around me?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/9/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (31:00–36:22)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Negative thoughts and mindset; Friendship and social life; Goals, habits and willpower
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Leave toxic groups and block negativity, since people can never be pleased; he adds that he finds most religious circles toxic.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his perspective, most religious circles are unfortunately toxic, suffocating and claustrophobic.
Evidence, his words at 35:48: “I I I go a step further to say that unfortunately most religious circles are toxic” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=2148s)

## Who was Lilith in Jewish legend?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/15/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:07:11–1:14:18)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture; Adam and the creation of humans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth retells the Jewish legend of Lilith, Adam's first wife, who left him over equality and became a night demon.

## Is the Quran a miracle that proves Islam to everyone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/18/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:24:16–1:29:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Quranic Arabic
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds the Quran is subjectively miraculous in its effect but not a universal miracle that converts all who hear it, and he cut the exchange short out of discomfort.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran is miraculous in the emotions and experiences it creates subjectively, but cannot be called a universal miracle that makes everyone who hears it Muslim.
Evidence, his words at 1:27:28: “I said look the Quran is miraculous in the emotions and the experiences it creates subjectively but you can't say this is a universal you can't say well look anybody who hears the Quran will become Muslim” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=5248s)

## How can I make the new year a more positive one?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/21/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:35:51–1:44:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Negative thoughts and mindset; Goals, habits and willpower; Money and finance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His tips for the year: speak positively, smile, leave toxic circles and start something new, whether a skill or an investment.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth advises that people stop responding with negative words such as not bad and respond with positive words instead.
Evidence, his words at 1:37:29: “never you know stop that don't ever respond with not bad respond that I'm good. You know, great.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=5849s)

## Is anal intercourse with my wife haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/32/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:21:42–2:29:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intimacy in marriage; Sexual ethics; Religious guilt and scrupulosity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says no sahih hadith makes anal intercourse with one's wife haram, and that preachers should stop guilt-tripping people over private matters.

## Did the Prophet fall in love with Zaynab bint Jahsh?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/34/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:38:27–2:45:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says the early hadith collections do not carry the love story, and it makes no sense given the Prophet had known Zaynab all his life.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that many of the major early muhaddithun, including Malik, do not transmit the love story of the Prophet and Zaynab.
Evidence, his words at 2:39:05: “In fact many of the major major early Muhadin do not transmit it. Malik doesn't transmit it.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo90sV4JVHo&t=9545s)

## Is masturbation haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yzrvpdckjxq/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi on Masturbation | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–4:00)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sexual ethics; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Cites: Quran 23:5-6 (those who guard their private parts except from their spouses or right-hand possessions; also 70:29-30) (https://quran.com/23/5-6)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Yasir Qadhi says the majority hold masturbation to be haram, but that others held it makruh or permissible, citing Ibn Abbas's reply to a young man and Ibn Hazm, and that he believes there is no sin in it although it is better avoided. This is Qadhi's view played for discussion, not Mufti Abu Layth's own statement.

## Why are Salafi scholars now saying masturbation is not a sin after years of calling it haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yzrvpdckjxq/s/3/
Date: 2021-01-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi on Masturbation | Mufti Abu Layth (6:38–12:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Sexual ethics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says these scholars owe an apology to the Muslims they guilt-tripped for decades, since Ibn Hazm's and the Hanbali view were known to them all along and nothing new has come to light. He attributes the reversal to imams saying what the public expects until they feel they can say otherwise.

## Did Zakir Naik say masturbation is not haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9kk28jhdca8/s/1/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Zakir Naik - New revelations on masturbation | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–5:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexual ethics; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Zakir Naik has said masturbation is not haram but only discouraged. Mufti Abu Layth says those who preached it as haram for decades owe people an admission and an apology, and ridicules the view that only one's own hand makes it haram.

## Was the Quran always fixed word for word, or was it flexible at first?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ttq_cxlvaso/s/4/
Date: 2020-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi's reply to Jay Smith & ultracrepidarian | Mufti Abu Layth (19:43–28:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds the Quran was dynamic in the Prophet's time, with companions allowed to substitute synonyms, and that a fixed vowel-for-vowel text is a modern idea. Writing it down in a worldly script brought its own constraints.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he finds himself in line with the view that the Arabic Quran came into being in the mind of the Prophet, revealed to him and not invented by him.
Evidence, his words at 23:27: “i find myself in line with that latter that is in the mind of the prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQ_CXlVaso&t=1407s)

## Can we substitute words of the Quran today as the companions did?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ttq_cxlvaso/s/5/
Date: 2020-12-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi's reply to Jay Smith & ultracrepidarian | Mufti Abu Layth (28:34–34:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Quran was dynamic in the Prophet's time, but after Uthman's codex and the canonised readings it has reached us fixed, so changing it today would not be correct. He feels word substitution was the original default, not a mere dispensation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that the companions' substituting of words was the default ruling for the Quran rather than merely a dispensation.
Evidence, his words at 34:18: “so they may have felt the latter i feel the former that it is by default” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQ_CXlVaso&t=2058s)

## Why do popular preachers promote belief in jinn possession?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/1/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–2:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Views on contemporary scholars; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth will answer Omar Suleiman's clip as a prime example of preachers promoting superstition; he says they appease the market that buys their commodity.

## Can there be a balanced view on whether jinn possess people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/3/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (6:34–11:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Reason and revelation; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A supernatural claim cannot be balanced; possession is either real or not. If disobedience, missing prayer and riba invited possession, most of the globe would be possessed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there can be no balanced version of a supernatural claim, since jinn possession is either real or not, and that if disobedience, missing prayer or riba invited possession then most of the globe would be possessed.
Evidence, his words at 7:46: “because there is no balance to nonsensical it's either sensical or it's nonsensical” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=466s)

## What would jinn gain by possessing people, and what follows if they could?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/4/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (11:49–17:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Reason and revelation; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): If jinn could possess people or take any form, nothing in Islam could be trusted and no one would be responsible for their crimes; Mufti Abu Layth notes that only Muslims who believe in possession seem to be afflicted.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if jinn could possess people or take any form, as Ibn Taymiyya held, nothing in Islam could be trusted and no one would be responsible for their crimes, and he notes that only Muslims who believe in possession seem to be afflicted by it.
Evidence, his words at 15:28: “if you accept jin possession everything in islam becomes redundant this screen that you're watching now” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=928s)

## Does the riba verse prove that jinn can possess people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/5/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (17:05–20:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Tafsir and verse study; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 2:275 (those who consume riba stand as one struck by Satan) (https://quran.com/2/275); Quran 37:65 (its shoots are like the heads of devils) (https://quran.com/37/65); Quran 14:22 (Satan: I had no power over you) (https://quran.com/14/22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The riba verse 2:275 uses the image of being struck by the devil as a frame of reference the Arabs knew, like the heads of devils in 37:65; it does not establish possession.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the riba verse 2:275 uses the image of being struck by the devil as a frame of reference the Arabs knew, just as 37:65 likens the tree of hell to the heads of devils, and that it does not establish jinn possession.
Evidence, his words at 17:22: “the actual verse has nothing to do with jin possession everybody is in agreement the actual verse is speaking about people who consume riba on the day of judgment” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=1042s)

## If a jinn could possess me, how could I be blamed for anything?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/6/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (20:58–26:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Free will and destiny; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 14:22 (Satan: I had no power over you, I only invited you) (https://quran.com/14/22); Quran 38:41 (Ayyub: Satan has touched me with hardship) (https://quran.com/38/41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Satan's own words in 14:22, that he had no power over people and only invited them, rule out possession: if the devil could physically prevent prayer or cause harm, people could not be blamed and responsibility would collapse.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that 14:22, in which Satan says he had no power over people and only invited them, rules out jinn possession, because if the devil could physically prevent prayer or cause illness people could not be blamed and moral responsibility would be meaningless.
Evidence, his words at 24:15: “if a jinn is beating me up when i'm praying why do i have to pray that's stupid and why is it my fault for not praying then” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=1455s)

## What did classical scholars say about whether jinn can harm or possess people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/7/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (26:14–34:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Depression and anxiety
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam al-Shafi'i rejected the testimony of anyone claiming to see jinn, Ibn Hazm forbade adding to what Allah said about them, and al-Tahawi held that Satan can only insinuate, not harm; what is called possession is mental illness, and accepting it would void responsibility.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth cites al-Shafi'i's refusal of the testimony of anyone who claims to have seen the jinn, Ibn Hazm's ban on adding to what is soundly narrated about them and al-Tahawi's denial that Satan can cause actual harm, and says that what is called possession is mental illness and that accepting possession would leave no will and no taklif.
Evidence, his words at 32:50: “this completely ruins the message of islam there is zero will irrada there is zero taklif because you don't know who's possessed who isn't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=1970s)

## Do any authentic hadith prove jinn possession?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/8/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (34:00–43:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Authenticating hadith; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The hadith cited for possession prove nothing: the Bukhari report that Satan runs in the veins concerns suspicion, the Bukhari report of the epileptic woman treats epilepsy as an illness to be borne patiently, and the remaining reports are weak.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith cited for possession prove nothing: the Bukhari report that Satan runs in the veins concerns suspicion, the Bukhari report of the epileptic woman treats epilepsy as an illness to be borne patiently, and the remaining reports in Ibn Majah and elsewhere are weak.
Evidence, his words at 42:22: “my point of saying these people is that there is nothing authentic to prove this hocus pocus” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=2542s)

## Is the jinn exorcism and ruqya industry a fraud?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/9/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (43:12–49:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The ruqya industry is largely a fraud drenched in abuse; the Mu'tazila, who rejected possession, were never afflicted, and al-Jahiz already recorded a practitioner using a possession claim to explain away a lost virginity.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the exorcism and ruqya industry is largely fraudulent and drenched in abuse, and he cites al-Jahiz's observation that no Mu'tazili, who rejected possession, was ever afflicted by a jinn.
Evidence, his words at 45:32: “the bulk of them are utterly fraudulent right maybe some of them are sincere and just delusional” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=2732s)

## Is Omar Suleiman trained as a scholar, and will anyone debate Mufti Abu Layth on jinn possession?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/10/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (49:49–54:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Views on contemporary scholars; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth challenges any shaykh to debate jinn possession on his show and says Omar Suleiman, though commendable for his civil rights work, is not trained as a scholar or qualified to give rulings.

## Does the Quran mention the evil eye?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/2/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (2:41–9:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 68:51 (they would almost make you slip with their eyes) (https://quran.com/68/51)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Quran mentions envy (hasad) but never the evil eye, and the verse about eyes making the Prophet slip is a metaphor for hateful stares, as Ibn Ashur and others explain.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran has never once mentioned the evil eye, only envy, which is a different word.
Evidence, his words at 3:17: “the quran has never ever spoken of the evil eye” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpGDvjs2nk&t=197s)

## If the evil eye is real, why doesn't the Quran mention it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/3/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (9:24–17:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Cites: Quran 6:38 (We have not neglected anything in the Book) (https://quran.com/6/38)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The evil eye was believed to be an unseen force causing illness, death and impotence, yet the Quran never mentions it, unlike older scriptures. He finds that silence telling for something said to affect everyone.

## Why did so many cultures believe in the evil eye?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/4/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (17:44–28:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; The ancient Near East and scripture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Because people long believed the eye actively shot out rays, and the belief helped explain sudden illness and misfortune. He says the evil eye itself is nonsense.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the evil eye is nonsense and does not have a reality.
Evidence, his words at 26:02: “obviously the evil eye is nonsense it's bs it does not it doesn't have a reality” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpGDvjs2nk&t=1562s)

## Is the evil eye based on science?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/5/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (28:32–41:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It rested on the old belief that eyes shoot out rays, which people once took as science; Ibn al-Qayyim described envious 'arrows' from the eye. Ibn al-Haytham and later science showed that eyes only take in light.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in antiquity the evil eye was regarded as science, built on the belief that the eyes emit rays, a theory since debunked.
Evidence, his words at 39:49: “people were coming from this backdrop that this is how the eyes work so to them this was science” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpGDvjs2nk&t=2389s)

## Confirmation bias: reading the evil eye into the Quran
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/6/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (41:06–44:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 68:51 (they would almost make you slip with their eyes) (https://quran.com/68/51)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says that people came to Islam already believing the evil eye was science and, through confirmation bias, found it in verses that do not mention it, such as the verse about eyes almost making the Prophet slip, even though many exegetes did not read it that way. He recommends the Urdu tafsir of Abdul Karim Athari, whom he describes as coming from a small, unusually reason-based circle within the Ahl-e-Hadith of India, and says Athari also reads the verse as the disbelievers staring as though to trip the Prophet, before calling him insane.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says people approached the Quran with a confirmation bias, already believing in the evil eye, and so found it in verses that do not mention it.
Evidence, his words at 41:06: “there is not one verse in the quran that mentions the evil eye but they approach this trying to find it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpGDvjs2nk&t=2466s)

## Does Surah Yusuf prove the evil eye is real?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/7/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (44:28–56:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Contested verses; Stories of the prophets
Cites: Quran 12:58-68 (Yusuf's brothers in Egypt; Jacob's advice on the gates) (https://quran.com/12/58-68)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Jacob told his sons to use different gates for their safety and to avoid drawing attention, not because of the evil eye. They had already been to Egypt, so the evil eye reading makes no sense.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Jacob told his sons to split up at the gates to look out for them, not because of the evil eye, which makes no sense since they had already been to Egypt.
Evidence, his words at 54:49: “split up because if you are gonna go then go like that because he's trying to obviously look out for them the evil eye makes no sense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpGDvjs2nk&t=3289s)

## Are the hadith about the evil eye authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/8/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (56:07–1:08:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Narrator criticism; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says the evil eye hadith rest on weak or criticised narrators and odd reports, and a belief so important would have come from many companions and the Quran. He calls them baseless.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith on the evil eye are baseless and all problematic.
Evidence, his words at 1:06:33: “it was something that was necessary and we don't find it so the ahadith are baseless they're all problematic” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpGDvjs2nk&t=3993s)

## Is Surat al-Falaq about protection from the evil eye?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/9/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (1:08:18–1:12:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Reflections on short surahs
Cites: Quran 113:1-5 (Surat al-Falaq) (https://quran.com/113)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: it seeks refuge from the harm envious people act out and from the superstitious culture around magic, not from an evil eye. The Quran's silence on the evil eye is, to him, a sign of its truth.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in Surat al-Falaq one seeks refuge from the harm envious people act out, not from an evil eye.
Evidence, his words at 1:09:35: “it's the acting out that you're seeking refuge from” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpGDvjs2nk&t=4175s)

## How should Muslims respond to cartoons of the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/anlfdeeoh5y/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cartoons of The Prophet & Boycotting France | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–1:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ignore them: people have the right to criticise religion, and the cartoons are drawn to provoke a reaction.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if people want to draw cartoons of the Prophet, Muslims should just ignore it.
Evidence, his words at 0:39: “people have the right to critique to criticize religion if if certain people want to draw cartoons of the prophet we should just ignore it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLFdEEOH5Y&t=39s)

## Does Islam justify killing someone for showing cartoons of the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/anlfdeeoh5y/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cartoons of The Prophet & Boycotting France | Mufti Abu Layth (1:55–5:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Extremism, crime and justice
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the killing was barbaric and unacceptable in Islam, and the teacher was within his rights, though being killed does not automatically make him a state hero.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the killing of the teacher was utterly unacceptable from an Islamic perspective.
Evidence, his words at 3:12: “i have expressed that this is utterly unacceptable from an islamic perspective you cannot commit these acts of barbarity” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLFdEEOH5Y&t=192s)

## Was it right for the French government to display the cartoons?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/anlfdeeoh5y/s/3/
Date: 2020-10-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cartoons of The Prophet & Boycotting France | Mufti Abu Layth (5:12–9:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: individuals and satirists may draw them, but a government represents all its citizens, including Muslims, and Macron's move was poorly managed and provocative.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says governments should not get involved in displaying such cartoons, since they are there to represent all the people.
Evidence, his words at 7:09: “it's fine you know it's their right but government shouldn't get involved in these things this is not a government thing for the government to do it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLFdEEOH5Y&t=429s)

## Do I have to boycott French products?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/anlfdeeoh5y/s/4/
Date: 2020-10-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cartoons of The Prophet & Boycotting France | Mufti Abu Layth (9:06–13:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary; Blasphemy, insult and free speech
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: boycotting is a personal choice and understandable, and state-level boycotts make sense, but Muslims who do not boycott should not be guilt-tripped.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if a Muslim does not boycott France, they should not be guilt-tripped, since it is a personal choice.
Evidence, his words at 9:44: “if somebody doesn't boycott france i don't think they should be guilt-tripped i don't think you should kill trip” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLFdEEOH5Y&t=584s)

## Did God really command Ibrahim to sacrifice his son?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran; Prophethood and miracles
Cites: Quran 37:102 (my son, I see in a dream that I am sacrificing you) (https://quran.com/37/102)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: in Mufti Abu Layth's reading the command did not come from God, and the Quran in Surah al-Saffat only reports that Ibrahim saw a dream and that his son urged him to act on it. The notion of sacrificing a son is traced to the culture of the ancient Near East.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the command to sacrifice his son did not come from God, and that the Quran in Surah al-Saffat reports only that Ibrahim saw a dream which his son urged him to carry out.
Evidence, his words at 0:36: “focusing on the question this commandment did not come from god okay now unfortunately it is widespread that it came from god” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=36s)

## Where did the idea of sacrificing a son come from in Ibrahim's time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (3:58–7:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture; Stories of the prophets; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Human sacrifice to gods such as Moloch and Baal was a widespread practice of the ancient Near East, and the Bible's story of Jephthah sacrificing his daughter shows it. Mufti Abu Layth says this surrounding culture explains how such a dream could come to Ibrahim.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Ibrahim's dream of sacrificing his son is explained by the surrounding Near Eastern culture of human sacrifice working on the subconscious, not by a command from God.
Evidence, his words at 7:36: “it's like if you're part of a culture you even if it's not your original culture but you see that this is what people do and sometimes it can play on your mind” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=456s)

## Does the Quran say the sacrifice of Ibrahim's son was a test from God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/3/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (7:55–11:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Tafsir and verse study; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 37:103-107 (O Ibrahim, you have fulfilled the vision; this was indeed the clear trial; we ransomed him with a great sacrifice) (https://quran.com/37/103-107)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verses say Ibrahim was truthful to his vision and that this was a clear trial, but never that God sent the dream or the trial. In Mufti Abu Layth's reading the ransom of a ram rescued the son and ended human sacrifice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the words 'this was indeed the clear trial' in 37:106 do not say the trial came from God, that Allah never says he showed Ibrahim the dream, and that the ransom of the ram rescued the son and declared human sacrifice forbidden thereafter.
Evidence, his words at 8:52: “allah is saying that you had a dream and you said you carried it out you were truthful to what you saw yeah allah does not say we showed you that dream” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=532s)

## Why did most commentators say God commanded the sacrifice?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/4/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (11:55–14:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Stories of the prophets; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Abbas is reported to have read Ibrahim's words as 'I think I have been commanded', and some commentators say the relief itself was the test. Mufti Abu Layth attributes the common view to early Muslims absorbing Jewish narratives.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the traditional view that God commanded the sacrifice entered Islamic thought through Jewish and Judaeo-Christian narratives taken by early Muslims, and he cites the reading attributed to Ibn Abbas that Ibrahim saw something that suggested to him he had been commanded.
Evidence, his words at 13:55: “you have to understand that a lot of our early islamic thought has been influenced by the israelites by jewish judeo-christian narratives that have been floating” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=835s)

## Is it wrong to believe that God asked Ibrahim to kill his son?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/5/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (14:34–17:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Stories of the prophets; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the belief is absurd and, on inspection, blasphemous, because it has God asking a father to murder his child for his pleasure and then stopping him, like a mock execution. The Quran never says God told Ibrahim to sacrifice, though it could have.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the belief that God commanded Ibrahim to kill his son is absurd, sadistic and, upon true inspection, blasphemous, since the Quran never says God gave the command though it could have.
Evidence, his words at 16:22: “this belief in and of itself upon true inspection is blasphemous but i understand the fact that most people just haven't questioned it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=982s)

## Why does the biblical tradition say God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/6/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (17:12–21:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture; God and the divine attributes; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Israelites adopted the name Yahweh, a Near Eastern war god from the household of El, and that god's brutal character carried over into their picture of God, making such a command plausible to them. For Muslims, he says, that is not the true image of Allah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Israelite picture of God inherited the brutal character of the war god Yahweh, which made a command to sacrifice a son plausible to them, and that this is not the true image of Allah.
Evidence, his words at 20:17: “so yahweh is not allah he's not god and allah keeps reminding us he is so this is not the true image of god” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=1217s)

## Did the classical scholars ever question whether God would command Ibrahim to kill his son?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/7/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (21:09–23:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Stories of the prophets; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says earlier scholars debated the side issues, such as rulings coming through dreams or abrogation before an act, but none asked whether God would want a father to kill his son. He satirises the discussions as all grammar and no elephant in the room.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the scholars of the past discussed every subsidiary question of the sacrifice story without ever asking whether God would want a father to kill his son.
Evidence, his words at 22:54: “uh nobody's discussing the fact that wait a minute god said kill your son i mean what to make me happy can somebody discuss this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=1374s)

## Are Muslims who believe God commanded the sacrifice guilty of blasphemy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yruc09ajkeq/s/8/
Date: 2020-10-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (23:45–25:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth does not accuse individual Muslims of blasphemy, because they repeat a story they were raised with and have not examined it. He distinguishes this from agenda-driven claims about the Prophet, and ridicules the defence that God only asked Ibrahim to assist his son's suicide.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that he does not accuse individual Muslims who hold the belief of blasphemy, since they repeat an inherited story without having thought about it.
Evidence, his words at 23:45: “look this belief is blasphemous but i'm not saying to individual muslims you guys are blaspheming because i genuinely don't think that they've thought about it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuC09ajKEQ&t=1425s)

## Does God really care whether I have a beard?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/11/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:12:12–1:18:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; God and the divine attributes
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Sharia exists to preserve life and order, and that picturing God as obsessed with beards shrinks God into a child throwing tantrums.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the basis of the Sharia was the preservation of life.
Evidence, his words at 1:13:04: “because the basis of the Sharia was preservation of life.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=4384s)

## Why is Khabib such a hero to Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/16/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:41:57–1:51:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Race, nation and identity; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls Khabib a phenomenon and admires him for openly wearing his Islam, while saying he took McGregor's hype too personally.

## Should Muslims boycott France over the cartoons?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/17/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:53:33–2:07:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth condemns the killing outright but says Macron was wrong to project the cartoons; boycotts are understandable but no one should be guilt-tripped.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that individuals may publish such cartoons as their right, but governments should not get involved in these things.
Evidence, his words at 2:00:24: “I get the fact if some people want to do it it's fine fine, you know, it's their right, but governments shouldn't get involved in these things.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=7224s)

## How do I stop hating people who hurt me?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/25/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:44:16–2:46:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Anger and forgiveness; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth advises keeping hatred to a minimum, of men or anyone, because hate is baggage that harms the person who carries it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says life will always be better with the least amount of hate one carries around.
Evidence, his words at 2:44:40: “Trust me that life will always be better with the least amount of hate you carry around.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=9880s)

## Is the second coming of Jesus the right answer to the Qadianis?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/30/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:53:59–3:00:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; The second coming of Jesus; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says that the real answer to the Qadiani claim is that no messiah is coming, not a defence of the second coming.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that people like him do not believe in awaiting a messiah.
Evidence, his words at 2:58:20: “So people like me don't believe in the messiah uh complex and we don't believe in awaiting a messiah.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=10700s)

## Did Imam Malik say that Jesus died?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/31/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:00:20–3:11:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; The Maliki school; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no Quranic verse on a second coming and that the Imam Malik report of Jesus's death is in a reliable Maliki source.

## Are psychedelics haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7skyphqzdy8/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Psychedelics are NOT haram | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Psychedelics are not haram because they are not intoxicants like alcohol but entheogens that connect a person with God. Mufti Abu Layth says the political label of drugs wrongly lumps them with substances of abuse.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that psychedelics are not haram because they are not intoxicants in the way alcohol is but entheogens that connect a person with God and expand consciousness.
Evidence, his words at 0:39: “that they're not haram. They are not an intoxicant. Okay? They do not intoxicate the brain in the way alcohol does or anything like that.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SkyPhQZdY8&t=39s)

## How does Mufti Abu Layth explain what psychedelics do to consciousness?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7skyphqzdy8/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Psychedelics are NOT haram | Mufti Abu Layth (4:28–7:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Soul, nafs and consciousness
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ordinary perception reaches only a sliver of what exists, as the eye sees only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum; Mufti Abu Layth says consciousness has layers we normally cannot access.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says ordinary human consciousness has access to only a small part of what exists, as the eye sees only a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, and that the other layers of consciousness are there but we do not normally have access to them.
Evidence, his words at 6:55: “Now, in a similar way, consciousness works the same. That the consciousness is there, but we just don't have access to that layer of consciousness.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SkyPhQZdY8&t=415s)

## Did the Sufi saints have psychedelic experiences without knowing it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7skyphqzdy8/s/3/
Date: 2020-10-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Psychedelics are NOT haram | Mufti Abu Layth (7:26–11:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Sufism and tasawwuf; Psychedelics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Many of Islam's great mystics, such as Junayd, al-Hallaj and Ibn Arabi, most likely had psychedelic experiences without knowing it, as initiates at Eleusis and communities eating ergotised grain did.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says many of the great Muslim mystics, including Junayd, al-Hallaj and Ibn Arabi, most likely had psychedelic experiences without knowing it, in the way that initiates at Eleusis and people eating ergotised grain did.
Evidence, his words at 7:26: “I actually feel that many of the great mystics of Islam were upon like they many of them were, if you want to use the term, tripping. many of them were. They probably just did not know it.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SkyPhQZdY8&t=446s)

## Did Rumi use harmala seed and a DMT-containing reed flute?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7skyphqzdy8/s/4/
Date: 2020-10-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Psychedelics are NOT haram | Mufti Abu Layth (11:41–18:24)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Persian and Sufi poetry; Psychedelics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Rumi drank preparations of harmala seed, an MAO inhibitor, and was devoted to his ney flute, made from a reed that contains DMT; Mufti Abu Layth says it is very likely Rumi had psychedelic experiences.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is very likely that Rumi had psychedelic experiences, pointing to Mathnawi passages that mention the harmala seed, an MAO inhibitor, and to Rumi's constant addressing of his ney, a flute made from a reed that contains DMT.
Evidence, his words at 17:10: “So I actually do feel that you see this is something that it's very likely that he would have had this psychedelic experience uh just like many other people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SkyPhQZdY8&t=1030s)

## What were soma and haoma in the Hindu and Persian traditions?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7skyphqzdy8/s/5/
Date: 2020-10-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Psychedelics are NOT haram | Mufti Abu Layth (18:24–22:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Christians and other faiths; The ancient Near East and scripture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ancient traditions such as the Vedic soma and the Avestan haoma point to the same entheogenic experiences, which those cultures had no vocabulary to explain; soma is argued to be Amanita muscaria, which may explain the deification of cows and the drinking of their urine.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says ancient traditions such as the Vedic soma and the Avestan haoma record the same entheogenic experiences without a vocabulary for them, and that if soma was Amanita muscaria this explains the Hindu drinking of cow urine and the deification of the animals.
Evidence, his words at 19:04: “many ancient traditions had these kind of things and you can see how because they didn't have a culture to explain it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SkyPhQZdY8&t=1144s)

## What is the hadith of the night of the jinn, and was it a psychoactive experience?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7skyphqzdy8/s/6/
Date: 2020-10-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Psychedelics are NOT haram | Mufti Abu Layth (22:07–29:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Individual hadith explained; Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Jinn, angels and the devil
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Tirmidhi report of Ibn Mas'ud's night of the jinn, in which he carried nabidh and saw strange figures, would most likely describe a psychoactive experience if true, and the report praising harmala shows such a narrative existed in early Muslim society.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the Tirmidhi report of Ibn Mas'ud's night of the jinn, if true, most likely describes a psychoactive experience connected with the nabidh he carried, and that the report praising the harmala seed, though not authentic, shows that such a narrative existed in early Muslim society.
Evidence, his words at 29:29: “This if anything would have been a kind of most likely would have been a psychoactive experience uh that would have had and he explains that I had with me this particular drink.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SkyPhQZdY8&t=1769s)

## Does the verse of light describe an expanded state of consciousness?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7skyphqzdy8/s/7/
Date: 2020-10-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Psychedelics are NOT haram | Mufti Abu Layth (29:48–36:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Psychedelics
Cites: Quran 24:35 (the verse of light) (https://quran.com/24/35)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse of light, 24:35, is an approximation that resonates with those whose consciousness has expanded, and entheogenic experience was part and parcel of the tradition without having a name.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the parable of light in 24:35 is an approximation that resonates with people whose consciousness has expanded, and that entheogenic experience was part and parcel of the Islamic tradition without having a name.
Evidence, his words at 35:01: “What I'm trying to show is that I feel that this has been part and parcel of the tradition but it's just it didn't have a name.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SkyPhQZdY8&t=2101s)

## Does the Quran or Sunnah say anything against psychedelics?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7skyphqzdy8/s/8/
Date: 2020-10-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Psychedelics are NOT haram | Mufti Abu Layth (36:01–39:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics; Medical questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Nothing in the Quran or Sunnah forbids psychedelics, which existed for Allah to prohibit had he wished; Mufti Abu Layth says they are non-addictive and therapeutic, unlike alcohol, and are about connecting to God.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that nothing in the Quran or Sunnah forbids psychedelics, that Allah could have forbidden these natural substances had he wished, and that they are non-addictive and therapeutic, unlike alcohol, which causes deaths yet is not banned.
Evidence, his words at 36:01: “if Allah wanted to make them haram he could have made them haram they they are part of nature” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SkyPhQZdY8&t=2161s)

## What is the Sunni view of Karbala?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–1:50)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Karbala
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Karbala was unquestionably a great tragedy, and Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims generally agree on that; the major events are known and only details are disputed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Karbala was unquestionably a great tragedy for the Ummah, and thinks all Muslims, for the most part, agree that the martyrdom of Husayn was a great tragedy.
Evidence, his words at 0:56: “Karbala is unquestionably a a great tragedy that befell the Ummah of Islam. Okay? I think that isn't hidden from anyone. I think all Muslims are in agreement that the martyrdom of Hussein radiyallahu anhu was a great tragedy.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=56s)

## Who were the Shia who invited Husayn to Kufa?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (1:50–6:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Karbala; Succession and the first civil wars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Shia who invited Husayn to Kufa were a political faction favouring Ali, not today's sect; a force of perhaps a couple of hundred under Umar ibn Sa'd intercepted him at Karbala.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in early Islam Shia was more a political than a theological thing, meaning those who favoured Ali.
Evidence, his words at 2:54: “In early Islam, Shi'a was more a political thing. It wasn't a theological thing. There was slight There was a undertone theological undertone, but it was really political. So, it was about those people who favored Ali.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=174s)

## Where did the rivalry between Banu Umayya and Banu Hashim come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/3/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (6:25–10:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pre-Islamic Arabia; Karbala
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The rivalry behind Karbala began before Islam between Banu Umayya and Banu Hashim; Mufti Abu Layth holds that Makkah and Quraysh mattered far less in pre-Islamic Arabia than later Muslims assumed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding Makkah was an almost irrelevant town in pre-Islamic Arabia, not as later Muslims thought it was.
Evidence, his words at 7:46: “and neither Mecca, in my understanding, was a very uh almost irrelevant town in Arabia. It wasn't how later Muslims thought it was.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=466s)

## How was Abu Bakr chosen as leader after the Prophet died?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/4/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (10:40–15:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; Caliphate
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 6830 (Umar's speech: the pledge to Abu Bakr was a falta; do not repeat it without consultation) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6830)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects the idea that the companions knew leaders must come from Quraysh, and cites Umar's own words in Bukhari that Abu Bakr's hasty election must not be repeated and leaders should be chosen by shura.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe it was known among the companions that the leaders would always be from Quraysh.
Evidence, his words at 11:09: “There's a a popular understanding that the leaders will always be from Quraysh and somehow the companions all knew this. I don't buy any of that. I don't believe that was known” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=669s)

## Why did Uthman appoint his relatives as governors?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/5/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (15:00–21:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In Mufti Abu Layth's assessment, Uthman lacked Umar's iron fist for an empire that had doubled, so he relied on his own Umayyad relatives as governors, reviving the old clan rivalry.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says, as his personal assessment, that Uthman did not have the personality Umar had to rule with an iron fist once everything had doubled.
Evidence, his words at 15:53: “And you see when Uthman comes in things double. Now everything is so huge and he doesn't have that personality that Omar had to kind of rule with a like an iron fist.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=953s)

## Why did the Muslims fight each other at Siffin?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/6/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (21:33–24:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): When Ali tried to remove Uthman's Umayyad governors the old rivalry flared into civil war, and Mufti Abu Layth calls Siffin the point of no return that left Muslims forever divided.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the battle of Siffin was a point of no return for Muslim history, after which the Muslims became forever divided.
Evidence, his words at 23:25: “And it ends up with a kind of um it is a point of no return for Muslim history. Because here you the Muslims become forever divided.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=1405s)

## Why did Hasan ibn Ali give up the caliphate to Muawiya?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/7/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (24:18–27:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The companions; Succession and the first civil wars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth feels Hasan was the wisest of Ali's family, a diplomat who opposed fighting at Siffin and handed power to Muawiya for peace, fulfilling the hadith on reconciling two factions.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that of Ali and his two sons Hasan was the wisest, with more insight than his father Ali.
Evidence, his words at 24:18: “out of Ali and his two sons Hassan and Hussein, I feel that Hassan out of all three was the most wisest.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=1458s)

## Was Muawiya a good ruler?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/8/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (27:40–29:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; Succession and the first civil wars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Under Muawiya there was stability, expansion and economic growth, helped by Sasanid revenue methods, but Banu Umayya's hold on power was cemented.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that under Muawiya's rule things were actually very stable, with renewed expansion and an improving economy.
Evidence, his words at 27:40: “But, on on the flip side of the coin in under Muawiyah's rule things were actually very stable. And there's once again expansion. There's there's the economy improves for Muslims.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=1660s)

## Why did Muawiya make Yazid his heir?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/9/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (29:43–32:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; Succession and the first civil wars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muawiya named Yazid heir while senior companions lived, and Mufti Abu Layth feels his recognition of Ziyad as Abu Sufyan's son was a political move.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that the recognition of Ziyad as Abu Sufyan's son was a political move.
Evidence, his words at 31:36: “And then somebody tells him that, you know, he's the alleged son of Abu Sufyan. He's your alleged brother. But really, I feel that this was a political move.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=1896s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth admire Muawiya?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/10/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (32:04–35:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth admires Muawiya for knowing how to handle people, saying ruling is a matter of political skill rather than piety, and that Umar's era was the exception.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he admires Muawiya because he feels Muawiya knew how to handle people.
Evidence, his words at 32:04: “You know, one thing people ask me, why do you admire Muawiyah on? I do I won't lie. I do admire Muawiyah on. I admire him because I feel that he knew how to handle people.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=1924s)

## What kind of ruler was Yazid?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/11/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (35:11–40:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; Karbala
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls Muawiya's choice of Yazid a grave mistake: Yazid was a Muslim but a disappointment who attacked Madinah and installed the tyrant Ubaydullah ibn Ziyad in Kufa.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Muawiya's ultimate grave mistake was placing Yazid as his heir.
Evidence, his words at 35:11: “But what I feel an ultimate grave mistake of Muawiyah on was placing Yazid as his heir.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=2111s)

## Why did Husayn go to Kufa when he was warned not to?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/12/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (40:51–45:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Karbala; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Husayn was invited by thousands in Kufa but warned by his relatives and Ibn Abbas, who urged Yemen instead, while Ibn al-Zubayr resisted Yazid from Makkah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe Yazid was a kafir, but accepts that most people would have seen him at the very least as a disappointment.
Evidence, his words at 41:17: “certain things that people say about him being a kafir. I don't believe I don't agree with that, but I do accept that most people would have clearly seen him at the very least as a disappointment” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=2477s)

## Why did the army at Karbala not let Husayn go back?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/13/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (45:10–50:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Karbala
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): After Muslim ibn Aqil was killed, Husayn's party was intercepted and the men martyred; Mufti Abu Layth thinks the army may have refused to let him go because some of its own clans had invited him.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels there may be some truth to the Sunni reports that Husayn recognised in the army men of clans that had petitioned him to come.
Evidence, his words at 48:30: “are you guys not part of the petitioners who petitioned me to come?" And he calls out and he announces this. Now, I feel that there may be some truth to that.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=2910s)

## Are the stories that Husayn's family was denied water at Karbala true?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/14/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (50:20–54:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Karbala
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth doubts many details of the Karbala story, including the denial of water, and thinks Yazid did not want Husayn killed but was not troubled that it happened.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is personally not convinced that Husayn's party and the babies were denied water.
Evidence, his words at 51:38: “there's a story they denied uh some of the babies water and they denied this I don't feel that that's uh personally I'm not convinced that that happened” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=3098s)

## Should Muslims mourn Husayn every year on Ashura?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/15/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (54:55–56:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Karbala; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth does not see annual mourning for Husayn as an Islamic practice and does not do it, but he does not condemn those who do.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his opinion ritual annual mourning for Husayn is not an Islamic practice, though he does not condemn people who choose to do it.
Evidence, his words at 55:34: “I don't feel it's in my opinion it's not a um an Islamic practice but people who do do it I wouldn't personally I don't personally condemn them I don't condemn people who choose to do it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=3334s)

## Who was really responsible for the killing of Husayn at Karbala?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/17/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (1:00:00–1:01:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Karbala
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth blames first the Shia who invited Husayn, then Ubaydullah ibn Ziyad as the active agent, and Yazid as the passive one.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels responsibility for Karbala was shared, but that in order the real culprits were first the Shia who invited Husayn, then Ibn Ziyad as the active element, and Yazid as the passive element.
Evidence, his words at 1:00:22: “I feel the real culprits were seriously were the Shia that invited Hussein. I feel that they were the real culprits who who were kind of like ignored later on.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=3622s)

## Is it right to curse the companions or beat oneself in mourning for Husayn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/18/
Date: 2020-10-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Karbala & it's precursors | Mufti Abu Layth (1:01:53–1:04:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Karbala; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth condemns using Husayn's mourning to curse the companions, a disservice to Husayn, and calls self-flagellation ignorance that many Shia authorities also reject.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he condemns using the mourning of Husayn as an excuse to curse the companions, which he feels is a disservice to Husayn.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:53: “I condemn if people are using the mourning of Hussein as an excuse to curse and to push an agenda of like let's say Shia Islam to say well, let's curse all the companions” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBL5ViS3Rg&t=3713s)

## Can a hadith be rejected because it goes against reason?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9cydtoroy7q/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sahih hadith criteria: Cannot go against reason | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–4:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Reason and revelation
Cites: Quran 2:256 (no compulsion in religion) (https://quran.com/2/256)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says reason is what immediately tells you whether a hadith is sahih, and that an early classical text on hadith says so.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says reason is what immediately tells you whether a hadith is sahih or not.
Evidence, his words at 3:37: “just so you are aware that reason is what immediately tells you whether the Hadith is sah or not” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cYDToRoy7Q&t=217s)

## If a reliable narrator reports from someone, does that make the source reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9cydtoroy7q/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sahih hadith criteria: Cannot go against reason | Mufti Abu Layth (4:13–5:58)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Narrator criticism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reports from a classical text that a narrator transmitting from someone does not make that person reliable.

## Are tattoos haram, and can I work as a tattoo artist?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/woyx5hifsvg/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are tattoos haram? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–8:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; The Maliki school; Work, study and daily routine
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Some Maliki scholars held tattoos permissible on the body, forbidding them only on the face because of harm, and being a tattoo artist is not haram by default.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says being a tattoo artist is not haram by default.
Evidence, his words at 6:56: “so is being a tattoo artist a halal occupation yeah i mean it's not haram by default” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYX5hIFSVg&t=416s)

## What does Robert Hoyland's In God's Path say about how Islam spread?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/16/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:24:50–1:36:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Book Lounge and book reviews; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Umayyads and Abbasids
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recommends Hoyland's In God's Path as fair and well researched, and agrees that Islam's ability to integrate other peoples explains its rapid spread.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he accepts Hoyland's point that Islam's capacity to integrate is a key aspect explaining its spread.
Evidence, his words at 1:36:17: “and this is what explains the proliferation of islam i feel that too is uh a key aspect i i do accept that point as well” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=5777s)

## Are Sharia rules brand new, or based on what people already did?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/17/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:36:57–1:42:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Shari'ah did not bring otherworldly rules but took existing practices and set limits on them, like kintsugi mending pottery.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Shari'ah took people's existing rulings and placed parameters on them so they do not transgress.
Evidence, his words at 1:41:22: “it was taking their things their rulings and it was telling them it was just placing parameters on them so they don't transgress” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=6082s)

## Is drawing lots or playing the lottery haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/18/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:38–1:57:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Legal theory and method; Money and finance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says drawing lots is an established principle of the Shari'ah, and that a small lottery stake is not haram, though he does not encourage it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not encourage the small lottery people play, a pound here or there, but it is not haram.
Evidence, his words at 1:57:18: “this minor lottery that people play a pound here there i don't encourage it but it's not haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=7038s)

## A Hanbali opinion on women's sexual desire, and Dawah Man quoting Ibn al-Qayyim
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/19/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:57:55–2:05:10)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sexual ethics; Schools of law and following them; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads a Hanbali view that a woman may use a sexual aid when her desire is unmet, and mocks a claim quoted by Dawah Man from Ibn al-Qayyim.

## Is buying a scratch card or lottery ticket haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/20/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:05:10–2:06:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Money and finance; Entertainment, sport and leisure
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says gambling is haram because it is addictive and destroys families, but small stakes such as a scratch card or a pound on the lottery are not.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says gambling is haram, because gambling is highly addictive and destroys lives and families.
Evidence, his words at 2:05:10: “i gambling is haram but i've mentioned that is gambling generally because gambling is highly addictive and it destroys lives and it destroys families” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=7510s)

## Is a skin fade haircut haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/22/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:13:43–2:21:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says hairstyles are fine and rejects Dawah Man's claim that a zero-blade fade is haram, asking why God would be obsessed with hair.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is okay to grow your hair and, when you do, to have a hairstyle.
Evidence, his words at 2:17:18: “it's okay to grow your hair can when you grow your hair can you have a hairstyle of course of course of course of course you can have hairstyle” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=8238s)

## What is the Pagan-gate row about Omar Suleiman?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/25/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:27:01–2:33:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Tawhid and shirk
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Did the scholars now attacking Daniel Haqiqatjou once promote him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/27/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:39:01–2:49:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Daniel Haqiqatjou's critics in Omar Suleiman's circle created and promoted him for years, so they cannot now claim they did not know him.

## Is it haram to take part in another religion's rituals, like eating prasad at a gurdwara?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/28/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:49:04–2:56:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Tawhid and shirk; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 2:53:35: “do i feel it's haram to have that prasad no because you are there your objective for going there is to experience what these people do” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=10415s)

## What did Daniel Haqiqatjou say about Yasir Qadhi calling verses mushkil?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vgoaxxehphk/s/1/
Date: 2020-09-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jonathan Brown, Daniel Haqiqatjou & the mushkil of mushkil | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:37)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In a clip, Daniel Haqiqatjou argues that Yasir Qadhi's explanation of 'problematic' verses as mushkil fails, since he says mushkil classically means ambiguous, not at odds with reason or science.

## What is the background to the feud between Daniel Haqiqatjou and Jonathan Brown?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vgoaxxehphk/s/2/
Date: 2020-09-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jonathan Brown, Daniel Haqiqatjou & the mushkil of mushkil | Mufti Abu Layth (2:37–5:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The feud goes back to Haqiqatjou's dismissal from Yaqeen Institute and his replacement by Jonathan Brown; Mufti Abu Layth says Haqiqatjou has since accused Yaqeen of selling out, and he calls his views extreme.

## Does mushkil mean ambiguous or problematic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vgoaxxehphk/s/3/
Date: 2020-09-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jonathan Brown, Daniel Haqiqatjou & the mushkil of mushkil | Mufti Abu Layth (5:11–9:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quranic Arabic; How to read the Quran; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Both sides have a point: mushkil was used technically for texts needing reconciliation and for the indeterminable, while Yasir Qadhi most likely meant it simply as 'problematic'.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says mushkil has been used technically both for texts that seem to conflict and need reconciling and for what cannot be determined, so both sides have a point, and that Yasir Qadhi was probably using it as the common Arabic word for problematic.
Evidence, his words at 6:47: “you see now to be fair the mushkil could mean both ways i mean it wasn't mushkil is sometimes used historically to be technically used to mean something um that may appear ambiguous” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGoAxXEHpHk&t=407s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth make of the Brown and Haqiqatjou dispute over mushkil?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vgoaxxehphk/s/4/
Date: 2020-09-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jonathan Brown, Daniel Haqiqatjou & the mushkil of mushkil | Mufti Abu Layth (9:17–13:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Quranic Arabic
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Brown tends to nitpick Arabic instead of engaging the argument, rejects Haqiqatjou's claim that his credentials are irrelevant, and calls both sides strangely dogmatic.

## Is it a virtue for a scholar never to hold an original position?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/3/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (10:54–14:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that a teacher of Islam who claims never to have held a position of his own is admitting he has never had an original thought in the faith.

## Is the hadith that Aisha was married at six authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/20/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:12–1:22:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Narrator criticism; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds the hadith on Aisha's young age to be fabricated, since every transmitter is Iraqi, and says sectarian scholars defend it out of loyalty to their teachers.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith on Aisha's age at marriage is fabricated, attributing it to Hisham and noting that all its transmitters at the lower level are Iraqi.
Evidence, his words at 1:17:12: “you need to think for yourself see the evidence and realize that look it's true this hadith is fabricated it's been fabricated by hisham all the people that transmit it are iraqi” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=4632s)

## How should Muslims react when someone tears or burns the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/22/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:27:21–1:35:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Atheists and polemicists; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says tearing the Quran harms nothing in Islam and Muslims should never be enraged by it, while he condemns it and urges everyone to respect religious symbols.

## Is it right to attack critics of Islam personally?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/23/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:35:34–1:41:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Views on contemporary scholars; Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Mohammed Hijab bears some responsibility for provoking the Quran-tearing, and urges Muslims to attack arguments, not people and their families.

## Are Abdullah bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf to blame for the UAE-Israel deal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/24/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:41:10–1:45:40)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is unfair to blame Abdullah bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf for the UAE-Israel deal, since the UAE's ruler does not care what scholars think.

## Will the UAE-Israel deal bring peace to Palestine?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/25/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:45:40–1:49:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the UAE deal is not a solution, since it has brought no peace while Israel, acting as a terrorist state, keeps bombing Gaza.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think the UAE deal is a solution, because it clearly has not brought any peace.
Evidence, his words at 1:48:37: “but yeah i don't think the uae thing is a solution i don't think so because it clearly hasn't broken any peace” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=6517s)

## What is the solution for the Palestinians in Gaza?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/26/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:49:16–1:54:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth accepts Israel is here to stay and, seeing no two-state solution, argues for Gaza's Palestinians to be relocated with compensation across the Arab world.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would argue for the Palestinians of Gaza and the blockaded areas to be relocated comfortably, with compensation, to different parts of the Arab world.
Evidence, his words at 1:51:12: “now i feel that they should be relocated and comfortably with compensation and accommodation and education paid for in different parts of the arab world” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=6672s)

## Is al-Aqsa really in Jerusalem?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/27/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:54:29–1:57:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza; Isra and Mi'raj; Umayyads and Abbasids
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Jerusalem was not originally so sacred in Islam and that, in his understanding, al-Aqsa refers to a place in the heavens.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding al-Masjid al-Aqsa, the farthest point, would have been in the heavens, not Jerusalem.
Evidence, his words at 1:55:49: “i've never believed that was muslim al-aqsa anyway muscle axot in my understanding would have been the farthest point would have been in the heavens” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=6949s)

## Is defending the holy land worth Palestinian lives?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/28/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:57:06–2:03:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Palestine and Gaza
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says human life comes before any holy place and that Muslims must accept the fight against Israel is lost.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, Muslims need to know when a fight is lost and accept that the one against Israel is lost.
Evidence, his words at 1:59:02: “this is my understanding that we need to know when a fight is lost that this against israel is lost” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=7142s)

## Was the ifk in Surat al-Nur really about Aisha?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/34/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:26:25–2:32:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 24:11-20 (the ifk verses of Surat al-Nur) (https://quran.com/24/11-20)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Quran's ifk verses were revealed about rumours concerning Mariya, though he believes an earlier incident with Aisha also happened.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he definitely feels that the ifk mentioned in the Quran refers to an incident with Mariya, not the incident to do with Aisha.
Evidence, his words at 2:26:52: “so what i definitely do feel is that the if mentioned in the quran is referring to an incident with maria radiola not the incident to do with aisha” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=8812s)

## Why did only Mariya bear the Prophet a child in Medina?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/35/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:32:34–2:35:13)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The wives of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth shares Yasmin Amin's theory that Mariya conceived because, living outside Medina, she did not follow the other wives' ascetic diet, and says he is still researching it.

## What did the leak of Yasir Qadhi's emails on the Quran's preservation lead to?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/s/4/
Date: 2020-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Farid Gangu Teli leaking Yasir Qadhi's emails | Mufti Abu Layth (8:46–11:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Preservation and variant readings; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The leak of Yasir Qadhi's emails set off a fitna in which people doubted or left Islam, and Yasir Qadhi's own explanation made it worse. Being clever and well-read does not make someone an academic.

## Can non-Muslims be saved according to Sunni scholars?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pyi4tbajcmi/s/1/
Date: 2020-08-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Islam is salvation possible for a non-muslim? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:03–4:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salvation and non-Muslims; Paradise and hell
Cites: Quran 57:13 (https://quran.com/57/13)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 4:02: “i'm not saying that any of these are necessarily right but what i'm saying is there are all parts of the the understanding that we have within our tradition” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyI4TBAjCMI&t=242s)

## A vegan qurbani joke, and one sacrifice for a whole village
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/3/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (8:10–14:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Non-Muslim festivals and greetings; Zakat and charity
Cites: Quran 22:37 (https://quran.com/22/37)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth suggests that today one sacrifice could serve a whole village or locality, with the money saved given to the poor.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that maybe in this day and age one offering could be made for an entire village or locality.
Evidence, his words at 12:16: “maybe in this day and age the the thei could be you know one for an entire kind of village if you like um or an entire even you know locality has just one offering” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=736s)

## Can I learn Islam properly on my own alongside a degree?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/13/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:04:18–1:10:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to study Islam; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth advises keeping the career and studying Islam on the side; those at a madrasa must keep their critical faculties alive themselves.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that someone focused on a career can learn Islam on the side and does not need to abandon secular studies to become a full-time madrasa student.
Evidence, his words at 1:06:05: “if you are focused on a career then go for it and you can just learn this stuff on the side. You don't need to abandon your secular studies and become a full-time Madrasa student.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=3965s)

## The Peshawar courtroom killing of an Ahmadi accused of blasphemy
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/21/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:36:23–1:47:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Pakistan; Ahmadiyya and false messiahs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth condemns the Peshawar courtroom killing, says a claim to prophethood is not an insult to the Prophet, and blames the authorities for failing to prevent it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, although Muslims generally do not accept such beliefs, a person claiming to be a prophet is not automatically insulting the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 1:46:29: “Now obviously as Muslims generally we don't accept these beliefs but it doesn't mean if somebody says that that they are automatically insulting the prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=6389s)

## Does Abu Bakr's war on Musaylima justify killing someone who claims prophethood?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/22/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:47:49–1:55:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; Apostasy and blasphemy
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Abu Bakr's wars were political and the Prophet never ordered Musaylima killed, so they cannot justify killing a claimant.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Abu Bakr's campaign against the tribes was a political decision.
Evidence, his words at 1:50:16: “So the point was this was a political decision that Abu Bakr made” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=6616s)

## How did hadith scholars know narrators who died a century earlier were reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/26/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:13:00–2:19:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says later hadith critics never disclosed how they knew long-dead narrators were reliable, leaving gaps in an impressive system.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the later hadith critics, when declaring narrators trustworthy, do not say how they came to know that.
Evidence, his words at 2:16:28: “when they declare these these narrators to be thick, they don't tell you how they came to know that they are trustworthy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR4-gh0qEZ4&t=8188s)

## Is it haram to shake hands with women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/30/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:38:23–2:40:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth defends a preacher caught on camera shaking a girl's hand and says shaking hands with women is not haram anyway.

## What is the Hagia Sophia and what did Turkey decide about it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/1/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:43)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Public law and governance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Turkey's courts under Erdogan ruled that the Hagia Sophia be converted back into a mosque, prompting celebration and mockery of objectors online. The building was built by Justinian I as a cathedral, once the largest in the eastern Christian world.

## Does Islam allow converting churches and other places of worship into mosques?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/2/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (2:43–7:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Public law and governance; Tafsir and verse study; Middle East and the wider world
Cites: Quran 22:40-41 (Surah al-Hajj) (https://quran.com/22/40-41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Islam never set out to convert other religions' holy sites: Umar left Jerusalem's churches alone, and Quran 22:40 counts monasteries, churches and synagogues among places where Allah's name is glorified and which He protects. The Hagia Sophia's conversion happened, but it was not what Islam encourages.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Islam never set out to convert other religions' holy sites into mosques: Umar did not convert Jerusalem's churches, and Quran 22:40 counts monasteries, churches and synagogues among the places where Allah's name is glorified and which He protects.
Evidence, his words at 4:24: “i don't think islam encourages you to convert holy sites into masjids so for example if we look at the the quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgsfy-UmSA4&t=264s)

## Was it haram for Muslims to turn the Hagia Sophia into a mosque after the conquest?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/3/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (7:58–10:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Public law and governance; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, he says: it was the politics of conquest in medieval times, done by Muslims and Christians alike and neither encouraged nor prohibited by Islam, but it was not a good thing. The building later became a museum, and the argument now is only that it was once a mosque.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the medieval conversion of churches into mosques and of mosques into cathedrals was the politics of men, neither encouraged nor prohibited by Islam, so the original conversion of the Hagia Sophia was not haram but was not a good thing.
Evidence, his words at 8:42: “i'm not saying it was haram it wasn't i suppose they've kind of conquered and this is what they did i don't think it was a good thing” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgsfy-UmSA4&t=522s)

## Is it wrong to turn the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/4/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (10:35–13:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Public law and governance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, he says: not as a matter of halal and haram, since Turkey may do what it wants with its property, but it is absolutely wrong and a great mistake, driven by the regime's bid to lead the Islamic world.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says converting the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque is not a matter of halal and haram, since Turkey may legally do what it wants with its property, but is absolutely wrong and a great mistake, driven in his view by the regime's wish to lead the Islamic world.
Evidence, his words at 11:53: “converting it into a masjid is absolutely wrong it is uh it is a great mistake that is being celebrated by people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgsfy-UmSA4&t=713s)

## Were the Ottomans the representatives of Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/5/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (13:13–15:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Caliphate; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, he says: the Ottoman Empire was a dynasty that happened to be Muslim, practised mandatory fratricide and styled its sultans 'Caesar of Rome', and never claimed to be a symbol of Islam. The romantic image is a later invention.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Ottoman Empire was a dynasty that happened to be Muslim and never claimed to be a symbol of Islam, styling its sultans 'Caesar of Rome' and practising mandatory fratricide, so Muslims who romanticise it as representing Islam are mistaken.
Evidence, his words at 13:13: “the ottoman empire was never it was nothing more than a dynasty that just happened to be muslim it is not symbolic of islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgsfy-UmSA4&t=793s)

## Does Istanbul need the Hagia Sophia as a mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/6/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (15:48–18:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Public law and governance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Blue Mosque, with room for at least ten thousand, is a four-minute walk away and hundreds of Istanbul mosques already call the adhan, so the emotional reaction to hearing the adhan there is misplaced.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no need for the Hagia Sophia as a mosque, since the Blue Mosque, with room for at least ten thousand, is a four-minute walk away and hundreds of Istanbul mosques already call the adhan.
Evidence, his words at 16:27: “there is no need for a new masjid we don't have a need first of all i'm just trying to eliminate that aspect there is no need” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgsfy-UmSA4&t=987s)

## If Muslims can reconvert the Hagia Sophia, can Israel or India reconvert mosques too?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/7/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (18:26–22:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Palestine and Gaza; India and Hindutva
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): By the 'might is right' logic used to justify the reconversion, he says, Israel could turn al-Aqsa into the Temple of Solomon and India's Hindu majority could turn mosques into temples, so Muslims who celebrate cannot then complain. Leave the building be.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says justifying the reconversion by the Muslim majority's legal power is the principle of Thrasymachus that might is right, and that by the same logic Israel could convert al-Aqsa into the Temple of Solomon and India's Hindu majority could convert mosques into temples, so Muslims cannot then complain.
Evidence, his words at 19:01: “if you want to abide by this fair enough but don't come crying tomorrow when masjid al-aqsa because it's under israeli control is then converted back to the temple of solomon” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgsfy-UmSA4&t=1141s)

## Can a waqf never be overturned, as the argument for the Hagia Sophia claims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/8/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (22:22–26:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Public law and governance; Middle East and the wider world
Cites: Quran 22:40-41 (Surah al-Hajj) (https://quran.com/22/40-41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the waqf argument fails because Abu Hanifa himself held that an endowment can be overturned, a view Hanafis abandon when it does not serve the powerful or the clergy. He calls the reconversion part of a rising right-wing fascism that includes Muslims.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the reconversion is part of a rising right-wing fascism that includes Muslims, and that the waqf argument fails because Abu Hanifa himself held that an endowment can be overturned, a view Hanafis abandon when it does not serve the powerful or the clergy.
Evidence, his words at 23:31: “he says that yes you can donate the benefits of something but it will always remain uh you know you can always overturn it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgsfy-UmSA4&t=1411s)

## Should Pakistan allow a Hindu temple to be built in Islamabad?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bgsfy-umsa4/s/9/
Date: 2020-07-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why converting the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a mistake | Mufti Abu Layth (26:20–30:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; Christians and other faiths; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 22:40-41 (Surah al-Hajj) (https://quran.com/22/40-41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, he says: Pakistan is a nation-state of equal citizens, not a khilafah, and Muslims who demand tolerance abroad while opposing a temple at home have become bigots. The Quran itself says Allah's name is glorified in other faiths' places of worship.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims have become bigoted and intolerant, demanding tolerance for themselves while opposing a Hindu temple in Islamabad, and that he supports building places of worship for other communities in Pakistan, which is a nation-state of equal citizens and not a khilafah.
Evidence, his words at 29:14: “i do support them building for other cultures in pakistan pakistan is not a khilafah for god's sake it's a nation-state” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgsfy-UmSA4&t=1754s)

## What was al-Ash'ari's argument against the Mu'tazila about God always doing what is best?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/11/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (49:45–52:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Free will and destiny; Salvation and non-Muslims
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 51:39: “in the afterlife and it and this kind of paradox is where the Methuselah kind of thing crumbles” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=3099s)

## Where did the idea that Aisha was six or nine come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/13/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (54:44–59:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Narrator criticism; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the six-and-nine narration seems to originate with Aisha's nephew Urwa, countering rumours spread against her, and that every chain runs through him.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the narration of Aisha being six and then nine seems to come from her nephew Urwa, who was trying to combat rumours about her.
Evidence, his words at 57:54: “the genesis of this rewire of her being six and then nine it comes from her nephew trying to combat those rumors” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=3474s)

## What happened with the Hagia Sophia?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/18/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:13:29–1:17:16)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Public law and governance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Turkey's courts ruled that the Hagia Sophia, originally Justinian's cathedral, be turned back into a mosque, to celebration and mockery online.

## Does Islam allow turning churches into mosques?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/19/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:17:16–1:22:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Public law and governance; Tafsir and verse study; Middle East and the wider world
Cites: Quran 22:40-41 (Surah al-Hajj) (https://quran.com/22/40-41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Islam never set out to convert other faiths' holy sites: Umar left Jerusalem's churches alone, and Quran 22:40 names them among places where Allah's name is glorified.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Islam never set out to convert other faiths' holy sites into mosques.
Evidence, his words at 1:21:46: “Islam does not set out to convert holy sites to mosques it's never that's never been the goal of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=4906s)

## Was it haram for the Ottomans to turn the Hagia Sophia into a mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/20/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:22:25–1:25:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Public law and governance; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The original conversion was not haram but the politics of conquest, practised by Muslims and Christians alike, and he does not think it was good.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the medieval conversion of churches into mosques was not haram but the politics of the time, though he does not think it was a good thing.
Evidence, his words at 1:23:42: “if they did it in the past I'm not saying it was haram it wasn't I suppose they've kind of conquered and this is what they did I don't think it was a good thing” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=5022s)

## Is it wrong to turn the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/21/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:25:00–1:27:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Public law and governance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is not haram, since Turkey may do as it likes with its property, but it is absolutely wrong and a great mistake, done for political standing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says converting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque is absolutely wrong and a great mistake.
Evidence, his words at 1:26:17: “that this Hagia Sophia aya sofya converting it into a Masjid is absolutely wrong it is it is a great mistake” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=5177s)

## Were the Ottomans representatives of Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/22/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:27:33–1:30:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Caliphate; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Ottoman Empire was a dynasty that happened to be Muslim, never a symbol of Islam; the romantic image is a later invention.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Ottoman Empire was nothing more than a dynasty that happened to be Muslim and is not symbolic of Islam.
Evidence, his words at 1:27:33: “the Ottoman Empire was never it was nothing more than a dynasty that just happened to be Muslim it is not symbolic of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=5253s)

## Does Istanbul need the Hagia Sophia as a mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/23/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:30:06–1:33:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Public law and governance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is no need: the Blue Mosque, holding ten thousand, is four minutes away and hundreds of mosques in Istanbul already call the adhan.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no need for the Hagia Sophia as a mosque, since the Blue Mosque, holding at least ten thousand people, is a four-minute walk away.
Evidence, his words at 1:30:44: “a four minute walk from the aya sofya a four minute walk four minutes that's how it is literally just in front of it right now there is no need for a new masjid” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=5444s)

## If Turkey can reconvert the Hagia Sophia, can Israel or India reconvert mosques too?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/24/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:33:19–1:37:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Palestine and Gaza; India and Hindutva
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): By the 'might is right' logic behind the reconversion, Israel could reclaim al-Aqsa and India's Hindus the Babri Masjid, so Muslims who celebrate cannot then complain.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if Muslims justify the reconversion by the principle that might is right, they cannot complain when, by the same logic, Israel converts al-Aqsa back into the Temple of Solomon or India's Hindu majority converts mosques into temples.
Evidence, his words at 1:33:19: “if you want to abide by this fair enough but don't come crying tomorrow when Masjid al-aqsa because it's under Israeli control is then converted back to the Temple of Solomon” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=5599s)

## Can a mosque that was once a waqf never be anything else?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/25/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:37:09–1:40:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Public law and governance; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The waqf argument fails, he says, because Abu Hanifa held that an endowment can be overturned, a view Hanafis drop when it does not serve power.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Abu Hanifa himself held that a waqf is not perpetual and can be overturned.
Evidence, his words at 1:37:47: “he says that yes you can donate the benefits of something but it will always remain you know you can always overturn” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=5867s)

## Should Pakistan allow a Hindu temple in Islamabad?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/26/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:40:22–1:44:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; Christians and other faiths; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 22:40-41 (Surah al-Hajj) (https://quran.com/22/40-41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth supports the Islamabad temple: Pakistan is a nation-state of equal citizens, and Muslims who demand tolerance abroad but deny it at home are bigots.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he supports building places of worship for other communities in Pakistan, which is a nation-state in which all citizens are equal.
Evidence, his words at 1:43:29: “I actually I do support them building for other cultures in Pakistan Pakistan is not a Khilafah for God's sake it's a nation state” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=6209s)

## Was Sudan right to drop its alcohol and apostasy laws and end flogging?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/36/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (2:08:00–2:10:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hudud and punishments; Apostasy and blasphemy; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth welcomes Sudan's reforms: flogging today only damages Islam's message, FGM should be outlawed, and alcohol was never prohibited for non-Muslims.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says flogging in this day and age is nothing but damaging to Allah, His Messenger and their message.
Evidence, his words at 2:08:38: “this kind of thing in this day and age is nothing but just damaging to Allah and His Messenger okay and their message” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=7718s)

## What are the allegations against the Quran reciter on Twitter?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/38/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (2:12:50–2:17:52)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth shows the allegations circulating on Twitter against a well-known Quran reciter, says he cannot tell whether they are true, and says criminal claims should go to the police.

## Should Muslims expose the private lives of religious figures?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/39/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (2:17:52–2:20:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Sexual ethics; Extremism, crime and justice
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): What consenting adults do privately is their business, but abuse must be reported through proper channels; and do not meet anyone, even a famous reciter, in a car park.

## How do some imams use religion to exploit young women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/40/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (2:20:55–2:27:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Choosing a spouse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imams who use religion to sell girls a fantasy of a pious relationship are despicable; girls should wake up from such fantasies and crimes should be reported.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says imams who sell girls fantasies of a pious relationship, knowing there is a clientele for it, are as far as he is concerned absolutely despicable.
Evidence, his words at 2:26:37: “these Imams who are selling these fantasies because they know this a clientele this punter ship for it they are as far as I'm concerned absolutely despicable” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6H5lYE4MN8&t=8797s)

## Is it wrong for a hijabi YouTuber to take off her hijab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qdiqiwiz1my/s/1/
Date: 2020-07-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Amena Khan (Pearl Daisy) Removes Hijab | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–2:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Current events commentary; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Removing the hijab is her own choice and her own business, Mufti Abu Layth says; he adds that some scholars hold hijab is not obligatory and that he finds their argument stronger.

## Why are people angry at a hijabi influencer who removed her hijab if it is her choice?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qdiqiwiz1my/s/2/
Date: 2020-07-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Amena Khan (Pearl Daisy) Removes Hijab | Mufti Abu Layth (2:37–8:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Social media; Hijab and niqab; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The problem is not the hijab but duplicity: Mufti Abu Layth says building fame and income on a religious image one does not believe in is a double life that inevitably collapses, and he advises against living fake lifestyles.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the problem is not removing the hijab but presenting a religious image one does not believe in to gain money or status, and that such a double life inevitably collapses.
Evidence, his words at 7:28: “so the problem isn't that whether you want to wear hijab or don't wager don't worry who cares and the problem is not that is it an obligate it's your private choice the problem is presenting a fake image” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdIQiwiz1mY&t=448s)

## Is alcohol under forty percent permissible, as a Pakistani mufti reportedly said?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/er1bdjdv0l0/s/1/
Date: 2020-06-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Masala Segment: Mufti Abdul Qavi & Alcohol | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; Views on contemporary scholars; Pakistan
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he cannot tell what the mufti meant: forty percent strength would be ridiculous, a diluted drink might rest on the Hanafi view on nabidh, and the cigarette analogy made no sense to him. He wants to hear the mufti's explanation before judging.

## What did Yasir Qadhi say to Mohammed Hijab about the preservation of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/atcn8auo8oc/s/1/
Date: 2020-06-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Shaykh Yasir Qadhi "How not to do controversy!" | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In Mufti Abu Layth's account, Yasir Qadhi said there were 'huge problems' with the preservation of the Quran, discussed only the problem and not the answer, and pointed people to his paid course. Mufti himself says the standard narrative has holes and leaves pressing questions unanswered.

## How did Mohammed Hijab react after his interview with Yasir Qadhi backfired?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/atcn8auo8oc/s/2/
Date: 2020-06-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Shaykh Yasir Qadhi "How not to do controversy!" | Mufti Abu Layth (2:36–6:27)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Dawah and debate culture; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): According to Mufti Abu Layth, Hijab posted that Yasir Qadhi 'will be refuted' once the mob turned, which Mufti attributes to a wish for popularity. Mufti says he would never backstab a guest in that way.

## Why does he say the backlash against Yasir Qadhi is his own doing?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/atcn8auo8oc/s/3/
Date: 2020-06-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Shaykh Yasir Qadhi "How not to do controversy!" | Mufti Abu Layth (6:27–10:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi and Hijab built the refutation culture that has now turned on them, and that a shaykh who calls Halloween, Christmas greetings, music and the beard too controversial should not open with the preservation of the Quran.

## What should Yasir Qadhi have said about the preservation of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/atcn8auo8oc/s/4/
Date: 2020-06-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Shaykh Yasir Qadhi "How not to do controversy!" | Mufti Abu Layth (10:24–16:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Dawah and debate culture; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the mistake was raising the problem in public without any answer: Qadhi should have given some answer, such as saying plainly that the Quran would come out the same as it is today. The fallout, he says, is Qadhi's own fault.

## What does he think will happen to Yasir Qadhi and Mohammed Hijab after this controversy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/atcn8auo8oc/s/5/
Date: 2020-06-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Shaykh Yasir Qadhi "How not to do controversy!" | Mufti Abu Layth (16:48–19:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The Mufti and the channel; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth predicts Qadhi must choose between owning his view and losing followers, and that Hijab will face a similar crisis within a decade because their claimed certainties are unsustainable. He says he is glad he never pandered to a crowd that would turn on him.

## Was the arrest of Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza justified?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/etwstncmgza/s/1/
Date: 2020-05-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Pakistan arresting Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:07)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dnueakqqzxy/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; Views on contemporary scholars; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth calls the arrest unacceptable and the product of jealousy and sectarianism, praising Engineer Mirza as an open-minded scholar.

## Is slavery haram in Islam, and did Muslim scholars ban it before the UN?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/5is8qpu5llu/s/1/
Date: 2020-04-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sex Slaves: Concubines and Collective Consciousness -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Islam and modernity; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Slavery is categorically haram today, and Maliki scholars issued fatwas forbidding it long before the UN; Mufti Abu Layth explains this through trajectory hermeneutics. Concubines were female slaves, not wives.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that slavery is categorically haram today, that Maliki and other scholars forbade it by fatwa long before the UN resolution, and that the Quran's rulings on slavery set a trajectory towards its prohibition once human ethics developed.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “obviously these things don't really exist today so it's this is just a theoretical kind of discussion on it these things would all slavery would be categorically Haram I have explained that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5is8qPu5lLU&t=0s)

## Why did Islam not abolish slavery outright?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/5is8qpu5llu/s/3/
Date: 2020-04-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sex Slaves: Concubines and Collective Consciousness -Mufti Abu Layth (11:48–21:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Islam and modernity; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Islam did not abolish slavery outright because the collective consciousness of the age could not yet see it as wrong, but it encouraged emancipation as a route to that change. Slavery was always wrong, and Mufti Abu Layth says Jonathan Brown's three axioms rest on a shallow analysis.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Islam did not abolish slavery outright because the collective consciousness of the age could not yet perceive it as wrong, and that, now that it can be seen, owning another human being is a problem and slavery has always been wrong, though past societies cannot be held to account for a perception they lacked.
Evidence, his words at 18:18: “now that we see it yes this is definitely wrong and it has been wrong but because Society and the collective consciousness wasn't perceiving it in that way we can't hold them to task” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5is8qPu5lLU&t=1098s)

## The backlash to Maulana Tariq Jamil's dua on media, modesty and the pandemic, and the clip
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gam6nytozdg/s/1/
Date: 2020-04-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Maulana Tariq Jamil on Media, Modesty & Women | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:59)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Pakistan; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth sets out the controversy over Maulana Tariq Jamil's dua, in which he criticised media lies and spoke of modesty, reads critics who called it misogynistic, and plays the clip.

## Did Maulana Tariq Jamil blame women for the coronavirus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gam6nytozdg/s/2/
Date: 2020-04-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Maulana Tariq Jamil on Media, Modesty & Women | Mufti Abu Layth (5:59–9:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Women in Islam; Pakistan
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth did not feel Tariq Jamil was blaming women for the pandemic; he heard a call to self-examination in a calamity. Despite disagreements, he supports him as a caring voice for unity and reflection.

## Is it wrong to preach modesty to society?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gam6nytozdg/s/3/
Date: 2020-04-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Maulana Tariq Jamil on Media, Modesty & Women | Mufti Abu Layth (9:52–12:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Speech and everyday conduct; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is nothing wrong with a message about modesty: like avoiding profanity in front of children, social propriety has a place even when one disagrees on details. Tariq Jamil's apology, he says, was big of him.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is nothing wrong in having a message about modesty.
Evidence, his words at 10:30: “wear as modesty gone and so on but there's nothing wrong in having a message about modesty” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAm6NYtozDg&t=630s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mlnpcjxypqm/s/1/
Date: 2020-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: People Attacking Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Sufism and tasawwuf
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth regards Shaykh al-Yaqoubi as a level-headed scholar who has spoken against extremism and would point someone set on joining a Sufi order to a figure like him, while thinking his admirers overdo it. He himself once took issue with al-Yaqoubi's statements on Bukhari.

## What was in the letter attacking Shaykh al-Yaqoubi, and who sent it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mlnpcjxypqm/s/2/
Date: 2020-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: People Attacking Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi | Mufti Abu Layth (2:37–7:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Views on contemporary scholars; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A Bradford-based board wrote to Shaykh al-Yaqoubi demanding he declare Shia, Deobandi and Salafi figures kafir and condemn The Study Quran and Hamza Yusuf, which Mufti Abu Layth calls a sectarian bullying session. He recognised only two signatories and was surprised to see Pir Saqib Shaami's name.

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth say both the attackers and the admirers of Shaykh al-Yaqoubi need balance?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mlnpcjxypqm/s/4/
Date: 2020-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: People Attacking Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi | Mufti Abu Layth (11:31–15:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Views on contemporary scholars; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): People cannot be bullied into beliefs, and al-Yaqoubi has rightly not responded to the letter. But his admirers also need balance: claims that he performs miracles or read the Shama'il in four hours go too far and provoke hatred of him.

## Does Abul Kalam Azad praising Mirza Ghulam Ahmad prove anything?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/s/2/
Date: 2020-03-31 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (1:21–4:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abul Kalam Azad may well have spoken kindly of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, as people who knew and liked a decent man would. Mufti Abu Layth finds it illogical that the critics accept a prophet who achieved nothing yet call his view that tattoos are not haram absurd.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Abul Kalam Azad may well have spoken kindly of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, since Mirza may have been a decent person and people who knew and liked him would be expected to say nice things about him.
Evidence, his words at 1:55: “he may have been a nice guy he may have been a very decent human being so people may have said nice things I expect them to” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EER9UKa1eA&t=115s)

## What was the purpose of God sending Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/s/4/
Date: 2020-03-31 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (9:16–15:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A prophet is sent with a purpose, as with Jesus, Moses, David and Muhammad, but Mufti Abu Layth sees none in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who lived and died under British rule without liberating even Qadian. The caller could not name a message and asked to call a friend.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): God sends a prophet with a purpose, as with Jesus, Moses, David and Muhammad, and no such purpose or achievement can be shown for Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who lived and died under British colonial rule without liberating even Qadian.
Evidence, his words at 12:39: “he never brought that to an end and you can't say he liberated the world you can't even say he liberated a part of kadian” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EER9UKa1eA&t=759s)

## What was Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's prophecy about Muhammadi Begum and did it come true?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/s/5/
Date: 2020-03-31 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (15:54–21:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's claimed revelation that Muhammadi Begum's husband would die if she married another was not fulfilled, since the husband lived on and the couple had children. Mufti Abu Layth also mocks his claim to be an incarnation of Ram and Vishnu.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's claimed revelation that Muhammadi Begum's husband would die within a year or two if she were married to anyone but him was not fulfilled, since the husband lived on and the couple had children.
Evidence, his words at 19:19: “she husband didn't die lived on they had children lived a normal happy life” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EER9UKa1eA&t=1159s)

## What was Fadak and why did it matter?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/2/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (4:33–10:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; Sunni-Shia dialogue; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 59:6-7 (what God gave His Messenger without war; the categories of fay') (https://quran.com/59/6-7)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Fadak was fertile land near Khaybar that came to the Prophet as fay', without war, and he used its produce for travellers, his household and public needs.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Fadak came to the Prophet as fay', land obtained through a truce rather than through war.
Evidence, his words at 5:44: “it's that that land which the Prophet receives through without war fee so it's a kind of truce” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=344s)

## Why did Abu Bakr refuse to give Fadak to Fatima?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/3/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (10:15–16:39)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Bakr cited the hadith that prophets leave no inheritance; Shia sources say Fadak had been gifted to Fatima, while Sunni sources say the Prophet did not give it to her.

## Who was right about Fadak, Fatima or Abu Bakr?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/4/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (16:39–19:52)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; Inheritance; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Cites: Quran 27:16 (Sulayman inherited from Dawud) (https://quran.com/27/16); Quran 19:5-6 (Zakariya: grant me an heir who will inherit from me) (https://quran.com/19/5-6); Quran 4:11 (God instructs you concerning your children) (https://quran.com/4/11)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Both, in his view: Fatima was right that prophets can be inherited from, but Fadak was fay' belonging to the public, so Abu Bakr was right to keep it under the state.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Fatima was right from the perspective of inheritance, since the Quran suggests prophets do inherit.
Evidence, his words at 16:39: “I do think from an inheritance perspective for tomorrow deal on her was right I feel because looking at it and looking at these arguments from the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=999s)

## Why didn't Ali take back Fadak when he became caliph?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/5/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (19:52–25:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; Sunni-Shia dialogue; Umayyads and Abbasids
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth finds it a huge open question that Ali never reclaimed Fadak as caliph, and says the Shia answers he heard did not make sense to him.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is a huge question mark that Ali never took Fadak back during his caliphate.
Evidence, his words at 23:46: “I feel that this is a huge kind of it's a huge question mark that why did I leave this is such a big deal” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=1426s)

## Why might Abu Bakr have refused Fatima's claim so quickly?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/6/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (25:05–28:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth speculates, stressing it is only speculation, that the size of the claim at a time of crisis may have led Abu Bakr to refuse it at once.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth speculates, stressing it is pure speculation, that the sheer quantity of Fatima's claim may have led Abu Bakr to deny it instantly.
Evidence, his words at 25:43: “I did feel that maybe because for tomorrow deal on her in her claim asks for so much the quantity is so much maybe that was overwhelming which led to an instant denial” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Qevhjqnt4&t=1543s)

## Is it a Sunnah for women to pray in a wardrobe or the innermost room?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iqvd5_ag6de/s/2/
Date: 2020-01-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Daniel Haqiqatjou on Mufti Menk | Mufti Abu Layth (5:05–7:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Women in worship and mosques; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The claim that women praying in a wardrobe is a Sunnah rests on a weak, indeed false, hadith that is not a saying of the Prophet. Mufti Abu Layth sees the following of such claims as dogma and herd mentality.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report used to call women praying in a wardrobe a Sunnah is a weak and in fact false hadith, not a saying of the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 5:05: “because he is this weak hadith which is a false hadith people it's not even a saying of the Prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVd5_ag6DE&t=305s)

## Were the angels at Badr actually Persian knights?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gxbzy_ph7bg/s/2/
Date: 2019-12-31 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Did the angels assist in the Battle of Badr? | Mufti Abu Layth (7:42–15:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth finds the theory that Persian knights summoned by Salman al-Farisi were taken for angels at Badr interesting but most likely untrue, and harmless even if true.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the theory that knights of the House of Karen helped at Badr is most likely not true, but that even if it were true it would not be problematic.
Evidence, his words at 14:39: “make any sense I mean I'm not saying it's true I don't most likely wasn't true but I feel even if it was true it's not in any way problematic” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBZY_ph7Bg&t=879s)

## Could Uzair in the Quran be the Egyptian figure Osiris?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gdlcbtkyhgm/s/2/
Date: 2019-12-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who is Uzair in the Quran? Ezra or Osiris? | Mufti Abu Layth (5:45–11:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; The ancient Near East and scripture
Cites: Quran 9:30 (https://quran.com/9/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it now appears to him that Uzair is Osiris, a divine hero of Egyptian mythology who shaped the culture the Israelites grew up in.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, having revisited the question, it appears Uzair in the verse is Osiris of Egyptian mythology rather than Ezra.
Evidence, his words at 5:45: “and it appears people that it is not Ezra who's a volatile yahuda was a turning table that was a is the son of God Jose is Osiris the Egyptian myth” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlCbTkYHgM&t=345s)

## Why did the Israelites ask Moses for an idol after leaving Egypt?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gdlcbtkyhgm/s/3/
Date: 2019-12-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who is Uzair in the Quran? Ezra or Osiris? | Mufti Abu Layth (11:26–14:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Contested verses; The ancient Near East and scripture
Cites: Quran 7:138 (https://quran.com/7/138); Quran 9:30 (https://quran.com/9/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Israelites' request for an idol in 7:138 shows the Egyptian culture they carried, which explains them calling Osiris a son of God.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Israelites emerging from Egypt carried a huge cultural baggage.
Evidence, his words at 12:37: “this was the Israelites as they were emerging from Egypt they had a huge baggage a huge culture” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlCbTkYHgM&t=757s)

## Why did Moses carry a staff?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gdlcbtkyhgm/s/4/
Date: 2019-12-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who is Uzair in the Quran? Ezra or Osiris? | Mufti Abu Layth (14:29–19:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Contested verses; The ancient Near East and scripture
Cites: Quran 20:17-18 (https://quran.com/20/17-18); Quran 9:30 (https://quran.com/9/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Moses' staff partly reflects the Pharaonic culture he grew up in, and that keeping cultural practices is fine without affiliating with paganism.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks part of Moses' staff was the culture of the Pharaohs he grew up in, where the pine-cone staff symbolised Osiris.
Evidence, his words at 15:45: “I actually think part of this stick thing was the culture in which Moses grew up with the Pharaohs see the Pharaohs this stick and especially the pine cone staff was symbolic of Osiris” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlCbTkYHgM&t=945s)

## Why are Indo-Pak Muslims adopting Gulf Arab culture?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tinczqdqpgs/s/1/
Date: 2019-12-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Arabization of Indo-Pak Islam | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Indian subcontinent; Race, nation and identity; India and Hindutva
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth dislikes the push to Arabise Indo-Pak Islam, from Gulf dress to saying Allah Hafiz, feeling it is political and that culture should be natural, not imposed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he personally does not like the Arabisation of Indo-Pak Muslims, feeling that things should be natural and not imposed.
Evidence, his words at 4:59: “I feel that there's a lot of politics at play that's all I personally don't like that kind I think that things should be natural you shouldn't try to impose things” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TincZqdQpgs&t=299s)

## Was pre-Islamic Makkah really a significant city?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-jytkj9z1cw/s/1/
Date: 2019-12-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Dan Gibson: "Why The Early Qiblas Faced Petra?" | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–2:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pre-Islamic Arabia; Atheists and polemicists
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thinks the revisionists have a point: Makkah was not a significant city or even a popular town, and its later image was an innocent reconstruction by Muslims rather than propaganda. He notes that Crone and Cook placed Makkah further north without settling on Petra.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the revisionist historians have a point that pre-Islamic Makkah was not a significant city or even a popular town, and that its later image was an innocent reconstruction by later Muslims rather than propaganda.
Evidence, his words at 0:38: “to be fair I think they've got a point that I don't think Mecca was a significant City at all or even a popular town I think this is something that is recreated” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JYtKJ9z1cw&t=38s)

## What is Dan Gibson's Petra theory and are his measurements trustworthy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-jytkj9z1cw/s/2/
Date: 2019-12-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Dan Gibson: "Why The Early Qiblas Faced Petra?" | Mufti Abu Layth (2:36–5:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheists and polemicists; Pre-Islamic Arabia
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Gibson measured around 160 early mosque foundations and found the earliest pointing to Petra rather than Makkah. Mufti Abu Layth says the data are transparent and not falsified, though Gibson is somewhat mischievous, and that his explanation of the south-pointing North African mosques is ridiculous.

## Who was Qusayy ibn Kilab and where was he raised?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-jytkj9z1cw/s/3/
Date: 2019-12-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Dan Gibson: "Why The Early Qiblas Faced Petra?" | Mufti Abu Layth (5:15–10:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pre-Islamic Arabia; Atheists and polemicists
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti proposes that Petra shaped early Islam through the Prophet's great-grandfather Qusayy, who was raised as a foreigner in Wadi al-Qura, which Mufti Abu Layth identifies with Petra. Qusayy's name means 'little stranger', and his longing for belonging drew him back to Makkah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth proposes that Petra shaped early Islamic phenomena through Qusayy ibn Kilab, the Prophet's great-grandfather, whom he believes was raised in Wadi al-Qura, a place he identifies with Petra.
Evidence, his words at 5:39: “Petra has I feel being an actor if you like an active agent in the formation of certain Islamic phenomena” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JYtKJ9z1cw&t=339s)

## Why do early Islamic books call the Ka'bah 'the Shami Ka'bah'?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-jytkj9z1cw/s/4/
Date: 2019-12-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Dan Gibson: "Why The Early Qiblas Faced Petra?" | Mufti Abu Layth (10:31–14:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pre-Islamic Arabia; Atheists and polemicists
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth suggests Qusayy, raised in Petra, rebuilt the Ka'bah and settled Quraysh around it in a Shami style, which is why early books call it the Shami Ka'bah. It does not mean the Ka'bah was in Sham.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Qusayy's reorganisation of Makkah and the Ka'bah's surroundings may reflect his upbringing in Petra, which is why early books call the Ka'bah 'the Shami Ka'bah', rather than because the Ka'bah was in Sham.
Evidence, his words at 13:19: “maybe the way he fashioned the houses around the Kaaba the settlements the encirclement this may have been influenced by his upbringing in petra” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JYtKJ9z1cw&t=799s)

## Did ancient civilisations have knowledge that was later lost?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-jytkj9z1cw/s/5/
Date: 2019-12-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Dan Gibson: "Why The Early Qiblas Faced Petra?" | Mufti Abu Layth (14:26–18:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth finds convincing the view that advanced ancient civilisations were destroyed around the Younger Dryas and left knowledge seen in old maps and constellation-aligned sites. He believes the Nabataeans built on earlier sites at Petra and set up devotion sites aligned to its constellation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he finds convincing the view that advanced ancient civilisations with knowledge of the globe were destroyed around the Younger Dryas, and that neither the Nabataeans nor the pharaohs built Petra or the pyramids from scratch but built on earlier structures.
Evidence, his words at 17:11: “I don't believe the Nabataeans built Petra neither do I believe the pharaohs built the pyramids from scratch I feel that they built upon previous structures” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JYtKJ9z1cw&t=1031s)

## Why did the earliest mosques face Petra instead of Makkah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-jytkj9z1cw/s/6/
Date: 2019-12-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Dan Gibson: "Why The Early Qiblas Faced Petra?" | Mufti Abu Layth (18:21–21:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheists and polemicists; Pre-Islamic Arabia
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Most likely, he says, because Muslims inherited Nabataean devotion sites already aligned to Petra's constellation, so Gibson is right about the measurements but wrong that Petra was Makkah. Makkah was called Umm al-Qura, he suggests, after Petra's name, brought by Qusayy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the early mosque foundations that point to Petra were most likely Nabataean devotion sites aligned to Petra's constellation that Muslims inherited, so that Dan Gibson may be right about the foundations but for the wrong reasons, not because Petra was Makkah.
Evidence, his words at 19:44: “I feel that they inherited the sites from the Nabataeans and so what's happened is the early foundations were maybe pointing towards Petra” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JYtKJ9z1cw&t=1184s)

## Why did people in the past convert to new religions so readily?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/_dsmpiar0bm/s/2/
Date: 2019-12-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi: "Islam was spread by the sword" | Mufti Abu Layth (3:11–8:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): People in the past were far more open to new gods than we are, adopting them in hope of good luck, so judging their conversions by today's identity-bound religion misleads.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says people in the past were much more open to new gods and welcomed them if they felt they would bring them good luck.
Evidence, his words at 6:58: “but in the past they actually did think like that so people were quite welcoming for other gods if they felt it would bring them good luck” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSMPIAR0BM&t=418s)

## If Islam was not forced on people, why did so many convert?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/_dsmpiar0bm/s/3/
Date: 2019-12-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi: "Islam was spread by the sword" | Mufti Abu Layth (8:15–12:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Forced conversion was never the norm: Islam's power, trade and prestige drew people, and nobody could have policed the faith of a rural population. Some were surely forced, but not most.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is sure that, over the whole of history, many people were converted by force, but that this was never the norm or the majority of how Islam spread.
Evidence, his words at 11:31: “I'm sure there were many oh if you know if you're gonna look over entire history of human civilizations but they would never that was never the norm of how it was happening that was never the majority” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSMPIAR0BM&t=691s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Mohammed Hijab's aggressive debating style?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oxtsv9fn3ze/s/1/
Date: 2019-12-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My Thoughts on Mohammed Hijab & His Approach | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–2:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mohammed Hijab is intelligent, articulate and shows maturity of thought, but deliberately shouting at and dominating opponents on the claim that Allah commands harshness towards those who challenge Islam is, if that is what he meant, nonsensical and unacceptable.

## Does the Quran forbid Muslims from being friends with non-Muslims who challenge Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oxtsv9fn3ze/s/2/
Date: 2019-12-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My Thoughts on Mohammed Hijab & His Approach | Mufti Abu Layth (2:40–6:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Christians and other faiths; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse about not loving those who oppose Allah was revealed when tribes were confederating to attack the Muslims and concerns loyalty to them, not friendship with non-Muslims. Permission to marry Christians and Jews shows love and friendship with non-Muslims are allowed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the verse that believers will not be found loving those who oppose Allah and His Messenger was revealed about Muslims who kept ties with tribes confederating to attack the Muslims, and that it does not forbid friendship with non-Muslims, as the permission to marry Christians and Jews shows.
Evidence, his words at 5:08: “this verse was revealed at a time when Muslims were being attacked and they and the non-muslims were forming allies and a confederation of different tribes to attack the Muslims” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXTsV9fn3zE&t=308s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth say Salafis cannot debate atheists without borrowing Ash'ari arguments?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oxtsv9fn3ze/s/3/
Date: 2019-12-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My Thoughts on Mohammed Hijab & His Approach | Mufti Abu Layth (6:33–7:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Creed and the schools of theology; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Salafis argue from a standpoint that cannot hold its own against atheists, so Salafi-background debaters end up using Ash'ari and Maturidi arguments. The Hanbalis were literalists, not the theologians of the tradition.

## Is al-wala wal-bara, loving and hating for the sake of Allah, part of Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oxtsv9fn3ze/s/4/
Date: 2019-12-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My Thoughts on Mohammed Hijab & His Approach | Mufti Abu Layth (7:52–10:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The doctrine of loving and hating for the sake of God (al-wala wal-bara) is a Wahhabi invention spread with Gulf money and not part of the tradition. The Quranic bara'a means detachment of association, not hatred.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the doctrine of loving and hating for the sake of God, al-wala wal-bara, does not exist in the tradition but is a Wahhabi innovation written about only by Saudi, Gulf and Wahhabi scholars, and that the Quranic bara'a means detachment of association rather than hatred.
Evidence, his words at 10:18: “for the sake of God is it's an innovation in Islam and it is nothing but kind of selfie stroke Wahhabi propaganda” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXTsV9fn3zE&t=618s)

## Is it a sin for a Muslim woman not to cover her hair?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/trr4o2jzizc/s/2/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Verse in Surah Al-Nur about the Hijab | Mufti Abu Layth (9:10–11:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Views on contemporary scholars; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Contemporary scholars who say covering the hair is not obligatory hold a valid position, and not wearing hijab is an equally valid opinion to wearing it, which Mufti Abu Layth calls good as part of a woman's identity. What the Quran explicitly establishes is modesty, and the choice is a personal journey, not something to impose.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that scholars who say covering the hair is not obligatory have a valid position, that wearing hijab is a good thing as part of a woman's identity, and that not wearing it is an equally valid opinion and not a matter of going to hell, since only modesty is explicitly established in the Quran and the sound Sunnah.
Evidence, his words at 9:31: “some who are but feel it's not an obligation I would say that that equally is a valid opinion as well” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRR4o2JZIZc&t=571s)

## Can a husband or father force a woman to wear hijab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/trr4o2jzizc/s/3/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Verse in Surah Al-Nur about the Hijab | Mufti Abu Layth (11:49–17:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Masculinity and gender roles; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Forcing women to cover their hair is categorically wrong in Mufti Abu Layth's view and does greater harm. He attributes the pressure to men's insecurity about women and to guilt imposed through fatwas that curse men whose wives do not cover, both of which he calls wrong.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that for men to coerce women into covering their hair is categorically wrong and does greater harm, and that the pressure to do so comes from male insecurity about women and from guilt imposed through fatwas, both of which he calls inaccurate and wrong.
Evidence, his words at 11:49: “but to enforce that to kind of coerce people that would in my understanding be categorically wrong category wrong and you'd be doing much greater harm in my understanding” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRR4o2JZIZc&t=709s)

## Is Islam supposed to feel like a burden?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/trr4o2jzizc/s/4/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Verse in Surah Al-Nur about the Hijab | Mufti Abu Layth (17:02–18:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Hijab and niqab
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The deen is one of ease and should complement a person's life rather than burden them with guilt and suffering. An interpretation of Islam that weighs people down is, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, not the one the religion came with.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the deen is one of ease that should complement a person's life rather than impede it, and that an interpretation of Islam which burdens people with guilt and suffering is not the one the religion came with.
Evidence, his words at 17:02: “this theme is one of ease this Deen should complement your lifestyle people it should never impede it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRR4o2JZIZc&t=1022s)

## Why is Mufti Abu Layth responding to Yasir Qadhi?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/2/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (2:34–6:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Qadhi may be in an existential crisis and does not believe much of what he says, and that even hypocrisy should keep some integrity, like the frankly self-confessed fraud of an Urdu poem.

## What are Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog), and could they be zombies?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/3/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (6:22–12:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Cites: Quran 21:96 (https://quran.com/21/96)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi rejected the traditional reading of Ya'juj and Ma'juj on geographical grounds and floated colonialism and zombies; Mufti Abu Layth says the colonial reading holds strongly for him and mocks the zombie idea.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he has said in the past that the colonial phenomenon holds a very strong interpretation of Ya'juj and Ma'juj for him.
Evidence, his words at 10:07: “I've said as well in the past that that does hold a very strong interpretation for me for being the kind of colonial phenomenon that humans went through” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=607s)

## Can Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog be defended?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/4/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (12:00–16:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's zombie theory, refuted even by Salafi critics, cannot be justified and should simply be disowned.

## What did Yasir Qadhi say about Mufti Abu Layth on the Mad Mamluks podcast?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/5/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (16:47–22:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi, trying to reassert his traditional credentials on a podcast, said people like Mufti should declare themselves Mu'tazila rather than Sunni.

## Do most Sunnis consider Wahhabis and Salafis to be Sunni?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/6/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (22:29–25:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it is ironic for a Wahhabi to expel others from Sunni Islam, since most Sunnis do not count Wahhabis as Sunni, while he himself is among the few who do.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is among the minority who hold that Salafis too should be considered part of the Sunni majority of Muslims.
Evidence, his words at 23:46: “it's only a few the minority and amongst at minorities me that says no Salafis too should be park should be considered part of the Sunni majority of Muslims” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=1426s)

## Does the Quran say Jesus was born of a virgin?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/8/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (28:07–33:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not explicitly state a virgin birth, citing recent scholars who read Mary's glad tidings like those given to Ibrahim and Zakariyya.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not explicitly mention that Jesus was born of a virgin birth.
Evidence, his words at 29:59: “so now coming back to this in the Quran it does not explicitly anyway mention that Jesus was born of a virgin birth” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=1799s)

## Is it inconsistent to reinterpret Gog and Magog by geography but not other beliefs by science?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/9/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (33:10–40:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Reason and revelation; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi calls him a heretic for revisiting interpretations on grounds of science and reason, yet revisits Gog and Magog on grounds of geography with his own teacher's precedent, which he calls hypocrisy.

## Did the Salafi movement play a part in producing modern extremism?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/10/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (40:39–46:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Extremism, crime and justice; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Salafis now oppose terrorism but their movement helped produce it, from the 1970s Salafi group to the 1979 Kaaba seizure, and that Qadhi's teachers belonged to that past.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, although Salafis today are against terrorism, a huge part of the terrorism seen today came from these Wahhabis.
Evidence, his words at 41:16: “I accept that these selfies are anti-terrorism yeah I accept this but it was only yesterday that these people gave birth to terrorism this terrorism that we seen today a huge part of it is only from these wahhabis” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=2476s)

## Can old interpretations of the Quran be revisited, and what role does reason play?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/11/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (46:59–48:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; How to read the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says long-standing interpretations that are not the Quran's clear expression may be revisited and that reason has primacy, but one must not condemn others for doing what one does oneself.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the voice of reason is always paramount and that he gives it primacy, because through it one can understand that the deen of Islam holds true.
Evidence, his words at 46:59: “and yes reason the voice of reason is always paramount and I do give primacy to it because through it we can understand that the deen of islam has validity that is to us it holds true” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=2819s)

## Why people fabricated hadith: good intentions, false memories, money and politics
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nndcs2uhoqe/s/2/
Date: 2019-09-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Does criticising Hadith transmission mean criticising the Quran tranmssion? | Mufti Abu Layth (7:38–12:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: False and fabricated hadith; Umayyads and Abbasids
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Hadith were fabricated for many reasons: pious intentions, false memories, malice, commercial interests, and political and sectarian aims on all sides.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says some people fabricated teachings with good intentions, saying they lied for the Prophet rather than against him.
Evidence, his words at 8:16: “believe it or not people have done this it's like some of them used to say that we don't fabricate again the profit we fabricate for the profit” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nndcs2uHoqE&t=496s)

## Why the Quran could not be corrupted like hadith, and the fashion for chains
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nndcs2uhoqe/s/3/
Date: 2019-09-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Does criticising Hadith transmission mean criticising the Quran tranmssion? | Mufti Abu Layth (12:47–23:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Hadith collections and their history; Mutawatir and certainty
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Corrupting the Quran was next to impossible because it was recited en masse everywhere; hadith, written down a century later, were easy to fabricate, and chains for the Quran came later as a fashion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran was never transmitted through a sole transmitter but taught en masse, so problematising hadith does not problematise the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 17:09: “if you problematize hadith then you by default problematize the Quran no you don't at all the Quran was never transmitted through a soul transmitter it was just taught on mass” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nndcs2uHoqE&t=1029s)

## Is the hadith that singing breeds hypocrisy in the heart authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/1/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–2:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Authenticating hadith; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The hadith that singing breeds hypocrisy in the heart is weak in every one of its chains, which run from Ibn Mas'ud to the Prophet in some versions and stop at Ibn Mas'ud in others. Mufti Abu Layth restates that nothing categorically proves music haram and that lyrics do not make it so.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says nothing categorically proves music to be haram and that lyrics do not make something haram even when they speak of sex or fighting, though one may not want to listen to them or let one's children do so.
Evidence, his words at 0:04: “lyrics do not make something Haram so even if the words are talking or sexual or they're talking about things like fighting or things like that that does not make something Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=4s)

## Which scholars held that music is permissible, and what did Imam Malik's school say?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/2/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (2:41–10:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; The Maliki school; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Al-Shawkani, Ibn Hazm, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and al-Fakihani all found no sahih hadith prohibiting music, and the people of Madinah, including the qadi Sa'd ibn Ibrahim, held it permissible, with some transmitting this as Imam Malik's own position. Only Allah and His Messenger are authorities, so a refutation needs a sahih hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that there is no sahih hadith prohibiting music, citing al-Shawkani, Ibn Hazm, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and al-Fakihani, and that since only Allah and His Messenger are authorities in religion, anyone refuting him must bring a sahih hadith.
Evidence, his words at 2:41: “there isn't a single sahi hadith that you can bring in this pub Allah at least bring me a sahi hadith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=161s)

## Why is everything permissible by default in Islamic law unless proven haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/7/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (30:08–36:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Music; The Maliki school
Cites: Quran 2:29 (He created for you everything in the earth) (https://quran.com/2/29)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): By default everything is conclusively permissible, since Allah created everything on earth for us and what He was silent about is pardoned, and that certainty can only be removed by certainty, not by a hadith that remains probable. So Mufti Abu Layth does not declare music halal; Allah has, and the evidence against it falls short of overturning that.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds, as he says many Malikis of the school of Madinah did, that everything is conclusively permissible by default, because Allah created everything for us and pardoned what He was silent about, and that this certainty can be removed only by certainty, so when he calls something halal he is not making it so.
Evidence, his words at 32:38: “that by default everything is conclusively permissible Allah has ordained everything to be permissible he says in the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=1958s)

## If obscene lyrics make music haram, what about the classical Arabic poetry taught in madrasas?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/8/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (36:43–48:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Arabic poetry and men of letters; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Classical Arabic poetry taught in every major madrasa, from Abu Nuwas to the Hamasa and Imru' al-Qais, is as full of violence, alcohol and sex as rap lyrics, so condemning rap on religious grounds is a double standard. Parents may set their own rules for their children without attributing them to God.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says classical Arabic poetry, such as that of Abu Nuwas, the Hamasa and the Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qais, is full of violence, alcohol and sex much like rap lyrics and is taught in major madrasas, so treating rap differently is a double standard, and parents may set their own rules without attributing them to God.
Evidence, his words at 46:07: “so my question is today this it's it's a kind of form of double standards look I get it look I get the fact that you don't like something” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=2767s)

## Does sound exist if nobody hears it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/9/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (48:15–52:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Science, the universe and big questions; Music
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sound, colour, taste and smell are the brain's interpretations of vibrations and waves, so the universe itself is silent and colourless. A tree falling with nobody to hear it makes no sound, only vibrations.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in reality the universe is colourless, soundless and odourless, since sound and colour exist only as a brain's interpretation of vibrations and waves.
Evidence, his words at 50:40: “in reality the universe is actually colorless soundless odorless it is insipid it has no taste and it is silent that is a fact” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=3040s)

## Why do people assume music must be haram before looking at any evidence?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/10/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (52:08–1:00:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Reason and revelation; Negative thoughts and mindset
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): People come to Islam with a prior picture of what religion must be, which includes sacrifice, suffering and asceticism and excludes entertainment, and this backdrop rather than the texts drives their judgement that music is haram. Even with no hadith against it, music would be forbidden on that basis.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says most people's judgement that music is haram comes from a preconceived ontology of religion, which treats entertainment and desire as opposed to religion, rather than from the texts, which serve only as confirmation bias.
Evidence, his words at 56:58: “your backdrop is what actually guides you through religion believe it or not it's not actually the religion itself” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=3418s)

## Why is celibacy praised despite a hadith against it while music is condemned without one?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/11/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (1:00:02–1:06:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Marriage; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A sahih hadith condemns the vow never to marry, yet unmarried scholars are praised in books like Abu Ghudda's, because celibacy fits the picture of religion as self-denial; music, which fits the opposite picture, is condemned although no clear sahih hadith names it. The default law remains that everything is permissible unless proven otherwise.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says celibacy was praised in the tradition despite a sahih hadith condemning it, because it fits people's picture of religion as suffering and self-denial, whereas music, which has no sahih hadith against it, is condemned.
Evidence, his words at 1:05:49: “it ties in with that backdrop of suffering and indulgence anti desires and tedious and its anti Islamic but it doesn't matter because it ties in with this backdrop” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=3949s)

## What is Mufti Abu Layth's final verdict on whether music is haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/axxub9lxfoc/s/12/
Date: 2019-09-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth (1:06:32–1:11:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Legal theory and method; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Music is not haram: no clear sahih hadith prohibits it and the default law makes everything permissible unless proven otherwise. Mufti Abu Layth calls it the nourishment of the soul, notes that sound is only vibration interpreted by a listener, and cites music therapy in medieval Muslim hospitals.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that music is not haram, since the evidence does not support a prohibition and the default law makes everything permissible unless proven otherwise, and he calls music arguably the nourishment of the soul, citing its healing use in medieval Muslim hospitals.
Evidence, his words at 1:07:43: “in my understanding music is not there's not harm because the evidence doesn't support it and the default law of defaults states that everything is permissible unless proven otherwise” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXuB9lxFoc&t=4063s)

## Is the Bible corrupted?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/143df7icoyu/s/2/
Date: 2019-09-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Is the Quran corrupted? | Mufti Abu Layth (8:17–11:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Jesus in the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, if corrupted means not preserved word for word, since they were never meant to be a recitation; but the general message of Jesus was most likely kept.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the earlier scriptures can be called corrupted if that means they were not preserved verbatim.
Evidence, his words at 8:57: “so when we keep saying that the the other messages are corrupted it depends what you mean by that that from yes they weren't preserved verbatim so if that's what we mean by corrupted then yes that is true” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=143df7icoYU&t=537s)

## Is the Quran's description of paradise and hell literal or symbolic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/2/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Don't let people bully you into beliefs | Mufti Abu Layth (2:38–9:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell; How to read the Quran; Responses to critics
Cites: Quran 24:35 (Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth) (https://quran.com/24/35)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads the Quran's imagery of the afterlife as symbolic, chosen to resonate with the people it was revealed to, while holding that life continues after this world. Allah also describes himself in imagery, and people are free to disagree.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the imagery of the afterlife in the Quran is symbolic, chosen to appeal to the people it was revealed to, while there is a real continuity beyond this life that no human can conceptualise, and he says people are free to disagree with this reading.
Evidence, his words at 3:51: “if you can't even conceptualize something how can you express it in words so to me the afterlife the imagery in the Quran is symbolic” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWmBN7JV9Dk&t=231s)

## How should I deal with religious circles that pressure me into beliefs?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/3/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Don't let people bully you into beliefs | Mufti Abu Layth (9:10–15:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Views on contemporary scholars; Personal stories and reflections
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Leave the judgmental bubble of religious circles and be true to your faith and yourself rather than letting people bully you into beliefs. He cites a shaykh attacked for calling for updated thinking and Usama Canon's regret at having deprived himself for fear of what others said.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth advises religious people to expand and burst the 'religious people bubble', which he calls among the most judgmental places to be trapped in, and to be true to their faith and to themselves rather than be bullied into beliefs.
Evidence, his words at 10:17: “if I could give you guys advice those of you that are religious gradually build you you know expand this bubble and then burst it and then just live your life” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWmBN7JV9Dk&t=617s)

## Did the Prophet teach a formal creed of what Muslims must believe?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/4/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Don't let people bully you into beliefs | Mufti Abu Layth (15:41–18:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Prophet taught faith, not a creed: beyond a handful of beliefs no hadith prescribes what to believe, and for 150 years the salaf up to Imam Malik wrote down no dogma. Policing people's ideas is the antithesis of Islam, so think for yourself.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet never taught a creed beyond a handful of beliefs, that the salaf up to Imam Malik never taught or wrote down dogma for over a hundred and fifty years, and that forcing faith and policing people's ideas is the antithesis of what Islam came with.
Evidence, his words at 15:55: “this kind of policing people's ideas this is the antithesis of what Islam came with this this theme was born free people yet today they've locked it in Chains” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWmBN7JV9Dk&t=955s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/2/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (2:35–6:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth likes al-Yaqoubi as one of the more level-headed and knowledgeable pirs, from a family of scholars, though he has only seen his generic talks. He recalls meeting him in Damascus two decades ago as an ordinary, respected academic with no entourage.

## How did Shaykh al-Yaqoubi become so influential in the UK?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/3/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (6:36–10:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; The Indian subcontinent
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): After his earlier UK hosts parted with him, al-Yaqoubi found a devoted following in the Barelvi community of the Midlands and the north, learnt to avoid praising Deobandi scholars, and rose to prominence, wealth and power on its back.

## Does Mufti Abu Layth regard Sufi tariqahs led by pirs as cults?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/4/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (10:33–13:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Views on contemporary scholars; Britain
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says all such tariqahs are in essence cults, though al-Yaqoubi's is a better and less harmful one than the usual exploitative pir. The SKT charity boycott, he says, shows how much power such shaykhs now wield.

## Did Mufti Abu Layth mock Imam al-Nawawi?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/5/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (13:09–16:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Responses to critics; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he did not mock al-Nawawi but read his own words, which assume as a given that young boys are prettier than many women and that anyone would be tempted by them. Al-Yaqoubi, he says, should have watched the whole video before judging.

## Why did medieval scholars like al-Nawawi write that boys are prettier than women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/6/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (16:59–20:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Scholars and imams of the past; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Nawawi voiced a sentiment of his age, shared by many medieval Muslims and by the Greeks, in which attraction to adolescent boys was assumed; reporting this is not mockery. A Saudi critic's reply that many women are ugly, he says, proves the point.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Imam al-Nawawi was articulating the sentiment of his age, in which, as among the ancient Greeks, attraction to adolescent boys was taken as a given, and that reporting this from his book is not mockery.
Evidence, his words at 17:46: “the medieval Muslims and the medieval Arabs and the medieval kind of times people had a what a kind of sense of there was pederasty okay which is like what the Greeks had with boys” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtQqc3K4HWA&t=1066s)

## Is al-Yaqoubi's edition of Sahih al-Bukhari really the most authentic copy on earth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/7/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (20:54–24:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Views on contemporary scholars; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No special claim can rest on being based on the Sultaniyya, Mufti Abu Layth says, since every copy of Bukhari is. He sees the advertising as business, which he does not mind in itself, but calls the tactics problematic.

## Would Mufti Abu Layth debate Shaykh al-Yaqoubi on Sahih al-Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/8/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (24:49–27:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Debate challenges and reviews; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: he invites al-Yaqoubi to a civil, respectful discussion because he rejects the claim that Sahih al-Bukhari is impossible to doubt. He expects it will never happen.

## Supporting women's rights while rejecting hostility to masculinity
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/llllbkdgra4/s/2/
Date: 2019-08-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What does Islam say about Gender Dysphoria? | Mufti Abu Layth (5:11–11:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Masculinity and gender roles; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth backs women's rights and condemns abuse, but rejects what he sees as a campaign against masculinity, while accepting men who are naturally soft.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he seriously does not understand the hostility of this age against masculinity.
Evidence, his words at 5:49: “I seriously do not understand the problem of this age against masculinity people seem to there seems to be this hatred against men being men” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llllbKdGrA4&t=349s)

## Rumours of a Sunni-Shia debate, and building bridges with the Shia
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/31rnfwtybwu/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti's engagements with the Shia | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–5:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunni-Shia dialogue; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is not interested in Sunni-Shia debates: he believes the split is permanent and prefers building bridges, avoiding contested questions such as who was the better caliph.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he personally believes the Sunni-Shia split is there for good and will not go away.
Evidence, his words at 0:39: “I personally believe that the Shia Sunni split is there for good and it's not something that's never gonna go away” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31RnFwtYbwU&t=39s)

## How did classical scholars treat intersex people (khuntha) and their right to marry?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ejs0ibhhpg0/s/2/
Date: 2019-08-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why are homosexual activities forbidden? | Mufti Abu Layth (5:12–11:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; The marriage contract; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Classical scholars ruled that a khuntha, an intersex person, can neither marry nor be married, which Mufti Abu Layth calls cruel, absurd and a failure of scholarship to give a truly Islamic answer.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the classical ruling that a khuntha can never marry was ridiculous and absurd, and a case study of scholarship failing to provide a truly Islamic answer to a challenge of its age.
Evidence, his words at 10:48: “that's a perfect case study to show the failing of scholarship in a particular IRRI that they that the scholars failed in providing a truly Islamic answer to the challenge” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJS0IBhhPg0&t=648s)

## What did Ibn al-Arabi write about a classmate who was both bearded and breasted?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ejs0ibhhpg0/s/3/
Date: 2019-08-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why are homosexual activities forbidden? | Mufti Abu Layth (11:42–17:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Sexuality and orientation; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi recorded a classmate with a beard and breasts who came to al-Ghazali's lessons with two servant girls and whose nature puzzled him for years. Mufti Abu Layth reads this as an example of people in the past finding outlets with servants and slaves.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in the past, it seems, people who were stuck, such as those who were homosexual or bisexual without an apparent outlet, and presumably khuntha too, found a loophole with servants and slaves.
Evidence, his words at 12:04: “in the past it seems to be wherever people were kind of stuck they found a loophole if you like with servants” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJS0IBhhPg0&t=724s)

## Why is it harmful when religious influencers present a fake perfect life?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ypfqphdsbgg/s/2/
Date: 2019-08-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (4:26–10:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Social media; Marriage; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says their private lives were their own business, and that the harm lay in preaching standards they could not live by and selling an unattainable ideal of marriage in God's name.

## Is it wrong to judge someone who has become an atheist or left Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ypfqphdsbgg/s/3/
Date: 2019-08-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (10:45–16:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Zakat and charity; Salvation and non-Muslims
Cites: Quran 2:256 (no compulsion in religion), alluded to (https://quran.com/2/256)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 13:56: “if a person is an atheist it's his choice or her choice I believe there's no compulsion in Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPFQpHdSbGg&t=836s)

## Is it right to condemn people for being in a polygamous marriage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ypfqphdsbgg/s/4/
Date: 2019-08-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (16:28–25:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Polygamy and mut'ah; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says polygamy is a personal choice Islam allows, so people should not hate on others for it, though nobody has to practise it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says polygamy is a personal choice that Islam allows, so people should not be hated for it, though no one has to practise it.
Evidence, his words at 21:29: “the polygamy angle is there personal choice we shouldn't be hating on them for polygamy it doesn't mean that you have to do polygamy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPFQpHdSbGg&t=1289s)

## Do you need to appear perfectly pious to be a good Muslim?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ypfqphdsbgg/s/5/
Date: 2019-08-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (25:17–31:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Social media; Religious guilt and scrupulosity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No one needs to pretend to be pious; being genuinely human makes the deen more workable, while sanctimonious fake preaching drives people from faith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says one does not need to pretend to be pious, and that it is okay just to be human.
Evidence, his words at 29:39: “what I am saying is you don't need to pretend to be pious I think it's okay to just be human just be yourself” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPFQpHdSbGg&t=1779s)

## Who transmitted the hadith 'whoever changes his religion, kill him', and does the Quran punish apostasy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/1/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Narrator criticism; Atheists and polemicists
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran is ambivalent about those who leave Islam and that the call to kill apostates is nonsense; the report 'whoever changes his religion, kill him' in Bukhari rests solely on Ikrima, a Khariji whom Imam Malik and Ibn Umar distrusted. He introduces Abdullah Sameer's post as the subject he will answer.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Quran is ambivalent towards those who leave Islam and prescribes no killing of apostates, and that the report 'whoever changes his religion, kill him' rests solely on Ikrima, a Khariji whom Imam Malik and companions distrusted.
Evidence, his words at 1:18: “really the attitude of the Quran is one of ambivalence it doesn't really care although people act like oh my god kill the apostate kill the apostate that's all nonsense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=78s)

## How should Muslims respond to an ex-Muslim who criticises the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/2/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (5:07–6:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Character and virtue; Atheists and polemicists
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Attack the argument, not the person: Mufti Abu Layth says a genuine seeker deserves respect, that the claim itself is false, and that Muslims who call the Prophet a mercy to the world must show it in how they respond.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that people who are genuine in their search should be left to search wherever it takes them, and that Muslims should not attack an ex-Muslim critic as a person.
Evidence, his words at 5:07: “if people are genuine in this search then let them let them search wherever that search takes them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=307s)

## What is the iddah after divorce and why does the Quran require it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/3/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (6:26–10:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Divorce; Tafsir and verse study; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 65:1 (when you divorce women, divorce them for their iddah; do not expel them from their homes) (https://quran.com/65/1)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The iddah is a waiting period of one to three cycles after a divorce which establishes whether the woman is pregnant and prevents suspicion and conflict, and during it she keeps the right to stay in the home. Mufti Abu Layth reads this as the opening of the passage the objector quotes from.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the iddah in Surah al-Talaq serves to establish pregnancy and to prevent suspicion and conflict after a divorce, and that the divorced woman is entitled to remain in the home during it.
Evidence, his words at 7:42: “there were other many other wisdoms to it as well it also prevented a lot of suspicion it prevented a lot of social unrest” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=462s)

## What does the Quran say about how a divorce should end and about a divorced woman's future?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/4/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (10:20–15:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Divorce; Tawakkul and trust in God; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 65:2 (retain them or part with them with kindness, and call witnesses; whoever fears Allah, He makes a way out) (https://quran.com/65/2); Quran 65:3 (He provides from where one does not expect; whoever relies on Allah, He is sufficient) (https://quran.com/65/3)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): At the end of the iddah the couple must either reconcile or part with kindness before witnesses, and Mufti Abu Layth reads the promise that God makes a way out and provides from unexpected places as reassurance to the vulnerable party that she need not accept oppression for shelter. The objector, he says, skips all of this.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the promise in 65:2-3 that God makes a way out and provides from unexpected places is addressed to the vulnerable party in a divorce, who need not accept oppression for the sake of shelter and food.
Evidence, his words at 13:28: “so if a relationship is is ending it could be daunting people could think well what's gonna happen now should i grovel should I beg should I put up with oppression just so I can get food” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=808s)

## What does Quran 65:4 say about the waiting period for women whose periods have stopped?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/5/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (15:33–18:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Divorce; Contested verses; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth) (https://quran.com/65/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Women who have despaired of menstruation wait three months, a rule Mufti Abu Layth reads as addressed to men who are unsure whether a woman has reached the menopause, so that pregnancy can be excluded; the pregnant wait until childbirth.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the doubt in 65:4 is the men's doubt about whether a woman has reached the menopause, in which case her iddah is a flat three months so that pregnancy can be excluded.
Evidence, his words at 16:39: “but what makes sense is that if you are in doubt as in the men about whether they have had the menopause or not” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=999s)

## Does 'those who have not menstruated' in Quran 65:4 refer to little girls?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/6/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (18:09–22:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; Divorce; Atheists and polemicists
Cites: Quran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth) (https://quran.com/65/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the phrase refers to women whose cycles are absent through illness or irregularity, as Abu Hayyan, Ibn Ashur, al-Samarqandi, Abu al-Su'ud and Ibn Atiyya read it. Al-Tha'labi records that the verse was revealed about a man who divorced his wife during her menses.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that 'those who have not menstruated' in 65:4 refers to women whose cycles are absent through illness or irregularity, not to prepubescent girls, as Abu Hayyan, Ibn Ashur and other commentators read it.
Evidence, his words at 18:31: “or does it mean those who don't have not had their cycle due to some kind of abnormality now this that's what this verse very clearly meant” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=1111s)

## Did classical scholars really say Quran 65:4 includes little girls?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/7/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (22:06–24:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; How to read the Quran; Atheists and polemicists
Cites: Quran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth) (https://quran.com/65/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, some did: Mufti Abu Layth concedes that commentators such as Ibn Kathir and al-Qurtubi wrote that the phrase can include little girls, which he condemns as a mistake. He says their saying so is not the Quran saying so, and the evidence lies in how the passage opens.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth concedes that commentators such as Ibn Kathir and al-Qurtubi wrote that 65:4 can include little girls, condemns this as a mistake, and holds that a commentator's reading does not make the Quran say it.
Evidence, his words at 22:53: “scholars have said it does not mean that the Quran said it the Quran simply said those who do not have this who have not had this cycle” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=1373s)

## Does the word 'women' in Surah al-Talaq rule out children?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/8/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (24:43–27:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Contested verses; Quranic Arabic; Atheists and polemicists
Cites: Quran 65:1 (when you divorce women, divorce them for their iddah; do not expel them from their homes) (https://quran.com/65/1); Quran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth) (https://quran.com/65/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: the passage opens with nisa, women, a word never used of a six- or seven-year-old, just as boys are never called rijal, and the verses go on to envisage pregnancy, which nobody would expect of a child.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the word nisa with which the passage opens is never used of a little girl, any more than rijal is used of a boy, and that the passage's provision for pregnancy shows it concerns adult women.
Evidence, his words at 24:47: “nobody refers you do not refer to a six-year-old girl as a woman or a seven-year-old girl or an eight-year-old girl” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=1487s)

## Did Imam Malik allow marriage to be consummated with a girl who was not yet nubile?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/9/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (27:19–29:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Contested verses; Legal theory and method
Cites: Quran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth) (https://quran.com/65/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says Imam Malik's fatwa was clear that sexual relations with a wife are haram unless she is nubile. Scholars who read 65:4 to include girls were men influenced by the patriarchy of their age and were wrong, while others such as Ibn Ashur, al-Samarqandi, Abu Hayyan and al-Alusi did not read it so.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Imam Malik ruled sexual relations with a wife haram unless she was nubile, and that the commentators who read 65:4 to include girls were wrong and influenced by the patriarchy of their age, which is not Islam.
Evidence, his words at 27:59: “Imam Malik was very clear in his fatwa that it was Haram right to have to have any kind of sexual relationship with any with a woman I mean through marriage unless she was nubile” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=1679s)

## How does the rule that a clear verse overrides an ambiguous one apply to Quran 65:4?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/10/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (29:58–32:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; How to read the Quran; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 65:1 (when you divorce women, divorce them for their iddah; do not expel them from their homes) (https://quran.com/65/1); Quran 65:4 (those who have despaired of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their iddah is three months, and those who have not menstruated; the pregnant until they give birth) (https://quran.com/65/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): By a principle of usul the ambiguous phrase 'those who have not menstruated' is read in the light of the clear opening term women, which cancels any reading that includes girls. The Quran could have said fatayat but addressed them as nisa.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that by the usuli principle that a clear text governs an ambiguous one, the opening term nisa in Surah al-Talaq cancels any reading of 'those who have not menstruated' that would include girls.
Evidence, his words at 31:15: “whenever there's a slight challenge between something that may go one of two ways it has some let's say let's let's say there's some level of ambiguity right and there's something clear the clear always overrides” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=1875s)

## Is forcing your wife to have sex a sin in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t-x4lyns2ve/s/11/
Date: 2019-07-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Abdullah Sameer's Allegation: The Quran Teaches Paedophilia | Mufti Abu Layth (32:36–36:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Abuse in marriage; Legal theory and method; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says coercive sex with one's wife is haram, and that Muslims who deny this create the problem. He cites Imam Malik's saying that what set right the first of this umma will set right its last, meaning the independence to challenge inherited readings shaped by medieval patriarchy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that coercive sex with one's wife is haram, that Muslims who deny this are the problem, and that, following Imam Malik's saying, the umma is set right by the independence to challenge inherited readings shaped by the patriarchy of past ages.
Evidence, his words at 33:10: “he said well oh it's okay to you know it's not a sin to force to have coercive sex with your wife or not it's like what a new thing you want about of course it's a god it's Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X4Lyns2vE&t=1990s)

## Can men wear earrings in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/1/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:37)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/3/; general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Dress and appearance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, men may wear earrings according to Islam. Mufti Abu Layth sets out to show, through history and the practice of the Salaf, that the idea that earrings are effeminate is a misconception.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that men may wear earrings according to Islam, and that the idea that earrings are effeminate or exclusive to women is a misconception.
Evidence, his words at 0:35: “can men wear earrings according to Islam now the answer is clearly yes they can we hearings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=35s)

## Have men historically worn earrings, or is it a recent fashion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/2/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (2:37–10:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; The ancient Near East and scripture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Men have worn earrings for thousands of years, in Assyria, Egypt, among the Israelites, in Persia, India and Europe, usually as a mark of nobility or soldiery. Only the European church restricted them to women, which is why defiant groups such as pirates kept wearing them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that men across the ancient world, from Assyria and Egypt to Persia, India and Europe, wore earrings for thousands of years, often as a mark of nobility or soldiery, and that their restriction to women in Europe came from the church.
Evidence, his words at 8:59: “the church prohibited men from wearing earrings now so you see the church influenced it starts to say that no these things should be restricted to women” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=539s)

## Did men and boys wear earrings in the time of the Prophet and the early Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/3/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (10:22–13:00)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/3/; general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the Prophet's society and among the Salaf boys commonly wore earrings, and many considered it sunnah for a boy. Later Sunni clergy prohibited the practice, perhaps influenced by the Christian church, while the Shia kept it alive.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that boys commonly wore earrings in the Prophet's time and among the Salaf, that later Sunni clergy prohibited the practice perhaps under the influence of the Christian church, and that the Shia kept it alive.
Evidence, his words at 10:54: “you will see that in the society in which the Prophet lived boy is especially young boys wore earrings and you will see that this trend continues or at least during the time of the selleth” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=654s)

## Did Hasan and Husayn wear earrings?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/4/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (13:00–16:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; The companions; Karbala
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Abbas lists piercing the ear among seven sunnahs for a newborn boy, and Hasan and Husayn had their ears pierced and wore earrings, Husayn wearing two. The reports come through Imam Jafar al-Sadiq's chain and an eyewitness account from Karbala.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the Prophet's grandsons Hasan and Husayn had their ears pierced and wore earrings, Husayn wearing two, as Shia traditions through Imam Jafar al-Sadiq and accounts of Karbala relate.
Evidence, his words at 13:26: “the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam scranton both of his grandsons Hasan and Husayn radi allahu anhu man had the ears pierced and they both wore earrings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=806s)

## Did early Sunni hadith scholars such as Sufyan ibn Uyayna wear earrings?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/5/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (16:58–19:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: the Musnad of Abu Ya'la records a hadith student wearing two earrings, and al-Dhahabi's Siyar A'lam al-Nubala describes the young Sufyan ibn Uyayna sitting in Amr ibn Dinar's hadith class with an earring in his ear.

## Did Imam Malik wear an earring?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/6/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (19:33–22:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Imam Malik
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: his teacher's biography of Imam Malik records that Malik, while still a youth studying with Rabi'a, had an earring in his ear, and another Maliki work on the hadith of the Mudawwana says the same.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that Imam Malik wore an earring as a young man while studying with Rabi'a, as recorded in his teacher Abd al-Ghani al-Daqr's biography of Malik and in another Maliki source.
Evidence, his words at 21:01: “at this time Malik was still bursting with youth he was a young man Maya's a law court Maya's a law court people feel Denis he he still had an earring on in his ear” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=1261s)

## What did Imam Malik and the Maliki jurists say about boys wearing earrings?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/7/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (22:12–27:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Malik preferred that boys not wear gold earrings, which Ibn Rushd explains as a ruling about gold rather than earrings, and Maliki theft rulings by al-Lakhmi and Ibn Abi Zayd treat an earring stolen from a boy as an ordinary case. Mufti Abu Layth concludes that boys wearing earrings was common and not seen as feminine.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that Malik's reported preference against gold earrings for boys concerned the gold rather than the earring, and that the Maliki theft rulings of al-Lakhmi and Ibn Abi Zayd about earrings stolen from boys show that boys commonly wore them and the early generations did not treat earrings as restricted to women.
Evidence, his words at 25:59: “but look at this being a common issue that boys wearing earrings so this ruling” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=1559s)

## Is a man wearing an earring imitating women or harmful?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/8/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (27:25–31:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Qadi Khan of the Hanafis allowed boys' earrings since the jahiliyya practice went uncriticised by the Prophet, the harm argument cannot permit piercing for girls and forbid it for boys, and history shows men wearing earrings. Men wearing kohl shows that what is 'effeminate' is a cultural matter.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the objections to men's earrings fail: if piercing is permitted for girls the harm argument cannot forbid it for boys, the imitation-of-women claim ignores thousands of years of men wearing earrings, and men wearing kohl shows that what counts as effeminate is a cultural matter.
Evidence, his words at 30:26: “if you can do it for girls then you should be able to do for guys it makes no difference the ruling is the same” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=1826s)

## Can reports from Shia sources about Hasan and Husayn be trusted?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/9/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (31:22–36:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Sunni-Shia dialogue; Jewellery, gold and silk for men
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth accepts the reports as factual, saying the Shia had no reason to invent earrings for their own Imams, and calls it hypocrisy that Sunnis accept Imran ibn Hittan, a Khariji who praised Ali's killer, as a narrator in Sahih al-Bukhari while rejecting anything from Imam Jafar al-Sadiq.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Hasan and Husayn wore earrings, that dismissing every Shia report as a lie is prejudice, and that accepting the Khariji narrator Imran ibn Hittan, who praised Ali's killer, in Sahih al-Bukhari while rejecting Imam Jafar's reports is a hypocrisy.
Evidence, his words at 36:09: “we can't take from imam ja'far or any of the Shia Imams if it's in a Shia book when they're describing that Hussein used to wear earrings why oh because it's coming from that's just stupid” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=2169s)

## Is it haram for a man to wear an earring?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkjtq8axgre/s/10/
Date: 2019-07-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Holistic Overview: Can Men Wear Earrings? -Mufti Abu Layth (36:38–39:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Dress and appearance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: men's earrings are permissible, with the precedent of Hasan, Husayn, Imam Malik and Sufyan ibn Uyayna, and the later scholars who opposed them were likely influenced by outside traditions. Mufti Abu Layth accepts that others may call it haram but says the evidence speaks for itself.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth concludes that wearing earrings is permissible for men, with the precedent of Hasan, Husayn, Imam Malik and Sufyan ibn Uyayna, that the later ulama's opposition may reflect the influence of the Christian church or other traditions, and that calling it imitation of women is an arbitrary claim.
Evidence, his words at 36:47: “so this is a kind of an overview a holistic overview that yes wearing earrings is permissible for men” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjtq8AXGRE&t=2207s)

## Does smoking break my fast?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2hezqyp_s4m/s/2/
Date: 2019-05-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can we use nicotine packs or smoke/vape while fasting? -Mufti Abu Layth (4:29–8:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: What breaks the fast; Intoxicants and substances
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Some scholars hold that smoking does not break the fast and those who follow them are not to blame, but Mufti Abu Layth's own advice is to use nicotine patches instead.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says his own advice and ruling is for a fasting smoker to resort to nicotine patches rather than smoke.
Evidence, his words at 7:06: “I would advise people my own advice my own ruling is to resort to patches but these fatwas do exist and people have given them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HeZQyp_S4M&t=426s)

## What does the word nikah actually mean?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/2/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (5:09–8:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Quranic Arabic
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Linguistically nikah means sex; technically it is the marriage contract, a relationship of exclusivity with mutual rights.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that linguistically the term nikah just means sex, while technically it refers to the marriage contract.
Evidence, his words at 6:26: “linguistically the term Nika just means sex that's all it means” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fjy8MceZM&t=386s)

## Do converts have to redo their marriage after becoming Muslim?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/3/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (8:57–15:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Converts and newcomers
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: a non-Muslim marriage valid by its own rules is valid in Islam, and converts were never asked to repeat their nikah. The Prophet's daughter Zaynab and her husband are an example.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the nikah of non-Muslims, valid according to their own rules, is valid for Muslims too.
Evidence, his words at 11:32: “deduce from thee that the nikah of the non-muslims is valid” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fjy8MceZM&t=692s)

## Did Islam invent marriage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/4/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (15:25–20:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pre-Islamic Arabia; The marriage contract; Individual hadith explained
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 5127 (Aisha: marriage in the Jahiliyyah was of four kinds) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5127)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Aisha's hadith lists four kinds of pre-Islamic marriage, and the ordinary one of proposal and acceptance continued with Islam's approval.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Aisha's hadith shows that Islam never introduced nikah but recognised a practice already present before Islam.
Evidence, his words at 16:03: “it shows us that Islam never introduced Mika he never introduced these things these were practices from jahiliyya” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fjy8MceZM&t=963s)

## Which verses forbid or allow marrying non-Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/5/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (20:24–27:17)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The marriage contract; Christians and other faiths
Cites: Quran 60:10 (they are not lawful for them, nor are they lawful for them) (https://quran.com/60/10); Quran 2:221 (do not marry mushrik women until they believe) (https://quran.com/2/221); Quran 5:4-5 (the food and chaste women of the People of the Book are lawful) (https://quran.com/5/4-5)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Al-Baqarah 221 and the verse on the emigrant women are cited against intermarriage, while al-Ma'idah 5 allows marrying Christian and Jewish women. Imam Malik disliked it because a husband may not stop his Christian wife bringing pork and wine home.

## Did any early scholars allow marrying Zoroastrians or idol worshippers?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/6/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (27:17–33:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: some companions and early scholars allowed relations with Zoroastrian and even idol-worshipping women. Same-faith marriage was stressed because early Islam needed stable Muslim families, and it remains strongly encouraged.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels that sharing a common faith and common goals is still strongly encouraged, especially in family life.
Evidence, his words at 32:25: “I feel that it is still strongly encouraged that that is that you share common faith you share common goals” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fjy8MceZM&t=1945s)

## Does Quran 60:10 mean a marriage to a non-Muslim is automatically void?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/7/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (33:03–36:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 60:10 (do not hold on to ties with disbelieving women) (https://quran.com/60/10)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Umar divorced his non-Muslim wives after the verse came down, which shows their marriages had been valid. The verse on the emigrant women was specific to the Hudaybiyya context.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes a marriage between a Muslim and a non-Muslim is valid, without saying it is a good thing or advisable.
Evidence, his words at 33:03: “it valid and I believe it is valid just as those other of scholars I've quoted” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fjy8MceZM&t=1983s)

## As a convert, should I try to convert my spouse or family?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/8/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (36:59–40:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Converts and newcomers; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No need: Imam Malik said Islam should not be pressed on a convert's husband, since he knows what Islam is. Speaking about Islam is fine, but obsessing over converting people is not.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no harm in speaking about Islam but no need for an obsession with trying to convert people.
Evidence, his words at 39:31: “there's no need for this obsession to try to convert people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fjy8MceZM&t=2371s)

## Is a marriage between a Muslim and a non-Muslim valid?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/9/
Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (40:48–47:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Choosing a spouse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, it would be valid, but it is discouraged: Islam strongly encourages marrying within the faith so children are not raised amid conflict. Validity is not the same as being a good choice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a marriage between a Muslim and a Hindu, for example, would still be valid, though it may be a disastrous choice from a religious perspective.
Evidence, his words at 45:13: “even if a Muslim married a Hindu for example that then Macau would still be valid” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fjy8MceZM&t=2713s)

## Does a hadith tell women to pray in a closet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/2/
Date: 2019-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (5:33–9:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Women in worship and mosques; Quranic Arabic; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the word makhda' means an inner sleeping chamber, not a closet, and such rooms were dark only because houses had no lamps.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the makhda' in these reports was the sleeping chamber within the inner part of a house, not a closet or cupboard.
Evidence, his words at 8:08: “this was called a Mazda okay now it is not a closet that people had you could even if he said the term chambers he could have said chambers but not a closet it's not a cupboard” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSevqg0low&t=488s)

## Musaylima, Sajah and the poem that shows what makhda' means
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/3/
Date: 2019-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (9:26–15:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quranic Arabic; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Musaylima's poem to the false prophetess Sajah uses makhda' for a bedchamber, showing the word never meant a cupboard.

## Is it better for women to pray at home than in the mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/4/
Date: 2019-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (15:11–23:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Women in worship and mosques; Reports demeaning women
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: sahih hadith show women regularly praying in the Prophet's mosque, the Prophet forbade stopping them, and Umar and Ali provided imams for them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the reports placing a woman's prayer at home above the Prophet's mosque go against the sahih hadith of women attending the mosque.
Evidence, his words at 15:47: “it goes against that which is Asahi ad it goes against the hadith that many women would come inside Buhari they would leave fajr salah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSevqg0low&t=947s)

## Is the hadith about women praying in the darkest part of the house authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/5/
Date: 2019-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (23:22–31:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Narrator criticism; Women in worship and mosques
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the chains run through unknown, abandoned or weak narrators, so the reports are fabricated or very weak and clash with the sahih hadith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations about a woman praying in the darkest part of her house are either fabricated or very weak.
Evidence, his words at 29:48: “we can go on and on with these narrations these narrations are either fabricated or very weak they clash with the sahih hadith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSevqg0low&t=1788s)

## Is Islam meant to be applied the same rigid way everywhere?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/7/
Date: 2019-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (38:06–41:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Islam was revealed to a tiny population but came for all mankind, so it is flexible enough to take in every people's backgrounds and needs.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Islam came with the flexibility to incorporate people's backgrounds, perspectives and needs.
Evidence, his words at 39:23: “with people Aslam came with the flexibility to not only incorporate these people but their backgrounds their perspectives their needs” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSevqg0low&t=2363s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth follow the Maliki school rather than the Hanafi?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uixtl3pqp-q/s/2/
Date: 2019-03-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why did I Choose Maliki Fiqh? -Mufti Abu Layth (2:35–7:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Maliki school; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth follows the Maliki school of Madinah because it is built on welfare and rooted in evidence and made the most sense to him. He says the Hanafi school, despite Abu Hanifa's greatness, has been hijacked into a controlling school.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he follows the Maliki school of Madinah because it is built upon welfare and rooted in evidence and made the most sense, and that the Hanafi school, though Abu Hanifa was a legend, has long been hijacked and become a controlling school that is the antithesis of its founder.
Evidence, his words at 3:39: “the Maliki method is known as the school of Medina it is the most awesome school of law there ever is because it is built upon welfare and firmly rooted in evidence” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiXtl3PQP-Q&t=219s)

## What are the Sana'a manuscripts and how were they discovered?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/1/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Sana'a manuscripts are parchment pages of the Quran, including much of Surat al-Tawba, found in the 1970s in the loft of a mosque dome in Sana'a, where old sacred texts had been stored and forgotten. Storing texts this way was a common practice.

## Why does the Sana'a manuscript have two layers of text?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/2/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (2:36–5:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Sana'a parchment is a reused sheet: an earlier Quranic text was wiped and written over, as was common before paper, and modern imaging has recovered the lower text. That lower text differs in some ways from the Quran as read today.

## Who has studied the Sana'a palimpsest and what is the controversy about?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/3/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (5:10–7:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Atheists and polemicists
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Sana'a manuscript is a palimpsest studied by the Puins, Asma Hilali, Sadeghi and Goudarzi, and people online have used it to claim that the Quran Muslims have is not the original. Mufti Abu Layth sets out to answer that claim.

## Does the Sana'a manuscript show that the Quran was changed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/4/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (7:47–13:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Atheists and polemicists; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Sana'a manuscript and others such as the Birmingham manuscript date to the first century of Islam, when the Quran was the one text Muslims documented and taught everywhere. The Quran was too widespread and too distinctive in style to corrupt profitably, which is why fabrication targeted hadith instead.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Sana'a find does not show an evolving Quran: the manuscript dates to the first century like others, the Quran was the one text documented and taught everywhere from the start, and it was too widespread and too distinctive in style to corrupt, so fabrication targeted hadith instead.
Evidence, his words at 12:02: “this finding does not show that this was an evolution in Pro in progress or the Quran was for example a working model that people were working on it and changing it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fAZ7xW53Y&t=722s)

## Did the companions ever read or understand the Quran differently from each other?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/5/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (13:02–16:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muslims already accept that the Quran was revealed with fluidity: the Prophet approved different recitations, and the tradition openly records companions such as Ibn Mas'ud holding mistaken views about what was part of the Quran and pronouncing letters by their tribal dialect. None of this is a shock to Muslims.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the tradition itself records that the Prophet approved different recitations and that companions such as Ibn Mas'ud sometimes held mistaken views about what belonged to the Quran, so variant readings in an early manuscript are nothing new to Muslims.
Evidence, his words at 15:14: “this is already part of our tradition we already know this this is not a shock this is like something actually well written and documented in our books” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fAZ7xW53Y&t=914s)

## Why might an early Arab have written a Quranic word differently?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/6/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (16:56–19:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Quranic Arabic
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The companions spoke classical Arabic as their everyday language, so substituting a word from memory was far easier for them than for later Muslims who memorise Quranic Arabic as a separate language. Tribal pronunciation differences were known and are not the issue; the general transmission is.

## Was the Sana'a palimpsest an official copy of the Quran or someone's personal notes?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/7/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (19:34–22:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The lower text contains notes such as 'do not say bismillah here' before Surat al-Tawba, which shows it was someone's personal script, as Asma Hilali argues, and not a standard copy sent out to communities. Mufti Abu Layth finds no evidence for the Puins' view that it was official.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the lower text of the Sana'a palimpsest is somebody's personal script with his own notes, not a standard manuscript, and that there is no evidence for the view that it was an official copy.
Evidence, his words at 21:41: “I'm not so sure whether it was a student documenting it in a study circle like Dr Asma hilali has said but what I think is this is definitely somebody's personal script” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fAZ7xW53Y&t=1301s)

## What are the differences between the Sana'a lower text and today's Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/8/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (22:07–24:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The lower text differs from today's Quran in twenty to thirty mostly small ways, such as a missing word or a changed pronoun. Mufti Abu Layth's assessment is that it is one person's, possibly a companion's, personal notes written from a mistaken or personal reading.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the lower text of the Sana'a palimpsest is most likely someone's personal notes, possibly a companion's, written from his own and probably mistaken reading, rather than an alternative Quran.
Evidence, his words at 23:38: “this is most likely somebody he may have been a companion he may have been I'm not denying that um but somebody's personal notes” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fAZ7xW53Y&t=1418s)

## How did Uthman standardise the Quran, and does that explain the Sana'a text?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/9/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (24:43–28:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Uthman locked in one reading in an undotted script that still allowed the known variant readings, so the lower text is either a person's mistaken note or, less likely, a reading not locked in at that time. Mufti Abu Layth prefers the first, as simple human error from memory.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Uthman standardised a single reading whose undotted script still allowed the variant readings, and that the Sana'a lower text is either a mistaken personal reading, which he thinks more likely, or a reading from the Prophet's time that was not locked in.
Evidence, his words at 26:10: “this under text of the manuscript was most likely somebody's personal note who thought that that reading was how it was and most likely I feel that he was mistaken” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fAZ7xW53Y&t=1570s)

## Does the Sana'a manuscript prove the Quran evolved over time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/10/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (28:39–32:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Atheists and polemicists
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The discrepancies in the Sana'a text are petty changes of pronouns and dropped words that serve no purpose, so they cannot be a deliberate evolution of the Quran, which nobody would have risked his life for. They are most likely a writer's mistaken notes.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Sana'a discrepancies cannot be a deliberate evolution of the Quran, because they change nothing of substance and no one would have risked his life for such petty alterations.
Evidence, his words at 31:16: “to change it with these like petty little differences is meaningless so to me that doesn't hold up at all” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fAZ7xW53Y&t=1876s)

## Does the Sana'a manuscript support or undermine the Muslim account of the Quran's history?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k6faz7xw53y/s/11/
Date: 2019-03-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: The Sanaʽa Manuscript -Mufti Abu Layth (32:35–36:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Atheists and polemicists
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Sana'a find confirms the traditional account: a first-century Quran, companions who sometimes erred as the hadith say, and Uthman's standardisation of one reading. The largest discrepancy is a dropped word that exists elsewhere in the Quran.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Sana'a find confirms the traditional account of the Quran's history, a first-century text, companions who sometimes misread, and Uthman's standardisation of one reading, and so vindicates the transparency of the Muslim tradition.
Evidence, his words at 32:35: “this actually reaffirms for us that the message that we've been passing generally down the generations has been accurate” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fAZ7xW53Y&t=1955s)

## What does it mean that Jesus spoke to people in the cradle and in old age?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2axjjfrnd20/s/2/
Date: 2019-02-23 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Did Jesus (a.s.) Speak in the Cradle? -Mufti Abu Layth (13:57–17:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Contested verses; The ancient Near East and scripture
Cites: Quran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity) (https://quran.com/3/46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the verse means Jesus would relate to people of every age when he preached, not that he spoke as a baby; that story likely came from apocryphal infancy gospels.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the verse means that Jesus, when he preached, would have such wisdom that he could relate to people of every age, from the very young to the old.
Evidence, his words at 14:31: “what that means is that Jesus when he will preach that he will have such wisdom” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AxJjFrnD20&t=871s)

## Who Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was and the claim that God spoke to him in Punjabi
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/decxag9d9g8/s/2/
Date: 2019-01-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (6:33–14:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was born in 1839 in Punjab. Mufti Abu Layth argues that God intervening in an age of colonial suffering by merely talking to one man in Punjabi, with nothing changing, is not a credible divine plan.

## Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's developing claims: reformer, messiah, prophet, Krishna
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/decxag9d9g8/s/3/
Date: 2019-01-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (14:32–21:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The claim that Mirza never claimed prophethood is a half-truth: he began as a reformer in 1884, then claimed to be the promised messiah, a prophet in 1901 and Krishna in 1904. Mufti Abu Layth quotes these claims from Mirza's own books.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the claim that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad never claimed prophethood is a half-truth, since his early writings disclaim it but from 1891 onward he claimed to be the promised messiah, then a prophet, then Krishna.
Evidence, his words at 14:35: “he did not claim to be a prophet some people will say this to you and and they will quote you his books right now the interesting thing is that's partially true that's a half truth” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECxAg9D9g8&t=875s)

## Early denials, the second coming, revelations in English and claims of divinity
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/decxag9d9g8/s/4/
Date: 2019-01-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (21:06–27:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; End times and the Day of Judgement
Cites: Quran 94:4 (https://quran.com/94/4); Quran 21:107 (https://quran.com/21/107)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mirza's early denials of prophethood were superseded by later claims to be Christ, to receive Quranic verses, to own the real al-Aqsa and to be God. Mufti Abu Layth believes Mirza was mentally unwell rather than lying.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was not lying but had mental health problems, and that the Ahmadi denial of the second coming rests on Mirza's claim to be the awaited Christ.
Evidence, his words at 22:55: “i actually do feel that he it wasn't about him lying i feel that he had mental health issues i actually do believe this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECxAg9D9g8&t=1375s)

## Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's unfulfilled prophecies, the mubahala oaths and his death
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/decxag9d9g8/s/5/
Date: 2019-01-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (27:43–35:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mirza's prophecies about living to eighty, further marriages, another son and dying in Makkah or Madinah were not fulfilled, and he died first after mubahala oaths. He died of cholera and bowel illness, as his son's biography records.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's prophecies about his lifespan, his marriages, a further son and his place of death were not fulfilled, and that he died of cholera and bowel illness.
Evidence, his words at 28:37: “i'll tell you about some of the uh prophecies he made that weren't for foot i mean obviously they weren't fulfilled” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECxAg9D9g8&t=1717s)

## Final thoughts: mental health, persecution, free speech and the victim card
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/decxag9d9g8/s/6/
Date: 2019-01-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (35:37–40:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth condemns any persecution of Ahmadis but says criticising their beliefs is free speech, not persecution, and that not calling them Muslims does not amount to persecuting them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth condemns any persecution of Ahmadis but holds that criticising their beliefs is free speech, not persecution, and that not declaring them Muslims does not add to their persecution.
Evidence, his words at 36:38: “i don't justify and i condem any persecution of them i condemn that but i'm being honest look just playing the victim card all the time it's just nonsense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECxAg9D9g8&t=2198s)

## Who was al-Khidr and why is he called the green one?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yy74xfro_e4/s/1/
Date: 2019-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who Was Khidr (a.s.)? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Jinn, angels and the devil
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Al-Khidr is a figure of Islamic literature and folk belief whose name means the green one, said to be because the ground turned green where he sat. Earlier scholars preferred the pronunciation al-Khadir.

## What happened between Musa and al-Khidr in Surat al-Kahf?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yy74xfro_e4/s/2/
Date: 2019-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who Was Khidr (a.s.)? -Mufti Abu Layth (2:35–8:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 18:60-82 (Musa and the servant of Allah) (https://quran.com/18/60-82); Sahih al-Bukhari 4725 (Musa and al-Khidr, Book of Tafsir) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4725)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Musa and his companion travel to the meeting of two seas, meet a servant of Allah who damages a ship, kills a boy and repairs a wall, and is rebuked by Musa each time. Al-Bukhari's hadith adds the detail that Musa had claimed to be the most knowledgeable of people.

## Was the story of Musa and al-Khidr a dream?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yy74xfro_e4/s/3/
Date: 2019-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who Was Khidr (a.s.)? -Mufti Abu Layth (8:22–14:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; How to read the Quran; Dreams and visions
Cites: Quran 18:60-82 (Musa and the servant of Allah) (https://quran.com/18/60-82)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads everything after Musa and his companion fell asleep at the rock as a vision, which explains its strange details. Scholars who read it literally struggled to explain them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that he feels earlier scholars overlooked that everything after Musa and his companion fell asleep at the rock happened in a vision.
Evidence, his words at 8:22: “the rest of everything that happens happens whilst they were asleep it was a vision” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy74XfRo_E4&t=502s)

## Is al-Khidr a prophet, and is he still alive?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yy74xfro_e4/s/4/
Date: 2019-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who Was Khidr (a.s.)? -Mufti Abu Layth (14:02–22:48)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Sufism and tasawwuf
Cites: Quran 21:34 (we gave no human before you eternal life) (https://quran.com/21/34)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Classical scholars disagreed on whether al-Khidr was a prophet or a saint, and many held he is still alive while others denied it. Mufti Abu Layth likens the stories of his appearances to saint legends in other religions.

## Is al-Khidr a real person who is still alive?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yy74xfro_e4/s/5/
Date: 2019-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who Was Khidr (a.s.)? -Mufti Abu Layth (22:48–29:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; How to read the Quran; Dreams and visions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he reads al-Khidr as part of a vision shown to Musa, whose three events mirrored Musa's own life and mission. The boy was not really killed, and al-Khidr does not roam the earth.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says al-Khidr was part of Musa's vision and not actually a real person who roams among us.
Evidence, his words at 27:48: “he was part of that vision he was not actually a real person and he's not actually somebody who roams around amongst us” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy74XfRo_E4&t=1668s)

## How should Muslims read the stories in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/1/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–9:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; Stories of the prophets; Narrative and story
Cites: Quran 12:3 (We relate to you the best of stories) (https://quran.com/12/3)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Quranic stories can be read as narrative and for lessons, but where they suggest the supernatural we must ask how to read them, unlike myths we never take as real.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says some stories in the Quran suggest supernatural events without explicitly stating them.
Evidence, his words at 3:50: “some of these stories have been mentioned in ways at times that suggest suggest I'm using the word here suggest they don't usually explicitly say so but they tend to suggest a very supernatural” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=230s)

## If God can do anything, why not take the miracles in Quranic stories literally?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/2/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (9:32–15:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; Reason and revelation; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Reading the stories as suspensions of natural law means ditching reason, which leaves no ground to reject any myth; reason must be all in, though the prophets were real people.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says reason is either all in or out, and one cannot follow it only ninety per cent of the time.
Evidence, his words at 12:45: “reason is either all in or or it's out it doesn't happen like you can't say you know what I'll follow reason 90% of the time” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=765s)

## Does the Quran criticise the Queen of Sheba for ruling over men?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/3/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (15:58–18:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Women in Islam
Cites: Quran 27:23 (I found a woman ruling over them, given of everything, with a mighty throne) (https://quran.com/27/23)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Quran portrays her as a woman of great power over male ministers and never rebukes her for it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not rebuke the Queen of Sheba in any sense for her power over an administration of men.
Evidence, his words at 16:33: “the Quran does not rebuke her in any sense for that power this is an interesting lesson to be taken from that story” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=993s)

## Was the hoopoe in the story of Sulayman really a bird?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/4/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (18:30–24:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran; Quranic Arabic
Cites: Quran 27:20-21 (why do I not see the hudhud; I will punish or slaughter him) (https://quran.com/27/20-21); Quran 27:22-24 (the hudhud's report from Saba) (https://quran.com/27/22-24); Quran 27:27 (we will see whether you are truthful or among the liars) (https://quran.com/27/27)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Probably not, in his reading: the Arabic used of it is used only for humans, so the tafsir that it was one of Sulayman's intelligence agents makes sense.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the reading of the hudhud as one of Sulayman's intelligence agents makes sense given the verbs used, which refer to human beings.
Evidence, his words at 20:26: “he stuffs the image stuff see it is something that does make sense given the kind of constant verbs that are used referring to human beings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=1226s)

## What does the Quran say about kings in the story of Sheba?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/5/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (24:54–27:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Public law and governance; Philosophy and ideas
Cites: Quran 27:34 (kings, when they enter a town, ruin it) (https://quran.com/27/34)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Queen's saying that kings ruin the towns they enter raises the question of what gives anyone the right to rule others.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says kingship began when some person one day assumed the right to subjugate others, and it became a human legacy.
Evidence, his words at 26:48: “right to sub subjugate and you guys on my subjects some person just assumed that one day and it became a human legacy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=1608s)

## Did a jinn really bring the Queen of Sheba's throne to Sulayman?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/6/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (27:28–33:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Jinn, angels and the devil; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 27:38-39 (which of you will bring me her throne; an 'ifrit of the jinn said I will) (https://quran.com/27/38-39); Quran 18:50 (Iblis was of the jinn) (https://quran.com/18/50)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth doubts it: following Athari's tafsir, the 'jinn' here were a division of Sulayman's forces, one of three branches of his state.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the reading that a demon from the jinn would bring the throne does not, in his understanding, make much sense.
Evidence, his words at 30:04: “is out one see that in my understanding doesn't make much sense and I'll tell you why in a moment because we are zooming out” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=1804s)

## Did Prophet Sulayman steal the Queen of Sheba's throne?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/7/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (33:54–40:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 27:40 (one with knowledge of the Book: before your glance returns) (https://quran.com/27/40); Quran 27:41 (disguise her throne) (https://quran.com/27/41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he reads the story as Sulayman having a grander replica made from a detailed description, since prophets do not steal thrones.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it does not befit prophets to steal thrones.
Evidence, his words at 39:37: “i've said before it doesn't befit prophets to steal Thrones okay to me that's a blasphemous allegation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=2377s)

## What happened when the Queen of Sheba came to Sulayman?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/8/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (40:51–45:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 27:42 (is your throne like this? it is as though it were) (https://quran.com/27/42); Quran 27:44 (enter the palace; she thought it a pool and uncovered her shins) (https://quran.com/27/44)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): She was shown a throne grander than hers in a mere waiting room and humbled, then became Muslim; her uncovering her legs on the glass floor was no obscenity.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if the Queen of Sheba uncovering her lower legs had been an obscenity, it would not be stated in the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 44:30: “obviously if it was an obscenity then it won't be stated in the Quran and it wouldn't be happening in front of prophets” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=2670s)

## Did Jesus really speak as a baby in the cradle?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/9/
Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (45:09–55:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 19:27-33 (Mary brings him to her people; how can we speak to one in the cradle) (https://quran.com/19/27-33); Quran 9:92 (those who came to you to be carried, i.e. given mounts) (https://quran.com/9/92)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads it as Jesus aged about twelve debating the Temple elders, as in the Gospel of Luke, which fits the history better than a speaking baby.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the interpretation that Jesus was a boy debating the Temple elders fits with reality better than a speaking baby.
Evidence, his words at 50:14: “to me that interpretation fits with the reality fits with you see when we zoom out it still fits” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=3014s)

## The story of Musa and the servant of Allah in Surah al-Kahf and al-Bukhari
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/drosectl_tq/s/1/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story Explained: Did Musa & Khidr (a.s.) Kill a Child? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–5:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 18:60 (Musa sets out for the meeting of the two seas) (https://quran.com/18/60)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth outlines the story of Musa and the servant of Allah from Surah al-Kahf 18:60 onwards and its fuller telling in al-Bukhari's hadith 4725.

## Did the journey of Musa and Khidr really happen, or was it a vision?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/drosectl_tq/s/2/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story Explained: Did Musa & Khidr (a.s.) Kill a Child? -Mufti Abu Layth (5:31–11:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Dreams and visions; Contested verses
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that everything after Musa and Joshua slept at the rock happened in a vision, which explains the story's strange shifts.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that he feels earlier scholars overlooked that everything after Musa and his companion fell asleep at the rock happened in a vision.
Evidence, his words at 5:31: “this is where a lot of I feel the scholars in the past for whatever reasons overlooked this the rest of everything that happens Happ happens whilst they were asleep it was a vision” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dROSEctL_tQ&t=331s)

## Why did Khidr kill the boy in Surah al-Kahf?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/drosectl_tq/s/3/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story Explained: Did Musa & Khidr (a.s.) Kill a Child? -Mufti Abu Layth (11:22–16:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Dreams and visions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads the ship, the boy and the wall as a vision mirroring Musa's mission; no child was really killed, since God would never allow that.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the boy was not killed in reality, since God would never allow anybody to murder a child.
Evidence, his words at 12:39: “the fact that murders this this child he didn't murder him in real life God would never allow anybody to murder a child that would be absurd” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dROSEctL_tQ&t=759s)

## Who won the David Wood versus Mohammed Hijab debate on Tawhid and the Trinity?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/1/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Christians and other faiths; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls the Wood versus Hijab debate on Tawhid and the Trinity monumental and worth watching, and says Mohammed Hijab clearly won. He introduces David Wood as an evangelical, anti-Islam preacher who has debated many Muslims.

## Did the topic of Tawhid versus the Trinity favour the Muslim side, and how well prepared was Hijab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/2/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (2:38–5:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Reason and revelation; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Tawhid appeals to reason while the Trinity is held by Christians as a supra-rational truth, so the topic itself favoured Hijab. Even so, Mufti Abu Layth was impressed by Hijab's thorough biblical research and impromptu quotation of the Bible, while Wood seemed unprepared.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that when one side of a debate appeals to reason and the other defends what it calls irrational truths, the side of reason will generally prevail, so the topic favoured Hijab, whose biblical research he nonetheless credits as impressive.
Evidence, his words at 3:07: “whenever you're debating something that way one side appeals to reason and the other doesn't the reason side will always make sense and prevail generally speaking as a rule of thumb” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyRfZZZcA8g&t=187s)

## What was Hijab's main argument against the Trinity, and did Wood answer it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/3/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (5:15–9:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Debate challenges and reviews; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Hijab's central argument was that the Trinitarian creed defined at Nicaea in 325 cannot be shown in any earlier Christian source, which Mufti Abu Layth calls precise and well researched and which Wood failed to answer sufficiently. Wood seemed shaky and unprepared, and the debate leaned less on reason than it could have.

## What does it mean that Allah performs salah upon the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/4/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (9:11–11:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; Quranic Arabic; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Wood kept asking to whom Allah prays if He 'performs salah' on the Prophet, which Hijab answered well as sending blessings. Mufti Abu Layth says pressing a linguistic point after it was answered, without knowing Arabic, was pathetic.

## Do Muslims accept doctrines as irrational as the Trinity, such as the uncreated Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/5/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (11:16–15:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Reason and revelation; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Wood's real challenge was that Muslims who mock the Trinity as irrational themselves accept doctrines such as the uncreated Quran and attributes that are 'neither God nor other than God'. Mufti Abu Layth says this was a genuinely tough point that Hijab did not fully answer, but Wood put it so badly that few noticed.

## If Muslims accept miracles that defy reason, can they still object that the Trinity is irrational?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/6/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (15:14–17:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; God and the divine attributes; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muslims must hold the Quran to be in line with reason, because accepting miracles that make no sense removes any ground for objecting that three cannot equal one; consistency is all or nothing. Hijab denied that Muslims ever held anthropomorphic beliefs, but some did, though Mufti Abu Layth does not share them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Muslims must believe the Quran to be in line with the voice of reason, since accepting miracles that make no sense would leave no ground to object that three cannot equal one, and he says that some Muslims did hold anthropomorphic beliefs about God, which he does not share.
Evidence, his words at 15:14: “I feel especially in this day and age that Muslims we do believe in the Quran to be in line with the voice of reason otherwise these arguments don't actually stand” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyRfZZZcA8g&t=914s)

## Did the Prophet teach a creed about God's attributes, and when did the Muslim creed emerge?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/7/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (17:38–21:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; God and the divine attributes; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Prophet taught faith, not a formal creed; the Muslim creed emerged two to three hundred years later, and its doctrine of attributes 'neither God nor other than God' is, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, irrational and unfounded in the Quran and Sunnah. Ordinary Muslims do not know this material, which is why Wood's objections did not land.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet came to teach faith rather than creed, that the Muslim formal creed emerged two to three hundred years after him, and that the doctrine of divine attributes that are neither God nor other than God is irrational and not based in the Quran and Sunnah.
Evidence, his words at 18:14: “I always make a distinction between our teeth and Iman the Creed and faith that the Prophet came to teach faith not to teach Creed because with Creed it's always institutionalized” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyRfZZZcA8g&t=1094s)

## Was Hijab right to show David Wood no respect in the debate?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/8/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (21:22–27:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Character and virtue; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Hijab's aggressive, loud and condescending manner, which he justified by Wood's record of bigotry, was used by non-Muslim commenters as ammunition and made Muslims look rowdy, while Wood stayed composed. Mufti Abu Layth sees it as damned if you do, damned if you don't.

## What should Muslims learn from the Wood versus Hijab debate?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gyrfzzzca8g/s/9/
Date: 2018-12-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (27:53–31:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Prophethood and miracles; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Thorough knowledge wins debates, Muslims must raise their adab, and they must be consistent: if the laws of nature do not matter for miracles, then there is no ground to say three cannot equal one. Clips about camel urine or suspended laws of nature send a confusing message.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Muslims must be consistent in following the voice of reason, because if they say the laws of nature do not matter when it comes to miracles they lose any ground for saying that three cannot equal one, and that Muslims also need to raise their adab in debate.
Evidence, his words at 29:31: “what we can't do is have irrational beliefs ourselves and then condemn other people for irrational beliefs like we must be consistent” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyRfZZZcA8g&t=1771s)

## Does Islam say homosexuals should be thrown off buildings or executed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yfej-qks-km/s/1/
Date: 2018-12-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Homosexuality and Islam -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–7:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Hudud and punishments; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is no sahih hadith in which the Prophet spoke about homosexuals, the reports of Ali ordering executions are not authentic in Mufti Abu Layth's view, and the early jurists disagreed, with the Hanafis holding it is not a hadd offence. The claim of a consensus that homosexual acts deserve death is false.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no sahih hadith in which the Prophet spoke about homosexuals, that he does not believe the reports of Ali ordering executions to be authentic, and that the claim of a consensus that anyone who commits homosexual acts deserves death is false, since the jurists disagreed and the Hanafis held it is not a hadd.
Evidence, his words at 5:24: “now people have started to say that there is ijma that these people have anybody who commits homosexuality deserves death this is what they're saying that is nonsense that is nonsense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFeJ-QkS-kM&t=324s)

## Were there Muslim scholars and caliphs in history known to be homosexual?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yfej-qks-km/s/2/
Date: 2018-12-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Homosexuality and Islam -Mufti Abu Layth (7:56–18:27)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Umayyads and Abbasids; Sexuality and orientation
Cites: Quran 3:14 (made pleasing to men is the love of desires, women and sons) (https://quran.com/3/14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reports, without endorsing their views, that several celebrated Abbasid-era figures were known for homosexuality, including a chief judge of Basra who argued for it from the Quran, the caliphs al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, and Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri. He cites al-Dhahabi and the poetry of the period as his sources.

## Is homosexuality haram in Islam, and why were the people of Lut destroyed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yfej-qks-km/s/3/
Date: 2018-12-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Homosexuality and Islam -Mufti Abu Layth (18:27–23:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Hudud and punishments; Stories of the prophets
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth accepts the majority view that homosexual acts are haram, but says the punishments scholars assigned were variable public-order measures that changed over time, that the people of Lut were destroyed primarily for rejecting their prophet, and that the ruling does not require hatred of homosexual people.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the overwhelming majority of scholars held homosexual acts to be haram and he accepts that they are haram, while saying that the punishments scholars assigned varied between places and changed over time, that the people of Lut were destroyed primarily for rejecting their prophet, and that the ruling does not require hatred.
Evidence, his words at 22:31: “most outright majority did say it's haram some did disagree so just being honest and being objective and transparent majority accepted it haram and we accept it's haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFeJ-QkS-kM&t=1351s)

## Does the Quran support human evolution?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/e6jwtff8smw/s/1/
Date: 2018-12-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Quran and Evolution -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–9:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran and evolution; Adam and the creation of humans; Human origins
Cites: Quran 71:14 (He created you in stages) (https://quran.com/71/14); Quran 71:17 (Allah grew you from the earth like plants) (https://quran.com/71/17); Quran 21:30 (the heavens and earth were one; every living thing from water) (https://quran.com/21/30); Quran 3:59 (the likeness of Jesus is that of Adam) (https://quran.com/3/59); Quran 23:12-13 (insan from an extract of clay, then a drop in a stable place) (https://quran.com/23/12-13); Quran 7:189-190 (the single self and its partner; they committed shirk) (https://quran.com/7/189-190); Quran 2:30 (I will place a khalifa on the earth) (https://quran.com/2/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads several verses as arguing for evolution and says Eve is not named in the Quran. No one has to accept evolution, but those who do should not be called heretics.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, while people may believe what they want about evolution, these Quranic verses clearly argue for it.
Evidence, his words at 0:39: “you can believe what you want an eeveelution I'm not saying it's up to you but these verses clearly argue for that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6jWtFf8smw&t=39s)

## Was Aisha really nine, as Yaqeen Institute concluded?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/chyxri7trnk/s/1/
Date: 2018-11-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Suleiman & the Yaqeen Institutes On Age of Aisha (r.a.) -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects the conclusion that Aisha was six at marriage and nine at its consummation, saying such a marriage would be morally abhorrent and did not happen. He disputes the claim that the question is not a moral one and says the chains of the report are unreliable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that a marriage of the Prophet to Aisha at six would be disgusting and did not happen, that the question is plainly a moral one, and that the few chains of the report of her age are all unreliable.
Evidence, his words at 3:52: “six years old that is a tiny girl that's disgusting that it did not happen” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHyxRI7Trnk&t=232s)

## Why was a marriage suggested to the Prophet after the year of sorrow?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/chyxri7trnk/s/2/
Date: 2018-11-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Suleiman & the Yaqeen Institutes On Age of Aisha (r.a.) -Mufti Abu Layth (6:33–10:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; The wives of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): After the year of sorrow, Khawla suggested the Prophet marry and named Aisha and Sawda. Mufti Abu Layth says a wife was meant to help him with the home and children, companionship, intimacy and his mission.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the marriage was suggested by Khawla to support the Prophet after the year of sorrow, and that a wife could help him with the home and children, companionship, intimacy and his mission.
Evidence, his words at 9:38: “so these aspects are well how a wife could have helped the Prophet at that time of tragedy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHyxRI7Trnk&t=578s)

## What evidence suggests Aisha was older than nine when she married?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/chyxri7trnk/s/3/
Date: 2018-11-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Suleiman & the Yaqeen Institutes On Age of Aisha (r.a.) -Mufti Abu Layth (10:27–15:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that a six-year-old could not have been the help the Prophet needed, and that the battle reports, her earlier engagement, her age at death and her memory of a Makkan verse point to her being at least seventeen.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the marriage narrative, the battle reports, Aisha's earlier engagement to Jubayr ibn Mut'im, her age at death and her memory of a verse revealed in Makkah all indicate that she was at least seventeen when the Prophet proposed.
Evidence, his words at 13:33: “at that time when the Prophet approached her she was at least seventeen at least that's what the maths show” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHyxRI7Trnk&t=813s)

## Why do some scholars still insist Aisha was nine?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/chyxri7trnk/s/4/
Date: 2018-11-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Suleiman & the Yaqeen Institutes On Age of Aisha (r.a.) -Mufti Abu Layth (15:43–20:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Mutawatir and certainty; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Lacking an earlier authority is no reason to keep the young age, since medieval scholars also accepted slavery and other rulings no one would defend today. No hadith gives certain knowledge, so an inconclusive report that blemishes the Prophet's honour is rejected.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the lack of an earlier authority is no reason to keep the young age, since medieval scholars also held slavery acceptable and gave rulings he calls haram, and that because no hadith gives certain knowledge, an inconclusive report that blemishes the Prophet's honour is rejected.
Evidence, his words at 18:42: “so the honour of the Prophet is conclusive if anything will bring a blemish to the honour of the Prophet and it is inconclusive it's based on huh bro a hard we reject it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHyxRI7Trnk&t=1122s)

## Why does the Quran call Jesus the Word of God and mention the Holy Spirit with him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cvgwfnbqv0q/s/1/
Date: 2018-10-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Does the Quran Mention a Virgin Birth for Jesus (a.s.)? - Mufti Abu Layth (0:05–6:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Christians and other faiths; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Cites: Quran 3:45 (a word from Him, the Messiah Jesus son of Mary; he cites it as 3:43) (https://quran.com/3/45); Quran 4:171 (the Messiah, messenger of Allah and His word; he cites it as 4:170) (https://quran.com/4/171); Quran 2:87 (we helped him with the Holy Spirit) (https://quran.com/2/87); Quran 2:253 (we gave him clear signs and helped him with the Holy Spirit) (https://quran.com/2/253); Quran 5:110 (O Jesus, remember my blessing; I helped you with the Holy Spirit; captioned as verse 115) (https://quran.com/5/110); Quran 58:22 (strengthened them with a spirit from Him) (https://quran.com/58/22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran uses terms of Jesus that it uses of no other prophet, the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, which Muslims do not take literally. He suggests this Christian rhetoric was perhaps meant to build bridges with Christians.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran uses Christian rhetoric about Jesus, such as the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, perhaps in order to build bridges between the Muslim and Christian communities.
Evidence, his words at 3:14: “there's a lot of rhetoric being used when it comes to Jesus that was generally the kind of Christian rhetoric that is used in the Quran perhaps in a sense of building bridges between the Muslim and Christian communities” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGwFnbQv0Q&t=194s)

## Does the Quran actually say Mary had a virgin birth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cvgwfnbqv0q/s/2/
Date: 2018-10-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Does the Quran Mention a Virgin Birth for Jesus (a.s.)? - Mufti Abu Layth (6:33–11:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Christians and other faiths; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Cites: Quran 5:112-115 (the table asked for by the disciples) (https://quran.com/5/112-115)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No verse of the Quran directly says Jesus was born of a virgin; a verse implies it, and Muslims have differed on it. Mary was married, is never called the Virgin Mary in Islam, and most likely did not remain a virgin all her life.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that no verse of the Quran directly says that Mary's was a virgin birth, though a verse implies it.
Evidence, his words at 9:05: “that you do have that as a general belief that Muslims feel that Mary had a virgin birth although no verse in the Quran says that she had in birth a verse implies it does not say” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGwFnbQv0Q&t=545s)

## What verses do Muslims use to argue Jesus had a natural birth with a father?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cvgwfnbqv0q/s/3/
Date: 2018-10-25 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Does the Quran Mention a Virgin Birth for Jesus (a.s.)? - Mufti Abu Layth (11:43–20:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; How to read the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Cites: Quran 66:12 (Mary who guarded her chastity; we breathed into it of our spirit) (https://quran.com/66/12); Quran 4:24 (al-muhsanat, the married women) (https://quran.com/4/24); Quran 19:16-22 (the annunciation to Mary) (https://quran.com/19/16-22); Quran 6:85-87 (Zakariya, Yahya, Isa ... and their fathers) (https://quran.com/6/85-87); Quran 6:101 (how can He have a child when He has no companion) (https://quran.com/6/101); Quran 5:112-115 (the table asked for by the disciples) (https://quran.com/5/112-115)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran implies a virgin conception but never states it, and the scholars who held Jesus had a father argue from 6:85-87 and 6:101. People may believe either, but calling those scholars deviant is a huge stretch.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that declaring those who read the Quran as not teaching a virgin birth deviant or no longer mainstream Muslims is a huge stretch, when the Quran itself does not actually say it.
Evidence, his words at 20:00: “they've lost the plot they they no longer main three Muslims they no longer this they no longer that because they have this reading of the Quran when the Quran itself doesn't actually say that that's a huge stretch” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGwFnbQv0Q&t=1200s)

## What are the three points of Yasir Qadhi's khutbah on orthodoxy, and is hadith certain knowledge?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/2/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (3:53–10:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; How to read the Quran; Mutawatir and certainty
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The khutbah's three points are that reinterpreting the Quran through reason or science is heresy, that doubting the hadith sources is heresy, and that a radical new interpretation amounts to claiming prophethood. Mufti Abu Layth agrees that rejecting hadith wholesale is wrong but says the hadith quoted for it is weak and that hadith is khabar ahad, not certain knowledge.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees that rejecting hadith altogether is misguided, but that the hadith quoted to prove it is weak and that hadith are khabar ahad, which is not certain knowledge but good enough to act on.
Evidence, his words at 6:16: “he quotes a hadith which are surprised actually because the hadith he quoted was weak it's in Abu Dawood” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=376s)

## Is Yasir Qadhi's case for reading the Quran literally consistent?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/3/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (10:26–14:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The khutbah is internally inconsistent: it allows the Quran to unlock new meanings while condemning new interpretations, and it demands literal reading while itself reading 'the hand of God' non-literally as God's mercy.

## What is Yasir Qadhi's background, and where does the Salafi movement come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/4/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (14:22–24:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Extremism, crime and justice
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Qadhi's arguments stem from a hard-line Salafi formation, and Wahhabism in Mufti Abu Layth's account is a doctrine of literalism hostile to reason founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, whom he calls a deviant for permitting the killing and enslavement of Muslims. He traces the Salafi scholars of the 1970s to the movement behind the 1979 seizure of Mecca.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was a deviant because he held it permissible to kill Muslims he deemed disbelievers, enslave their wives and take their wealth, including pilgrims on Hajj, and that Wahhabism is in essence a doctrine of literalism and dogmatism hostile to reason.
Evidence, his words at 18:27: “he was definitely I mean I would categorically say he was a deviant” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=1107s)

## What did Yasir Qadhi write in the leaked emails about the Quran's preservation and the theological schools?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/5/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (24:51–28:50)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Creed and the schools of theology; Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In emails leaked by Dawah Man, Qadhi wrote that the letter-for-letter account of the Quran's preservation cannot stand and proposed discarding the theological schools to rethink kalam from scratch. Mufti Abu Layth reads this as a radical reinterpretation from the man now condemning them.

## Are the Salafis themselves orthodox by their own standard?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/6/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (28:50–31:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Creed and the schools of theology; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Salafis are themselves unorthodox: the orthodoxy of the ummah has been Ash'ari and the four schools of law, both of which they reject, so their appeal to orthodoxy against new interpretations is inconsistent.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Salafis are themselves unorthodox, since the orthodoxy of the ummah has been Ash'ari in belief and the four schools in law, both of which they reject, so their appeal to orthodoxy against new interpretations of verses is inconsistent.
Evidence, his words at 30:04: “the seller fees themselves are unorthodox by going against the orthodoxy of this Ummah the seller fees reject methods they do not follow any of the four traditional schools of thought” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=1804s)

## Does the Quran say Ibrahim was thrown into the fire, or that the table was sent down to Jesus's disciples?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/7/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (31:27–43:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Cites: Quran 2:260 (the four birds) (https://quran.com/2/260); Quran 21:68-71 (burn him; O fire be cool; we saved him and Lut) (https://quran.com/21/68-71); Quran 11:44 (O sky, hold back your water) (https://quran.com/11/44); Quran 5:112-115 (the table asked for by the disciples) (https://quran.com/5/112-115)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No verse of the Quran says that Ibrahim was thrown into the fire or that the table came down to the disciples, and 'incline them towards you' is the literal wording of 2:260. These are readings of the text as it stands, and calling those who hold them deviants is unacceptable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that no verse of the Quran states that Ibrahim was thrown into the fire or that the table was sent down to the disciples, and that reading 2:260 as 'incline them towards you' is the literal wording, so these are readings of the text as it stands rather than reinterpretations, and calling those who hold them deviants is unacceptable.
Evidence, his words at 38:23: “on a lot of these occasions people that are saying we are reinterpreting verses were actually just reading the verses as they are” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=2303s)

## Why does the Quran call Jesus the Word of God and speak of the Holy Spirit?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/8/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (43:11–49:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Christians and other faiths; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Cites: Quran 2:87 (we helped him with the Holy Spirit) (https://quran.com/2/87); Quran 2:253 (we gave him clear signs and helped him with the Holy Spirit) (https://quran.com/2/253); Quran 58:22 (strengthened them with a spirit from Him) (https://quran.com/58/22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran applies to Jesus terms it uses of no other prophet, the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, which Muslims do not read literally. Mufti Abu Layth suggests this Christian rhetoric may have been meant to build bridges with Christians.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran applies to Jesus terms such as the Word of God and the Holy Spirit that it uses for no other prophet and that Muslims do not take literally, and suggests this Christian rhetoric may have been meant to build bridges with the Christian community.
Evidence, his words at 46:40: “Christian rhetoric that is used in the Quran perhaps in a sense of building bridges between the Muslim and Christian communities” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=2800s)

## Does the Quran say Jesus was born of a virgin?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/9/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (49:47–54:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Christians and other faiths; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No verse of the Quran states that Jesus's birth was a virgin birth, only implies it, and Muslim scholars have differed on it. Mary is never called the Virgin Mary in Islam; she was married, and some scholars held that she conceived naturally.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that no verse of the Quran states that Jesus's birth was a virgin birth, only implies it, that Muslim scholars have differed on the question, and that Mary, who was married, is never called the Virgin Mary in Islam.
Evidence, his words at 52:17: “no verse in the Quran says that she had virgin birth a verse implies it does not say just as the table verse implies that the table may come down” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=3137s)

## Which verses are used to argue that Jesus had a father, and does the Quran rule it out?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/10/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (54:58–1:02:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; How to read the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Cites: Quran 66:12 (Mary who guarded her chastity; we breathed into it of our spirit) (https://quran.com/66/12); Quran 4:24 (al-muhsanat, the married women) (https://quran.com/4/24); Quran 19:16-22 (the annunciation to Mary) (https://quran.com/19/16-22); Quran 6:85-87 (Zakariya, Yahya, Isa ... and their fathers) (https://quran.com/6/85-87); Quran 6:101 (how can He have a child when He has no companion) (https://quran.com/6/101); Quran 5:112-115 (the table asked for by the disciples) (https://quran.com/5/112-115)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quranic account of Mary implies a virgin conception but does not state it, and 66:12 is not read literally by anyone, so demanding literal reading everywhere is inconsistent. The scholars who held Jesus had a father argue from 6:85-87 and 6:101, and calling them deviants is a huge stretch.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quranic account of Mary implies but does not state a virgin conception, that 66:12 is read literally by no Muslim so literal reading cannot be demanded everywhere, and that declaring deviant those scholars who hold Jesus had a natural birth is a huge stretch; he presents 6:85-87 and 6:101 as those scholars' arguments.
Evidence, his words at 56:09: “no Muslim that I'm aware of generally believes that to be literal so yet yet you're saying that any other verse must always take every literal implication” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=3369s)

## Is evolution compatible with the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/11/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:49–1:13:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran and evolution; Adam and the creation of humans; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Cites: Quran 71:14 (He created you in stages) (https://quran.com/71/14); Quran 71:17 (Allah grew you from the earth like plants) (https://quran.com/71/17); Quran 21:30 (the heavens and earth were one; every living thing from water) (https://quran.com/21/30); Quran 3:59 (the likeness of Jesus is that of Adam) (https://quran.com/3/59); Quran 23:12-13 (insan from an extract of clay, then a drop in a stable place) (https://quran.com/23/12-13); Quran 7:189-190 (the single self and its partner; they committed shirk) (https://quran.com/7/189-190); Quran 2:30 (I will place a khalifa on the earth) (https://quran.com/2/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran's verses on creation in stages, growth from the earth, the single self and the couple of 7:189 are reconcilable with evolution, which Mufti Abu Layth calls a scientific fact established through genetics. Hawwa is not named in the Quran, and those who accept evolution should not be called deviants.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran's verses on creation in stages, growth from the earth and the single self are reconcilable with evolution, which he calls a scientific fact established through genetics, that Hawwa is not named in the Quran, and that those who accept evolution should not be called deviants.
Evidence, his words at 1:12:34: “if you don't want to accept evolution you don't have to although it is pretty much a scientific fact now through genetics that we are connected all of life on Earth is connected” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=4354s)

## Is hadith the same as the sunnah, and is hadith certain knowledge?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/12/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (1:13:18–1:19:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Mutawatir and certainty; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The sunnah is distinct from hadith and reaches Muslims through the living tradition of fiqh, not from hadith books. Hadith are khabar ahad, not certain knowledge, so the Ash'ari and Maturidi orthodoxy does not build beliefs on them, and the Hanafis and Malikis reject solitary reports that contradict reason or their principles.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the sunnah is distinct from hadith and reaches Muslims through the living tradition of fiqh, that hadith are khabar ahad and so cannot found beliefs according to the Ash'ari and Maturidi orthodoxy, and that the Hanafi and Maliki schools reject solitary reports that contradict reason or their principles.
Evidence, his words at 1:13:53: “we don't know how to pray because of Hadees we know how to pray because of the living tradition of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=4433s)

## Is a new interpretation of the Quran the same as claiming to be a new prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/13/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (1:19:53–1:23:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; God and the divine attributes; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Equating a new interpretation with a claim to prophethood is out of order, since the Salafi movement itself is a radical reinterpretation that rejects the majority and holds that God has a leg and a foot. The majority of Muslims have always accepted metaphor in the Quran.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that equating a new interpretation with a claim to prophethood is out of order, that the Salafi movement is itself a radical reinterpretation which rejects the majority and attributes a leg and a foot to God, and that the majority of Muslims have always accepted non-literal usage in the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 1:20:18: “what do you mean declare yourself a new prophet how is not the Salafi movement a radical reinterpretation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=4818s)

## When is a hadith set aside, and is rejecting hadith acceptable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/14/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (1:23:42–1:26:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; God and the divine attributes
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is not in favour of rejecting hadith in general, but follows Imam Malik in setting aside a report where it goes against the established tradition, reason, the principles of Islam or the Quran. He calls the khutbah dangerous and regrets what he sees as Qadhi's turn away from reason.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is not in favour of rejecting hadith in general, but follows Imam Malik in rejecting a report where it goes against the established tradition, reason, the principles of Islam or the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 1:24:49: “I do agree with you I am not in favor of rejecting hadith in general” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYLT19GX5k&t=5089s)

## What is the war-wager hadith paradox?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/davfpkd1eco/s/1/
Date: 2018-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The War-Wager Hadith Paradox (Debunking Dogmatism) -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–7:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Mutawatir and certainty; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Cites: Quran 2:256 (there is no compulsion in religion) (https://quran.com/2/256)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth presents the report that the Prophet was commanded to fight people until they believe, which hadith dogmatists call mutawatir, and notes that the same scholars agree no one may be fought merely for disbelief or compelled into Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says hadith dogmatists, loyal above all to the chain of transmission, have departed from the teaching of Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa not to abandon reason, and he holds that there is no compulsion at all in matters of religion.
Evidence, his words at 6:23: “they disagree with people like me and many of the scholars that say that there's no compulsion at all in Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAVFpkd1ECo&t=383s)

## If a mutawatir hadith has to be reinterpreted, what does that say about hadith transmission?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/davfpkd1eco/s/2/
Date: 2018-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The War-Wager Hadith Paradox (Debunking Dogmatism) -Mufti Abu Layth (7:54–15:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Mutawatir and certainty; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Extremism, crime and justice
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says that because its defenders must reinterpret a report they call mutawatir, the transmission system itself is shown to be fallible rather than airtight.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that when a report claimed to be mutawatir produces a meaning its own defenders must reinterpret as incomplete, this shows that the hadith transmission system is not airtight and cannot be treated as conclusive.
Evidence, his words at 15:14: “if the result is problematic the system is problematic if the system is sound the result must be sound which it isn't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAVFpkd1ECo&t=914s)

## Why does hadith dogmatism fail, according to the war-wager paradox?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/davfpkd1eco/s/3/
Date: 2018-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The War-Wager Hadith Paradox (Debunking Dogmatism) -Mufti Abu Layth (15:43–19:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Mutawatir and certainty; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Using the crocodile paradox, he argues that a sound system cannot produce an unsound result, so hadith dogmatism fails and Imam Malik's method should be followed instead.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says hadith dogmatism, which lets reports override the Quran, does not work and that Muslims should return to the method taught by Imam Malik.
Evidence, his words at 17:47: “this hadith dogmatism this hadith cancelling out or on perspective does not work and we need to really resort to the method taught to us by the likes of imam malik” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAVFpkd1ECo&t=1067s)

## Is the chain of the hadith that the Prophet died of poison reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gcid83kra2i/s/2/
Date: 2018-09-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: False Hadith: The Prophet ﷺ Was Poisoned Before He Died (3:26–6:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 4428 (I still feel the pain of the food I ate; the poison cutting my aorta) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4428)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth finds the chains unacceptable: the Bukhari version runs through Yunus, whom early critics faulted for his memory, and through al-Zuhri, who does not state that he heard it, while the Abu Dawud version has a narrator criticised for mistakes.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the chain of the poisoning report is unacceptable because Yunus was faulted by early critics for his memory and al-Zuhri does not state that he heard it.
Evidence, his words at 3:26: “I will show the contradiction and then also show from the chain perspective why it is unacceptable.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCid83kRA2I&t=206s)

## How can the same poison kill one companion at once and the Prophet three years later?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gcid83kra2i/s/3/
Date: 2018-09-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: False Hadith: The Prophet ﷺ Was Poisoned Before He Died (6:49–10:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; The life of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The story contradicts itself: the companion who ate the food died at once, so the same poison cannot have killed the Prophet three years later, and the Prophet in Muslim's version says Allah would not let the woman do it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the poisoning story is internally contradictory, since the companion who ate the food died at once while the Prophet is said to have died from the same poison three years later.
Evidence, his words at 9:09: “This is already a contradiction. The fact that dies from that poison, how can that poison take three years when Bishar has already died from it?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCid83kRA2I&t=549s)

## Does the hadith that the Prophet died of poison contradict the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gcid83kra2i/s/4/
Date: 2018-09-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: False Hadith: The Prophet ﷺ Was Poisoned Before He Died (10:31–12:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Cites: Quran 69:44-46 (had he invented sayings against Us, We would have seized him and cut his aorta; he cites verses 44 to 46 without naming the surah) (https://quran.com/69/44-46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, in Mufti Abu Layth's view: the Quran promises that Allah will protect the Prophet from the people, and it describes cutting the aorta as the punishment for one who forges revelation, so a report that the Prophet died that way humiliates him.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the poisoning report clashes with the Quran's promise to protect the Prophet from the people and makes the Prophet's death resemble the punishment described in the Quran for one who forges revelation.
Evidence, his words at 10:35: “Allah said in the Quran that that oh messenger of God that stand up with the message Allah will protect you and here evidently Allah has not then protected him” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCid83kRA2I&t=635s)

## Why should Muslims reject the hadith that the Prophet died of poison?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gcid83kra2i/s/5/
Date: 2018-09-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: False Hadith: The Prophet ﷺ Was Poisoned Before He Died (12:47–18:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Cites: Quran 69:44-46 (had he invented sayings against Us, We would have seized him and cut his aorta; he cites verses 44 to 46 without naming the surah) (https://quran.com/69/44-46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Following Imam Malik, a hadith that contradicts the overall message of the Quran is set aside; Mufti Abu Layth rules the poisoning report false on chain and content and says that calling the Prophet's death a poisoning insults Islam, God and the Prophet.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that a hadith contradicting the overall message of the Quran must be set aside, as Imam Malik did, and that saying the Prophet died of poisoning insults Islam, God and the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 12:47: “We need to learn from the the examples of Im Malik Im Abu Hanifh that when a hadith comes that contradicts the overall message of the Quran you need to put it aside.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCid83kRA2I&t=767s)

## Is the world today dar al-harb, the land of war?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/s/2/
Date: 2018-09-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (9:31–12:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Caliphate
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects the teaching that the whole world is dar al-harb, saying it puts people one step from treating their neighbours as enemy combatants.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that believing the world is the land of war puts people only a step away from declaring the people around them enemy combatants.
Evidence, his words at 10:08: “if we are living in that all harm then we are only a step away from declaring the people here as enemy combatants” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUwTJQAmx0&t=608s)

## Are the hadith about the khilafah authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/s/3/
Date: 2018-09-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (12:04–14:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: False and fabricated hadith; Caliphate; Succession and the first civil wars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says every hadith about the khilafah is fabricated, since the notion did not exist in the Prophet's lifetime and the Companions did not know them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says every hadith about the khilafah is fabricated.
Evidence, his words at 12:04: “every single hadith about the Shelia I'm telling you is fabricated the Prophet in the times of the Arabs they never even used to use this word” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUwTJQAmx0&t=724s)

## Did al-Ghazali say Muslims must establish a caliphate?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/s/4/
Date: 2018-09-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (14:42–18:31)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/14/; general teaching
Topics: Caliphate; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): When al-Ghazali argued for a caliph he meant a king who keeps law and order, as opposed to anarchy, not a system to be set against democracy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that when al-Ghazali and scholars of his time wrote of the caliph they meant kingship as opposed to anarchy, not as opposed to democracy.
Evidence, his words at 15:57: “when those people in the past wrote about rule when what they meant was as opposed to what as opposed to anarchy Khilafah simply meant Kings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUwTJQAmx0&t=957s)

## Who should I listen to about political ideas in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/s/5/
Date: 2018-09-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (18:31–22:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Caliphate; How to study Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Anyone speaking about ideas in Islam should at least be a scholar; he warns young people away from caliphate groups and points to Hamza Yusuf's lecture calling the caliphate a myth.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says anyone who wants to speak about ideas within Islam should at least be a scholar, though they can still be wrong.
Evidence, his words at 22:19: “anybody at least if they want to speak about ideas within Islam then the least is let them be a scholar then they can be wrong still” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUwTJQAmx0&t=1339s)

## Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet forgot verses of the Quran and that there was a verse of stoning?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/2/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (5:10–10:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Preservation and variant readings; Reports that disrespect the Prophet
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 2655 (he reminded me of a verse I had forgotten) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2655); Sahih al-Bukhari 6830 (Umar's speech on the verse of stoning) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6830)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Two Bukhari reports have the Prophet forgetting a verse of the Quran and Umar speaking of a verse of stoning that they used to recite. Mufti Abu Layth says there is no such verse, that this disrespects Umar and the Prophet, and that it implies the Quran has changed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which Umar speaks of a verse of stoning that was revealed and recited is disrespectful to Umar and to the Quran, since there is no verse of stoning in the Quran and the report amounts to saying the Quran has changed, and he highlights another Bukhari report in which the Prophet forgets a verse.
Evidence, his words at 9:35: “so this is disrespectful to - Omar is disrespectful to the Quran is trying to say that what is saying the Quran has changed” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=575s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Bukhari report of the Prophet falling unconscious when he uncovered himself?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/3/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (10:23–13:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 364 (carrying stones for the Kaaba with the izar on his shoulders) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:364)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Bukhari report that the Prophet removed his izar while carrying stones for the Kaaba, fell unconscious and was never seen naked again is, in Mufti Abu Layth's words, nonsense that disrespects the Prophet, and he dismisses the scholars' attempts to soften it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report that the Prophet fell unconscious after removing his izar to carry stones for the Kaaba and was never seen naked again is nonsense that disrespects the Prophet, and that the scholars' efforts to soften it contradict its own wording.
Evidence, his words at 11:29: “this is how we are repaying the our profits with respect that is nonsense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=689s)

## What is the Bukhari report about the Prophet seeing a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/4/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (13:02–15:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Paradise and hell
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Bukhari report in which the Prophet sees a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise and turns away because of Umar's jealousy casts the Prophet in a poor light, Mufti Abu Layth says.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which the Prophet turns away from a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise because of Umar's jealousy casts the Prophet in a poor light.
Evidence, his words at 14:39: “look what light its casting upon our beloved prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=879s)

## What is the Bukhari deathbed report in which the companions ask whether the Prophet is delirious?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/5/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (15:38–18:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The companions; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 4431 (bring me something to write on; is he speaking deliriously?) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4431)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Bukhari deathbed report in which the companions dispute and ask whether the Prophet is speaking deliriously portrays the companions badly and is not true, Mufti Abu Layth says, and Sunnis hand the Shia a weapon by accepting it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari deathbed report in which the companions dispute before the Prophet and ask whether he is speaking deliriously portrays the companions badly and is not true, and that Sunnis allow the Shia to use it against the companions by accepting it.
Evidence, his words at 16:34: “I mean look at the nonsense attributing that this this is not true” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=994s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the Bukhari report of Sulayman and the hundred women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/6/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (18:15–22:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Stories of the prophets
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 2819 (Sulayman: tonight I will go to a hundred women) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2819)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The report of Sulayman going to a hundred women in one night is absurd and disrespects a prophet, and its moral that God punished him with a disabled child paints a troubling picture of God. A report that clashes with reason, the Quran or Islamic principles goes out of the window.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of Sulayman and the hundred women is absurd, puts a prophet in a bad light and portrays God as punishing a prophet with a disabled child, and that any report which clashes with reason, the Quran and the general understanding of Islam, or uproots an Islamic principle, is to be rejected.
Evidence, his words at 21:04: “if a hadith fits in with with the conditions with reason if it fits in with it doesn't clash with the Quran and the general understanding of Islam and it doesn't approve Islamic principles we will accept it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=1264s)

## What does Mufti Abu Layth say about the Bukhari report of the wolf and the cow that spoke?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/7/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (22:10–26:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Narrator criticism
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 3663 (the wolf and the cow that spoke) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3663)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Bukhari report in which a wolf and a cow speak eloquent Arabic about purpose and the future is absurd, Mufti Abu Layth says, and the phrase radi Allahu anhuma placed in the Prophet's mouth is an anachronism from a later age.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of the talking wolf and cow is absurd, since animals do not grasp concepts such as purpose and future events, that its chain is poor, and that the phrase radi Allahu anhuma attributed to the Prophet is an anachronism from a later age.
Evidence, his words at 24:52: “these words came much after like weave like muslims we use these words when we're gonna speak about the Companions” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=1492s)

## What does the Bukhari report that Shaytan touches every newborn except Mary and Jesus mean?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/8/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (26:05–28:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Jesus in the Quran
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 3431 (no child is born without Shaytan touching him, except Mary and her son) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3431)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Bukhari report that Shaytan touches every newborn except Mary and Jesus makes even the Prophet Muhammad subject to the devil's touch while exempting the two figures of Christian doctrine, which Mufti Abu Layth presents as a Christian idea in the collection.

## Does Sahih al-Bukhari say the Prophet pointed to Aisha's house as the source of fitna?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/9/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (28:43–30:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The wives of the Prophet; Reports that disrespect the Prophet
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 3104 (the fitna is here, pointing to Aisha's house) (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3104)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Bukhari report in which the Prophet points to Aisha's house and says the fitna and the horn of Shaytan will rise there is, Mufti Abu Layth says, disrespectful to the Prophet and to Aisha, and Muslims should question what they pass off as authentic.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report in which the Prophet points to Aisha's house as the place where the fitna and the horn of Shaytan will rise is disrespectful to the Prophet and to Aisha, and that Muslims need to question what they present as authentic.
Evidence, his words at 29:09: “what the hell is wrong with these people well this is so disrespectful to our prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=1749s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth say BukhariGate matters?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iijbmtxueow/s/10/
Date: 2018-09-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 2: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (30:03–32:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): BukhariGate matters because the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari rests on one transmitter, al-Farabri, and because the reports in it repay the Prophet and his companions with disrespect. Mufti Abu Layth attributes their circulation to Wahhabis and their sympathisers, whom he condemns in strong terms.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that BukhariGate matters because the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari rests on al-Farabri alone and because its reports repay the Prophet, Umar and Aisha with disrespect, and he attributes the circulation of these reports to Wahhabis and their sympathisers, whom he calls haters of the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 30:22: “this is why Buhari gate was so important and we have to remember this whole book transmitted on the back of one man robbery robbery” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijbMTxUEOw&t=1822s)

## Backdrop to BukhariGate: a widespread debate, his training, and transparency
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/1/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–6:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The criticism of Sahih al-Bukhari is a widespread debate that Mufti Abu Layth joins as a trained scholar who studied the book in full. The religion is not diminished by questioning it, and he refuses requests to keep the discussion private.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that questioning Sahih al-Bukhari does not diminish the religion and that scholars should discuss its problems transparently rather than ask for the discussion to be kept private.
Evidence, his words at 5:12: “i feel that we need transparency we need to be honest because we are in an age of information it's you know covering up things isn't going to cut it anymore” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=312s)

## The first problem: Bukhari's semi-divine status above the Quran in practice
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/2/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (6:33–11:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Apostasy and blasphemy
Cites: Quran 2:256 (https://quran.com/2/256); Quran 10:99 (https://quran.com/10/99); Quran 18:29 (https://quran.com/18/29)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sahih al-Bukhari has been given a semi-divine status that in practice places it on par with or above the Quran, which he rejects outright. The Quran always takes precedence, and Bukhari is a book like the other hadith collections.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Sahih al-Bukhari has been given a de facto status on par with or above the Quran, which he rejects entirely: it is a book like the other hadith collections and the Quran always takes precedence over it.
Evidence, his words at 10:07: “i will never ever accept that status that is more powerful than the quran or even on par with the quran or even just slightly below the quran that is nonsense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=607s)

## The third problem: can Bukhari be traced to its author? The bullet points
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/3/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (11:50–18:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith collections and their history
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be traced to its author beyond reasonable doubt. It rests on one unvouched transmitter, his students admit an incomplete and altered copy, their copies disagree, and later editions needed correction.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the transmission of Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be established back to its author beyond reasonable doubt, because it rests on one unvouched transmitter whose students admit the copy was incomplete and altered, and whose copies disagree with one another.
Evidence, his words at 11:50: “can we establish bukhari back to the imam with with confidence beyond reasonable doubt and the answer is we can't beyond reasonable doubt there is way too much conflict” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=710s)

## Problematic reports in Bukhari: the Isra, Moses and the rock, magic on the Prophet
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/4/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (18:23–28:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); False and fabricated hadith; Isra and Mi'raj
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 5255 (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5255); Sahih al-Bukhari 4594 (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4594); Sahih al-Bukhari 5765 (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5765)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Several reports in Bukhari are factually wrong or disrespectful: the Isra dated before prophethood, a woman spurning the Prophet, Moses chasing a rock, a verse corrected on the spot, and magic making the Prophet forget intercourse. He also holds the night journey to have been a vision.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says these Bukhari reports contain a factual error, dating the night journey before prophethood, and portray the Prophet and Moses in a disrespectful and irrational light; he adds that he holds the night journey to have been a vision.
Evidence, his words at 20:50: “then the prophet tries to touch her and she moves and she says to him i seek refuge in allah from you from who from the prophet nonsense utter nonsense disrespecting our prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=1250s)

## Solomon's ninety women, the rich held back from paradise, Fatima angry with Abu Bakr
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/5/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (28:02–32:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); False and fabricated hadith; Succession and the first civil wars
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 6639 (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6639); Sahih al-Bukhari 3093 (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3093)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The reports of Solomon's ninety women, the rich held back from paradise and Fatima dying angry with Abu Bakr are all in Bukhari, and he calls the first disgusting and disrespectful to a prophet.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of Solomon vowing to sleep with ninety women and being punished with a disabled child for not saying 'if Allah wills' is disgusting and disrespectful to a prophet of God.
Evidence, his words at 29:21: “this is a prophet of god who can't be bothered to say i mean just look at that hadith that is disgusting this is so disrespectful to our prophets” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=1761s)

## Nonsensical Arabic in hadith 5492: the alcohol slaughtered by fish and sun
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/6/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (32:03–36:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 5492 (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5492); Quran 5:96 (https://quran.com/5/96)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The closing words of hadith 5492 are nonsensical Arabic that early scholars crossed out as an error. Later commentators should admit this rather than strain to make sense of it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the closing words of hadith 5492 are a syntactical error that the early scholars rightly crossed out, and that later commentators should admit the sentence is absurd instead of justifying it.
Evidence, his words at 32:28: “the classical scholars like lacabisi and these great early maliki legends who were the early founders that had the manuscripts the kind of tertiary manuscripts they cross this out as a mistake because it makes no sense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=1948s)

## The marriage to Aisha at six: consent, and the command to pray at seven
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/7/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (36:02–43:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The marriage contract
Cites: Sahih al-Bukhari 5133 (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5133); Sahih al-Bukhari 5136 (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5136)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The report that the Prophet married Aisha at six dishonours him: Bukhari itself requires a virgin's consent, which a six-year-old cannot give, and the command to separate children's beds at ten contradicts the claim that a nine-year-old had a woman's body.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report that the Prophet married Aisha at six and consummated at nine is an attack on the Prophet's honour, because a six-year-old cannot give the consent that Bukhari itself requires of a virgin, and the claim of physical maturity at nine contradicts the command to separate children's beds only at ten.
Evidence, his words at 36:52: “the prophet is looking at a six-year-old child with the intent of marriage which is a sexual relationship that is disgusting and it is an attack on the honor of our prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=2212s)

## More troubling reports: Umar's stoning verse, the adulterous monkeys, women in hellfire
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/8/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (43:54–47:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Reports such as monkeys stoning an adulterous monkey, women lacking intellect and women filling hellfire are fabricated or misunderstood. Adultery is a human institution that animals cannot commit, and most crime and bloodshed is committed by men.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Bukhari report of monkeys stoning an adulterer makes no sense, since adultery belongs to the human institution of marriage, which does not exist among animals.
Evidence, his words at 45:42: “adultery is to do with the institution of marriage institutions don't exist in the monkey world or in the animal world okay” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=2742s)

## Imam Bukhari's own practice: transmission by meaning, hidden names, a Khariji narrator
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/9/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (47:51–58:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Narrator criticism; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam Bukhari set a gold standard but did not always apply it: he transmitted by meaning, hid the names of problematic teachers and narrated from a Khariji who praised Ali's killer. Mufti Abu Layth's quarrel is not with Bukhari himself but with how the book is treated.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Imam Bukhari set a gold standard for authenticity but did not always apply it himself, since he transmitted by meaning, concealed the names of problematic teachers and narrated from a Khariji, so the narrators of his book are not all beyond question.
Evidence, his words at 53:32: “my problem per se is not with imam buhari imam buhari even though he didn't stick by his rules and to be fair he also bent the rules just like people before him” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=3212s)

## Bukhari's persecution and why his book reaches us through one transmitter
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/10/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (58:29–1:02:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Scholars and imams of the past; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Bukhari was persecuted and boycotted in his last years by Hanafis and Hanbali literalists, so few transmitted his book and it reaches us through Farabri alone. The same two groups now insist it reaches us with certainty.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Bukhari's persecution by the Hanafis and the Hanbali literalists in his last years is why his book reaches us through a single transmitter, and that the same two groups now insist it reaches us with certainty.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:17: “the book doesn't reach us with certainty because of the suffering inflicted on him by the hanafi's and the humblings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=3677s)

## Bukhari in his own chain, and the other students whose copies did not reach us
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/11/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:26–1:10:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith collections and their history
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sahih al-Bukhari reaches us through Farabri alone, although other students transmitted it. Nasafi's copy survives only in a summary of twelve hundred hadith, little of Hammad ibn Shakir's remains, Bazdawi's did not reach us, and Bukhari even appears in a chain in his own book.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that although Bukhari had other students who transmitted the Sahih, their versions were incomplete or did not reach later generations, so the book in fact reaches us through Farabri alone.
Evidence, his words at 1:09:40: “there's been a lot of claims that we have sahil bukhari through all of these sources now that's a lie” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=4180s)

## Ibn Hajar and Ibn Rushayd on the transmissions: Farabri alone, found copies not taught
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/12/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (1:10:18–1:16:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith collections and their history
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Hajar and Ibn Rushayd both record that Farabri's is the only transmission that reached later generations through teaching. Copies found centuries later cannot be taught from, so claims of independent connected transmissions are not honest.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the only transmission of Sahih al-Bukhari that reached later generations through teaching is Farabri's, and that copies found without teaching cannot be used to claim an independent connected transmission.
Evidence, his words at 1:13:24: “so all these people online trying to say we've got transmissions that are connected look this is the problem they're not being honest” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=4404s)

## Who vouched for Farabri? Baji, Sam'ani and whether transmission implies reliability
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/13/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (1:16:51–1:26:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Narrator criticism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Nobody who knew Farabri declared him reliable, and the attributions to al-Baji and al-Sam'ani cannot be found in their works. That scholars transmitted from him proves nothing, since transmission is not endorsement.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says no contemporary who knew Farabri ever declared him reliable, that the later attributions to al-Baji and al-Sam'ani are unsupported in their own works, and that a scholar transmitting from someone does not make that person reliable.
Evidence, his words at 1:17:48: “nobody who actually knows him ever vouched for him as reliable” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=4668s)

## Farabri's incomplete copy, the differing student copies and the manuscript patchwork
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/14/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (1:26:03–1:32:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith collections and their history
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Farabri's copy was incomplete and rearranged, his students' copies differ in chains and hadith, and every later manuscript down to the Sultaniyya edition was a patchwork that needed correction.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Farabri's own copy was incomplete and rearranged by his students, their copies differ in chains and hadith, and every later manuscript down to the Sultaniyya edition is a patchwork that still needed correction.
Evidence, his words at 1:31:21: “these are all through fabri and they all disagree and it's not just little disagreements the actual names in the chains are missing as well” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=5481s)

## Summing up: judge Bukhari like any other book; the deen comes through living practice
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/15/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (1:32:44–1:40:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Sunnah versus hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Bukhari should be read like any other hadith book, each report judged on its merits against reason, the Quran and established principles. The religion itself reaches Muslims through the living tradition of practice, not through this book.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Sahih al-Bukhari should be treated like any other hadith collection, with each report judged on its own merits by whether it contradicts reason, the Quran or an established principle, because the religion already reaches Muslims through the living tradition of practice.
Evidence, his words at 1:37:08: “the quality of what we're getting from sahil bukhari is in my understanding just like any other hadith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=5828s)

## Replies to critics: Jonathan Brown, academic dialogue, going public, the Aisha debate
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/16/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (1:40:37–1:48:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Debate challenges and reviews; The age of Aisha
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The problems with Bukhari should be discussed openly, because hiding them is what makes people lose faith. He finds Jonathan Brown's response emotional rather than academic and will take up the debate on Aisha's age.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the problems with Sahih al-Bukhari should be discussed openly rather than hidden from ordinary Muslims, because concealing them is what causes people to lose their faith.
Evidence, his words at 1:43:39: “if we were just honest from the beginning people wouldn't lose their faith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SfFYRljeY&t=6219s)

## What is the hadith about Abu Hurayra, the thief and Ayat al-Kursi?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a3i0x1a5cfw/s/1/
Date: 2018-08-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: False Hadith: Abu Huraira & the Thieving Devil who taught us Islam (0:00–5:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: False and fabricated hadith; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Cites: Quran 2:255 (Ayat al-Kursi) (https://quran.com/2/255)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The report has Abu Hurayra guarding the zakat treasury and releasing a thief three nights running despite the Prophet calling him a liar, until the thief teaches him to recite Ayat al-Kursi before sleep. Mufti Abu Layth calls it fabricated or mis-transmitted and contrary to the Quran and Sunnah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Sahih al-Bukhari report of Abu Hurayra being taught Ayat al-Kursi by a thieving devil is fabricated or mis-transmitted, contradicts the Quran and Sunnah and disrespects Islam.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “fabricated or Mis transmitted hadith in salvo hari which is this one about a bull rider of the law unquote the devil and the devil taught him something ridiculous totally ridiculous I mean it completely contradicts the Quran and Sunnah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3i0x1A5CFw&t=0s)

## Did Abu Hurayra learn to recite Ayat al-Kursi at bedtime from a devil?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a3i0x1a5cfw/s/2/
Date: 2018-08-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: False Hadith: Abu Huraira & the Thieving Devil who taught us Islam (5:14–7:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: False and fabricated hadith; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Cites: Quran 2:255 (Ayat al-Kursi) (https://quran.com/2/255)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects the report as blasphemous: it has the devil teaching Islam while the Prophet confirms it, against Imam Malik's principle that everything of the deen came from the Prophet. It also portrays Abu Hurayra as clumsy and disobedient and the Prophet as tolerating theft.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report is blasphemous and a mockery of the deen, since it shows Abu Hurayra clumsy and disobedient, the Prophet failing to teach and tolerating theft from the treasury, and the devil teaching Islam, against Imam Malik's principle that everything of the deen was taught by the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 5:47: “what how blasphemous disrespectful is this hadith it shows Abu Huraira to be incredibly” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3i0x1A5CFw&t=347s)

## Did the Prophet Nuh really live for 950 years?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wpqa8rxai-u/s/1/
Date: 2018-08-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Prophet Noah (a.s.) Did Not Live for 950 Years -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 29:14 (https://quran.com/29/14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Nuh did not literally live 950 years, Mufti Abu Layth says. The verse's use of two different words for year, sana and 'am, is deliberate and not just rhetorical variation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Nuh did not literally live for nine hundred and fifty years and that the Quran's use of two different words for year in 29:14, sana and 'am, is deliberate rather than mere rhetorical variation.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “no Ali Salaam did not live for a thousand years like what people think but if you look at this verse of the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpqa8rxaI-U&t=0s)

## Why do ancient texts say people lived for hundreds or thousands of years?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wpqa8rxai-u/s/2/
Date: 2018-08-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Prophet Noah (a.s.) Did Not Live for 950 Years -Mufti Abu Layth (3:53–9:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture; Stories of the prophets
Cites: Quran 29:14 (https://quran.com/29/14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The enormous reigns in the Sumerian king lists reflect a different counting system, likely based on sixty, and the numbers shorten after the flood. Mufti Abu Layth believes the Old Testament's long lifespans were inherited from this Babylonian material.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the enormous reigns in the Sumerian king lists reflect a different counting system and that the long lifespans in the Old Testament were inherited from this Babylonian material.
Evidence, his words at 8:17: “this is what I believe that people in the old testament some of the Jews had inherited in their time when they were in Babylon and these other kingdoms” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpqa8rxaI-U&t=497s)

## Why does the Quran call the ruler in Yusuf's story a king but Musa's a Pharaoh?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wpqa8rxai-u/s/3/
Date: 2018-08-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Prophet Noah (a.s.) Did Not Live for 950 Years -Mufti Abu Layth (9:09–12:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; Stories of the prophets; The ancient Near East and scripture
Cites: Quran 29:14 (https://quran.com/29/14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The thousand sana follow the counting of Nuh's own people and the fifty 'am are years as we count them. The Quran relates narratives in the terms of their own time, as when Yusuf's ruler is a king and Musa's is Pharaoh.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that in Quran 29:14 the thousand sana follow the counting of Nuh's own people while the fifty 'am are years as we count them, and that the Quran relates narratives in the terms of their own time, as when the ruler in Yusuf's story is called a king and not a pharaoh.
Evidence, his words at 10:50: “when allah addresses certain narratives in the quran at times he reflects the reality which they were upon” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpqa8rxaI-U&t=650s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth call the Sunni Defence channel blasphemous?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7img-l3vbcy/s/1/
Date: 2018-08-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the group's own words, asking what is wrong with the Prophet being sexually impotent and defending the report of Musa running naked, are blasphemous. That, he says, is why he described them as he did.

## Is there an authentic hadith that a wife may never refuse her husband sex?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7img-l3vbcy/s/2/
Date: 2018-08-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (3:50–9:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Abuse in marriage; Narrator criticism; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says no version of the report that a wife cannot refuse her husband is free of criticism, since its chains run through al-A'mash and Qatada and carry hidden defects. He challenges his critics to produce one that cannot be faulted.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the report that a woman may not refuse her husband cannot be attributed to the Prophet without blasphemy, and challenges his critics to bring one version of it whose chain he cannot show to carry weakness or hidden defects.
Evidence, his words at 6:21: “this kind of blasphemy is not attributed to our prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam you bring me one hadith one hadith that I can that cannot be criticized” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMg-l3vbcY&t=381s)

## Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to go back to Imam al-Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7img-l3vbcy/s/3/
Date: 2018-08-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (9:05–15:35)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/7/; general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith collections and their history; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says it cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt: the printed Sultaniyya rests on the lost Yuniniyya, the copies disagree, al-Saghani's claimed copy of Farabri's text is unseen, and Farabri himself was vouched for only centuries later. He challenges his critics to prove otherwise.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt to go back to Imam al-Bukhari, since the Sultaniyya edition rests on the lost Yuniniyya, the recensions disagree, and the book's transmission depends on Farabri, whom no contemporary vouched for.
Evidence, his words at 14:44: “the copies that go throughout the world all disagree with themselves hadith missing hadith les patched together we've got cut and paste job going on” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMg-l3vbcY&t=884s)

## How should Muslims decide which hadith to accept and which to reject?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7img-l3vbcy/s/4/
Date: 2018-08-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. IV -Mufti Abu Layth (15:35–19:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; The Maliki school; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Follow Imam Malik: accept some hadith and reject others. A report is accepted if it does not clash with reason, the Quran, the transmitted and corroborated Sunnah such as the practice of Madinah, or a principle of Islam; otherwise it is treated with caution.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the ummah must return to Imam Malik's method of accepting some hadith and rejecting others, accepting a report only if it does not clash with reason, the Quran, the corroborated Sunnah such as the practice of Madinah, or a principle of Islam.
Evidence, his words at 16:00: “the reason I'm doing this is to show we need to return to the methodology that was taught to us by Imam Malik” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMg-l3vbcY&t=960s)

## Did the Prophet say women lack intellect and faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/1/
Date: 2018-07-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (0:00–6:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Women in Islam; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report, though in al-Bukhari, is a false attribution to the Prophet, and that he once took it as a joke but now holds it inauthentic.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report that women lack intellect and faith is inauthentic and falsely attributed to the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 3:13: “I'm going to read this hadith and demonstrate today that this hadith is inauthentic it is not true and I'll show the many problems with this attribution misattribution to the Prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFZo7S3T_8o&t=193s)

## Does the Quran say most people in hell are women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/2/
Date: 2018-07-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (6:30–12:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Women in Islam
Cites: Quran 4:28 (man was created weak) (https://quran.com/4/28); Quran 20:115 (We made a covenant with Adam, but he forgot, and We found in him no resolve) (https://quran.com/20/115)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran speaks of mankind as a whole, all created weak, and never divides the people of hell by gender, so the report clashes with it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran never makes a gender differentiation regarding the people of hell, so the report goes against it.
Evidence, his words at 9:43: “speaking about people and and the afterlife and people damnation it never makes gender differentiation ever in the Koran right so this seems to be a new principle which is going up against the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFZo7S3T_8o&t=583s)

## Why do the versions of the 'women in hell' hadith contradict each other?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/3/
Date: 2018-07-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (12:53–16:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the versions disagree on which Eid it was and whether the women were addressed privately, so the male narrators heard it second-hand from someone unknown.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the narrations show turbulence, since the narrators could not say on which of the two Eids the address took place.
Evidence, his words at 14:48: “the person narrating keeps saying I I can't even remember which one it was so some turbulence let's move on more turbulence” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFZo7S3T_8o&t=888s)

## Do women really curse more than men, as the hadith says?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/4/
Date: 2018-07-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (16:41–23:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Speech and everyday conduct
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says men swear more than women across cultures and ingratitude is shared by both, so the report's reasons are factual errors.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report contains a factual error, since men always outperform women in swearing in every culture.
Evidence, his words at 19:12: “it is unquestionable in any culture that men always outperform women in swearing right so this is one important point that this is actually a factual error” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFZo7S3T_8o&t=1152s)

## Is not praying during menstruation a sign of weak faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/5/
Date: 2018-07-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (23:44–30:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Women in Islam; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says women refrain from prayer during menstruation because the religion told them to, so calling it a lack of faith is absurd and the report is a misattribution.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is absurd to say women lack faith for not praying while menstruating, when the religion itself told them not to pray.
Evidence, his words at 25:01: “do you not refrain from praying when you menstruating say yes I said well that's the lack of your faith wealthy irony here is that these rules have come to them from the religion so” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFZo7S3T_8o&t=1501s)

## Are the chains of the 'women lack intellect' hadith sound?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tfzo7s3t_8o/s/6/
Date: 2018-07-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Did the Prophet ﷺ Refer to Women as Lacking Intellect and Faith? (30:42–39:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Narrator criticism; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not unquestionably: Mufti Abu Layth says every chain, in al-Bukhari, Muslim and elsewhere, has a weak or disputed link, too little to override the Quran.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says all the chains of the report have some problem, so it is not unquestionably sound.
Evidence, his words at 38:45: “all of these people have some problems the reason I'm highlighting this is to show that look when these narrations already have AE they have problems in the chain they have these are not unquestionably sound” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFZo7S3T_8o&t=2325s)

## Is mut'ah a matter of belief that divides Sunnis and Shia?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/o3so0hmtatc/s/1/
Date: 2018-07-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sunni & Shia differences on Mutah, theological or political? - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Polygamy and mut'ah; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: accepting temporary marriage or not is a question of fiqh, not belief, so Sunnis are unfair to attack the Shia over mut'ah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that whether one accepts temporary marriage or not is a matter of fiqh, not a matter of iman.
Evidence, his words at 0:39: “now whether you accept it or don't accept it is a matter of fit it's not actually a matter of Eman” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SO0Hmtatc&t=39s)

## Do any Sunni scholars say mut'ah is not haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/o3so0hmtatc/s/2/
Date: 2018-07-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Sunni & Shia differences on Mutah, theological or political? - Mufti Abu Layth (3:15–5:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Polygamy and mut'ah; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A recent Moroccan Maliki scholar argues in a book that mut'ah is not haram; Mufti Abu Layth calls the 'marry me your daughter' retort in his debate with a Salafi immature.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the debate's 'then marry your daughter to me' retort was an immature and stupid thing to say.
Evidence, his words at 4:28: “the usual kind of responses which I found very immature like you know okay if you think motaz okay then marry your daughter to me” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SO0Hmtatc&t=268s)

## Do the angels curse a wife who refuses her husband in bed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cz26by1mmns/s/2/
Date: 2018-07-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. III -Mufti Abu Layth (3:12–7:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Abuse in marriage; Reports demeaning women; Narrator criticism
Cites: Quran 4:19 (live with them in kindness) (https://quran.com/4/19); Quran 2:229 (retain in kindness or release with grace) (https://quran.com/2/229)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth holds the hadith is weak, resting on narrators who practised tadlis, and clashes with the Quran's command to treat wives with kindness.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the hadith about a wife who stays away from her husband's bed is weak and unacceptable, clashing with the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 3:50: “there's this hadith which is weak I believe it's unacceptable utterly clashes with the Quranic clashes with the authentic sana clashes with the principles of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz26by1mMns&t=230s)

## Do I have to grow a beard?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vf5yueyz9vo/s/1/
Date: 2018-06-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Do You Have to Grow a Beard? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The beard was the custom of all Arabs, not something the Prophet introduced, and the 'be different from the Jews and Christians' wording is applied selectively, since the same words command dyeing hair and praying in shoes. The Prophet never defined what a beard should look like, and scholars disagree whether the command was binding.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the beard was the common custom of all Arabs including the disbelievers of Quraysh rather than something the Prophet introduced, that the 'be different from the Jews and Christians' wording is applied selectively since the same words command dyeing the hair and praying in shoes, and that the Prophet never once defined what the beard should look like.
Evidence, his words at 3:15: “yet the wording is the same in all of them but we have selective application like we reject where the Prophet said it here and we accept it where he said it here so that's not consistency” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5yuEYz9Vo&t=195s)

## What does the Quran say about the beast of the earth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/2/
Date: 2018-05-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (3:55–7:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 27:80-84 (https://quran.com/27/80-84); Quran 27:82 (we will bring out for them a creature from the earth) (https://quran.com/27/82)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads 27:80-84 as moving from the grave to the Day of Judgment, with the creature of verse 82 set within that sequence.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says verses 83 and 84 of Surah al-Naml are clearly speaking about the Day of Judgment.
Evidence, his words at 6:25: “did you deny my verses and what was it that you you know we're doing so 83 and 84 are clearly speaking about the day of judgment” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQ_mXafx5o&t=385s)

## Will a beast really appear at the end of times?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/3/
Date: 2018-05-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (7:05–9:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Cites: Quran 27:82 (we will bring out for them a creature from the earth) (https://quran.com/27/82)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says a literal beast raises questions nobody can answer, and that end-times reports are information to take with a pinch of salt, not literal events.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says everything to do with the end of times is Islamic information to be taken with a pinch of salt, not as literal events.
Evidence, his words at 9:02: “this is just Islamic information is to be taken with a pinch of salt it's like stories they give you some understanding but they're not to be taken as like literal events” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQ_mXafx5o&t=542s)

## Do the signs of the Hour have to come before the Hour?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/4/
Date: 2018-05-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (9:41–10:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not necessarily: Mufti Abu Layth accepts the view that the signs can occur with the Hour itself, as the world ends and a timeless realm begins.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth accepts as a valid difference of opinion the view that the signs of the Hour can occur together with the Hour itself.
Evidence, his words at 10:19: “so in that sense I accept this esta laughs in saying the signs of the hour they because they can happen with the hour” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQ_mXafx5o&t=619s)

## Does Ibn Ashur say the beast comes before the Day of Judgment?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/5/
Date: 2018-05-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (10:59–15:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 27:82 (we will bring out for them a creature from the earth) (https://quran.com/27/82)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads Ibn Ashur as treating the time from the world's end to the resurrection as one realm, not as placing the beast before the Day of Judgment.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, Ibn Ashur's remark about nearness does not mean the creature emerges close to the Day of Judgment rather than on it.
Evidence, his words at 14:13: “he means that it has it won't happen on the day of judgment it'll happen close to they could take that but he's not I know you know he's not saying that in my understanding” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQ_mXafx5o&t=853s)

## Ibn Ashur: the creature speaks to the deniers at the gathering
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/6/
Date: 2018-05-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (15:30–19:25)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 27:82 (we will bring out for them a creature from the earth) (https://quran.com/27/82); Quran 6:158 (faith will not benefit a soul that did not believe before) (https://quran.com/6/158)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In Ibn Ashur's reading, as Mufti Abu Layth presents it, the creature speaks at the gathering on the Day of Judgment to shame the Quraysh who denied the Prophet.

## Is it possible for Prophet Yunus to have survived inside a whale?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a-ciw2-k4y0/s/1/
Date: 2018-05-26 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Was Prophet Yunus (a.s.) Swallowed by a Whale? Is that Possible in Nature? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Quran and science
Cites: Quran 37:142 (the fish swallowed him while he was blameworthy) (https://quran.com/37/142); Quran 37:145 (We cast him onto the open shore while he was sick) (https://quran.com/37/145)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Highly unlikely but not impossible: the Quran describes no superhuman feat, only that he was swallowed and thrown out very sick.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Yunus being swallowed and surviving was a very unlikely event but not impossible.
Evidence, his words at 3:09: “one would say these events are highly unlikely in the Quran explains it as a very unlikely event that it would happen but not impossible” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CIW2-K4Y0&t=189s)

## Does Islam punish someone for leaving the faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/1/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 2:256 (there is no compulsion in religion) (https://quran.com/2/256); Quran 18:29 (whoever wishes, let him believe, and whoever wishes, let him disbelieve) (https://quran.com/18/29); Quran 10:99 (would you compel people to become believers?) (https://quran.com/10/99); Quran 109:1-6 (Surah al-Kafirun: to you your religion and to me mine) (https://quran.com/109)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Islam gives freedom of belief: the Quran says there is no compulsion in religion and leaves belief to choice, and neither the Quran nor the established Sunnah says an apostate must be killed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Islam gives freedom of faith and condemns coercion, and that neither the Quran nor the established Sunnah says an apostate must be killed.
Evidence, his words at 1:15: “an apostate must be killed that is not true an apostate is not killed in Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=75s)

## Does the sanctity of life in Islam rule out killing apostates?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/2/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (5:16–7:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Legal theory and method
Cites: Quran 5:32 (whoever kills a soul, it is as if he has killed all mankind) (https://quran.com/5/32)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Life has conclusive sanctity in Islam, and preserving life and freedom of religion for everyone are among the aims of the shari'ah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the sanctity of life is conclusive in Islam and that the preservation of life and freedom of religion for everyone are among the aims of the shari'ah.
Evidence, his words at 5:44: “so these things we understand that the sanctity of life is cotton it is cut i ok the sanctity of life is conclusive” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=344s)

## Why did some classical scholars rule that apostates be executed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/3/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (7:52–11:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Hudud and punishments; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Where classical scholars ruled that apostates be executed, they were dealing with what would now be treason or armed rebellion in a very different world; those rulings do not apply today, and their prevalence then did not make them right.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that where classical scholars prescribed capital punishment they were addressing what would today be treason or rebellion in a very different world, that those rulings do not apply today, and that the whole world doing the same then does not make them right.
Evidence, his words at 8:56: “any of these rulings today clearly do not apply many of these scholars have said today” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=536s)

## Did the Prophet ever execute anyone for leaving Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/4/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (11:49–15:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; The life of the Prophet
Cites: Quran 21:107 (we sent you only as a mercy for the worlds) (https://quran.com/21/107)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Prophet never executed anyone for disbelief or apostasy: he spared the hypocrite Abdullah ibn Ubayy, traded with Jews until his death, did not act against Ibn Sayyad and pardoned Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet never executed anyone for disbelief or apostasy, pointing to his treatment of Abdullah ibn Ubayy, his dealings with Jews until his death, Ibn Sayyad and his pardon of Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh.
Evidence, his words at 14:06: “according to that hadith which most of these people accept that person became an apostate did the Prophet instruct for him to be executed never” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=846s)

## Were apostates punished for disbelief or for fighting against Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/5/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (15:42–23:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Cites: Quran 5:33 (the punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger) (https://quran.com/5/33)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The classical punishment targeted apostates who took up arms against the community, not disbelief itself: Umar preferred to restrain and persuade, al-Tahawi tied it to waging war, and the Hanafis exempted women because they were not combatants.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth argues that the practice of giving an apostate the chance to return, and the Hanafi exemption of the female apostate, show that the classical punishment was aimed at armed rebellion against the community rather than at disbelief.
Evidence, his words at 20:30: “because they saw them as part of this insurgency this part of this rebellion against the Muslim state of the past that's why they said the female apostate would not be harmed” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=1230s)

## Which hadith are used to justify killing apostates, and were the scholars who used them right?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/6/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (23:28–26:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Some scholars did rule that apostates be killed, and he says they were clearly wrong, products of a ruthless age; the time given to apostates in the reports makes sense only as time to withdraw from rebellion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that scholars who ruled that apostates be executed unless they returned to Islam were clearly and categorically wrong, being products of an age that placed little value on human life.
Evidence, his words at 24:58: “but they got it wrong if they said that they were wrong clearly clearly and categorically” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=1498s)

## What is the context of the hadith 'whoever changes his religion, kill him'?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/7/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (26:06–28:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Individual hadith explained
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The report 'whoever changes his religion, kill him' clashes with the Quran, and in full it is Ikrima's account of Ali burning people alive and Ibn Abbas objecting that he should have executed them instead.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report 'whoever changes his religion, kill him' clashes with the absolute verse of the Quran on freedom of belief and must be read in its full context of Ali burning people alive and Ibn Abbas objecting.
Evidence, his words at 26:55: “first of all this narration apart from it clashing with the absolute verse of the Quran let's read the full narration” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=1615s)

## Is Ikrima, the narrator of the apostasy hadith, reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/8/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (28:42–35:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Narrator criticism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The main chains of 'whoever changes his religion, kill him' run through Ikrima, whom he describes as a Khariji, and whom Imam Malik and many early authorities rejected or called a liar.

## Is the chain of the apostasy hadith through Anas reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/9/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (35:16–39:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Narrator criticism; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The alternative chain of the apostasy hadith through Anas is also weak: it includes a narrator with Mu'tazili tendencies and Qatada, who is known for tadlis, and the report clashes with reason, the Quran and the Prophet's life.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the chain of the apostasy report through Anas is also problematic, because of a narrator with Mu'tazili tendencies and Qatada's known tadlis, and that the report clashes with reason, the Quran, the Prophet's life and the principles of Islam.
Evidence, his words at 38:35: “the other thing is that it clearly clashes with all three it clashes with reason I slammed giving you freedom of belief a clashes with the established sources the Quran and the clear life of the Prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=2315s)

## Are the Abu Hurayra and Hamza al-Aslami narrations on apostasy authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/10/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (39:14–43:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Narrator criticism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The other narrations used for killing apostates, from Abu Hurayra and Hamza al-Aslami, also have problems in their chains: rejected or unknown narrators and a known mudallis.

## Why would an apostate deserve death, and what about the three days to repent?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/11/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (43:11–48:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Dawah and debate culture
Cites: Quran 10:99 (would you compel people to become believers?) (https://quran.com/10/99)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): An apostate cannot be killed for disbelief, since that would condemn every disbeliever, and the 'three days to return to Islam' is absurd: it coerces people into hypocrisy and belittles the Prophet's thirteen years of preaching.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says an apostate cannot be killed for disbelief, since that would make every disbeliever deserving of death, and that giving an apostate three days to return on pain of death is absurd, coerces hypocrisy and belittles the Prophet's thirteen years of preaching in Makkah.
Evidence, his words at 44:57: “you are assuming that you can convert anybody back to faith within three days then in that case why do you go out and convert the world” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=2697s)

## Can a life be taken on the basis of a doubtful hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/12/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (48:25–53:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Mutawatir and certainty; Extremism, crime and justice
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is no verse and no conclusively established hadith for killing apostates, and a life, whose sanctity is conclusive, cannot be taken on isolated reports that carry doubt; defending it while demanding religious freedom in the West is a double standard.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is no verse and no conclusively established hadith for killing apostates, and that life, whose sanctity is conclusive, cannot be taken on the basis of isolated reports that carry doubt.
Evidence, his words at 50:06: “there isn't a single verse in the Quran that would ever say this and in fact the Quran is against this message” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=3006s)

## How should Muslims treat people who leave Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vyawdwthpa4/s/13/
Date: 2018-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Apostasy has NO punishment in Islam: A Qur'an & Sunnah Analysis by Mufti Abu Layth (53:42–1:00:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Converts and newcomers; Caliphate
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): People who leave Islam should be left alone, since that is between them and God; those who misrepresent the Prophet bear blame for people's hatred, and the Prophet's way was gentleness, not coercion or a state.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that whether a person leaves Islam is between them and God and they should be left alone, and that those who have given a distorted image of the Prophet bear the blame for people's hatred of him.
Evidence, his words at 55:15: “to judge the look if a person left Islam that's the that's between them and God leave them alone” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAwDWTHPa4&t=3315s)

## Is it haram for men and women to shake hands?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/h8sxk-2-w-4/s/1/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Why men and women CAN shake hands -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Nothing in the Quran or Sunnah explicitly says shaking hands with the opposite sex is haram; that is a popular convention, not an established ruling. The iron-rod hadith is not authentic as claimed, and many scholars read its 'touch' as a euphemism for sex.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that nothing in the Quran or Sunnah explicitly and clearly proves that shaking hands with the opposite gender is haram, and that the report preferring an iron rod in the head to touching a woman is not authentic as people would like and was understood by many ulama as a euphemism for sex.
Evidence, his words at 1:57: “first of all these narrations are not authentic the way people would like them to be they're not” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8SXk-2-W-4&t=117s)

## Which scholars say men and women may shake hands, and what about 'I do not shake hands with women'?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/h8sxk-2-w-4/s/2/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Why men and women CAN shake hands -Mufti Abu Layth (2:36–6:33)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Individual hadith explained; Schools of law and following them
Cites: Quran 4:43 (aw lamastum al-nisa; the phrase also in 5:6) (https://quran.com/4/43)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The hadith 'I do not shake hands with women' is set against Umm Atiyya's narrations of the women's pledge, which some read as the Prophet shaking hands. Contemporary scholars including the Shaykh of al-Azhar, Bin Bayyah and the European fatwa council have ruled that shaking hands is permitted.

## What evidence do scholars use to allow men and women to shake hands?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/h8sxk-2-w-4/s/3/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Why men and women CAN shake hands -Mufti Abu Layth (6:33–9:10)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Individual hadith explained; The companions
Cites: Quran 4:86 (when you are greeted, return a better greeting or return it) (https://quran.com/4/86)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Scholars who permit it cite 'do not frighten people away', the verse on returning greetings, Abu Musa having a woman comb his hair on Hajj, and the Sahih report that Umm Haram combed the Prophet's hair and let him nap at her house. The Umm Haram report is one scholars struggled with.

## Should I refuse to shake hands with the opposite sex where it is the custom?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/h8sxk-2-w-4/s/4/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis: Why men and women CAN shake hands -Mufti Abu Layth (9:10–12:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Individual hadith explained; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Follow the convention you are in: where people do not shake hands, do not; where they do, you may act on the fatwa of the scholars who permit it, since no clear verse or hadith forbids it. Losing citizenship over a handshake was not a battle worth choosing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): His own understanding is that one follows the convention of one's society: where people do not shake hands one does not, following the general ulama, but where it is the convention one may act on the fatwa of the scholars who permit it, since, as many ulama say, no clear verse or hadith makes it haram, and Muslims should choose their battles wisely.
Evidence, his words at 11:02: “my own understanding is look you go with your conventions okay so if you're in a convention where people don't do this you you don't do this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8SXk-2-W-4&t=662s)

## Is there a hadith that says a woman who wears perfume outside is a zaniya?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/1/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:39)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Dress and appearance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The report, transmitted only from Abu Musa al-Ash'ari and found in al-Nasa'i, Abu Dawud, Ahmad and al-Tirmidhi, says a woman who passes people while wearing perfume is a fornicator.

## Is the hadith about women wearing perfume being zaniya authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/2/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (2:39–10:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Reports demeaning women
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the report is not authentic: every version comes through one weak narrator, Thabit ibn Umara, from the obscure Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities stopped it at the companion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the perfume report is not sahih and is a lie attributed to the Prophet, because it rests on a single chain through the weak Thabit ibn Umara from the little-known Ghunaym ibn Qays, and some early authorities did not attribute it to the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 3:05: “this hadith is not sorry okay it is not sorry this hadith is life life people and this is a lie attributed to the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO72u9ThuK8&t=185s)

## Would the Prophet really call a woman wearing perfume a fornicator?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/3/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (10:32–19:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Hudud and punishments
Cites: Quran 24:4 (those who accuse chaste women without four witnesses) (https://quran.com/24/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says calling a woman a fornicator is the crime of qadhf under Quran 24:4, punished by the Malikis whatever the intention, and the Prophet was never obscene, so the report insults him.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report slanders the Prophet, since calling a woman a fornicator is qadhf punishable under the Quran and, for the Malikis, regardless of intention, and the Prophet was never obscene and would not have labelled women this way to deter them.
Evidence, his words at 15:38: “this is the Prophet would never ever have said something like this this is a slander against the honor of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam right that he would speak about women in such a way” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO72u9ThuK8&t=938s)

## Doesn't the hadith of Zaynab forbid women from wearing perfume to the mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/4/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (19:47–23:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Women in worship and mosques; Dress and appearance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The report only tells women not to wear perfume to the late Isha, sometimes Zaynab alone, so Mufti Abu Layth reads it as a specific instruction, not a general ban.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Zaynab's report, which mentions only the late Isha and in some versions addresses her alone, was a specific instruction for an unstated reason and not a general prohibition of perfume for women.
Evidence, his words at 21:55: “in my understanding this was just an isolated incident that may whatever it was it was not a general ruling because if it was a general ruling the Prophet” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO72u9ThuK8&t=1315s)

## Is a woman's prayer rejected if she wears perfume to the mosque?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/5/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (23:40–26:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports demeaning women; Narrator criticism; Women in worship and mosques
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the report is a statement attributed to Abu Hurayra through unknown and weak narrators, not a hadith of the Prophet, and no one holds that such a prayer is invalid.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report that a perfumed woman's prayer is not accepted until she bathes is not from the Prophet, rests on unknown and weak narrators, and is followed by no one.
Evidence, his words at 25:47: “that hadith is utterly utterly unacceptable as a hadith from the prophet salallahu alaihe salam whether these things somehow above herrera said them or not is a different story but nobody accepts these rulings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO72u9ThuK8&t=1547s)

## Can women wear perfume when they go out?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bo72u9thuk8/s/6/
Date: 2018-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Women Wearing Perfume: Debunking Weak and Blasphemous Hadith -Mufti Abu Layth (26:15–28:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance; Reports demeaning women
Cites: Quran 21:107 (a mercy to the worlds) (https://quran.com/21/107)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, women may wear perfume when they go out; Mufti Abu Layth says people should smell good and be presentable, and the slanderous reports must not be attributed to the Prophet.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says women may wear perfume when they go out, that everyone should smell good and be presentable, and that the reports calling such women fornicators must not be attributed to the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 27:04: “yes of course they can work perfume when they go out and people should wear a certain amount of perfume people should always smell good” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO72u9ThuK8&t=1624s)

## Who is Mufti Abu Layth's message aimed at?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nzdioi1jwwm/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-23 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is My Mission? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:57)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t9ei_hrzl84/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Reason and revelation; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): His message is for the majority of Muslims who do not practise or feel Islam cannot stand up to reason, to show them that it can.

## Can a woman go on Hajj without a mahram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/2/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (9:31–12:03)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Hajj and umrah; Interaction between men and women; Schools of law and following them
Cites: Quran 3:97 (pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to Allah by people) (https://quran.com/3/97)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reports that al-Shafi'i allowed a woman to go with a group of women and Imam Malik with any safe company, while Abu Hanifa required a mahram for journeys over three days.

## Must a kidnapped woman have a mahram to escape?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/3/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (12:03–15:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth ridicules the classical debate over whether a captive woman may flee without a mahram, saying past scholars reasoned within their own environment.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says scholars of the past did not always think the way we do, but were thinking within their own environment.
Evidence, his words at 14:26: “you've got to understand that they didn't always think the way we think we are thinking within our own environment they were thinking within their own environment” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=866s)

## Is it haram for a woman to travel more than 48 miles alone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/4/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (15:45–19:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth calls the 48-mile rule absurd, a later Hanafi hardening of Abu Hanifa's three-day limit, which was itself meant to ease things for women.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says forbidding a woman to travel 48 miles is absurd and makes a mockery of the religion.
Evidence, his words at 19:01: “know that final step that's gonna make it 48 miles that's one small step for a woman one giant leap this is absurd this is ridiculous this one is making mockery of the religion” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=1141s)

## What do Saudi scholars say about women travelling without a mahram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/5/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (19:38–23:01)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reports the Saudi fatwa board and Ibn Baz forbidding any journey without a mahram, even a short staff bus trip, and mocks the strictness.

## Why did the Prophet say women should not travel without a mahram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/6/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (23:01–27:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; The life of the Prophet; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): For their safety: Mufti Abu Layth says the limits tracked how far the safe zone around Madinah reached, widening as treaties spread, not a rule to confine women.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet was not setting boundaries to confine women in these hadith but was trying to safeguard them.
Evidence, his words at 23:01: “these hadith were the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam not trying to set boundaries to confine women at all and anybody who thinks that anybody who thinks that has a poor” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=1381s)

## Did the Prophet foresee women travelling alone safely?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/7/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (27:28–30:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; The life of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth cites the Prophet's prophecy to Adi ibn Hatim of a lone woman travelling from Iraq to Makkah, which Adi lived to see.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's prophecy to Adi ibn Hatim of a woman travelling alone from al-Hira to Makkah came true as stability came to the region.
Evidence, his words at 29:23: “yet he says wallahi in my old age I saw the the hyena a woman coming from that place to Makkah on her own not fearing nobody except Allah but that much stability had come about in the region” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=1763s)

## What did the Maliki scholars say about women travelling with a safe group?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/8/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (30:39–35:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; The Muwatta and the Mudawwana; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth cites al-Baji that a woman is safe without a mahram in large caravans and busy highways, and reads Imam Malik's ordering of the hadith as showing they were about safety.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's calling two travellers devils was religious rhetoric used in that age to safeguard people in hostile territory.
Evidence, his words at 34:29: “now you tell me why is the prophet calling two people traveling Devils this was religious rhetoric too kind that was used in the day and age to safeguard them because there was hostile territory” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=2069s)

## Is it safe and allowed for a woman to fly alone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/9/
Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (35:07–38:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says a woman may travel alone, including by air, since the ruling was always about safety, and rejects the claim that only a husband can protect her.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is absolutely fine for a woman to travel on her own, the key thing having been safety.
Evidence, his words at 37:04: “so yes it is absolutely fine for a woman to travel on her own as and the key thing was all about safety” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=2224s)

## Did Musa beat Pharaoh's magicians with stronger magic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pkp3itoskjc/s/2/
Date: 2018-04-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Did the Staff of Moses (AS) really turn into a snake? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (6:16–13:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Prophethood and miracles; Tafsir and verse study
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth prefers the reading that Musa's staff exposed the magicians' trickery, since out-doing their magic would only teach that might is right.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that Musa exposing the magicians' trickery, rather than outperforming their magic, sits better with his understanding.
Evidence, his words at 11:19: “liars they have no connections with the gods that they speak of that they gods do not help them it is a lie that to me sits more right with my understanding” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkP3itoSKJc&t=679s)

## Was Abu Hanifa considered a deviant by the scholars of his time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zn1-wlbys2i/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa was deemed a heretic/deviant by his contemporaries - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–3:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Many leading scholars of Abu Hanifa's time considered him misguided. His school rose to dominance because his student Abu Yusuf became chief judge and appointed only Hanafis, which Mufti Abu Layth says shows that power, not evidence, often decides which views prevail.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Abu Hanifa was considered a deviant by many scholars of his time and that the Hanafi school became dominant because his student Abu Yusuf, as chief judge, appointed only Hanafi judges, so that its rise rested on power rather than evidence.
Evidence, his words at 2:36: “now you tell me is that based on studies is that based on evidences is that based on objectivity or is it based on power positions is based on power positions” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN1-WlBys2I&t=156s)

## Can people with very different religious views still talk with respect?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zn1-wlbys2i/s/2/
Date: 2018-04-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa was deemed a heretic/deviant by his contemporaries - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (3:57–5:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Character and virtue; The Mufti and the channel
Cites: Quran 68:4 (you are of a great character) (https://quran.com/68/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): People who disagree on many things can still sit together, talk with respect and enjoy each other's company, and Mufti Abu Layth says this is the conduct Muslims need to return to, in line with the Prophet's great character.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that people holding very different positions can and should sit together, talk with respect and enjoy each other's company, and that this is the conduct Muslims need to return to, in keeping with the Prophet's great character.
Evidence, his words at 5:08: “and yet you can sit and talk with respect and you can enjoy each other's company walk away thinking you know what that was a solid kind of sitting even though we disagree on so many things” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN1-WlBys2I&t=308s)

## Does jinn possession exist in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not as popularly pictured, Mufti Abu Layth holds: the idea of demons taking over a body and causing illness and insanity does not survive the Quran, the authentic Sunnah and reason. He asks what the jinn would even gain by it and sets out to trace where the belief comes from.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that jinn or demonic possession, as popularly pictured, does not exist when examined against the Quran, the authentic Sunnah and reason, and that the first question to ask is what objective the jinn would have in possessing anyone.
Evidence, his words at 2:30: “gene possession demonic possessions the way people pictured this understanding that we've defined does not actually exist” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=150s)

## Why did religious scholars end up explaining things like illness and the mind?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/2/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (3:52–7:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Creed and the schools of theology; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Because for most of history the ulama were the only educated class, so people brought them every unexplained question, from the divisibility of atoms to whether the intellect sits in the heart or the brain. They answered with the knowledge of their day, which is the background to the possession belief.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the ulama were historically the only learned class and so were asked to explain worldly phenomena with the knowledge of their time, which is the backdrop against which the belief in possession took shape.
Evidence, his words at 6:17: “the ulema are using the resources to come up with answers these are not necessarily religious questions these are just worldly human questions” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=377s)

## Does the Quran's riba verse prove that Satan can possess people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/3/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (7:47–13:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Tafsir and verse study; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 2:275 (like one whom Shaytan has driven to madness by his touch) (https://quran.com/2/275); Quran 37:65 (its shoots are like the heads of devils) (https://quran.com/37/65)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the verse is imagery, read by the commentators as describing how riba-takers rise on the Day of Judgement or as a picture of consuming greed, and the Quran uses such images, like the zaqqum tree's heads of devils, because humans have imagination.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the riba verse's image of one driven unstable by Satan's touch is Quranic imagery drawing on human imagination, read by commentators as describing the resurrection or greed, and is not evidence for possession, just as the zaqqum tree's 'heads of devils' is not.
Evidence, his words at 12:05: “this verse is one of the key verses that is misused or misinterpreted by people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=725s)

## Are there authentic hadith showing the Prophet casting out jinn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/4/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (13:03–19:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Authenticating hadith; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No report of the Prophet expelling a jinn is free of criticism: the Ya'la ibn Murra and Umm Aban reports are weak, and the sound version of Uthman ibn Abi al-As's story in Sahih Muslim mentions no jinn at all, as al-Nawawi points out. Mufti Abu Layth asks why a Prophet sent as a mercy would never have taught about so common a danger.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that no hadith cited for jinn possession is free of criticism, that the sound version of Uthman ibn Abi al-As's complaint in Sahih Muslim mentions no jinn, as al-Nawawi notes, and that the Prophet, sent as a mercy to mankind, never taught about so ubiquitous a danger in any sound transmission.
Evidence, his words at 13:03: “not a single hadith that is free of criticism there are a few hadith I mean there are many hadees which are just completely week or week” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=783s)

## Should I believe something just because people say the Quran or hadith say so?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/5/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (19:34–22:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Jinn possession; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran itself appeals to reason, asking people to look, reflect and ponder, and condemns following forefathers blindly, so claims like possession must be tested against reason through the Quran. Someone reading the Quran without a cultural inheritance would never derive possession from it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Quran calls people to reason rather than to belief because it says so, and that a claim such as possession, which no one would derive from the Quran without a cultural inheritance, must be tested against reason through the Quran.
Evidence, his words at 20:24: “the Quran itself comes with this understanding that look you have to resort to reason” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=1224s)

## What does the hadith 'Satan flows through the son of Adam like blood' mean?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/6/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (22:09–24:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Individual hadith explained; Jinn, angels and the devil
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In context it is about suspicion: the Prophet said it after explaining to some men that the woman with him was his wife Safiyya, so it refers to the insinuations that pass through human minds, not to possession. Mufti Abu Layth adds that the exorcism trade is a large industry whose practitioners may nonetheless be sincere.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the hadith that Satan flows through the son of Adam like blood, read in its context with Safiyya, concerns human suspicion and insinuation, since the men addressed were not possessed, and that it does not support possession.
Evidence, his words at 23:38: “they were just the facts suspicion that's what the Prophet was speaking about that look I'm not saying you were being suspicious but it is human to sometimes have insinuations” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=1418s)

## Why do only believers in jinn possession seem to experience it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/7/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (24:48–28:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Reason and revelation; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says personal and family anecdotes are used to defend possession while the same Muslims dismiss Hindu miracles or Christian doctrine by reasoning against them, applying reason to everyone's claims but their own. He cites a study finding the brain's rational centre quietens during one's own religious experience.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Muslims apply reason to dismiss other religions' miracles and doctrines but switch it off for possession once a belief has been Islamised, relying instead on anecdotal experiences that only ever afflict believers.
Evidence, his words at 26:54: “you'll never resort to reason but to discount and discredit other religions immediately the voice of reason is called up” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=1614s)

## How do we know mental illness is not really jinn possession?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/8/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (28:46–34:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Reason and revelation; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth answers that an explanation which fits everything, like a child told that cyborgs cause all events, is not thereby true; the jinn have become the Muslim catch-all. Such belief is what Basil Mitchell's parable of the partisan describes, a faith no evidence can shake.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that using the jinn to explain anything unexplained is like a child's all-purpose conspiracy, an unfalsifiable non-propositional faith such as Basil Mitchell's partisan holds, which no evidence or reasoning can touch.
Evidence, his words at 30:09: “if you've just got one version to answer everything then yes you can do that but it doesn't make it true” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=1809s)

## Why does it matter whether people believe in jinn possession?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/9/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (34:00–36:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Because the belief brings mockery on Islam and sustains an industry of abuse, with beatings, sexual violence and extortion, including a house gifted to a practitioner as a 'cure'. Mufti Abu Layth says Islam will bear the blame and future generations will treat it as mythology.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the belief in possession must be confronted because it exposes Islam to mockery and underwrites an industry of beatings, sexual violence and financial exploitation, for which Islam itself will be blamed by coming generations.
Evidence, his words at 34:00: “why is this so important to tackle this topic it's important because one the mockery that is being made out of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=2040s)

## What medical conditions could have been mistaken for possession in the past?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/10/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (36:39–40:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Depression and anxiety; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Conditions such as palinopsia, where after-images persist, and Charles Bonnet syndrome, where people see faces, teeth and buildings that are not there, have known brain causes today but would once have looked like demons. Oliver Sacks's patient knew her visions were unreal, unlike the persecutory beliefs of psychosis.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that conditions now explained neurologically, such as palinopsia and Charles Bonnet syndrome, would in the past have been read as demons or possession for want of any other explanation.
Evidence, his words at 37:56: “how would I explain that in the past what an abnormality in the brain no maybe you're a demon” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=2276s)

## If exorcisms and ruqya sometimes work, does that prove possession is real?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/11/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (40:37–44:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: real symptoms can be produced or relieved by belief alone, as Ted Kaptchuk's study with fake pills and retractable needles showed, so an exorcism or ruqya can 'work' through the placebo effect. Some people would also have recovered regardless.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the placebo and nocebo effects, demonstrated in Ted Kaptchuk's sham-treatment study, explain why people genuinely feel better or worse after exorcisms and ruqya, and that some would have recovered anyway.
Evidence, his words at 44:21: “so when people are going through gin exorcisms or rupiah or things like this things can actually work” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=2661s)

## If jinn do not possess people, what is ruqya for?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/12/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (44:33–48:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Jinn possession; Tafsir and verse study
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran is a cure for what is in the hearts, meaning disbelief and superstition, not a medical treatment. Ruqya and the du'as taught against omens are a scaffolding that steadies a person's faith until it can stand on its own, because the mind clings to ritual.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Quran's healing is for what is in the hearts, meaning disbelief and superstition, and that ruqya and the du'as taught against omens are a scaffolding, like a walking frame, that steadies people's iman because the human mind clings to ritual.
Evidence, his words at 46:16: “rukia and these things have been set as a scaffolding with a large name to guide people to a pure Iman so it is a scaffolding it's like a Zimmer frame to help you walk until you can walk” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=2776s)

## What is the 'jinn of the gaps'?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/13/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (48:28–55:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Science, the universe and big questions; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): It is Mufti Abu Layth's name for blaming the jinn for anything not yet understood, as atheists accuse believers of a god of the gaps. He lists conditions such as Capgras delusion, hemispatial neglect, aphantasia and foreign accent syndrome that have or will have natural explanations but would once have been called possession.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that attributing whatever cannot yet be explained to the jinn is a 'jinn of the gaps' argument, as weak as the god of the gaps that atheists criticise, and that not knowing an answer does not mean it cannot be known.
Evidence, his words at 54:41: “this is like the Djinn of the gaps like the moment we don't know anything it's the Djinn” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=3281s)

## Why do cases of 'possession' in Muslim communities so often involve women with trauma?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/14/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (55:02–58:57)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Trauma and healing; Abusive and difficult parents
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Because, Mufti Abu Layth says, such cases are usually breakdowns of a psyche tormented by control, suspicion, forced or cousin marriages and abuse, which the stigma around mental health stops families from acknowledging, so they call it jinn or magic. The hadith that every disease has a cure means go and find it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the hadith that every disease has a cure known to those who know it is a call to seek explanations, and that many cases called possession in Muslim communities, especially among women, are breakdowns under control, forced marriage and abuse that the stigma around mental health prevents families from naming.
Evidence, his words at 57:48: “we have such a stigma towards mental health Muslims get so offended if you say this could be a mental health issue” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=3468s)

## Can a jinn fall in love with someone or break up a marriage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/15/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (58:57–1:01:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn, angels and the devil; Jinn possession; Marriage
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, in Mufti Abu Layth's view: jinn, if they exist, would be as different from humans as extremophile bacteria, and nobody thinks a bacterium is jealous of their marriage. Relationships end through human behaviour, and people should own that rather than blame the jinn.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that even if the jinn exist they would belong to a domain of life as remote from humans as archaea, so the idea of a jinn falling in love with someone or wrecking a marriage is absurd, and people must take responsibility for their own relationships.
Evidence, his words at 1:00:23: “they're not the same species or genus they're not even the same domain as us” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=3623s)

## How does Mufti Abu Layth explain an exorcist who says he is possessed by a jinn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/16/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (1:01:35–1:05:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Islamic psychology; Sexuality and orientation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): As displacement of guilt: the exorcist's 'jinn' professed sexual love for him, which Mufti Abu Layth reads as the man projecting desires he could not reconcile with his religious identity onto a jinn. He says the man may sincerely believe it, but belief does not make it true.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth reads the exorcist's 'jinn', who professed sexual love for him, as a displacement of guilt, the projection of desires the man could not own as a religious figure, sincerely believed but not true.
Evidence, his words at 1:03:35: “so displacement of guilt it's easy look at psychoanalysts explain it all the time you just project your demons onto” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=3815s)

## Is jinn possession just a difference of opinion among scholars?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/17/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (1:05:31–1:07:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth refuses to treat it that way: although scholars from Fakhr al-Din al-Razi to Shaltut, Ibn Ashur and al-Shawkani rejected possession while Ibn Taymiyya affirmed it, this is not a harmless fiqh difference like raising the hands in prayer, because the belief drives abuse and exploitation and brings ridicule on Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth refuses to treat possession as one of two acceptable opinions, since unlike a difference such as raising the hands in prayer it unleashes mass exploitation and abuse and brings ridicule on Islam and the Prophet, and he notes that a number of scholars, among them al-Razi and al-Shawkani, rejected it.
Evidence, his words at 1:06:47: “this is why I refuse to have a diplomatic stance on this that this abuse is unacceptable it needs to be brought to an end” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=4007s)

## What magic means: fantasy magic versus illusion, and the Arabic sihr
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The question is not illusion or trickery but 'fantasy magic' that changes reality, which he calls absurd; the Arabs used sihr for anything inexplicable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the issue is fantasy magic, which people find absurd until somebody stamps religion on it.
Evidence, his words at 1:15: “this is Magic which we all consider to be absurd up until the point somebody stamps religion on it and then all of a sudden it becomes okay” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=75s)

## Three kinds of what was called magic: mind control, potions and illusion
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/2/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (5:07–10:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): What people called magic fell into three kinds: mind control and hypnosis, chemical potions, and stage illusion, all of which have natural explanations.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that today we have explanations of how the potions once seen as magic actually work.
Evidence, his words at 9:34: “remember they may believe that it's blessing but today we've actually got explanations of how they work” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=574s)

## Magic in the Quran: Musa and Pharaoh's magicians, an illusion
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/3/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (10:13–15:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Moses
Cites: Quran 20:66 (their ropes seemed to him to move by their magic; verse not numbered by him) (https://quran.com/20/66); Quran 7:116 (they bewitched the eyes of the people; verse not numbered by him) (https://quran.com/7/116); Quran 20:67 (Musa sensed fear within himself; verse not numbered by him) (https://quran.com/20/67)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the Quran the magic of Pharaoh's magicians was only an illusion; Musa's fear was a natural human reaction, not proof that the magic was real.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the claim of any fantasy magic is absolutely absurd.
Evidence, his words at 10:13: “so this is what magic in essence was and how it was now the claim for any fantasy magic is absolutely absurd” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=613s)

## Was magic done on the Prophet? Why he rejects the report
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/4/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (15:23–25:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Cites: Quran 5:67 (Allah will protect you from the people; verse not numbered by him) (https://quran.com/5/67)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects the report that the Prophet was bewitched, even though it is in al-Bukhari, as an insult to the Prophet that clashes with the Quran.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he considers the reports of magic being done on the Prophet an affront to the honour of the Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 19:16: “like this to this extent I consider this an affront to the honour of the Prophet Muhammad” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=1156s)

## Where the story came from: polemic, the poisoning report and the ajwa dates
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/5/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (25:03–30:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth believes the story is misconstrued, possibly fed by polemical rumours of the time, and notes it contradicts the hadith that ajwa dates protect from magic.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the story of magic being done on the Prophet is definitely misconstrued.
Evidence, his words at 25:03: “one understanding you've heard is that this is a misconstrued event I believe it definitely is misconstrued” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=1503s)

## Why great scholars accepted it: sectarian turf war with the Mu'tazila
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/6/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (30:12–40:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that belief in magic, even on the Prophet, hardened as a sectarian reaction against the Mu'tazila, just as other issues hardened against Salafis or Shia.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the narrative that the Prophet had magic done on him was retrospectively reinforced to support a sectarian turf war with the Mu'tazila.
Evidence, his words at 35:15: “even the Prophet had magic done unto him you see this was retrospectively reinforced as a narrative to support the sectarian turf war that was going on” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=2115s)

## Harut and Marut, and how magic 'splits' people
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/7/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (40:24–43:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 2:102 (Harut and Marut in Babylon; verse not numbered by him) (https://quran.com/2/102)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Harut and Marut may have been two pious men taken for angels who taught skills that looked like magic; the doll-and-needles idea of magic is not from the Quran or Sunnah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says nothing like the doll-and-needles understanding of magic has come from the Quran and Sunnah.
Evidence, his words at 42:58: “this is our understanding of magic nothing like that has come from the Koran asana” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=2578s)

## The seven ajwa dates hadith as hyperbole
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/8/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (43:38–46:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Individual hadith explained; Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The hadith that ajwa dates protect from poison and magic is hyperbole praising dates; classical commentators did not take it literally either.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding the hadith of the seven dates was hyperbole emphasising the benefits of dates.
Evidence, his words at 44:16: “in my understanding this hadith was hyperbole it was it was just hyperbolic he was emphasizing the benefits of date of date” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=2656s)

## Exploitation by 'babas', and the solution: proper help and mental health
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/pifqxkwyrwg/s/9/
Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Magic: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (46:15–51:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Depression and anxiety
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Magic healers exploit desperate people; seek real help from your network or professionals, and communities should take mental health seriously.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the solution is to seek proper help from one's social network or the relevant professional.
Evidence, his words at 48:51: “the solution is to seek proper two things want to seek proper help from either your social network or from if it's a health issue” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiFqxkWyrwg&t=2931s)

## What does reason mean in religion, and what does the Quran say about it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Reason is the ability of a healthy mind to think and make judgements based on practical facts, broader than formal logic; Mufti Abu Layth takes the Surah al-Hajj verse that the hearts, not the eyes, are blind as the backdrop of the talk.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says reason is the ability of a healthy mind to think and make judgements based on practical facts, broader than formal logic, and that the Quran in Surah al-Hajj urges people to travel and perceive so as to gain hearts that reason.
Evidence, his words at 3:46: “reason is the ability of a healthy mind to to think and make judgment especially based on practical facts that is what reason is” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=226s)

## Why do Muslims need reason if they already have the Quran and Sunnah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/2/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (5:13–9:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth asks why reason matters once Islam has reached us, hears audience suggestions, and says the most important answer still lies before all of them, in the prequel he is about to give.

## How do Muslims know Islam is true and other religions are not?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/3/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (9:20–15:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Christians and other faiths; Atheism and the existence of God
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muslims reject Hinduism and the Trinity by reason, relying on a shared human intersubjectivity that judges by practical facts; Mufti Abu Layth says the same standard of reason must therefore be applied to Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Muslims use reason to reject Hinduism and the Trinity, that a shared human intersubjectivity lets a healthy mind judge such claims absurd, and that the same standard of reason must be applied to Islam.
Evidence, his words at 15:06: “the question here comes do we do we not have the responsibility then to apply those same standards to Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=906s)

## Is blind faith (taqlid) in creed acceptable in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/4/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (15:54–23:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The theologians held that blind-following in creed is haram and that faith must rest on reasoning; later scholars tolerated inherited faith as a lower level while holding that Islam aspires to faith that knows God to be one.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran's command to know that there is no god but Allah requires reasoning and comparison rather than mere assertion, and he presents the theologians' view that blind-following in creed is impermissible alongside later scholars' distinction between a tolerated and a richer level of faith.
Evidence, his words at 22:49: “so to know it you have to compare you have to contrast you have to think well why can't that be true why can't Hinduism be true” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=1369s)

## Why are so many Muslims and scholars opposed to using reason in religion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/5/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (23:41–28:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Atheism and the existence of God
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Opposition to reason comes from insecurity, Mufti Abu Layth says; God is not unreasonable and would not give people reason and then command what clashes with it, and Muslims have ceded reason, once called hikmah, to atheists and scientists.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says God is not unreasonable and would not give people reason to discover Him and then command what clashes with reason, and that reason, which Muslim scholars once called hikmah, has been ceded to atheists and scientists.
Evidence, his words at 27:57: “it doesn't make sense that Allah would give us reason tell us to use it to discover him and then tell us to obey Him with things which clash with reason” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=1677s)

## How do we know the Quran is the word of God, if not by reason?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/6/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (28:45–36:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Atheism and the existence of God; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Arguments that the Quran is true because it says so, is unlike other books, is eloquent or flawless, or speaks of rain and fruit are no stronger than a spiderweb, Mufti Abu Layth says; without reason one only believes Islam is true because one was told.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that arguments for the Quran's truth which rest on the book asserting its own truth, its uniqueness, its eloquence, its lack of mistakes or its verses about rain and fruit are no stronger than a spiderweb, and that revelation can only be known to be true through reason.
Evidence, his words at 36:19: “if that's what you're building your faith on that is weaker than a spiderweb as Allah says in the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=2179s)

## Does Islam stand the test of reason, and why should Muslims not fear examining it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/7/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (36:33–41:47)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; The grave and the barzakh; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he has certainty that Islam has stood the test of reason as well as time, that the hadith of the grave condemns faith that merely repeats what people say, and that Muslims must take reason back rather than shy away.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he has certainty that Islam has stood the test of reason as well as of time, that Muslims owe it to Islam to measure it openly, and that the hadith of the grave in which the dead person says he merely repeated what people said is evidence that reason is required in faith.
Evidence, his words at 36:57: “i tell you i have that much certainty this is me as a personal person might as a personal opinion and conviction in islam that it has stood not only the test of time but the test of reason” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=2217s)

## Was Zakir Naik right to dismiss evolution as 'just a theory'?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/8/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (41:47–45:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Quran and evolution; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says Naik's mocking reply to an ex-Muslim did Islam a disservice, and that in science a theory can be an established fact, as with gravity, not merely a hypothesis.

## Does the Quran have to mention something for it to be true?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/9/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (45:39–49:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran and science; How to read the Quran; Quran and evolution
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Quran tells people to explore how creation began and never claimed to exhaust knowledge; its statement that everything is created in pairs is a general truth, not a taxonomy that rules out creatures which reproduce without a male.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Quran is not an exhaustive scientific textbook: its statement that everything is created in pairs is a general truth, and it tells people to explore how creation began rather than to reject knowledge absent from scripture.
Evidence, his words at 48:33: “Allah wasn't trying to teach you an exhaustive scientific lesson he was giving you a general understanding of life that generally things come in pairs” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=2913s)

## Why did Muslims become hostile to reason?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/10/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (49:33–56:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Creed and the schools of theology; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth traces Muslim hostility to reason to the centuries-long sectarian conflict with the Mu'tazila, in which the mainstream answered the Mu'tazila's use of reason by disparaging reason itself and defending absurd narrations.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Muslim aversion to reason grew out of the sectarian cold war with the Mu'tazila, when the mainstream reacted to the Mu'tazila's use of reason by disparaging reason itself and defending absurd narrations as a method of control.
Evidence, his words at 54:53: “as a method of control for these people a whole genre of irrationality was recreated and re-engineered to kind of keep these people at bay” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=3293s)

## How did the Golden Age backlash and the clergy contribute to Muslim hostility to reason?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/11/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (56:08–58:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Umayyads and Abbasids
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The philosophy and reason promoted in the Golden Age provoked a reaction that dumbed reason down, and institutionalised clergy found 'who said the deen is supposed to make sense' a useful tool of control.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the backlash against the philosophy of the Golden Age and the institutionalisation of religion among the clergy produced a culture in which the idea that the deen need not make sense became a tool of control.
Evidence, his words at 58:04: “this concept of well who said the Deen is supposed to make sense to you this culture is a powerful tool to control people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=3484s)

## Will using reason make me lose my faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/12/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (58:44–1:01:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Stories of the prophets; Negative thoughts and mindset
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, Mufti Abu Layth says: fearing that reason leads out of Islam betrays a lack of belief that Islam is true, and doubt that leads to a more certain understanding is legitimate, as Ibrahim's request to see how Allah revives the dead shows.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that fearing reason will lead people out of Islam betrays a lack of real belief that Islam is true, and that doubt which leads to a more certain understanding is legitimate, as Ibrahim's question and the hadith about his doubt show.
Evidence, his words at 58:44: “if I say to you oh by using reason you're gonna end up leaving Islam well that just translates as okay so by trying to uncover truths you think I'll find certain truths which show that Islam isn't true” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=3524s)

## Does Ali's saying about wiping the socks prove that religion is not based on reason?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/13/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (1:01:20–1:05:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Narrator criticism; Purification
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the 'if the deen were by opinion' wording has a weak chain and is absent from several versions, that Malik's Muwatta records wiping both sides of the khuff, and that rituals are practices rather than claims against reason.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the report attributed to Ali that the bottom of the khuff would deserve wiping if religion were by opinion is weak in its chain and absent from several versions, that Malik's Muwatta records wiping both top and bottom, and that rituals are practices rather than claims against reason.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:59: “this hadith I don't personally even in that narration I don't accept it to be sorry there are huge problems in the chain” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=3719s)

## Do miracles in the Quran break the laws of nature?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/14/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (1:05:16–1:09:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No, in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding: Allah does not break the laws He set, so every event called a miracle in the Quran has an explanation within nature, as fish falling from the sky does; abandoning reason would make every religion's claims equally valid.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Allah never breaks the laws He set in nature, so everything called a miracle in the Quran has an explanation within those laws even if not yet known, and that abandoning reason would make every religion's claims equally valid.
Evidence, his words at 1:07:06: “Allah will never break the laws of the natural world so in my understanding everything you call a miracle in the Quran has an explanation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=4026s)

## When should a hadith be rejected, and can a Muslim refuse a religious command that makes no sense?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/15/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (1:09:12–1:14:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Reason and revelation; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A hadith is accepted only if it does not contradict reason, the transmitted sources or an established principle, as Ibn al-Jawzi wrote; the companion who refused an order to jump into a fire shows reason rightly judging a command.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds, following Ibn al-Jawzi, that a hadith is accepted only if it does not contradict reason, the transmitted sources or an established principle of Islam, and that the companion who refused an order to jump into a fire shows reason rightly judging a religious command.
Evidence, his words at 1:12:56: “at that time when he disobeyed him he didn't know that ruling he just reasoned that this what you're telling me to do clashes with reason doesn't make any sense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=4376s)

## If reason judges religion, whose reason counts, and what about rituals?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/16/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:24–1:17:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; The Maliki school; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The concept of ritual must make sense, not every detail; the shared judgement of a healthy mind is the standard; and, by Malik's rule that only the Messenger's words are beyond rejection, following a school is not belonging to a cult.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the concept of ritual rather than its details must accord with reason, that the shared judgement of a healthy mind is the standard of reason, and that following the Maliki school does not make one a cult member, since Malik taught that everyone's words may be rejected except the Messenger's.
Evidence, his words at 1:14:51: “the concept of ritual is what you make sense of as to the actual rituals it's fine” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=4491s)

## Did a tree really cry for the Prophet, and why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/17/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:02–1:19:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth does not hold the crying-tree reports to be established: their chains are problematic and Muslims cannot call other religions' miracle stories absurd while accepting their own; the Prophet's greatness does not depend on a tree.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report of the tree crying for the Prophet is not established, that its chains are problematic and it clashes with the principle that such things do not happen, and that Muslims cannot dismiss other religions' miracle stories as absurd while accepting their own.
Evidence, his words at 1:17:24: “I said this is not established and I don't believe this to be sahi why because how can we hold things like stones and monkeys and elephants not doing these kind of things and hold that as absurd” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=4644s)

## If Mufti Abu Layth admires Qadi Iyad, must he accept everything in al-Shifa?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/18/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (1:19:39–1:23:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Responses to critics; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says al-Shifa was written to instil love of the Prophet in a context of insults and knowingly includes weak and fabricated reports, and that admiring Qadi Iyad, who himself disagreed with Malik, does not make him a clone.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that rating Qadi Iyad highly does not oblige him to accept every report in al-Shifa, which was written to instil love of the Prophet in a context of insults and knowingly includes weak and fabricated reports, and that Qadi Iyad himself disagreed with Malik on several matters.
Evidence, his words at 1:22:36: “he brought that for a reason because he wasn't trying to have an academic debate he was trying to instill the love of the Prophet in the hearts of people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=4956s)

## Should loyalty to Sahih al-Bukhari outweigh how a report presents the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uuldzklvxvo/s/19/
Date: 2018-04-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (1:23:36–1:26:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Reason and revelation; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says loyalty belongs to the Prophet, not to al-Bukhari, and cites the age-of-Aisha report, which he holds untrue and disrespectful since Arabs of the time did not marry girls that young, as an example of what must be re-examined.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report of Aisha's age at marriage is untrue and presents the Prophet disrespectfully, since Arab culture of the time did not marry girls as young as six or seven, and that loyalty to the Prophet should outrank loyalty to al-Bukhari.
Evidence, his words at 1:24:32: “you putting present in the Prophet sallallaahu I leave salam in such a disrespectful light and it is not true that people generally didn't in in the arab culture married girls that young they didn't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLDZkLvxvo&t=5072s)

## Is the second coming of Jesus proven by the Quran or by the fact that most Muslims believe it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmsmkldegso/s/2/
Date: 2018-04-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (1:19–5:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Responses to critics; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The second coming cannot be proven from the Quran, as Hassan Ali concedes, and the fact that most Muslims believe it only reflects what they were taught as children, as with folk tales of Ya'juj and Ma'juj. The hadith on it have chain problems and, more importantly, details that clash with Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the second coming of Jesus cannot be clearly proven from the Quran, that majority belief in it reflects childhood indoctrination rather than proof, and that the hadith on it have chain problems and contain details, such as Jesus forcing people to become Muslim, that clash with Islam.
Evidence, his words at 4:27: “the issue here is that the details inside these hadith clash with Islam stuff like Jesus will force people to become Muslim” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMSmkLdEgSo&t=267s)

## Does it matter that the second coming of Jesus is the majority opinion and Mufti Abu Layth's view a minority one?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmsmkldegso/s/3/
Date: 2018-04-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (5:13–10:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): If every detail of the second-coming hadith is a metaphor, Mufti Abu Layth asks why Jesus himself is not. Majority and minority opinions are decided later by power and politics, as Abu Hanifa's case shows: condemned as a deviant by his contemporaries, his school spread when Abu Yusuf appointed only Hanafi judges.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if the details of the second-coming hadith are metaphors then the whole account could be one, and that which opinion counts as majority or minority is decided later by power and politics rather than by contemporaries, as the case of Abu Hanifa shows.
Evidence, his words at 8:56: “this minority majority is deemed by later people it's not deemed by the people at the time because this is a power position” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMSmkLdEgSo&t=536s)

## Why do almost all the hadith about Jesus returning come through Abu Hurayra?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmsmkldegso/s/4/
Date: 2018-04-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (10:26–18:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; The second coming of Jesus; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth does not believe the Prophet said the second-coming hadith: about eighty percent come through Abu Hurayra alone, who learned from the converts Ka'b al-Ahbar and Abdullah ibn Salam, and some of his reports appear elsewhere as Ka'b's words from the Torah. No such hadith comes from Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali or Uthman.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe the Prophet said the hadith about Jesus coming back, since almost eighty percent of them come through Abu Hurayra alone, who learned from Ka'b al-Ahbar and Abdullah ibn Salam, some of his reports appear elsewhere as Ka'b's words from the Torah, and none comes from Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali or Uthman.
Evidence, his words at 10:26: “I don't believe the Prophet said these things about Jesus coming back I honestly don't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMSmkLdEgSo&t=626s)

## On what principles can a hadith in Bukhari be rejected, and may ordinary Muslims do so?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmsmkldegso/s/5/
Date: 2018-04-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (18:17–22:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Mutawatir and certainty; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A valid chain is not enough: a report must not go against reason, the established Quran and Sunnah, or the principles of Islam, and the Hanafi-Maturidi majority require mutawatir hadith for creed. Lay people may suspend a hadith that troubles them while seeking guidance; the gecko hadith is given as a report Mufti Abu Layth considers made up.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that a hadith with a valid chain must still be rejected if it goes against reason, the established Quran and Sunnah, or the principles of Islam, that creed requires mutawatir reports according to the Hanafi and Maturidi majority, that lay people may suspend a hadith that troubles them while seeking guidance, and that the gecko hadith is made up.
Evidence, his words at 20:00: “there you go that's my methodology and if any hadith clashes with these things it's unacceptable unacceptable” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMSmkLdEgSo&t=1200s)

## If I doubt one hadith in Bukhari, will I end up doubting the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmsmkldegso/s/6/
Date: 2018-04-01 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (22:12–27:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The second coming of Jesus; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The warning that doubting one hadith leads to doubting the Quran is scare-mongering: Bukhari and Muslim are not the word of God, some of their reports must be rejected, and the deen does not fall apart from questioning. Mufti Abu Layth says Jesus is not going to come but treats the matter as a difference of opinion, not a sectarian one.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that warning people that doubting one hadith leads to doubting the Quran is scare-mongering, since Bukhari and Muslim are not the word of God and the deen does not fall apart from questioning; he says that in his view Jesus is not going to come, while asking that the matter be treated as a difference of opinion rather than a sectarian one.
Evidence, his words at 25:03: “by removing cobwebs the Deen is not gonna fall apart and I can guarantee you this Deen is not gonna fall apart” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMSmkLdEgSo&t=1503s)

## Is someone who denies a line of al-Tahawi's creed a kafir?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/icr0sv2urcu/s/2/
Date: 2018-03-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (2:36–5:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Creed and the schools of theology; Responses to critics
Cites: Quran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and as a kahl; the phrase also occurs in 5:110) (https://quran.com/3/46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says this makes al-Tahawi rather than the Quran the standard, that Elmasry himself departs from al-Tahawi on several points, that Ash'ari creed does not make takfir of the people of the qibla, and that al-Tahawi wrote 250 years after the Prophet and is not an Ash'ari authority.

## Does the verse about Jesus speaking as a kahl prove he will return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/icr0sv2urcu/s/3/
Date: 2018-03-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (5:13–7:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Jesus in the Quran; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and as a kahl; the phrase also occurs in 5:110) (https://quran.com/3/46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: kahl means mature adulthood from about thirty or forty, and al-Razi says Jesus reached that age on earth. The reading of the verse as the second coming first appeared with a scholar who died in the 280s AH, not among the salaf.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that kahl in the verse means mature adulthood, which Jesus reached on earth as al-Razi states, and that the reading of the verse as a prophecy of his return originated with a scholar who died in the 280s AH and was unknown to the salaf.
Evidence, his words at 6:58: “who said that this verse could refer to Jesus coming back India his second coming before him nobody said that this wasn't how they understood the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCr0sV2UrcU&t=418s)

## Does 'before his death' in Quran 4:159 refer to the return of Jesus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/icr0sv2urcu/s/4/
Date: 2018-03-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (7:51–10:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Tafsir and verse study; Preservation and variant readings
Cites: Quran 4:159 (none of the People of the Book but will believe in him before his death) (https://quran.com/4/159)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says early authorities including Ibn Abbas, Mujahid and al-Dahhak read the pronoun as the Christian who realises the truth at death, and Ubayy ibn Ka'b's recitation has 'before their death'. Referring it to Jesus's return would exclude every Christian who died over two thousand years.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that 'before his death' in 4:159 refers to the death of each Christian, not to Jesus, following Ibn Abbas, Mujahid and al-Dahhak and the plural reading of Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and that the second-coming reading makes no sense of the Christians who have already died.
Evidence, his words at 10:10: “so the true understanding here was that upon death they will realize that this was not the truth” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCr0sV2UrcU&t=610s)

## Does Quran 43:61 say Jesus is the sign of the hour?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/icr0sv2urcu/s/5/
Date: 2018-03-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (10:26–13:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Mutawatir and certainty; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Cites: Quran 43:61 (and he is knowledge of the hour) (https://quran.com/43/61)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Hasan al-Basri read 'knowledge of the hour' as the Quran, others as the Prophet, and the verse says knowledge, not sign, so the critics must interpret it too. Mufti Abu Layth adds that the Mahdi was also called mutawatir by Ibn Hajar, al-Shawkani and others yet is absent from al-Tahawi's creed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that 43:61 does not state that Jesus is the sign of the hour, that the critics contradict themselves by invoking mutawatir and consensus claims they reject elsewhere, and that the second-coming narrative reads exactly from the Gospels.
Evidence, his words at 12:47: “I wanted people to understand where I'm coming from why I feel this is because it reads exactly from the Gospels” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCr0sV2UrcU&t=767s)

## Why would Jesus need to come back at all?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/icr0sv2urcu/s/6/
Date: 2018-03-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (13:02–15:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the reasons given for a return do not hold together: the Dajjal simply melts, hatred of Jews contradicts Jesus's own message as a Jew preaching compassion, and killing pigs contradicts a report in Malik that Jesus was peaceful towards pigs.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the reasons given for Jesus's return, killing the Dajjal who simply melts, killing the Jews, and killing pigs, conflict with each other and with Jesus's own message, and that a report in Malik has Jesus peaceful towards pigs.
Evidence, his words at 14:07: “Jesus is a Jew by the way Jesus a Jewish you know it doesn't make any sense and Jesus spent his whole life speaking about love and compassion and turn the other cheek” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCr0sV2UrcU&t=847s)

## What are the main problems with the hadith about Jesus returning?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/icr0sv2urcu/s/7/
Date: 2018-03-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (15:42–17:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Mutawatir and certainty; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the return narrations conflict with the Quran, the Sunnah and Islam's principles, rest on solitary reports that cannot found aqidah, and contradict one another, from Constantinople to who the Dajjal is. He notes that the hadith of Jibril on faith and the Prophet's answers on the signs of the hour do not mention Jesus.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the narrations of Jesus's return conflict with the Quran, the Sunnah and the established principles of Islam, are solitary reports that are not part of creed in the way people have made them, and contradict one another.
Evidence, his words at 15:42: “when we look at the details of these hadith we find them conflicting with the overall message of the Quran with the overall message of the Sunnah and with the established principles in Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCr0sV2UrcU&t=942s)

## Why the second-coming debate blew up and what tonight's prelude covers
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/2/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (3:54–10:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The talk is a prelude to Mufti Abu Layth's case against a second coming of Jesus, prompted by the controversy and the takfir his earlier statements provoked.

## Reply to Abu Ibrahim's post and Hizb ut-Tahrir's double standard
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/3/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (10:24–14:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Critics who have long opposed Mufti Abu Layth, including Hizb ut-Tahrir whose own literature treats the return of Jesus as a solitary report, have united against him; he puts this down to sectarian politics.

## Critics sharing clips of al-Dedew and al-Awni: double standards in scholarship
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/4/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (14:16–17:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Views on contemporary scholars; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Critics are circulating old clips and articles by scholars they otherwise reject; Mufti Abu Layth says this is cherry-picking and poor scholarship, and that others have held his view before him.

## Two camps of religion: tribal mythology versus religion that must make sense
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/6/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (20:20–25:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; End times and the Day of Judgement
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Religion is approached either as tribal custom with a mythology of superheroes, or as something that must make sense; Mufti Abu Layth says he is speaking only to the second group.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he addresses only those for whom religion must make sense and be based on reason, since God would not contradict the laws he placed in the world.
Evidence, his words at 24:38: “so to these people religion must make sense these are the people that I'm addressing so I need to clarify that with people I need to that is my audience” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=1478s)

## Calling to the Quran and Sunnah, not hadith; the winged horse on national television
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/7/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (25:32–29:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Reason and revelation; Atheism and the existence of God
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls people to the Quran and Sunnah rather than to hadith as such, since hadith must be sifted; the Dawkins and Mehdi Hasan exchange shows why religion must withstand reason.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that religion must make sense because the Quran calls to reason, and he calls people to the Quran and the Sunnah rather than to hadith as such, since hadith contain contradictions that must be sifted.
Evidence, his words at 25:32: “to me religion must make sense because allowing the Quran calls us to reason I then call people in my understanding to the Quran and the Sunnah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=1532s)

## We are all seeking the truth: disagree without takfir
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/8/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (29:23–32:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muslims should be able to disagree about Islam without insults or takfir, since everyone is seeking the truth.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims who disagree on interpretation should treat each other gently as fellow seekers of the truth, without labels or takfir.
Evidence, his words at 31:06: “disagree all you like but we as Muslims can at least talk about Islam amongst ourselves don't kind of insult throw labels try to declare each of the kaffir” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=1866s)

## Stop obsessing about the end times: the hadith of Jibril and the planting hadith
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/10/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (34:38–37:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: End times and the Day of Judgement; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muslims should stop obsessing about the end times; the hadith of Jibril defines faith and the signs of the hour without mentioning Jesus's return or the Dajjal.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Jibril defines faith and the signs of the hour without mentioning the return of Jesus or the Dajjal, and he agrees that Muslims should stop obsessing about the end times.
Evidence, his words at 34:58: “the Prophet said I don't know and then when gibreel said what are the signs he didn't say that there's gonna be at the jail and Jesus and stuff like this he didn't say that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=2098s)

## A Christian belief that crept into Islam; creed cannot be blind-followed
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/11/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (37:15–39:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Jesus's return is a Christian belief that entered Islam and contradicts the Quran and its principles. Creed cannot be blind-followed, so he will not be intimidated into it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the belief in Jesus's return is not Islamic because it contradicts the main teachings of the Quran, the principles of Islam and the Prophet's life and message.
Evidence, his words at 37:15: “that is my my belief on this matter that this is not an Islamic thing why because it contradicts against I believe the main teachings of the Quran and it contradicts the main principles of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=2235s)

## The second coming as a central Christian doctrine: Jesus returns as judge
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/12/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (39:52–42:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Christians and other faiths; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The second coming is central to Christianity, and the New Testament's picture of Jesus returning as a judge matches what the hadith say.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the second coming is perhaps the second most important Christian belief, on which Christianity rose, and that the hadith's picture of Jesus returning as a judge matches the New Testament.
Evidence, his words at 39:52: “this belief guys about the second coming of Jesus is so important in Christianity it is perhaps the second most important belief in Christianity it is on the back of this belief that Christianity rose” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=2392s)

## If faith is no longer valid, why a judge? Psychology of testimony and detail
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/15/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (50:12–52:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Testimony is tested through its details, and excessive detail is a warning sign; Mufti Abu Layth sets up this frame for examining the hadith of Jesus's return.

## The details of the Jesus hadith against the Quran: sword, judge, Jews, world peace
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/16/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (52:49–58:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The details of the return hadith, conversion by the sword, universal Islam, the killing of the Jews and world peace, contradict the Quran and the Prophet's life and mirror the gospels.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the details in the hadith of Jesus's return, such as conversion by the sword, everyone becoming Muslim, the killing of the Jews and universal peace, contradict the Quran and the Prophet's life and mirror the gospels.
Evidence, his words at 55:23: “face the sword that goes against the entire Quran that it goes against the entire life of the Prophet the Prophet never said that in his lifetime he never accepted people's Islam by force” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=3323s)

## What Imam Malik transmitted: no return of Jesus, Zuhri's reports, the pig passed in peace
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/17/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (58:03–1:05:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Imam Malik; Narrator criticism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam Malik's Muwatta contains no hadith of Jesus's return and has Jesus greeting a pig in peace; Mufti Abu Layth reads this as Malik rejecting Zuhri's reports, half of which carry the return narrative.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Imam Malik deliberately left the hadith of Jesus's return out of the Muwatta, transmitting only a fraction of al-Zuhri's reports, and that Malik's refusal to accept isolated hadith blindly is the approach to follow.
Evidence, his words at 1:02:25: “is this a coincidence that Imam Malik doesn't bring any hadith to do with Jesus coming back but then he brings this hadith to show that Jesus said to the pig that go with peace” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=3745s)

## The white minaret of Damascus: places that did not exist in the Prophet's time
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/19/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:12:25–1:17:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; False and fabricated hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Hadith placing Jesus's descent on a white minaret in Damascus describe a structure that did not exist in the Prophet's time; Mufti Abu Layth says such reports appeared once Damascus became the Umayyad capital.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says hadith placing Jesus's descent at a white minaret in Damascus are suspect because no such minaret existed in the Prophet's time and Damascus became central only after it became the Umayyad capital.
Evidence, his words at 1:15:55: “the Muslims move the capital to Damascus the Muslim capital ends up as Damascus all of a sudden subhanAllah there's so many hadith about Damascus now” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=4555s)

## Israiliyyat in hadith: man in God's image and creation on the Sabbath
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/20/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:41–1:20:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: False and fabricated hadith; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Reports such as man created in God's image and creation on the Sabbath are Biblical material that Malik and Ibn Taymiyya rejected; Mufti Abu Layth says the Jesus narrative shows the same Israiliyyat influence.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says reports such as God creating man in his image and creating the soil on the Sabbath are Israiliyyat taken from Genesis, as Imam Malik and Ibn Taymiyya held, even when their chains are sound.
Evidence, his words at 1:18:31: “it's just a verse out of the Bible I don't care if you say the Prophet said it it's the Prophet did not so this is this is these makes no sense this is just Christian doctrine” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=4711s)

## Three conditions for accepting a hadith; Ibn Uthaymin and the Jassasa report
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/21/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:20:19–1:22:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Authenticating hadith; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A hadith is accepted only if it does not contradict reason, the Quran and established Sunnah, or uproot a principle of Islam; the Jesus reports fail this test, and even Ibn Uthaymin rejected a sahih Dajjal report on such grounds.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that a hadith is accepted only if it does not go against reason, does not contradict the Quran and established Sunnah, and does not uproot a principle of Islam, and that the hadith of Jesus's return fail these tests.
Evidence, his words at 1:20:24: “when you start getting hadith that say Jesus will force people to become Muslim that's not acceptable that goes up roots it goes against the Quran the Sunna and the principles of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=4824s)

## Why hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, was corrupted: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Zuhri and forged chains
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/23/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:26:52–1:33:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith collections and their history; False and fabricated hadith; Sunnah versus hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that early opponents corrupted hadith, not the Quran or fiqh, in the century before chains were demanded; this is why Malik relied on inherited practice and treated isolated reports as information, not creed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that people hostile to Islam brought the belief in Jesus's return in as Christian propaganda through hadith, which went undocumented for about a century and whose chains could be copied, and that this is why Imam Malik told people to rely on inherited practice over isolated reports.
Evidence, his words at 1:27:32: “would you not attack Islam ideologically would you not put propaganda you would and that's what these people have done they did that they brought in their Christian baggage” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=5252s)

## Zuhri's reports: Fatima's anger, the attempted suicide, and half the Jesus hadith
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/25/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:37:20–1:41:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Scholars discard Zuhri's Fatima and suicide reports as his insertions but refuse to question the Jesus reports, half of which come through him with disconnected chains; Mufti Abu Layth calls this a double standard.

## A belief that changed nothing for the dead; the hadith on his teacher's wall
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/26/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:41:17–1:43:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The belief in Jesus's return has had zero impact on anyone who died until today, so it cannot be a core part of faith; Mufti Abu Layth introduces the hadith that shaped his approach.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the belief in Jesus's return has had no impact on the faith of anyone who died until today, so it cannot be a core part of Islam.
Evidence, his words at 1:41:42: “whether they believed Jesus was gonna come or not it hadn't zero impact on their lives because Jesus hasn't come up until today” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=6102s)

## Give glad tidings, make things easy: the hadith behind his approach; do not intimidate
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/27/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:43:54–1:47:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Character and virtue; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Individual hadith explained
Cites: Quran 7:43 (https://quran.com/7/43); Quran 9:31 (https://quran.com/9/31)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Prophet's instruction to give glad tidings and make things easy is the pillar of Mufti Abu Layth's approach; intimidating people into beliefs contradicts it, and learning Islam for oneself is what kept him in it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's instruction to give glad tidings and make things easy is the pillar of his understanding of Islam, and that intimidating people into beliefs contradicts the Prophet's way and Imam Malik's.
Evidence, his words at 1:44:53: “this hadith that I learned I must have been seventeen i memorize that hadith that became the backdrop and the kind of pillar upon which my understanding of Islam has been” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=6293s)

## Anwar Shah Kashmiri's claim of ijma, and the scholars who rejected the return
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/28/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:47:50–1:50:28)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Modern reformers and movements; Mutawatir and certainty
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Kashmiri's compilation of over a hundred return hadith contains mostly weak reports by his own count, and a line of Azhar and other scholars from Abduh to Muhammad al-Ghazali rejected the second coming.

## Rashid Rida at Deoband: how scholars disagree with adab
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/29/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:50:28–1:53:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Modern reformers and movements; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Rida and Kashmiri held opposite views on the return of Jesus yet honoured each other at Deoband; Mufti Abu Layth says this is how scholars should disagree.

## Shawkani against claimed consensus: music, following a madhhab, four wives, raf' al-yadayn
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/30/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:53:04–1:56:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Mutawatir and certainty; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Those who cite Shawkani's claim that the return is mutawatir do not follow him when he rejects other consensuses or calls raf' al-yadayn mutawatir; claimed consensuses have been overturned before.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Shawkani's claim that the return of Jesus is mutawatir cannot bind when Shawkani himself rejected claimed consensuses on music, following a madhhab and marrying more than four wives, and those who cite him ignore him elsewhere.
Evidence, his words at 1:55:17: “so this point is look you yourselves don't agree with show Connie show Connie himself goes against all” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=6917s)

## Everyone picks and chooses: later scholars on mawlid, shrines, hadra and the Jesus hadith
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/31/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (1:56:59–2:00:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Every group accepts later scholars against earlier ones when it suits them; Mufti Abu Layth says rejecting the Jesus hadith on the later scholars' authority is no different.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says everyone, Salafis included, picks and chooses between early and later scholars, so rejecting the Jesus hadith on the authority of later scholars is no different from what others do.
Evidence, his words at 1:59:51: “so why is it that all of a sudden it's okay to go against the majority if it's for you but if somebody else goes against the majority then they must be deviants” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=7191s)

## Ibn Ashur, al-Shatibi and Ibn Khaldun on the Mahdi: a discussion within Islam
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/32/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:00:56–2:03:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; The second coming of Jesus; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Ashur, al-Shatibi and Ibn Khaldun all problematised the Mahdi reports and treated such matters as information rather than creed; Mufti Abu Layth says the return of Jesus is a discussion within Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Mahdi and the return of Jesus are matters of Islamic information open to discussion within Islam, not creed, as Ibn Ashur and al-Sha'rawi held.
Evidence, his words at 2:02:24: “my whole thing of putting this out there is to say look people this is a discussion within Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=7344s)

## Reply to Shadee Elmasry and Hamza Maqbool: 'probably an apostate'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/33/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:03:34–2:06:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects being called a probable apostate: no one can expel him from Islam by pressure, and declaring people kafir over this shows a god complex.

## The Creed of Tahawi is not the Quran; Ash'aris do not make takfir of ahl al-qiblah
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/34/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:06:11–2:08:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Responses to critics
Cites: Quran 3:46 (https://quran.com/3/46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Denying a line of Tahawi's creed is not kufr: Ibn Taymiyya rejected several of its points, it refutes whole Muslim groups, and Ash'ari creed forbids takfir of the people of the qiblah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Creed of al-Tahawi was written some 250 years after the Prophet and objects to treating the denial of a line of it as unbelief.
Evidence, his words at 2:07:31: “he's writing this almost at least over 250 years after the Prophet why is he such a great Hojo love a sudden you know we don't accept him in anything else” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=7651s)

## Verse 3:46 and the meaning of kahl: al-Razi and the origin of the second-coming reading
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/35/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:08:49–2:11:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; The second coming of Jesus
Cites: Quran 3:46 (https://quran.com/3/46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Kahl in 3:46 means mature manhood, which al-Razi says Jesus reached on earth; the reading of the verse as a second coming began only in the late third century with al-Bajali.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that kahl in 3:46 means mature manhood from about thirty or forty, which Jesus reached on earth as al-Razi said, and that reading the verse as a second coming began only with al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali in the third century.
Evidence, his words at 2:08:50: “you are a complete man and many Olimar said that begins at 30 some said it begins at 40 it doesn't matter it's not a set age it's like saying middle aged” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=7730s)

## Verses 4:159 and 43:61: 'before his death' and 'knowledge of the hour'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/36/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:11:25–2:15:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; The second coming of Jesus
Cites: Quran 4:159 (https://quran.com/4/159); Quran 43:61 (https://quran.com/43/61)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Neither 4:159 nor 43:61 establishes a return: the early exegetes read 4:159 of each Christian at death, Ubayy's reading is plural, and 43:61 says knowledge, not sign.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that 4:159 refers to each Christian believing at death, following Ibn Abbas, Mujahid and Ubayy's plural reading, and that 43:61 says Jesus is knowledge of the hour, not a sign, so neither verse establishes a return.
Evidence, his words at 2:13:20: “so the true understanding here was that upon death they will realize that this was not the truth” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=8000s)

## Summary of the case against a second coming; Ibn Hazm on hadith against reason
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/38/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:19:16–2:21:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; End times and the Day of Judgement
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is no second coming of Jesus in Islam: the reports contradict the Quran, Sunnah and principles, are single-transmitter reports not creed, contradict each other, parallel the Bible, and are absent from the Quran and the Prophet's definition of faith.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth sums up that the reports of Jesus's return conflict with the Quran, the Sunnah and established principles, are single-transmitter reports rather than creed, contradict one another and echo Christian narratives, and that the Prophet did not mention Jesus when asked about faith or the signs of the hour.
Evidence, his words at 2:19:16: “when we look at the details of these hadith we find them conflicting with the overall message of the Quran with the overall message of the Sunnah and with the established principles in Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=8356s)

## Stop calling Bukhari the most authentic book after the Quran; fiqh preserved the living Sunnah
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/39/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:21:55–2:25:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sahih al-Bukhari is an excellent effort but should not be called the most authentic book after the Quran; hadith are sifted, while fiqh and the madhhabs carry the Sunnah in living form.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Sahih al-Bukhari should not be called the most authentic book after the Quran: it is an excellent effort whose reports are still sifted, while fiqh and the madhhabs preserved the Sunnah in living form.
Evidence, his words at 2:22:50: “let's stop saying these things of Buhari is the most sound book after the Quran well lucky I do not like these kind of statements upset me” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=8570s)

## Shaykh Abdul Majid's civility; the 'Mufti' remark clarified; music in front of one's daughters
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/40/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:25:54–2:31:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Music; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth praises a critic's civility, clarifies that he objects to attacks on his qualification rather than seeking a title, and says that not wanting music or dancing before one's daughters does not make them haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that not wanting something done in front of one's daughters does not make it haram, since everything has its time and place, and that he does not consider such things haram.
Evidence, his words at 2:30:30: “just because you wouldn't do things in front of certain people doesn't mean that you consider those things wrong” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYu3BKBWE&t=9030s)

## Are tattoos haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/opl3bf6wzas/s/1/
Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fatwa on Tattoos - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–0:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dress and appearance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Small tattoos for beautification are not haram, at most discouraged. Tattoos that disfigure, such as gang face tattoos, he considers haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he inclines to the view that tattoos are not haram as long as they are not entirely disfiguring, small ones being at most discouraged.
Evidence, his words at 0:00: “that's probably the way I inclined that I don't feel that they're Haram as long as they're not entirely disfiguring” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opl3bF6wzAs&t=0s)

## Why is it so hard for young Muslims to marry, and what are they supposed to do about desire?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zs1rln2djss/s/2/
Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Zina, Marriage and Relationships - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (5:10–10:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Marriage; Sexual ethics; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Men of eighteen or nineteen are generally not ready for marriage but have strong sexual needs, and Mufti Abu Layth says current religious teaching offers no real solution. He calls advice to fast and lower the gaze inadequate and asks scholars to acknowledge the problem.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that men of eighteen or nineteen are generally not ready for marriage yet have strong sexual needs, that the usual advice to fast and lower the gaze is inadequate, and that, unlike in the past, Islam today has no solution to offer to this problem, which scholarship should acknowledge.
Evidence, his words at 7:38: “so this is a huge problem from a religious perspective because there is no solution Islam has zero solutions to offer today” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1rLN2Djss&t=458s)

## Should I register my nikah as a civil marriage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zs1rln2djss/s/4/
Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Zina, Marriage and Relationships - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (13:02–18:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Marriage; Divorce
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is not sure civil registration is the answer, because he objects to needing the state's permission to leave a relationship. He accepts the financial arguments on both sides, the man's fear of losing half his property and the woman's risk of being left with nothing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he is not sure civil registration is the solution for Muslim marriages, because he objects to needing the state's permission to leave a relationship, while acknowledging the financial arguments on both sides.
Evidence, his words at 15:20: “I'm not so sure if civil registration civil marriage is the solution because I'll tell you what I'm against or what I dislike” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1rLN2Djss&t=920s)

## What should a couple agree before marriage about registering and money?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zs1rln2djss/s/5/
Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Zina, Marriage and Relationships - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (18:10–22:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Marriage; Women in Islam; The marriage contract
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Have an open conversation before marriage about registration and finances, and if the marriage is not registered the woman should keep her own work, income and property. Saying a woman may not work is cultural and backward, not Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth advises an open conversation before marriage about registration and finances, encourages women to keep independent income and property, and condemns as cultural and un-Islamic the attitude that a woman may not work.
Evidence, his words at 20:28: “woman wants to work or if a woman wants this that she's not allowed to have that or she can't do this that is backwards it is nothing to do with Islam it is cultural” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1rLN2Djss&t=1228s)

## Did the Prophet marry Safiyya on the same night she was captured?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/2/
Date: 2018-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (2:28–5:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says Safiyya was a Muslim when the Prophet married her and so had to observe a waiting period, which rules out a marriage on the night of her capture.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the claim that the Prophet took Safiyya and married her on the same night cannot stand, since as a Muslim she was bound by the waiting period, and even a single menstrual cycle could not have passed in one or two nights.
Evidence, his words at 4:23: “she embraces Islam becomes goes through an it has a menstrual cycle then marries the Prophet all this in one night why are you trying so hard to prove this narrative” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC8qsIOFAwE&t=263s)

## Are witnesses required for a nikah in the Maliki school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/3/
Date: 2018-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (5:06–9:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; The Maliki school; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the Maliki school witnesses are not needed for the nikah to be valid; witnesses or an announcement are needed before consummation. Hamza Maqbool's tweet said Mufti Abu Layth does not represent the school.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school does not require witnesses for a valid nikah, only witnesses or a public announcement before the marriage is consummated, and that many of the Prophet's marriages were not witnessed.
Evidence, his words at 5:06: “many of the prophets marriages were not witnessed and people like the school of Medina the the whole Maliki method says you don't need witnesses for a marriage” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC8qsIOFAwE&t=306s)

## What do the classical Maliki books say about witnesses in a marriage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/4/
Date: 2018-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (9:00–18:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; The Muwatta and the Mudawwana; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Maliki authorities he reads hold that a marriage without witnesses is valid unless it is meant to be secret; witnesses or an announcement are required before consummation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the standard Maliki texts, including al-Kafi, the Mudawwana as quoted by Ibn Yunus, and later authorities, state that a nikah without witnesses is valid provided it is not meant to be secret, witnessing being a condition of consummation rather than of validity.
Evidence, his words at 16:50: “that this is the measure of our method that it is not a condition in the Maliki method for the validity of getting married” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC8qsIOFAwE&t=1010s)

## Is it fair to say Mufti Abu Layth has no knowledge of the Maliki school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/5/
Date: 2018-02-28 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (18:11–25:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth challenges his critic to a discussion on the Maliki school and says disagreement with his interpretation is fair, but calling him ignorant of the school is misleading.

## Why does he reject the hadith of the tree crying for the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/2/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (3:54–7:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The religion is built on reason, so one standard must apply to all religions: a tree that reasons and cries cannot be accepted while other faiths' claims are called absurd. He also urged his critics to reject the demeaning reports about the Prophet, which they instead affirmed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the religion is built on reason, so a Muslim must apply one set of standards: a report that a tree reasoned and cried cannot be accepted while the claims of other religions are rejected as absurd.
Evidence, his words at 6:24: “you must have one set of standards and you must put Islam to that test as well then you are true in your faith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=384s)

## Does he believe in miracles?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/3/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (7:50–10:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, miracles exist on a spectrum, but none ever defies God's own laws. Rare events can occur, but they always have a cause and a natural explanation, whether or not it is known.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that miracles exist on a spectrum but that no miracle ever defied God's own laws: rare events can happen, but they always have a cause and a means through nature and the laws of physics, whether or not it is known.
Evidence, his words at 8:59: “I believe that yes miracles is there like a spectrum okay so miracles did exist but what do miracles mean I don't believe there was ever a miracle that defies God's laws” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=539s)

## How does he view the Salafi movement, and is hadith narrator criticism a divine science?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/4/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (10:29–14:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Narrator criticism; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Salafi movement began as a courageous rejection of tradition but, once established, became as dogmatic as what it opposed. Narrator criticism is a human science, so it is always open to revision and disagreement.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Salafi movement, having begun as a courageous iconoclastic rejection of tradition, became as dogmatic as what it opposed once established, and that narrator criticism (ilm al-rijal) is a human science open to revision and disagreement rather than a divine one.
Evidence, his words at 14:06: “it is not a divine science it is something that men have come up with” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=846s)

## Is it acceptable to criticise a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/5/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (14:23–17:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Prophethood and miracles; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Al-Albani himself rejected around a dozen reports in Bukhari, so criticising a Bukhari report does not make someone a deviant. The salaf understood the Quran's miracles in several ways, and miracles had causes within God's natural law.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that criticising reports in Sahih al-Bukhari cannot make a person a deviant when al-Albani rejected around a dozen of them, and that the salaf understood the Quran's miracles in several ways, miracles always having causes within God's law of nature.
Evidence, his words at 14:23: “criticized several hadith in Bukhari probably just close to a dozen or so and clasp them as weak and rejected them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=863s)

## Does the Maliki school distinguish between hadith and Sunnah, and did Imam Malik ever reject a hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/6/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (17:03–19:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; The Maliki school; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: the school of Madinah embraces the Sunnah while remaining critical of individual hadith, and Imam Malik rejected several reports when the practice of Madinah did not reflect them. He says he stated clearly that scholars differed on the report's grading.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the school of Madinah distinguishes hadith from Sunnah, embracing the Sunnah while remaining critical of individual hadith, and that Imam Malik did reject several hadith when the practice of Madinah did not reflect them.
Evidence, his words at 17:03: “I said that the school of Medina in mal Malik differentiates between hadith and Sunnah we wholeheartedly embraced the Sunnah we are critical when it comes to hadith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=1023s)

## Can a hadith narrated by Jabir alone be mutawatir?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/7/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (19:41–24:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Mutawatir and certainty; Narrator criticism; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: mutawatir requires so many transmissions that a lie is impossible, which a report from Jabir alone cannot be, and he says the report is not even sahih. He defends following the critics who weakened the narrator rather than those who graded him reliable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says hadith grading is not settled by a majority, so that he is entitled to follow the hadith critic who weakened a narrator rather than those who graded him reliable.
Evidence, his words at 19:41: “why should I go with majority why I mean why is this a democracy all of a sudden” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=1181s)

## Is the chain Hammad ibn Salama from Thabit from Anas for the crying-tree hadith sound?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/8/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (24:42–31:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Authenticating hadith; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues it is not: critics report that Hammad ibn Salama's memory failed late in life, that Bukhari did not transmit from him, and that Thabit was not the most reliable transmitter from Anas, Qatada and Humayd al-Tawil being ranked above him.

## Are the Jabir chains for the crying-tree hadith through Isra'il, Abd al-Razzaq and Ibn Jurayj sound?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/9/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (31:15–36:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Authenticating hadith; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues they are not: one chain rests on Isra'il, whom Yahya ibn Sa'id and Ibn al-Madini weakened, and an unknown narrator; the other on Abd al-Razzaq, criticised for errors from memory, and Ibn Jurayj, a mudallis whose 'akhbarani' referred to books rather than hearing.

## Did Ibn Ma'in consider Isma'il ibn Abi Uways and his family reliable?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/10/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (36:28–40:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says that although one transmitted opinion of Ibn Ma'in accepts him, Ibn Ma'in is also transmitted as counting the household of Abu Uways among the weak. He adds that Abu al-Zubayr was weakened by several critics, so none of the chains the critics brought is conclusive.

## What does he say to critics who accept that the Prophet was impotent, married a nine-year-old or was bewitched into clumsiness?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/11/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (40:19–46:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Replies to attacks on the Prophet; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says these claims are untrue attacks on the Prophet's honour, resting on reports whose chains he has shown to be defective, and that critics who affirm them to win an argument are themselves being blasphemous. He adds that he does not support capital punishment for such speech.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the claims that the Prophet was sexually impotent, married a nine-year-old or became clumsy under a spell are untrue and an attack on the Prophet's honour, that he has shown the reports on the marriage to have problems in their chains, and that those who affirm such claims are themselves being blasphemous.
Evidence, his words at 43:30: “of course is wrong because it's not true it's an attack on the honor of the Prophet what is wrong with you” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=2610s)

## Did the Prophet take Safiyya the night her husband was killed, as the Tommy Robinson clip claims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/1/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–5:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; Dawah and debate culture; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says the story conceded by the Muslim debater is false and that, as described, it would be rape, so conceding it and arguing over the word is indefensible. Muslims who have not studied Islamic history should not debate these subjects.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that Muslims who have not studied Islam should not debate far-right figures, and that the scenario the debater conceded, killing Safiyya's husband and father and taking her that night, can only be described as rape and is not what happened.
Evidence, his words at 3:09: “so what do you mean where does it say that's rape that is not what happened why are you conceding to them why are you accepting this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=189s)

## Who was Safiyya and why did the Muslims march on Khaybar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/2/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (5:12–9:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; The wives of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Safiyya was the daughter of Huyayy ibn Akhtab, a chief of Banu Nadir at Khaybar who had organised the coalition against Madinah, while her uncle was a Muslim. After Hudaybiyya the Prophet marched on Khaybar's fortresses, which fell after weeks of fighting in which about eighty Muslims died.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that nothing in Islamic history is concrete and that there is disagreement on everything, including whether Khaybar took place in 6 or 7 AH.
Evidence, his words at 5:46: “let's get one point clear nothing is concrete in Islamic history this this difference is on everything” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=346s)

## What is the common story about how the Prophet married Safiyya?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/3/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (9:06–11:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The circulated story is that after Khaybar the Prophet executed Safiyya's husband and father, took her from Dihya al-Kalbi for her beauty, gave her the choice of slavery or marriage and consummated it that night. Mufti Abu Layth says every part of this is false.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the circulating account that the Prophet had Safiyya's husband and father executed, took her from Dihya al-Kalbi for her beauty, offered her marriage or slavery and consummated the marriage that night is untrue.
Evidence, his words at 9:40: “this this these narrations that I'm telling you now are not true but I'm telling you this is what people push this is the narrative” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=580s)

## Why do the hadith about Safiyya's marriage contradict each other?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/4/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (11:37–19:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; Authenticating hadith; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Nearly all the reports come through one companion, Anas ibn Malik, who was a teenager at Khaybar and died decades later, and they contradict each other on almost every detail, so none can be taken as it stands. Only two facts are certain: Safiyya left with the Muslims and later became the Prophet's wife.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the narrations about Safiyya's marriage, almost all transmitted through Anas ibn Malik, conflict so heavily that none is reliable as it stands, though they contain truths distorted over a long chain of transmission by meaning.
Evidence, his words at 12:11: “there is so much conflict and if there are what the hadith in call it there are is when narrations conflict so massively none of them are reliable” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=731s)

## Could the Prophet have married Safiyya right after Khaybar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/5/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (19:29–24:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Divorce
Cites: Quran 2:234 (widows wait four months and ten days) (https://quran.com/2/234)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: she was a widow and the Quran requires a waiting period of four months and ten days, so a marriage at Khaybar would contradict the Quran. The companions only assumed a marriage because they saw the Prophet veil her and took a victory meal for a wedding feast.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Prophet cannot have married Safiyya at Khaybar, since as a widow she owed the Quranic waiting period of four months and ten days, and that the companions' belief that he had married her rested on Anas's assumption from seeing her veiled and a feast held.
Evidence, his words at 19:29: “first of all it is impossible that the Prophet married her then imposter why you asked me right he posted no evidence right okay why is it impossible because it clearly goes against the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=1169s)

## Why was Safiyya bruised when she came to the Prophet after Khaybar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/6/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (24:44–27:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; The life of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Safiyya had told her husband Kinana she dreamt a moon fell into her lap; he accused her of wanting Muhammad and beat her, leaving her eye bruised when she came before the Prophet. Her uncle was a long-standing Muslim and she had spoken well of the Prophet before.

## Why did Safiyya ride with the Prophet on the way back from Khaybar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/7/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (27:21–29:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; The life of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Because others were abusing her, the Prophet freed her and had her ride with him, laying out a cloth and offering his knee for her to mount, and covering her with his cloak when the camel fell. Mufti Abu Layth says this was kindness, not a marriage.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that at Khaybar the Prophet freed Safiyya rather than marrying her, and that his having her ride with him, laying a cloth and offering his knee, and covering her with his cloak when the camel fell were acts of kindness to a woman being abused, not a marriage.
Evidence, his words at 27:21: “some people held her as a captive they'd wanted to hold her as a captive the Prophet freed her he did not marry her he freed her” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=1641s)

## Where did Safiyya live when she first came to Madinah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/8/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (29:57–32:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; The life of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): She did not live with the Prophet but was lodged with Umm Sulaym and others, and the Prophet rebuked Aisha and others who called her 'that Jew'. The feast on the road was a victory meal, not a wedding, and she embraced Islam in the months that followed.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that no nikah took place on the road from Khaybar, since Safiyya was in her waiting period and had not embraced Islam, that the feast Anas took for a wedding was a victory meal, and that in Madinah she lodged in another household and embraced Islam in the following months.
Evidence, his words at 30:54: “this is an assumption this did not happen there was no nikka that took place it would have been Haram she was in her in there anyway” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=1854s)

## When and how did Safiyya actually marry the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/9/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (32:35–35:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The wives of the Prophet; The marriage contract; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): She embraced Islam in the months after Khaybar, became interested in the Prophet herself and married him with her consent, not on the night of the battle. Abu Hurayra reported that nothing was taken from Khaybar but clothing, cattle and sheep.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Safiyya embraced Islam in the months after Khaybar and then married the Prophet with her consent, and that Abu Hurayra's report that no spoils but clothing, cattle and sheep were taken from Khaybar tells against the story of captives and slaves.
Evidence, his words at 32:45: “she does embrace Islam in time to come in the months that followed she does and then she herself is interested in the prophet and they do get married that is a fact” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=1965s)

## How should Muslims judge hadith that say the Prophet took Safiyya on the night of Khaybar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/10/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (35:13–40:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Replies to attacks on the Prophet; The wives of the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Cites: Quran 2:256 (there is no compulsion in religion) (https://quran.com/2/256); Quran 2:234 (widows wait four months and ten days) (https://quran.com/2/234)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Weigh them against the Quran and the Prophet's character: the story contradicts the widow's waiting period, the verse on no compulsion and everything known of his conduct, and all its versions come from one conflicting source. Mufti Abu Layth says relaying it is a lie against the Prophet and the picture it draws is rape.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that conflicting historical hadith must be weighed against the Quran and the Prophet's character, that the story of Safiyya taken on the night of Khaybar fails both tests and amounts to a lie against the Prophet, and that Muslims who relay it are degrading his honour.
Evidence, his words at 35:22: “hadith sometimes they conflict especially on historical accounts because these things didn't get documented two generations later so when it's something very important like this you have to weigh it up against the teachings of the Quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=2122s)

## If the Safiyya story is in Sahih al-Bukhari, why question it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/11/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (40:25–45:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Legal theory and method; The wives of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Because Bukhari's own narrations of the incident conflict, all rest on Anas, and Anas himself says nobody witnessed a marriage and they only assumed one from her being veiled. Earlier scholars were great but shaped by their times, and loyalty to them should not come before the Prophet's honour.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that a report being in Sahih al-Bukhari does not settle the matter when Bukhari's own narrations of it conflict and rest on one companion's assumption, and that Muslims are not bound by earlier scholars' understanding, shaped by their age, when the Prophet's honour is at stake.
Evidence, his words at 41:11: “we are not held to account by the understanding of people before us they were amazing legends they were great geniuses but their own culture their own age influence their perception” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=2471s)

## Why do so many maulanas think the way they do?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wl7wikke16q/s/2/
Date: 2018-02-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Maulana/Madrassa crisis & Why my views appear to be different? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (5:38–15:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries; The Indian subcontinent
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Many maulanas grow up mocked, alienated and insecure, are trained in material irrelevant to the real world, and are then made leaders young, and that past shapes their decisions. He says he is shedding light, not disparaging them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says one would be naive to think that the past of young maulanas, who hardly interact with women, does not influence their decisions when women come to them with questions.
Evidence, his words at 13:58: “is it okay for me to wear nail polish is it okay for me to cut my hair do you not think that their past will influence their decisions you've been naive to think that it doesn't” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7wIKke16Q&t=838s)

## Is it worth studying at a madrasa?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wl7wikke16q/s/3/
Date: 2018-02-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Maulana/Madrassa crisis & Why my views appear to be different? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (15:16–17:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to study Islam; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The madrasa is an excellent place if you bring critical thinking to it, and dogmatising if you do not; studying with several denominations, as he did, helps you see the good and the bad in each.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the madrasa is an awesome place if one can bring critical thought, evaluation and application to it, and that otherwise it will further dogmatise one.
Evidence, his words at 15:16: “bring some of those qualities of thinking critical thought evaluation application these kind of things to the table if you can do that motherís a is an awesome place if you can't it will further just dogma ties you” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7wIKke16Q&t=916s)

## Is the evil eye real in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yd3ehw0vtls/s/1/
Date: 2018-02-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Evil Eye has no reality in Islam - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–6:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Tawhid and shirk
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says believing in superstitions such as the evil eye causing harm contradicts the tawhid of Allah.
Evidence, his words at 4:53: “so believing in these kind of superstitions contradicts the towhead of Allah it contradicts the Sunnah of the messenger of allah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd3ehW0VTls&t=293s)

## Did someone really do magic on the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yd3ehw0vtls/s/2/
Date: 2018-02-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Evil Eye has no reality in Islam - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (6:50–10:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Reflections on short surahs
Cites: Quran 112 (Surat al-Ikhlas) (https://quran.com/112); Quran 113:1-5 (Surat al-Falaq) (https://quran.com/113); Quran 114 (Surat al-Nas) (https://quran.com/114); Quran 113:4 (from the evil of those who blow on knots) (https://quran.com/113/4); Quran 2:102 (Harut and Marut) (https://quran.com/2/102)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he calls the report of magic on the Prophet falsely attributed and an affront to his honour, and says the Quls were revealed years earlier in Makkah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the incident of magic being done on the Prophet in Madinah is falsely attributed.
Evidence, his words at 6:50: “this a falsely attributed incident that the Prophet had magic turn onto him this is not only a blast blasphemous it is dishonorable” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd3ehW0VTls&t=410s)

## Is every hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/2/
Date: 2018-02-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (4:30–7:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Sunnah versus hadith; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not necessarily: Mufti Abu Layth says al-Bukhari did an excellent job, a hundred unreliable reports among eight thousand would be no big deal, and great scholars disagreed in their rulings.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if even a hundred of al-Bukhari's narrations were found unreliable it would be no big deal compared with the eight thousand he has.
Evidence, his words at 5:44: “Imam Buhari has approximately over 8,000 narrations in his book if let's say 100 of them even have issues with them and are unreliable and eventually declared to be unacceptable that's no big deal” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM4jHsWJ_uM&t=344s)

## Is the hadith of the crying tree trunk authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/3/
Date: 2018-02-09 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (7:38–16:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth finds weak narrators in each chain, including those in al-Bukhari, and says only the Quran is preserved in its entirety.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the stories of the tree crying for the Prophet are unreliable.
Evidence, his words at 9:30: “the tree started crying and the Prophet came and put his hand on it these things are unreliable these stories” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM4jHsWJ_uM&t=570s)

## What did the Green Lane Masjid khutbah say about Mufti Abu Layth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ckwrlhtbygo/s/1/
Date: 2018-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply To Zakaullah Saleem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:29)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Responses to critics; Salafism and Wahhabism; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The khutbah called him a jahil who cannot be a mufti, said he mocks the deen, the people of tawhid and hadith, and blamed his followers' parents for not teaching them the correct aqidah. Mufti Abu Layth reports each charge with mockery and notes a well-funded Salafi organisation targeting one man on Facebook.

## Can the detailed aqidah taught today be proven from the Quran and Sunnah alone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ckwrlhtbygo/s/2/
Date: 2018-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply To Zakaullah Saleem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth (5:29–10:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Creed and the schools of theology; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says aqidah as taught today was put together by Muslims over the ages, while the Prophet taught only simple belief. He challenges the maulana to a face-to-face meeting to prove his aqidah exclusively from the Quran and Sunnah, guaranteeing it cannot be done.

## Is the Quran created or uncreated? Why he calls the debate absurd
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/2/
Date: 2018-01-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (3:56–10:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the created or uncreated Quran debate is absurd: the Companions never discussed it, and it arose as a political dispute over the caliphs' authority in the time of al-Ma'mun.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): The debate over whether the Quran is created or uncreated is absurd and without meaningful outcome: the Companions never discussed it, and it arose as a political dispute over the caliphs' authority in the time of al-Ma'mun.
Evidence, his words at 3:56: “the question is is the Quran created uncreated and I said that this the whole discussion is absurd which I stand by today and I say it's absurd” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7s1DcClcwU&t=236s)

## Shaving the beard: Qadi Iyad's view and the demand for one hadith
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/3/
Date: 2018-01-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (10:31–14:24)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dress and appearance; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The view that shaving the beard is not haram is presented as Qadi Iyad's, and Mufti Abu Layth challenges the critic to produce a hadith teaching how to keep a beard. He adds that truth is not decided by the number of scholars holding a view.

## Music: the hadith on singing and hypocrisy, and scholars who permitted music
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/4/
Date: 2018-01-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (14:24–24:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Entertainment, sport and leisure; Authenticating hadith; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Nothing proven categorically makes music haram, and lyrics by themselves do not make listening haram. The hadith the critic cited on singing and hypocrisy is weak in every chain, and he lists scholars who said no sahih report forbids music.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Nothing proven categorically demonstrates that music is haram, lyrics by themselves do not make listening haram, and the hadith brought to forbid it, that singing breeds hypocrisy in the heart, is weak in every chain.
Evidence, his words at 14:28: “there's nothing proven to categorically to demonstrate music is Haram and I think that's what I say enough and yes I add that lyrics do not make something Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7s1DcClcwU&t=868s)

## Anal intercourse: the difference of opinion and the chains of the critic's hadith
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/5/
Date: 2018-01-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (24:50–36:43)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sexual ethics; Authenticating hadith; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): On anal intercourse Mufti Abu Layth says only that there is a difference of opinion: the majority held it haram, many Malikis did not and disliked it for hygiene. He argues that every hadith the critic quoted against it has a weak or disconnected chain.

## Refute me with sahih evidence: lying about the Prophet and the charge of misguidance
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/6/
Date: 2018-01-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (36:43–40:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth invites refutation but only on categorical evidence from the Quran and sahih hadith, and says quoting weak reports falsely attributed to the Prophet is shameful.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says anyone may try to prove him wrong but must bring categorical evidence from the Quran and the Sunnah, and that quoting weak reports as the Prophet's words is attributing lies to him.
Evidence, his words at 40:04: “you and any of anybody else out there is most welcome to prove concepts prove me wrong but bring me categorical evidences from the kitab it was sooner and prove your point” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7s1DcClcwU&t=2404s)

## Ruqya and the Quran as a cure: spiritual diseases, not cancer
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/7/
Date: 2018-01-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (40:38–45:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Medical questions; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran is a cure for the spiritual diseases of the heart, not a replacement for medicine for physical illness. The Prophet told people to seek medicine.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): The Quran's description of itself as a cure refers to the spiritual diseases of the heart, not to physical illness, for which the Prophet instructed people to seek medicine.
Evidence, his words at 43:12: “if a person has cancer you don't say I know let's sit down and read the Quran in the cancer will go away the Prophet never taught you to do that” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7s1DcClcwU&t=2592s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth say riba has become a symbol rather than something people understand?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/2/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (2:04–5:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 2:279 (be informed of a war from Allah) (https://quran.com/2/279); Quran 2:276 (Allah destroys riba and increases sadaqat) (https://quran.com/2/276)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Riba has become a symbol of Islam that many hold important without understanding it, because religion for many people is a matter of visible symbols. What people know is that Allah declared war on riba and destroys it while increasing charity.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that religion for many people is a matter of visible symbols, and that riba has become one such symbol of Islam, held to be incredibly important by people who may not understand what it is.
Evidence, his words at 4:27: “So riba has become one of those things that is symbolic. That it is seen to many people to be an important aspect of Islam.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=267s)

## What was the riba of the jahiliyyah that the Quran condemned?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/3/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (5:31–9:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Pre-Islamic Arabia
Cites: Quran 2:275 (Allah has permitted sale and forbidden riba) (https://quran.com/2/275)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Riba is spoken of as three kinds: riba al-jahiliyyah, riba al-fadl and riba al-nasi'a. The riba of the jahiliyyah was a tyrannical loan-shark practice of compounding debt enforced by killing, torture and enslavement.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth describes the riba of the jahiliyyah as a tyrannical loan-shark practice in which compounding demands on a debtor who could not repay could end in killing, torture and the enslavement of his family.
Evidence, his words at 6:30: “Ribal jahiliyyah is the riba that it's a kind of inc- a tyrant like a very uh draconian highly oppressive loan shark kind of riba.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=390s)

## What is riba al-fadl and what does the hadith on gold, silver, wheat, barley, dates and salt say?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/4/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (9:16–14:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Individual hadith explained
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The six-commodities hadith requires equal, hand-to-hand exchange and makes delay riba, even between different goods. Taken literally it would make credit impossible, so the scholars exempted gold and silver by a kind of consensus.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the six-commodities hadith, taken as it stands, would make any purchase on credit impossible, and that the scholars by a kind of consensus exempted gold and silver from it while keeping the other four goods.
Evidence, his words at 12:46: “Now the Hadith actually includes gold and silver too. Which would mean it's impossible impossible to buy anything on credit anything.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=766s)

## Does the Quran forbid every kind of excess when it forbids riba?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/5/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (14:16–17:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Tafsir and verse study; Legal theory and method
Cites: Quran 2:275 (Allah has permitted sale and forbidden riba) (https://quran.com/2/275)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The definite article in 'Allah forbade riba' points to a specific known kind of riba, not every excess, since most excesses are not haram. Umar wished the Prophet had explained riba, and Ibn Abbas held there was no riba except in delay.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the definite article in the Quran's prohibition of riba refers to a particular kind of riba already known to its hearers, not to every excess, since riba simply means excess and most excesses are agreed not to be haram.
Evidence, his words at 14:16: “Because riba simply means an excess. And everybody agrees that not all excesses are haram in fact most excesses are not haram.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=856s)

## Did the scholars ever agree on what counts as riba?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/6/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (17:12–21:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There has never been clarity or agreement on what riba applies to: the Hanafi, Shafi'i and Maliki schools each defined its scope differently, and nobody calls a phone-for-phones swap riba. No scholar has given Mufti Abu Layth a satisfying explanation of why delay in barter is riba.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there has never been agreement or clarity among the scholars on what riba applies to, and that none of the senior scholars he has asked has given a satisfying explanation of why delaying one side of a barter between different goods is riba.
Evidence, his words at 18:43: “I've never come across a kind of thirst-quenching explanation on why uh bartering the delaying of one of the kind of product is riba.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=1123s)

## Are mortgages and bank loans the riba forbidden in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/7/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (21:46–29:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 2:279 (be informed of a war from Allah) (https://quran.com/2/279)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mortgages and bank loans are not the riba forbidden in the Quran, which addressed a tyrannical loan-shark culture. Today's borrower is the one giving more, not taking, and is protected by a legal framework of cooperation, debt management and bankruptcy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that mortgages and bank loans are not the riba forbidden in the Quran, which was declared war on because of a tyrannical loan-shark culture unlike today's regulated banking, in which the borrower gives back more out of necessity and is legally protected.
Evidence, his words at 22:11: “Are these things riba? These things are not riba in the Quranic sense, in my understanding.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=1331s)

## How was the economy of the Prophet's time different from today's?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/8/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (29:45–36:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Islam and modernity; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quranic prohibition came in an economy of finite gold, where wealth could only grow by taking it from others. Money, which Mufti Abu Layth calls humanity's greatest invented story, was later dematerialised into paper, changing everything.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran was revealed in an economy of finite money, in which wealth could only grow by taking it from others, and that this changed entirely when money was dematerialised into paper a few hundred years ago.
Evidence, his words at 33:05: “When the Quran was revealed in 7th century Arabia money was finite.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=1985s)

## How did Adam Smith and industrialisation change attitudes to greed and lending?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/9/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (36:59–41:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Philosophy and ideas; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Adam Smith's idea of the pursuit of self-interest and the industrial-era promise of a better tomorrow changed a mindset in which greed was simply evil and nobody would lend. These are ingredients of the modern economy the Quran did not address.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that before Adam Smith's promotion of the pursuit of self-interest greed was seen simply as evil, as it was when the Quran condemned riba, and that industrialisation brought a new promise of a better tomorrow, before which people would not lend money.
Evidence, his words at 37:43: “So, when the Quran was condemning riba in the time of the Arabs of 7th century Arabia greed was just seen as an evil thing. But everything changes in the 18th century.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=2263s)

## How can a bank lend out more money than it has?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/10/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (41:39–47:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Money and finance; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Banks lending out far more than they hold, though it can be abused, is what allows communities to flourish. Money today is created out of nothing, but spending it enriches others.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that banks being authorised to lend far more money than they hold, although it can be done irresponsibly, is what allowed communities and societies to flourish.
Evidence, his words at 42:12: “Now, people might see this as a bad thing. But, it allowed the community and societies to flourish.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=2532s)

## Why did the Quran declare war on riba?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/11/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (47:23–51:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Tafsir and verse study
Cites: Quran 2:279 (be informed of a war from Allah) (https://quran.com/2/279)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran declared war on riba because of the tyranny of a loan-shark culture in a world of finite money, which modern banking does not resemble. The only similarity is that more is repaid than taken, which banks explain by inflation and motivation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran declared war on riba because of the tyranny of a loan-shark culture in a world of finite money, and that modern bank lending, whose only similarity is that more is repaid than taken, is nothing like it.
Evidence, his words at 50:20: “And that's why Allah declares war on it. Because of the tyranny that was happening. That is nothing like banks saying,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=3020s)

## Is an Islamic mortgage any different from a conventional mortgage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/12/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (51:45–56:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; The Maliki school; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mortgages and bank loans today are not the riba the Quran condemns, in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding. Islamic mortgages are the same thing under another name, a loophole the Maliki school has never liked, as Umar said of the jizya renamed a gift.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that conventional mortgages and bank loans are not the riba the Quran condemns, and that so-called Islamic mortgages are the same thing under another name, a play on words of the loophole kind the Maliki school has never liked.
Evidence, his words at 53:14: “To me, a conventional mortgage and Islamic mortgage or whatever mortgage are all the same in my understanding.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=3194s)

## Are student loans, car finance and mortgages haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/13/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (56:42–1:00:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Money and finance; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 2:229 (retain in kindness or release with grace), quoted in passing (https://quran.com/2/229)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mortgages, student loans, car finance and other bank loans are not haram in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding, though nobody is obliged to take them. He encourages Muslims in the West to invest in property, while leaving renting or Islamic mortgages to personal choice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that mortgages, student loans, car finance and other bank loans are not haram, though nobody is obliged to take them, and offers as his own thought, which viewers may discard, that Muslims living as minorities in the West should invest in property and build assets.
Evidence, his words at 58:36: “Okay? I do not believe them to be haram based on all of these elements.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=3516s)

## What happened with Nouman Ali Khan and Mahira Khan online?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/1/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary; Views on contemporary scholars; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Two online campaigns in the same week, against Nouman Ali Khan over allegations and against the actress Mahira Khan over a photograph, show the same Muslim attitude to responding, which Mufti Abu Layth sets out to examine.

## Was it wrong to publish the allegations against Nouman Ali Khan?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/2/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (2:39–6:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Speech and everyday conduct; Views on contemporary scholars; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Releasing ambiguous allegations of abuse against Nouman Ali Khan, later said to concern flirtatious messages, was clear-cut haram and character assassination in Mufti Abu Layth's view. He calls the handling despicable and contrary to the Prophet's message.

## What arguments were used to justify exposing Nouman Ali Khan?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/3/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (6:36–10:30)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Legal theory and method; Social media; Speech and everyday conduct
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The campaign rested on three claims: a duty to forbid evil, greater accountability for leaders, and the idea that any relationship involving a person of status is abuse. Mufti Abu Layth presents these as the views he is about to answer.

## If a religious figure does something wrong, should people expose him online?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/4/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (10:30–13:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Public law and governance; Speech and everyday conduct; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): If a crime was committed it must be reported to the authorities, and vigilante justice is haram. If the act is only haram and not a crime, it is for Allah alone to judge, not for people online.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that if a crime has been committed it must be reported to the authorities, that vigilante justice is haram, and that a haram act that is not a crime is for Allah alone to judge.
Evidence, his words at 10:43: “vigilante justice is haram for a valid reason in Islam it is not okay for people to get together and say we will do vigilante justice” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=643s)

## Who has the right to tell other Muslims off for doing something haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/5/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (13:04–15:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Public law and governance; Legal theory and method; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Hisbah, commanding good and forbidding evil, is for legitimate authority and for qualified scholars, and only in matters that are clearly agreed upon. Imam Malik said one may advise but not argue or dispute.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that commanding good and forbidding evil (hisbah) belongs to legitimate authority and to qualified scholars, only in matters that are clearly agreed upon, and not to individuals acting on their own.
Evidence, his words at 13:18: “they are only four people in legit authority to take to task they are not for you and me to just go around and command the good and forbid the evil” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=798s)

## Is it Islamic to name and shame someone for a sin?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/6/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (15:41–19:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Speech and everyday conduct; Social media; The life of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Naming and shaming a person for a sin is a modern tabloid practice with no basis in the Prophet's example, who addressed wrongdoing without naming anyone. Those acting as haram police are mostly unqualified, and Mufti Abu Layth notes they ignore rulings that apply to themselves.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that publicly naming and shaming a person for a sin is a modern tabloid practice with no basis in the Prophet's example, since the Prophet addressed wrongdoing without naming anyone.
Evidence, his words at 18:21: “this is a 21st century Western tabloid tabloid ISM culture that you are exploiting that you are building your faith upon this is nothing nothing from the teachings of Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=1101s)

## Should religious leaders be held to a higher standard than everyone else?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/7/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (19:37–23:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Islam and modernity; Individual hadith explained
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The claim that leaders deserve greater scrutiny is a modern Western ethic that its proponents apply selectively, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, while a hadith tells Muslims to overlook the slips of people of standing. Workplace rules on relationships are corporate productivity ethics, not religion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the principle that leaders deserve greater scrutiny is a modern Western ethic applied selectively by those who reject modern ethics elsewhere, and that the Prophet instructed overlooking the slips of people of standing.
Evidence, his words at 19:37: “people of leadership must be held to greater accountability says who says who where did you I know yes this is a principle of modern 21st century Western ethics” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=1177s)

## Is a relationship between a leader and a follower automatically abuse?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/8/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (23:33–26:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Marriage; Women in Islam; Interaction between men and women
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A consensual relationship between adults is not abuse just because one has status, and Mufti Abu Layth calls the contrary claim insulting to women. Abuse of power is coercion, such as a boss demanding sexual acts to keep a job; Khadijah's marriage to the Prophet who worked for her is his first counter-example.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that a consensual relationship between adults is not abuse merely because one party has status, and that abuse of power means coercion such as a boss demanding sexual acts from a worker to keep her job.
Evidence, his words at 23:33: “this must be deemed abuse no it is not abuse it is not abuse women I'm sorry but I find it insulting” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=1413s)

## Is it wrong to be attracted to someone because of their status or position?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/9/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (26:10–30:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Marriage; The companions; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Attraction to status and relationships between people who work closely together are natural, not abuse, and Islam leaves consensual relationships to the people involved. Mufti Abu Layth cites Hasan ibn Ali, al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba and Ibn Hazm as figures whose private lives did not disqualify them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Islam leaves people to their own consensual relationships and does not judge them, and that attraction to status is natural and not in itself an abuse of power.
Evidence, his words at 28:32: “Islam just leaves people to their own relationships it doesn't judge me doesn't tell people how to have a relationship” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=1712s)

## Did great scholars like Ibn Hajar have private lives that would be condemned today?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/10/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (30:07–32:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Marriage; Speech and everyday conduct
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani married a woman who had been his wife's slave girl without anyone warning the ummah against him, Mufti Abu Layth says, so such private conduct cannot be called abuse. Words like abuse imply real abuse and are dangerous.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that conduct such as Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's marriage to his wife's former slave girl was never treated as abuse of power or as grounds to warn the ummah against him, and that the word abuse should be kept for real abuse, not the breaking of corporate rules.
Evidence, his words at 32:22: “when people use words like abuse they are dangerous words because they imply the real abuse not just oh you know you may have broken some rules of corporation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=1942s)

## Why does it matter that the word 'abuse' was used about Nouman Ali Khan?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/11/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (32:43–36:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Speech and everyday conduct; Views on contemporary scholars; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Calling flirtatious messages abuse misuses a word people understand to mean molestation or rape, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, and it was used to destroy a man who made the Quran relevant in English. He calls the campaign coordinated, driven by ulterior motives, and an act of Judas.

## Do Muslims online have the right to demand evidence about a scholar's private life?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/12/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (36:37–40:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Social media; Speech and everyday conduct; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The public is not a court and has no jurisdiction to demand or weigh evidence about someone's private life, which everyone has a right to. Mufti Abu Layth says those attacking Nouman Ali Khan cannot fill his place when the next generation needs answers about the Quran.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the public is not a court and has no jurisdiction to demand or weigh evidence about a person's private life, and that everyone has a right to a personal life.
Evidence, his words at 37:27: “there's no evidence to bring we are not a court this is not court right none of you are have jurisdiction there is no evidence to bring” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=2247s)

## Is cyberbullying and attacking someone's honour haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/13/
Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (40:31–46:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Speech and everyday conduct; Character and virtue; Individual hadith explained
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Harming the honour of a Muslim is graver than destroying the Kaaba, Mufti Abu Layth says citing a hadith, and bullying, cyberbullying and maligning people are haram. A crime goes to the authorities; a haram act is for God alone to judge.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that harming the honour of a Muslim is graver than destroying the Kaaba, as the hadith he cites says, and that bullying, cyberbullying and maligning people's character are haram.
Evidence, his words at 45:43: “recognize that bullying is haram cyberbullying is haram maligning people's character is haram destroying the honor of other muslims is haram stay away from all of this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=2743s)

## What are the jinn and what can Shaytan actually do to people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/1/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–7:53)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 2:30 (I will place a khalifa on the earth) (https://quran.com/2/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Jinn exist and Shaytan is a clear enemy, but his only power is to whisper, as human misleaders do, and Allah gave people the fitra and reason to resist. Any claim about the jinn must be met by asking for its proof in the Quran and Sunnah and weighing its consequences; an unexplained illness is not proof of a jinn.

## Does the Quran say that Shaytan or the jinn can possess or control a person?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/2/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (7:53–13:06)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 24:21 (do not follow the footsteps of Shaytan; he commands shameful and evil things) (https://quran.com/24/21); Quran 14:22 (Shaytan on the Day of Judgement: I had no authority over you except that I called you) (https://quran.com/14/22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran never says people lose their will; it commands believers not to follow Shaytan's footsteps, which presupposes the will and power to refuse. On the Day of Judgement Shaytan himself says he had no authority except to call people, so he teaches and whispers but never forces.

## Is there any sound hadith that a jinn possessed someone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/3/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (13:06–19:40)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There is no sound hadith of Shaytan possessing anyone; the Ibn Mas'ud report shows the jinn as a lowly creation fed on bones, not masters over humans. The guest's own investigations of 'haunted' houses and 'possessed' women found tricks and nothing else, and exorcism has become a big business.

## If doctors cannot explain an illness, could it be a jinn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/4/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (19:40–23:06)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 38:41 (Ayyub: Shaytan has touched me with hardship and pain) (https://quran.com/38/41); Quran 17:36 (do not pursue what you have no knowledge of) (https://quran.com/17/36)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): An illness doctors cannot explain is not thereby a jinn; that is a story made up without proof. The Quran attributes harm to Shaytan only in the sense that people follow his whispering, as in Ayyub's prayer, and forbids claiming what one has no knowledge of.

## Which classical scholars denied that jinn can possess people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/5/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (23:06–30:59)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Scholars and imams of the past; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 114:4 (from the evil of the whisperer) (https://quran.com/114/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Hazm held that claiming possession is a claim without knowledge and haram, since the Prophet spoke only of whispering; al-Tahawi noted that every taught du'a is against whispering, al-Razi said Shaytan cannot cause illness, and al-Shafi'i rejected the testimony of anyone claiming to see jinn, which only prophets can.

## Did Ibn Taymiyya believe in jinn possession, and does his view have proof?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/6/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (30:59–34:55)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Scholars and imams of the past; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Taymiyya believed jinn possess people and treated them, but by his own rule of accepting nothing without proof from the Quran and Sunnah his claims fail: seeing something leave a patient does not prove it was a jinn. Levitating patients and beating the 'possessed' are tricks played on onlookers.

## Why does the guest warn women never to go to exorcists?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/7/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (34:55–38:51)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Exorcists exploit women: the guest recounts a girl coached to feign possession to hide her lost virginity, and says many women have been made pregnant by such men in India and on a large scale in Britain. Every illness has a cure that must be sought by proper effort.

## Did the Prophet use ruqya or doctors when he was ill?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/8/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (38:51–44:09)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Medical questions; Guest conversations
Cites: Surah al-Fatiha (https://quran.com/1); Quran 5:3 (today I have completed for you your religion) (https://quran.com/5/3)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): When the Prophet fell ill Arab doctors treated him, which is how Aisha learnt medicine, so recited verses were never meant as a cure-all and the 'treatment by Quran' books misuse the book. The Quran's verses help against whispering, and one reads them for oneself without any raqi.

## Why do jinn seem to afflict only people who believe in them?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/9/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (44:09–49:23)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Amulet writers, raqis and shrine touts run a business of lies, as the guest's stories of ambiguous amulets and promised sons show. Jinn never trouble him, atheists or non-Muslims, only those of weak belief, which he calls a lie against Allah and his Messenger that robs people of money and women of honour.

## What do people mean when they say someone is possessed by a jinn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/10/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (49:23–53:21)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The popular picture is that a jinn or demon takes over a person's mind or body, causing illness, obsessive or insane behaviour and broken relationships, supposedly to create mischief. Mufti Abu Layth presents this as the urban myth he will test against the Quran, the authentic Sunnah and reason, after the guest's closing call to disbelieve the whole business.

## Why did Muslim scholars of the past accept the idea of jinn possession?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/11/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (53:21–58:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Scholars of the past were the only learned people and were asked to explain everything, from the divisibility of atoms to where the intellect sits, so they explained strange behaviour with the best knowledge they had. That is the backdrop to the confusion over possession, not a proof of it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the belief in possession took root because the ulama, as the most learned people in pre-modern societies, were asked to explain every worldly phenomenon and answered as best they could with the knowledge of their time.
Evidence, his words at 58:09: “people were coming with normal whatever problems asking these people to explain them and they had took they were trying to come up with some answer to help these people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=3489s)

## Does the Quran's verse about the touch of Shaytan prove that jinn possess people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/12/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (58:35–1:02:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Tafsir and verse study; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 2:275 (like one whom Shaytan has driven to madness by his touch) (https://quran.com/2/275); Quran 37:65 (the tree of Jahannam, its fruit like the heads of devils) (https://quran.com/37/65)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the riba verse describes how usurers will rise on the Day of Judgement or pictures their greed, and the image of Shaytan's touch is drawn from human imagination, like the tree of Jahannam whose fruit is 'like the heads of devils'. It is a misused verse, not a proof.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the riba verse 2:275 describes how such people will rise on the Day of Judgement or pictures their greed, and that like the zaqqum fruit resembling the heads of devils it is imagery drawing on human imagination, not evidence that possession is real.
Evidence, his words at 1:00:42: “imagery that Allah grows upon the imagination of mankind when he's addressing them let's take another example” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=3642s)

## Are there authentic hadith of the Prophet casting a jinn out of someone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/13/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:31–1:09:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Authenticating hadith; Individual hadith explained
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): None of the hadith cited for possession is free of criticism; the only sound version, Uthman ibn Abi al-As in Sahih Muslim, mentions no jinn, as al-Nawawi notes, and the 'come out, enemy of Allah' reports are weak. The Prophet, a mercy to mankind, would not have left such a thing untaught.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says not a single hadith cited for possession is free of criticism, that the sound version of Uthman ibn Abi al-As's report in Sahih Muslim mentions no jinn, as al-Nawawi notes, and that a Prophet sent as a mercy would not have left a phenomenon affecting everyone untaught.
Evidence, his words at 1:04:29: “he never transmits this he doesn't teach people about this and think think about it this is going to impact us all every day and he forgets to tell us” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=3869s)

## Does the hadith that Shaytan flows in a person's blood prove possession?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/14/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:09:02–1:15:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Reason and revelation; Individual hadith explained
Cites: Quran 88:17-18 (do they not look at the camel, how it was created, and at the sky) (https://quran.com/88/17-18)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: the Prophet said it to two men who saw him with his wife Safiyya, about human suspicion, and nobody present was possessed. The Quran itself appeals to reason and proof, so possession must be tested by reason, which someone reading the Quran without cultural baggage would never find in it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Quran itself calls people to reason rather than to belief on its own say-so, so a claim like possession must be tested against reason, and that the hadith of Shaytan flowing in the blood concerns human suspicion, as its Safiyya context shows, not possession.
Evidence, his words at 1:10:55: “the Quran itself comes with this understanding that look you have to resort to reason” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=4255s)

## People I know have seen jinn possession; does that not prove it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/15/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:15:34–1:19:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Anecdotal experience is no proof: Muslims dismiss other faiths' miracle claims by reason while refusing to reason about their own, and possession afflicts only those who believe in it. A brain study found the prefrontal cortex shutting down during people's own religious experiences.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims accept anecdotal experiences of possession while dismissing other faiths' miracle claims by reason, that possession seems to afflict only those who believe in it, and that people switch off their reasoning for their own faith.
Evidence, his words at 1:16:06: “the question is why only our experiences why not everybody's experiences why not other faiths” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=4566s)

## How do we know mental illnesses are not really jinn possessions?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/16/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:19:28–1:24:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Reason and revelation; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A theory that explains everything, like a child's cyborg conspiracy, is not thereby true, and 'the jinn' is such a theory for Muslims. Like Basil Mitchell's partisan who rationalises everything the stranger does, this is non-propositional faith that no evidence can reach.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that explaining anything unexplained by the jinn is a one-size-fits-all paradigm like a child's conspiracy theory or Basil Mitchell's partisan, a non-propositional faith that no evidence or reason can touch.
Evidence, his words at 1:20:39: “if you've just got one version to answer everything then yes you can do that but it doesn't make it true” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=4839s)

## What harm does belief in jinn possession do?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/17/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:24:46–1:27:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Belief in possession sustains beatings, sexual violence, exploitation and the extraction of money and even houses, and because it is dressed as Islam, Islam will be dismissed as mythology by the coming generation. Neurosis and psychosis are introduced as the frame for the psychological cases.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the belief in possession must be tackled because it mocks Islam and its Prophet and sustains a tyranny of abuse, from beatings and sexual violence to the extraction of money and property, and that Islam will be left to carry the blame as mythology.
Evidence, his words at 1:25:44: “what's going to take the brunt of in the end is Islam so people will just say you know what Islam is just a load of nonsense” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=5144s)

## Could seeing figures or faces that are not there be a brain condition rather than a jinn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/18/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:27:25–1:31:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: palinopsia makes after-images persist and Charles Bonnet syndrome makes an overactive fusiform gyrus produce faces, teeth and buildings, as Oliver Sacks's patient saw men with long teeth while knowing they were not real. In the past such visions could only be explained as demons.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says conditions such as palinopsia and Charles Bonnet syndrome show how abnormalities in the brain produce visions of people and shapes that someone in the past could only have explained as demons.
Evidence, his words at 1:28:57: “how would I explain that in the past what an abnormality in the brain no maybe you're a demon I see you in many places” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=5337s)

## If someone got better after ruqya or an exorcism, does that prove it worked?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/19/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:31:20–1:35:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not necessarily: the placebo and nocebo effects produce real relief and real symptoms, as Kaptchuk's trial with cornstarch pills and retractable needles showed. Some patients would also have recovered anyway and are counted as cures.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that apparent cures through ruqya or exorcism can be explained by the placebo and nocebo effects, which Ted Kaptchuk's sham acupuncture trial showed produce real symptoms and real relief, or by people who would have recovered anyway.
Evidence, his words at 1:34:05: “it's called psychosomatic behavior when you actually can get ill it's called the nocebo effect and the placebo effect where you can actually get better” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=5645s)

## If jinn do not possess people, what is ruqya for?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/20/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:35:16–1:37:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Magic, the evil eye and superstition
Cites: Quran 10:57 (a cure for what is in the hearts) (https://quran.com/10/57)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran is a cure for what is in the hearts, meaning disbelief and superstition, and ruqya and the taught du'as are a scaffolding to steady people's iman because humans cling to ritual and fall easily into superstition. The du'a against omens shows the Prophet using this method.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Quran's healing is for what is in the hearts, meaning disbelief and superstition, and that ruqya and the taught du'as are a scaffolding Allah gave to steady people's iman because humans fall easily into superstition.
Evidence, his words at 1:37:16: “so it is a scaffolding it's like a Zimmer frame to help you walk until you can walk” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=5836s)

## Could strange symptoms blamed on jinn have medical explanations?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/21/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:37:52–1:45:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: face blindness, mirror-touch synaesthesia, phantom limbs, alien hand syndrome, the Capgras delusion, hemispatial neglect, aphantasia and foreign accent syndrome are all documented conditions that the past could only call demons. Blaming the unexplained on jinn is a 'jinn of the gaps'; the Prophet's hadith on cures says go and find the knowledge.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the many neurological conditions science now describes, from prosopagnosia to foreign accent syndrome, show that attributing the unexplained to jinn is a 'jinn of the gaps' fallacy, and that the Prophet's hadith on cures tells people to seek the knowledge.
Evidence, his words at 1:44:54: “in this phenomenon this is like the Djinn of the gaps like the moment we don't know anything it's the Djinn” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=6294s)

## Why are so many 'possessed' people in the community women?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/22/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:45:48–1:48:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Trauma and healing; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Dissociative disorders that look like possession occur mostly among women with histories of trauma, excessive control, pressured or forced marriages and childhood beatings. The psyche breaks down under such treatment just as the body reacts to injury.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that dissociative disorders in the community occur more often among women with backgrounds of trauma, excessive control, forced or pressured marriages and beatings, and that the psyche breaks down under such treatment as the body would, which is what gets called possession.
Evidence, his words at 1:46:13: “a lot of these cases happen usually more so than more often in our communities amongst women and they these people have a background of trauma abuse” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=6373s)

## Could a jinn fall in love with my spouse and break up my marriage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/23/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:48:25–1:51:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Depression and anxiety; Marriage
Cites: Quran 15:27 (the jinn created before from the fire of scorching wind) (https://quran.com/15/27)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: a jinn, created from fire, would belong to a domain of life as alien to us as extremophile bacteria, which do not fall in love or envy marriages. Blaming jinn or magic for a failed relationship comes from the stigma Muslims attach to mental illness.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims' stigma against mental illness pushes them to blame jinn or magic, and that jinn, if considered at all, belong to a different domain of life from humans, like extremophile Archaea, so they do not fall in love or wreck marriages.
Evidence, his words at 1:48:25: “so offended if you say this could be a mental health issue so what do you mean like my mom my mom ain't mental” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=6505s)

## How does Mufti Abu Layth explain an exorcist who speaks as his own jinn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/24/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:51:02–1:56:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Islamic psychology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The exorcist's 'jinn', which declared its love for him, is read as displacement of guilt: a religious man projecting feelings he could not own onto a jinn, believing it sincerely without it being true. People must own their failed relationships instead of blaming jinn.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the exorcist whose 'jinn' professed love for him was displacing his own guilt by projecting feelings he could not own onto a jinn, sincerely but not truly, and that the 'jinn of the gaps' is nonsensical, makes religion a joke and leaves real abuse untouched.
Evidence, his words at 1:55:15: “to say it's the Djinn of the gaps is is nonsensical it's absurd and it makes religion into a joke and beyond that it doesn't tackle the greater issues of abuse” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=6915s)

## Why not treat jinn possession as just a difference of opinion among scholars?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7z8yu8kr83y/s/25/
Date: 2017-09-20 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (1:56:14–1:58:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Because it is not a harmless difference like raising the hands in prayer: belief in possession underwrites mass exploitation, a multi-million pound industry and ridicule of Islam and its Prophet. Al-Razi, al-Maraghi, Ibn Ashur and al-Shawkani are among those who denied it, and the abuse must end.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth refuses a diplomatic stance that treats possession as one of two valid opinions, because unlike a difference over raising the hands in prayer this belief underwrites mass exploitation and abuse and brings ridicule on Islam and its Prophet.
Evidence, his words at 1:57:09: “this is why i refuse to have a diplomatic stance on this that this abuse is unacceptable it needs to be brought to an end” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8yu8Kr83Y&t=7029s)

## Introduction: why learn the Maliki salah, rak'ah counts and naturalness
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/1/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (0:16–2:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The video teaches the Maliki way of praying; the key theme to keep in mind is naturalness throughout the prayer.

## Demonstration of the Maliki salah from takbir to salam
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/2/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (2:51–15:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Maliki prayer is performed with the arms hanging, no opening dua or basmala, silent al-Fatiha, tasbih and personal dua without a set number, and a single salam. Tranquility in every posture is an obligation.

## Introduction to sujud al-sahw, the prostration of forgetfulness
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/3/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (15:36–17:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Maliki school has two kinds of sujud al-sahw: one performed before the final salam and one performed after it.

## Five common types of mistakes in salah and how each is treated
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/4/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (17:30–22:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Verbal additions and lesser omissions need nothing; a missed major sunnah is repaired by sujud al-sahw before the salam, an added action or doubt by sujud al-sahw after it, and a missed obligation by cancellation.

## Demonstration of sujud al-sahw before and after the salam, and cancellation
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/5/
Date: 2017-04-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to Pray Salah According to the Maliki Madhhab- Mufti Abu Layth (22:48–34:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A missed major sunnah is repaired by two prostrations before the salam, an addition or doubt by two prostrations after it, and a forgotten obligation by cancelling the defective rak'ah and continuing. Behind an imam, follow the imam.

## The question, Mufti Abu Layth's thesis and premise one: dating in an oral culture
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/3/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (7:50–16:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Pre-Islamic Arabia
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Aisha married in her late teens, not at six or nine. His first premise is that the early Arabs kept no precise dates, so ages and years in reports often conflict.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report that Aisha was married at six and moved in at nine is inaccurate and that she married the Prophet in her late teens.
Evidence, his words at 8:20: “it states that she got married contractually at the age of six and moved in with the messenger of Allah Sall alaihi wasallam at the age of nine I do believe that to be absolutely inaccurate and incorrect” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=500s)

## Premise two: hadith absolutism versus hadith relativism
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/4/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (16:58–30:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Sunnah versus hadith; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Scholars were divided from the start between treating every authenticated hadith as binding and reading it against Islam's wider principles. Imam Malik and the school of Madinah left many sound-chained reports they did not hold to be the sunnah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that from the earliest period many scholars, Imam Malik and the school of Madinah among them, treated hadith as relative to the wider principles of Islam and left reports with sound chains that they did not hold to be the sunnah.
Evidence, his words at 18:41: “that was opposed heavily by countless Scholars who believe that the Hadith was always relative to the greater context to the greater picture and principles of Islam and that included the school of Medina namely Imam Malik” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=1121s)

## Unacceptable reports in the Sahihayn and judging a hadith by its content
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/5/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (30:00–33:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Authenticating hadith; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim contain some reports scholars reject as wrong, so a report is judged by its content as well as its chain. Their sanctification came centuries later.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim contain some reports that are not acceptable, and that a report should be judged by its content as well as its chain.
Evidence, his words at 30:00: “it is undeniable that the books like sahkari and sah Muslim it is undeniable that they have unacceptable Hadith in them” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=1800s)

## The reality: the year of sorrow and the proposal to Aisha
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/6/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (33:58–47:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Marriage was proposed to the Prophet in the year of sorrow as support and companionship, which Mufti Abu Layth says makes no sense if Aisha was six. A prior engagement and a fear she would convert her fiance also point to an older girl.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the circumstances of the year of sorrow, in which marriage was proposed to the Prophet as support and companionship, make no sense if Aisha was six at the time.
Evidence, his words at 44:21: “now I want us to consider this reality does this make any sense that she was six years old at that time the prophet is going through all this struggle” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=2661s)

## The reports: Bukhari's six and nine against three other Bukhari reports
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/7/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (47:06–57:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The six-and-nine report conflicts with three other Bukhari reports: Aisha as a jariyah at an early revelation, her memory of her parents' Islam and Abu Bakr's migration, and her presence at Uhud when a fourteen-year-old boy was refused.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the six-and-nine report conflicts with at least three other reports in Sahih al-Bukhari about Aisha's age.
Evidence, his words at 50:01: “first of all that clashes with at least three other Hadith inkari so when you've got that already straight away you've it it clashes with three other Hadith inkari” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=3001s)

## The reports: Hisham's Iraqi transmission, Madinan silence and Asma's age
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/8/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (57:37–1:02:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Authenticating hadith; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The six-and-nine report rests on Hisham ibn Urwa's later Iraqi transmission and no Madinan compiler carries it. Asma's reported age makes Aisha about eighteen at her marriage.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the six-and-nine report rests on Hisham ibn Urwa's later Iraqi transmission, is not transmitted by any Madinan compiler, and is contradicted by Asma's reported age, which puts Aisha at about eighteen.
Evidence, his words at 1:01:31: “you backtrack and you take away 10 years and it makes Aisha you're talking in her late teens at the time of her marriage whether she was approximately around 18” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=3691s)

## The ramifications: jurists on marrying a minor, and the conclusion
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/9/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:49–1:14:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; The marriage contract; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Cites: Quran 4:6 (https://quran.com/4/6)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Aisha was in her late teens, most likely eighteen or nineteen, Mufti Abu Layth concludes. Jurists from early on held marriage impermissible with a girl incapable of it, and the Ottomans set a minimum age of fifteen.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth concludes that Aisha was not six or nine at her marriage but in her late teens, most likely around eighteen or nineteen.
Evidence, his words at 1:13:07: “Aisha was most certainly not six or nine at the time of her marriage she was in her late teens most likely uh around 18 to 19” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVIsExS4cA&t=4387s)

## What is the reward of sitting in a gathering of remembrance?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/2/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (3:57–8:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Individual hadith explained; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Gatherings for remembering Allah bring tranquillity, mercy and forgiveness, even for someone who only happened to sit with them.

## Is Islam still relevant in today's confusing times?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/3/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (8:12–12:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Individual hadith explained
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: the Prophet foretold confusing trials like layers of night, but Islam is for every time and place and has spread against the greatest odds.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Islam is for every time and every place, not restricted to the Arabian Peninsula.
Evidence, his words at 10:46: “but Islam is for every time and every place it isn't restricted to just a it wasn't just for the Arabian Peninsula” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=646s)

## Why do so many young Muslims feel confused or embarrassed about Islam today?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/4/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (12:05–20:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Technology and media; Race, nation and identity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Negative media portrayal, extremism, postmodern questions, doubts about rulings, culture and racism all weigh on young Muslims, and Mufti Abu Layth asks what the answer is.

## Where will the answers to Muslims' problems today come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/5/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (20:12–31:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 14:4 (We sent no messenger except in the tongue of his people) (https://quran.com/14/4); Quran 57:16 (has the time not come for those who believe) (https://quran.com/57/16)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): From Muslims themselves: as Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak said, legends will be born to carry the deen, and Allah sends revivers in every generation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the solutions to the problems Muslims face will come from within, from people among them who rise, learn and bring them about.
Evidence, his words at 21:24: “so the people the solutions will come within we will step forward people from amongst us will rise they will learn they will Empower they will bring about Solutions” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=1284s)

## Should religious Muslims focus on avoiding sin or on doing good?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/6/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (31:58–40:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Religious guilt and scrupulosity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Focus on building up the good, not on sins: the salaf rarely said haram, things are permissible by default, and the deen should be made easy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he sincerely believes that in this age Muslims need to focus on the positives rather than on wrongdoing.
Evidence, his words at 33:48: “I sincerely believe this that we are in an age where we need to just focus on the positives don't worry about the the the wrongdoings” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=2028s)

## How can young Muslims be made interested in their faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/7/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (40:05–45:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to study Islam; Scholars and imams of the past; Quranic Arabic
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Learn some Arabic and get to know the scholars as the fascinating, humorous people they were, presenting the deen as appealingly as it truly is.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says everybody should on some level be learning Arabic.
Evidence, his words at 40:05: “everybody on some level should be doing Arabic everybody should on some level be learning Arab it's not a difficult language” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=2405s)

## Abu Hanifa and Sufyan al-Thawri on the swapped brides of Kufa
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/8/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (45:14–54:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; The marriage contract
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa's creative answer to two brides sent to the wrong grooms, outshining Sufyan al-Thawri's ruling, shows the scholars were never dull.

## Can I say Merry Christmas to non-Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/uecmazd-lxw/s/1/
Date: 2015-12-27 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fatwa on saying Merry Christmas - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Non-Muslim festivals and greetings; Christians and other faiths; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 5:5 (permission to marry women of the People of the Book) (https://quran.com/5/5)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes, saying Merry Christmas is permissible: old rulings against it came from a very different world, and in the UK Christmas is largely a winter festivity. Those who prefer another greeting may use it without feeling pressured.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is permissible to say Merry Christmas to non-Muslims.
Evidence, his words at 0:01: “I've said it's permissible to say Merry Christmas to non-Muslims.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCmAZD-LXw&t=1s)

## What did Mufti Abu Layth actually do as a Prevent mentor?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/4/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (8:00–17:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Britain
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth met, only with their consent, people the council or police had flagged, offered to discuss Islam with them and helped clear up misunderstandings; most were not radicals. There were no covert operations, and he says spying on Muslims would be haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Prevent mentoring as he practised it was voluntary and consensual with no covert element, and that spying on Muslims or landing people in trouble for money or favour would be absolutely haram.
Evidence, his words at 14:49: “there was no such thing as spying I mean I would consider that absolutely Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=889s)

## Is working with the government or Prevent a form of serving false gods?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/5/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (17:09–21:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Public law and governance; Britain
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he categorically rejects the view of some political groups that any association with the authorities is serving a false god, calling it unscholarly. He accepts that elements within the programmes, including counter-terrorism officers who he says worked against him, need reviewing.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the view of politically active groups that any association with the government is serving a false god is not a correct scholarly interpretation, since assisting non-Muslim authorities does not make them gods besides Allah, while accepting that elements within these programmes have worked against Muslims, himself included, and that Prevent needs review.
Evidence, his words at 19:59: “I completely disagree categorically that these are Nots these are not false gods but I do accept that there are negative elements that are within these strategies” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=1199s)

## Should Muslims deny that jihad exists in Islam to counter extremism?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vzrrlx3livk/s/9/
Date: 2015-04-06 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Unanswered Questions- An interview with Mufti Abu Layth (31:30–35:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Public law and governance; Extremism, crime and justice; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says denying jihad or reducing it to self-defence feeds extremists, who use it to call scholars sellouts. The answer is to reclaim traditional Islam and own the concept with its context and conditions.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that extremism is tackled by reclaiming traditional Islam and owning the concept of jihad, which exists in the Quran and Sunnah with its context and conditions, rather than by denying it, which feeds groups such as ISIS.
Evidence, his words at 32:05: “I do feel that in order to tackle it we need to reclaim traditional Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZRrlX3lIVk&t=1925s)

## How did Abu Hanifa deal with his drunkard neighbour?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rnwtawhpx3a/s/1/
Date: 2015-03-07 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Imam Abu Hanifa and The Young Drunkard | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–4:56)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Character and virtue; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Abu Hanifa never rebuked his drinking neighbour but bailed him out of jail and asked whether they had let him go to waste, and the man changed his life. Good character carries a message further than one can imagine.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that good character carries a message further than one can imagine, as Abu Hanifa's gesture towards his drunkard neighbour shows.
Evidence, his words at 4:30: “good character people it takes people it takes messages so far that you can't imagine beyond your imagination” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNWtaWHPx3A&t=270s)

## Is there such a thing as good bid'ah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wirt3dxsvd8/s/1/
Date: 2015-03-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Innovation in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth alMaliki (0:01–1:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth frames the question of whether bid'ah divides into good and bad, defining it as innovation in religious matters, not worldly ones.

## What did Imam Malik say about bid'ah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wirt3dxsvd8/s/2/
Date: 2015-03-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Innovation in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth alMaliki (1:58–6:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Imam Malik
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam Malik rejected any 'good' bid'ah and called innovations misguidance, yet he often ruled a given innovation only discouraged (makruh), not haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that although Imam Malik's wording against innovations is harsh at times, his ruling on a particular innovation is quite often just makruh, not haram.
Evidence, his words at 5:09: “wording is harsh at times the ruling of that particular bidder or that innovation is quite often just seen as macro it is seen as discouraged it is not described as Haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrT3DXSvd8&t=309s)

## Is making group dua after every salah a bid'ah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wirt3dxsvd8/s/3/
Date: 2015-03-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Innovation in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth alMaliki (6:26–12:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Cites: Quran 5:2 (help one another in goodness) (https://quran.com/5/2)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Group dua after every prayer is not from the Sunnah; the Hanafis and Shafi'is count such acts as recommended under general commands to do good, while the other side sees a new practice.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that making dua together in congregation after every prayer is categorically not from the Sunnah.
Evidence, his words at 9:38: “for everybody after Salah to make a dying congregation not this action as an example if I was to use as an example is categorically not from the Sun” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrT3DXSvd8&t=578s)

## Is it a bid'ah to pray extra prayers on a fixed day every week?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wirt3dxsvd8/s/4/
Date: 2015-03-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Innovation in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth alMaliki (12:51–23:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; The Maliki school; Prayer
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Fixing a voluntary prayer to a day for convenience is commendable, but fixing it for a religious reason ritualises it, which the Malikis count as discouraged bid'ah.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that, from the Maliki perspective, the intention of a person can render their own action from a good and rewarding thing to something discouraged.
Evidence, his words at 23:10: “so the intention of a person can render his own action from being a good and rewarding thing to something discouraged and something that should be avoided” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrT3DXSvd8&t=1390s)

## Do Maliki scholars accept good bid'ah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wirt3dxsvd8/s/5/
Date: 2015-03-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Innovation in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth alMaliki (23:47–30:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Maliki school; Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Both views exist: the early Maliki school rejected good bid'ah for centuries, but from around the 600s to 700s Hijri most Malikis accepted such practices while the books still list them as makruh.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that good bid'ah practices crept into the Maliki world around the 600s Hijri and, he would even say, became the majority practice by the 700s.
Evidence, his words at 25:01: “and then by the 600's it's definitely there definitely by 700s I would even say becomes the majority practice” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrT3DXSvd8&t=1501s)

## Should I avoid practices that people call good bid'ah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wirt3dxsvd8/s/6/
Date: 2015-03-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Innovation in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth alMaliki (30:11–34:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds it is safer to stick to the Sunnah as Medina understood it, but does not condemn those who follow good bid'ah, and asks for mutual respect.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says his personal opinion is that it is always safer to stick with the Sunnah, the understanding in Medina at the time of Imam Malik.
Evidence, his words at 30:11: “my personal opinion is that it is always safer to stick with the Sunnah and that was the understanding in Medina at the time of man Malik” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrT3DXSvd8&t=1811s)

## Which scholars have allowed trimming or shaving the beard?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/d95_pyj6nia/s/2/
Date: 2014-04-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cutting-edge Perspective: Trimming the beard in Islam (pt 1)- Mufti Abu Layth (4:01–9:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; The Maliki school; Schools of law and following them
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Maliki and other classical jurists held that trimming or even shaving the beard is at most makruh, not haram, and many modern scholars across the schools have given the same fatwa or kept trimmed, goateed or clean-shaven beards themselves. Mufti Abu Layth presents this to show the opinion's long standing, not to deny the other view.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that the view that trimming or even shaving the beard is at most makruh and not haram has been held by Maliki and other classical jurists and by many modern scholars, some of whom were themselves trimmed, goateed or clean-shaven.
Evidence, his words at 5:51: “many of these have all written very clearly that it is not Haram to trim or even shave but especially to trim right down the beard they've not considered it haram” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95_pYj6NiA&t=351s)

## What do the sound hadith about the beard actually say?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/d95_pyj6nia/s/3/
Date: 2014-04-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cutting-edge Perspective: Trimming the beard in Islam (pt 1)- Mufti Abu Layth (9:16–13:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; Individual hadith explained; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Only three hadith on the beard have undisputed chains, and each pairs trimming the moustache with the beard and gives the reason of differing from the Jews and Christians, the Majus or the mushrikin. Many read this as an obligatory command, but Mufti Abu Layth says other hadith show otherwise.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the sound hadith on the beard reduce to three, each pairing the moustache with the beard and giving the reason of being different from non-Muslims, and that the command need not be read as obligatory, as other hadith show.
Evidence, his words at 12:29: “now many people have interpreted this to mean that it is an obligatory command a mandatory command but we see quite differently from other Hadith” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95_pYj6NiA&t=749s)

## Is it haram to trim my beard shorter than a fist's length?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kkjqsrxj3km/s/1/
Date: 2014-04-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cutting-edge Perspective: Trimming the beard in Islam (pt 2)- Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–12:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Trimming the beard below a fist is not haram according to many great scholars, a well-founded view in the tradition, though others may follow stricter opinions.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the opinion that trimming the beard below a fist's length is not haram is well founded in the tradition.
Evidence, his words at 8:13: “this is something that is well found and established in our books and we have to recognize that the is well founded it is in our tradition it is unden denable” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkjqsRxJ3KM&t=493s)

## Do I have to follow a madhhab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9thi3gciick/s/1/
Date: 2014-03-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Do I need to follow a Madhhab?- Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–5:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes in practice: a sound understanding of the deen cannot be acquired without a school of law as the medium, just as knowledge cannot be acquired without a language. It is not a matter of sin or haram, but of what is conceivable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that following a madhhab is a practical necessity for anyone who wants a sound understanding of the deen, as a language is for learning anything, and not a legislated obligation whose neglect is sinful.
Evidence, his words at 3:53: “it literally is inconceivable for for anybody to have a sound understanding of the de that has not taken a medium that has not taken a particular School of Law” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tHI3gcIiCk&t=233s)

## Do I have to stick to one madhhab, or can I question its positions?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9thi3gciick/s/2/
Date: 2014-03-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Do I need to follow a Madhhab?- Mufti Abu Layth (5:13–7:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Develop within one school, since each rests on its own principles, like choosing one door into a building; once knowledgeable you may evaluate its positions. Mufti Abu Layth adds that some who resist this seem to struggle with submitting to authority.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a student should adopt one school of law as the basis for developing their understanding and may, at a later stage as their knowledge grows, analyse and evaluate some of its positions.
Evidence, his words at 5:13: “a person must adopt a particular basis through which they will develop their understanding of this them and as they continue to acquire knowledge and develop themselves then at a later stage they may choose to analyze and evaluate” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tHI3gcIiCk&t=313s)

## If the madhhabs differ so much, how can they all be valid?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9thi3gciick/s/3/
Date: 2014-03-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Do I need to follow a Madhhab?- Mufti Abu Layth (7:47–11:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Compare the hadith an imam relied on with the hadith you quote, not the imam's fatwa with the hadith. The schools differ in application under one constitution of Quran and Sunnah, like US states, and learning every ruling from its evidence without a school is impractical.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the schools of law are all valid in essence, differing in application under the one constitution of the Quran and Sunnah, and that a difference between an imam and a hadith must be framed as hadith against hadith, never as the imam's fatwa against the Prophet's words.
Evidence, his words at 7:47: “it is the Hadith that these imams and these Scholars have relied upon which may be matched against the Hadith that you are quoting and then the interpretations may be assessed” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tHI3gcIiCk&t=467s)

## How should I choose which madhhab to follow?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/9thi3gciick/s/4/
Date: 2014-03-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Do I need to follow a Madhhab?- Mufti Abu Layth (11:46–14:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Schools of law and following them; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Choose by whatever criteria suit you; you are not bound to the school of your locality. All madhhabs are in essence upon the truth, but Mufti Abu Layth personally prefers the school transmitted in Madinah, that of Imam Malik.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that to him personally all madhhabs are in essence upon the truth, but asks what could be greater than the school transmitted in Madinah, later known as the school of Imam Malik.
Evidence, his words at 12:44: “to me personally all mhbs are as has been clearly documented in essence upon the H however what could be greater than the school or the perspective upon the de which was transmitted in Madina itself” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tHI3gcIiCk&t=764s)

## How do I start memorising the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-lbz11113su/s/1/
Date: 2014-01-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to memorise the Quran- Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–2:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Memorisation and recitation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 1:54: “I would say what is important in memorizing the Quran is routine okay and there's a few things I'll mention today very briefly” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lbZ11113SU&t=114s)

## What is the dua for memorising the Quran and how do I perform it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-lbz11113su/s/2/
Date: 2014-01-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to memorise the Quran- Mufti Abu Layth (2:39–8:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Memorisation and recitation; Individual hadith explained; Prayer
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 3:50: “it is permissible for you according to the majority of the now there is some difference to hold the Quran during Salah it is permitted to kind of read from it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lbZ11113SU&t=230s)

## What practical techniques help me memorise the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-lbz11113su/s/3/
Date: 2014-01-18 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How to memorise the Quran- Mufti Abu Layth (8:00–13:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Memorisation and recitation; Goals, habits and willpower
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): 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.
Evidence, his words at 11:31: “repeat the first one and the second one and then do the third one so you're doing it like that so you're kind of adding them along it's an accumulative effect” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lbZ11113SU&t=691s)

## Is the Quran-only position an argument from epistemology or from principle?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/6/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (15:38–22:29)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Mutawatir and certainty; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Quran-only position rests on principle, since God refers earlier communities only to their books, and is confirmed by epistemology, since hadith are contradictory and insulting; Quranists reject the religious authority of hadith, not history or narrations as such.

## Do Quranists accept any Sunnah of the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/7/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (22:29–27:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Sunnah versus hadith; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Both agree the Quran is central, but the guest says the Quran names only two sunnahs, of earlier peoples and of God, and that the Prophet's own clarifications were not preserved and so cannot have been necessary; Mufti Abu Layth presents this as the school of Madinah's Quran-centred view with other sources orbiting it.

## Is the Prophet Muhammad the most beloved of creation and a mercy to the worlds?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/8/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (27:42–32:42)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Quran-only movement; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 21:107 (we sent you only as a mercy for the worlds) (https://quran.com/21/107)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest holds that God's sending of the messenger, not the Prophet himself, is the mercy, and that calling him the most beloved of creation is unprovable celebrity worship; Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet is a mercy for the worlds and that if some are more beloved than others one must be at the top.

## Does 'we sent you only as a mercy' (21:107) describe the Prophet or the act of sending him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/9/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (32:42–43:36)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Quranic Arabic; Prophethood and miracles; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 21:107 (we sent you only as a mercy for the worlds) (https://quran.com/21/107)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the primary Arabic reading of 21:107 is that the Prophet himself was sent as a mercy for the worlds, with the exclusive negation amplifying that, while the guest's reading that the sending is the mercy is a secondary understanding he may hold but not impose.

## Why did Mufti Abu Layth challenge hadith in BukhariGate, and can the Prophet be called the most beloved of creation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/10/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (43:36–50:49)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says his hadith criticism, including BukhariGate, was driven by reports that insult the Prophet, whose honour comes before Muslims' own; the guest says calling the Prophet the most beloved of creation is unprovable and a lie against God, and that the Quran favours Abraham, whom Muhammad is told to follow.

## What is the 'wisdom' the Prophet teaches alongside the Book in 2:129?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/11/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (50:49–56:40)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Quran-only movement; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 2:129 (send a messenger who teaches them the Book and the Wisdom and purifies them) (https://quran.com/2/129); Quran 2:231 (the Book and the Wisdom with which He admonishes you) (https://quran.com/2/231)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest holds that the wisdom taught alongside the Book is the Quran's own application and is found in the Quran itself; Mufti Abu Layth says the primary reading of 2:129 is that the messenger teaches the Book and, separately, the wisdom, and himself purifies the people.

## Does 16:44 mean the Prophet explains the Quran, or that the Quran clarifies earlier scriptures?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/12/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (56:40–1:01:24)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Quran-only movement; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 16:44 (we revealed to you the reminder so that you may clarify to people what was revealed to them) (https://quran.com/16/44); Quran 5:15 (there has come to you from Allah a light and a clear book) (https://quran.com/5/15)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads 16:44 as showing the Prophet's role in explaining the revelation, as nearly every tafsir does; the guest says the verse is about the Quran clarifying earlier scriptures to the people of the book, and points to 5:15 as naming a single source.

## Is the 'light' that came with the clear book in 5:15 the Prophet or the Quran itself?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/13/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:01:24–1:08:12)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Quranic Arabic; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 5:15 (there has come to you from Allah a light and a clear book) (https://quran.com/5/15); Quran 5:16 (by which Allah guides those who follow His pleasure) (https://quran.com/5/16); Quran 33:7 (the covenant from the prophets, from you and from Nuh) (https://quran.com/33/7)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest reads the light of 5:15 as an aspect of the book itself, arguing from the pronoun in 5:16 and the conjunction in 33:7; Mufti Abu Layth presents the view of the mufassirun that the light is the Prophet and accepts the guest's reading as one interpretation while objecting that the others are not negated.

## Can 'light' in 5:15 refer to the Prophet, or only to guidance and the book?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/14/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:08:12–1:17:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Quran-only movement; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 5:15 (there has come to you from Allah a light and a clear book) (https://quran.com/5/15)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the primary readings of 'light' in 5:15 are guidance or the Prophet, as many mufassirun held, and that the guest's reading as the book is acceptable but may not negate the others; the guest says the word cannot refer to a human and that the mufassirun inserted the Prophet from presupposition.

## How do Quranists perform Hajj and apply Islam without the fiqh tradition?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/15/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:17:13–1:19:58)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Hajj and umrah; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the application of Islam is all in the Quran: his group performs Hajj in months other than the usual days, since the Quran speaks of plural months, and Ramadan is fully detailed; he does not rely on the fatwa tradition.

## How does a Quranist pray salah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/16/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:19:58–1:26:18)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prayer; Quran-only movement; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest's prayer has no unit count: after wudu he seeks refuge, reads al-Fatiha by his own choice and a full chapter, then prostrates once with supplication, filling the prayer time as the moment dictates; in congregation the imam leads a single long prostration and prayers last up to an hour, three times a day.

## How do Muslims know how to pray if the Quran does not spell it out?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/17/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:26:18–1:31:09)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Sunnah versus hadith; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 17:110 (be neither loud nor silent in your prayer, but seek a way between) (https://quran.com/17/110)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims know how to pray from an unbroken living tradition of more than 1,400 years, father to child, documented in the books of every century; the guest asks why God describes prayer in the Quran if it must be learned at the mosque, and why two prayers are silent when 17:110 forbids silence.

## Does the Quranist prayer have any set structure?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/18/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:31:09–1:36:54)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prayer; Quran-only movement; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 29:45 (prayer restrains from immorality and wrong, and the remembrance of Allah is greater) (https://quran.com/29/45)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest's prayer has no set structure: it changes in the moment, may include hours of prostration or prostrating mid-recitation when a verse moves him, and its purpose per 29:45 is to restrain immorality; he says Quranists may also pray like Sunnis, minus words not from God.

## Why does the guest's prayer have no fixed number of units, and what counts as wudu?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/19/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:36:54–1:42:01)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prayer; Purification; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 5:6 (wash your faces and hands, wipe your heads and your feet) (https://quran.com/5/6); Quran 96:19 (prostrate and draw near) (https://quran.com/96/19)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest's prayer is about duration and connection rather than numbers of units, with an imam supplying structure only in congregation; prostration, kneeling and standing are components without a set order, and wudu is as 5:6 describes it, without the tradition's additions.

## Does the Quran alone say what breaks the fast?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/20/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:01–1:46:26)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: What breaks the fast; How to read the Quran; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 2:187 (lawful for you on the night of the fast; eat and drink until the white thread) (https://quran.com/2/187)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says 2:187 shows that eating, drinking and intercourse break the fast by making them lawful at night; Mufti Abu Layth says the verse does not explicitly forbid them by day, so the Quran-only reader is inferring by reason rather than reporting what God said.

## Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/21/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:46:26–1:50:02)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Quran-only movement; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 21:107 (we sent you only as a mercy for the worlds) (https://quran.com/21/107)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says calling the Prophet the best of creation is an unprovable inference contradicted by verses and reports favouring Abraham; Mufti Abu Layth says the guest rejects inference for that title while relying on inference to say what breaks the fast.

## Is the daytime ban on eating and intimacy in Ramadan stated in the Quran or inferred?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/22/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:50:02–1:55:37)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; What breaks the fast; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 2:187 (lawful for you on the night of the fast; eat and drink until the white thread) (https://quran.com/2/187)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The daytime prohibition of eating and intimacy in Ramadan comes from 2:187 by mafhum al-mukhalafa, an adverse inference Mufti Abu Layth accepts but which is not the explicit reading, so some verses need the tradition's explanation; the guest says each reader is rewarded according to his understanding.

## If reason helps us understand the Quran, does the reasoning of earlier scholars matter too?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/23/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:55:37–1:58:33)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Legal theory and method; Quran-only movement
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Both agree reason is essential to understanding revelation; Mufti Abu Layth adds that by the same logic the reasoning of the Prophet, the Companions and the scholars before us is a valuable reservoir, not his reason alone, and the guest demands the Prophet's own explanation.

## Does 3:188 mean everyone who likes praise will be punished?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/24/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:58:33–2:04:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Quran-only movement; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 3:188 (those who rejoice in what they have done and love to be praised for what they have not done) (https://quran.com/3/188); Quran 28:76 (Qarun told not to exult) (https://quran.com/28/76)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The apparent reading of 3:188 threatens anyone who loves praise for what he has not done, which troubled the Companions until the Prophet explained it as concerning tyrants and the arrogant; the guest reads it as a warning listing traits a believer must shed.

## Is it a sin to enjoy being praised?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/25/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (2:04:39–2:10:46)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Quran-only movement; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 3:188 (those who rejoice in what they have done and love to be praised for what they have not done) (https://quran.com/3/188)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest holds that 3:188 describes people buying into the worldly life, exulting in what they have and loving praise for what they have not done, and that such people are punished; pressed, he confirms that anyone with these traits faces punishment.

## If most people love praise and are punished, how is God the most merciful?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/26/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (2:10:46–2:14:00)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Salvation and non-Muslims; Free will and destiny; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 12:106 (most of them do not believe in Allah without associating others with Him) (https://quran.com/12/106)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Why did Mufti Abu Layth bring up 3:188 against the Quran-only position?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/27/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (2:14:00–2:18:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Quran-only movement; Reason and revelation
Cites: Quran 3:188 (those who rejoice in what they have done and love to be praised for what they have not done) (https://quran.com/3/188)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth cited 3:188 because its apparent reading is harsher than the Prophet's explanation, showing that the reasoning of those who came before is valuable; the guest says he asked for the Prophet's book of explanations and was pointed back to the Quran.

## What is Mufti Abu Layth's case for keeping the Islamic scholarly tradition?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/28/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (2:18:51–2:24:01)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran-only movement; Sunnah versus hadith; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest restates Mufti Abu Layth's view as relying on the tradition for a few hard verses and says the Quran's overall message has no such problems; Mufti says the 1,400-year tradition beginning with the Prophet's Sunnah is invaluable and discarding it is a disservice to Islam.

## Why do Quranists reject the Islamic tradition as a whole?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/29/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (2:24:01–2:31:09)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Dawah and debate culture; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Quranists differ in interpretation but agree that the Islamic tradition is riddled with errors, and that Mufti Abu Layth's BukhariGate work leads people to Quranism; Mufti says the guest's own prayer choices came from the tradition and objects to disrespect towards the people of the mosque.

## Why are two of the daily prayers recited silently when 17:110 says not to be silent?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/30/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (2:31:09–2:41:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prayer; Tafsir and verse study; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 17:110 (be neither loud nor silent in your prayer, but seek a way between) (https://quran.com/17/110); Quran 8:35 (their prayer at the House was only whistling and clapping) (https://quran.com/8/35)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The silent prayers come from the living tradition Malik described, handed down from the Companions' descendants; Mufti Abu Layth reads 17:110 as being about crying out to Allah, neither in despair nor in silence, rather than the five prayers, citing 8:35 where 'prayer' means whistling and clapping.

## Does the Muwatta show that the Companions' practice had already changed by Malik's time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/31/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (2:41:21–2:46:26)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: The Muwatta and the Mudawwana; Sunnah versus hadith; Quran-only movement
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest cites a Muwatta report that a Companion's contemporary recognised nothing of the Companions' practice except the call to prayer, as proof the religion had changed; Mufti Abu Layth says the report refers to those in governance and that Malik throughout his works transmits the living practice of Madinah.

## How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/32/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (2:46:26–2:49:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Quran-only movement; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Those with very different views still come from love for the religion, and the only way forward is dialogue and humanising one another; the guest says the Quran is the only thing that can unite Shia and Sunni, and both sign off warmly.

## Mufti Tariq Masood's remark on scribal errors, and Islam as a deen of mercy
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hmurvu2c9yq/s/1/
Date: 2024-09-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (0:03–5:12)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Preservation and variant readings; Pakistan
Cites: Quran 21:107 (a mercy to the worlds) (https://quran.com/21/107); Quran 68:4 (you are of a great character) (https://quran.com/68/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says there are no mistakes in the Quran's script, but Islam is a deen of mercy, so Mufti Tariq Masood's error should not bring calls for his death.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that Islam is a deen of mercy.
Evidence, his words at 3:12: “firstly I want to highlight this thing of saying that they should Islam is a dean of Mercy okay the messenger of Allah sallallah alaihi wasallam came as a mercy for the entire worlds” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUrvU2c9YQ&t=192s)

## Is someone who says something wrong about the Prophet guilty of blasphemy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hmurvu2c9yq/s/2/
Date: 2024-09-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (5:12–9:46)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Apostasy and blasphemy; Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not when there was no such intention: Mufti Abu Layth says Mufti Tariq Masood was clearly wrong, but he meant to praise the Prophet, so calling him a blasphemer is unacceptable.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that when people make mistakes it does not mean they are blaspheming, even if the mistake is horrendous.
Evidence, his words at 6:28: “when people make mistakes it does not mean that they are Blas feing even if they get it wrong even if it's horrendous that's not their intention” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUrvU2c9YQ&t=388s)

## How scholars' rhetoric fed Pakistan's blasphemy killings, in Mufti Abu Layth's view
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hmurvu2c9yq/s/3/
Date: 2024-09-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Deen of Hope NOT Hate - Mufti Tariq Masood | Mufti Abu Layth (9:46–14:51)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Extremism, crime and justice
Cites: Quran 96:15 (we will seize him by the forelock) (https://quran.com/96/15)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says scholars who long told the public to kill blasphemers, Mufti Tariq Masood once among them, helped build the culture now threatening him, and must teach mercy for everyone.

## Why do religious debates make people so defensive?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oag-f3hxcdy/s/4/
Date: 2023-05-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (13:09–19:33)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Self-esteem, ego and confidence
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says debates rarely change minds and feed the ego, so he prefers conversations where people can disagree.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says debating is so wrapped up in the ego that it is not healthy and is not what iman is about.
Evidence, his words at 18:54: “it's just something which you know maybe some people have it some people don't but it is so wrapped up in the ego that it's not healthy and it's not what Iman is about” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAG-F3hxCDY&t=1134s)

## How do I stop worrying about the ups and downs of my faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oag-f3hxcdy/s/5/
Date: 2023-05-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Converts And The YouTube Dawah Scene | Mufti Abu Layth (19:33–22:53)
Status: latest answer on its topic; answer to a specific questioner, not a general ruling
Topics: Converts and newcomers; Tawakkul and trust in God
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth tells the convert not to worry about turbulence in faith, which is part of the journey; faith often shows its worth later as a bedrock in hard times.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth tells the caller not to sweat the turbulence in their faith, saying it is all part of the journey.
Evidence, his words at 20:44: “don't just just just don't worry don't sweat it don't don't you know things there will be turbulence here and there it's all part of the journey” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAG-F3hxCDY&t=1244s)

## Is there an LGBTQ push in media and schools?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/4/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (20:23–24:50)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Technology and media; Raising children; Polygamy and mut'ah
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees there is a disproportionate LGBTQ push in media and objects to sexualising young children, calling it hypocritical that polygamy cannot be described the same way.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does feel there is a disproportionate push on LGBTQ themes in media.
Evidence, his words at 20:23: “I do feel there is a disproportional kind of push on uh on all of this stuff” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=1223s)

## Will gay people around us make Muslims gay?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/5/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (24:50–28:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Salvation and non-Muslims
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the fear that people being gay will make Muslims gay is, in his view, an unnecessary insecurity.
Evidence, his words at 28:02: “you know it doesn't I think this is an unnecessary insecurity like some people have like oh my God oh my God we're all going to become gay” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=1682s)

## Is it okay for adults or children to change gender?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/6/
Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (28:41–35:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Medical questions; Raising children
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says gender transition is an adult's own choice after professional advice, but children should not be put through it until they can decide for themselves.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says children should not be put through gender transition until they can make the decision for themselves, setting aside intersex conditions.
Evidence, his words at 34:31: “you shouldn't put children through this kind of stuff until they can't make a decision for themselves” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=2071s)

## What does Lupe Fiasco's name Wasalu mean, and how was he raised?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/2/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (3:14–6:52)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; Converts and newcomers
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says he has never confirmed what his name Wasalu means; Mufti Abu Layth suggests the Arabic 'to connect'. Born to convert parents, he says he was born Muslim.

## What was Lupe Fiasco's childhood like?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/3/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (6:52–14:35)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; Personal stories and reflections; Music
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes growing up in Chicago in a family of martial arts, music and engineering, giving up chess over a hadith, and turning to rap when he could not learn the clarinet.

## How did Lupe Fiasco go from science to rap?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/4/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (14:35–19:02)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; Personal stories and reflections
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says he wanted to be a rocket scientist but struggled with maths, and signed a record deal straight out of high school.

## Did Lupe Fiasco's way with words come naturally?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/5/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (19:02–25:25)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Language and semiotics; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says words did not come naturally: he trained himself by copying words from magazine covers into raps until metaphors and images came easily.

## Do we think in words or in images?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/6/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (25:25–33:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Language and semiotics; Islamic psychology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that shapes are more fundamental than words or pictures; Mufti Abu Layth says words are also reductive, forcing profound things into limited form.

## Is the soul the same thing as consciousness?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/7/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (33:13–36:27)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Soul, nafs and consciousness; Narrative and story
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes storytelling as a syncing of minds; Mufti Abu Layth says he feels consciousness is synonymous with the ruh and links people weakly at a distance.

## What does Lupe Fiasco think the soul is?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/8/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (36:27–42:17)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Soul, nafs and consciousness; Christians and other faiths; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says exposure to many faiths has left him still searching, and that he thinks of the soul as a name for many functions of the body, holding his 'I don't know' comfortably.

## Is it normal for faith to keep changing over a lifetime?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/9/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (42:17–43:35)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Motivation and purpose; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says faith is a lifelong journey and iman an organic process, not a fixed mould to be fitted onto everyone.

## How does the Chinese state deal with religion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/10/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (43:35–52:34)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes Chinese paper offerings burned for the dead, a government crackdown on their modern forms, and the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign as examples of the state managing religion.

## Why does China try to control who becomes the Dalai Lama?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/11/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (52:34–57:45)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Middle East and the wider world; Public law and governance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says China's attempt to control the Dalai Lama's reincarnation shows a state using religion, something he sees in pieces in Muslim countries and elsewhere.

## Are psychedelics like mushrooms and DMT haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/12/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (57:45–1:02:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he has a video saying psychedelics are not haram; the guest says he has never drunk or used drugs and judges such substances by a medicinal line.

## Can a Muslim work in the music industry and keep their faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/13/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:02:16–1:10:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Music; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says religion should be judged apart from the actions of its followers in any industry; Mufti Abu Layth says relatable poetry and music inspire people more than being told to go to the mosque.

## Did everyone at the time of the Prophet accept Islam without questions?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/14/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:10:04–1:15:55)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Arabic poetry and men of letters; Pre-Islamic Arabia; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says early Muslims, including poets, had real critiques; Mufti Abu Layth says the deen should complement life rather than complicate it.

## What inspired the story of Lupe Fiasco's album The Cool?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/15/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:15:55–1:23:42)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Arabic poetry and men of letters; Narrative and story; The afterlife
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth describes a classical tale of a poet's journey through paradise; the guest explains the resurrection story behind his album The Cool and the slave-ship myth of Drogas Wave.

## Is humanity becoming more or less moral?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/16/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:23:42–1:28:55)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Philosophy and ideas; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says morality is remade daily, with no overall rise or fall and no consistent definition; Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees.

## Do obscene or blasphemous thoughts during prayer ruin my salah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/17/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:28:55–1:36:35)
Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
Topics: Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Conditions of a valid prayer; Jinn possession
Cites: Quran 114 (Surat al-Nas) (https://quran.com/114)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Intrusive or blasphemous thoughts in prayer are not a reason to worry: noticing them is a sign of faith, as a hadith says. Mufti Abu Layth adds that jinn in the Quran means the unseen and possession stories are folklore.

## Are young people today facing an existential crisis?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/18/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:36:35–1:44:23)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Motivation and purpose; Depression and anxiety
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Is Lupe Fiasco retiring from music?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/24/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:57:50–2:01:29)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Goals, habits and willpower; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says he is not retiring but reorganising his life at forty around the metaphor of a garden, preparing for major technological change.

## Is life just a dream in the mind of God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/25/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (2:01:29–2:04:44)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The afterlife; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says life is real and material, the unseen is part of nature, and ordinary people do not need the supernatural.

## Reply to Mufti Mangera on ear piercing: who defines normal and decent?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp-vz7g-uw0/s/1/
Date: 2021-03-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Mufti Abdurrahman Ibn Yusuf on Ear Piercing | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:40)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dress and appearance; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A played clip of Mufti Mangera allowing one or two ear piercings as 'normal' among decent people but not higher ones, which Mufti Abu Layth mocks for leaving undefined who decides what is normal.

## Reply to Mufti Mangera: does the ban on muthla forbid piercing?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp-vz7g-uw0/s/2/
Date: 2021-03-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Mufti Abdurrahman Ibn Yusuf on Ear Piercing | Mufti Abu Layth (3:40–7:37)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Dress and appearance; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The clip cites the ban on muthla (mutilation) against piercing; Mufti Abu Layth explains that muthla means disfiguring bodies, especially of the dead, and mocks applying it to ear piercing.

## Do Muslims have to believe that Jesus will come back?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qaxeur-uxvo/s/1/
Date: 2021-02-14 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Caller runs off from the debate - Will Jesus Return | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–8:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; False and fabricated hadith; Debate challenges and reviews
Cites: Quran 2:256 (no compulsion in religion), paraphrased (https://quran.com/2/256)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects the hadith of Jesus returning as a judge who offers Islam or the sword, saying it came from Christian belief and clashes with the Quran's no compulsion in religion.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Jesus descending as a judge on earth was made up from Christian belief taken from the Bible.
Evidence, his words at 5:45: “which is the verse out of the bible by the way and it's christian belief and that's how this hadith was made up through abu hurairah and through those people who mixed it up” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAXeuR-UXvo&t=345s)

## Can I blindly follow scholars in matters of belief?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qaxeur-uxvo/s/2/
Date: 2021-02-14 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Caller runs off from the debate - Will Jesus Return | Mufti Abu Layth (8:13–13:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Creed and the schools of theology; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says blind following in belief is forbidden by scholarly consensus, and the majority of one school is not ijma'.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says it is forbidden, by the consensus of the scholars, to blindly follow others in matters of belief.
Evidence, his words at 9:29: “this is adida 101 right it's not even one of you it is haram by isma of ulama of islam to blindly follow in just believing in one god” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAXeuR-UXvo&t=569s)

## What is Shaykh Atabek Shukurov working on, and why does he teach principles before rulings?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/2/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:37–6:17)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says his main work is separating inherited culture from religion and teaching principles before detailed rulings, alongside a college of traditional medicine and writing books.

## How did Shaykh Atabek Shukurov become a scholar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/3/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (6:17–13:06)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to study Islam; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest traces his path from a Soviet childhood through Karachi and Saudi Arabia to eight years in Syria, where he learned to compare inherited cultures with the classical texts.

## How do people react when a scholar from Uzbekistan challenges subcontinent scholars?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/4/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (13:06–17:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Indian subcontinent; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says UK Islam comes almost wholly from Indo-Pakistani and Saudi culture; the guest says challenging subcontinent scholars from Uzbekistan draws harsh reactions, but open-minded people keep him going.

## Is growing a beard obligatory in the Hanafi school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/5/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (17:37–23:22)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Beard, moustache and hair; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Hanafi principles act as a constitution before which everyone is equal, and that by them keeping the beard is mubah, not wajib as subcontinent scholars concluded.

## Is a mortgage riba?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/6/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (23:22–31:13)
Status: latest answer on its topic; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says a mortgage is not riba because the bank acts as an agent buying a specific house and then sells it on in instalments; riba is only a free loan repaid with extra.

## Isn't calling a mortgage agency just a loophole for interest?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/7/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (31:13–33:53)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the loophole charge is backwards: what counts is what is technically happening, and a bank that also gives loans can still offer a permissible mortgage, as a pub also sells food.

## What happened when Shaykh Atabek wrote to Mufti Taqi Usmani about mortgages?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/8/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (33:53–39:38)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says his respectful open letter to Mufti Taqi Usmani on mortgages got no reply, only an abusive reaction from students, which he does not think the mufti ordered.

## Could a senior scholar ever publicly change his fatwa on mortgages?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/9/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (39:38–46:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Riba, mortgages and loans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth doubts the jurist could ever publicly accept the guest's view; the guest says almost no scholar is fully independent of politics, audience or salary.

## Why does Shaykh Atabek want to restore the early Hanafi school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/10/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (46:49–50:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest wants to restore the early Hanafi school of a fully independent Abu Hanifa; Mufti Abu Layth says Abu Hanifa championed reason but his school later became almost his opposite.

## Was there a power struggle in the early Hanafi school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/11/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (50:40–54:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth feels the early Hanafi school saw power struggles and that Abu Yusuf lacked Abu Hanifa's reason; the guest calls Ahmad ibn Hanbal the greatest muhaddith but not a jurist of the first rank.

## Is the Musnad really Imam Ahmad's book, and is it authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/12/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (54:39–58:48)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith collections and their history; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Musnad is Imam Ahmad's draft but cannot be authentic by its own rules, since it reached us by wijada with additions by his son; Mufti Abu Layth holds that it was not Ahmad's book at all.

## Why do Hanafis defend Sahih al-Bukhari when their school differs from it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/13/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (58:48–1:06:26)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Sunnah versus hadith; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Bukhari has question marks and is not the gold standard; the guest says its canonisation was an Abbasid-era Athari project, and that for Hanafis the Athar of their own imams should rank highest.

## What is wijada, and why does it matter for the hadith on killing apostates?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/14/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:06:26–1:11:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Apostasy and blasphemy; Hadith collections and their history
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the apostasy hadith cannot justify killing, since its own wording is not followed and it reaches us only by wijada; Mufti Abu Layth blames the Salafi call for putting raw hadith in place of the madhhabs.

## Did the early Hanafis hold that apostates should be killed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/15/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:11:04–1:12:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the early Hanafi view, from Abu Hanifa and Zufar, is that apostasy itself carries no punishment and only an actual threat is punished; Mufti Abu Layth calls today's Hanafi blasphemy laws upside down.

## Did Abu Hanifa allow drinks with a little alcohol?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/16/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:12:59–1:16:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intoxicants and substances; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Abu Hanifa's ruling that mildly fermented non-wine drinks are not haram shows he followed the Quran over reports; Mufti Abu Layth says the lesson is his way of thinking.

## Who was Abu Hanifa's most trusted student?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/17/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:16:23–1:20:26)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Scholars and imams of the past
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest relies chiefly on Zufar, whom he says Abu Hanifa himself authorised to teach, over Imam Muhammad, who was a teenager when Abu Hanifa died; Zufar's sidelining is left for another session.

## Did Abu Hanifa really write al-Fiqh al-Akbar?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/18/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:20:26–1:23:10)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Scholars and imams of the past; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Abu Hanifa did write al-Fiqh al-Akbar but the text has later additions, and that Zufar's books survive only in fragments.

## What does Shaykh Atabek think of his debate on the Isha time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/20/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:24:25–1:28:21)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Prayer
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says his much-watched exchange on the Isha time was not a real debate, since his opponent never addressed his proofs.

## When should I pray Isha in the UK summer when it never gets fully dark?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/21/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:28:21–1:32:29)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prayer; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says that where twilight never fades, the Hanafi school allows Isha to be prayed keeping the order of prayers, rather than dividing the night into seven.

## Is the niqab required, and is it right to make women take it off?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/he3wjiqoxaa/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Chechnya's grand mufti having women remove their niqab? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Women in Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The face veil has no basis in the Quran and Sunnah, being the opinion of some later scholars. Forcing a woman to remove it is still wrong; one may only advise.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the face veil has no basis in the Quran and Sunnah, but force of any kind to remove it is wrong.
Evidence, his words at 6:04: “that's my views on it that it has no basis but force of any kind is wrong” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE3WjiQoxAA&t=364s)

## Is football really more haram than alcohol and gambling?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2envv2nuehw/s/1/
Date: 2020-12-16 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Funny Fatwa: Football is more haram the gambling & alcohol | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–2:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Entertainment, sport and leisure; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls a fatwa that football is more haram than alcohol and gambling the most ridiculous he has seen recently.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says a fatwa declaring football more haram than alcohol and gambling is the most ridiculous fatwa he has come across in recent times.
Evidence, his words at 2:13: “Now, I'm not even into football, but I have to say that is the most ridiculous fatwa” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EnVV2NUehw&t=133s)

## Why did a medical doctor choose to study religion at Harvard?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/1/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (0:04–3:37)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; How to study Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes training as a physician and then turning to Arabic and Islamic studies at Berkeley and Harvard, where he is now a PhD candidate in the study of religion, despite his family's initial unease.

## Is it better to study Islam at a madrasa or at a Western university?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/2/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (3:37–6:44)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to study Islam; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says he chose the critical academic study of Islam over al-Azhar, considering it superior, though he took two years of al-Azhar's online programme and recommends combining traditional and academic study.

## Should I go to Madinah University or a madrasa to study Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/3/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (6:44–10:05)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to study Islam; Education, madrasas and seminaries
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest advises open-minded, critical thinkers against a traditional madrasa, which he says selects, programmes and isolates its students from current scholarship, citing his own rejection by Madinah University.

## Are madrasas failing their students?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/4/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (10:05–15:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the madrasa phenomenon is dysfunctional and dumbs students down though it supplies the raw materials; both say those who leave orthodox positions are ostracised, and the guest recommends a few years of traditional study combined with academic study.

## Why don't madrasas teach the Islamic philosophers and the Mu'tazila?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/5/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (15:30–19:28)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Creed and the schools of theology; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says traditionalists value only a narrow sliver of Islam's diverse intellectual heritage, ignoring the philosophers, the early Qadariyya and Mu'tazila, Shia thinkers and modernists, and that he found answers on religion and science in Ibn Rushd.

## Does traditional orthodoxy lead to extremism?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/6/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (19:28–22:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Extremism, crime and justice; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says today's orthodoxy promotes reactionary conservatism that can mutate into groups like the Taliban and ISIS, and proposes reviving the philosophers, Mu'tazila and modernists; Mufti Abu Layth agrees some non-violent groups create a springboard for extremism.

## If blind following in faith is forbidden, why must I accept a school's creed without question?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/7/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (22:39–29:42)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Creed and the schools of theology; Salvation and non-Muslims
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Isn't reason subjective, and is something good only because God commands it?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/8/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (29:42–33:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Creed and the schools of theology; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Ash'ari voluntarist view of ethics is the real relativism and argues for universal moral values grounded in God's nature; Mufti Abu Layth calls the Ash'ari denial of inherent good and bad nonsense.

## Where does morality come from if not from God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/9/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (33:58–39:47)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Philosophy and ideas; Atheism and the existence of God; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says a theist can ground moral realism in God while an atheist who relies on evolution alone cannot, and that traditionalist debaters exploit opponents who know little philosophy.

## Is morality an instinct God put in us?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/10/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (39:47–43:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Philosophy and ideas; Atheism and the existence of God
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the fitrah is a hardwired moral instinct of recognising harm and feeling empathy, built on by environment and a collective consciousness; the guest adds that morality can be confidently grounded in God.

## If morality is universal, why was slavery accepted for so long?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/11/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (43:17–47:41)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Philosophy and ideas; Legal theory and method
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says moral ideals exist in God and humans approximate them; past acceptance of slavery came from not recognising others' full humanity, and ritual laws such as the pork prohibition differ from universal moral law.

## Does God's morality change over time?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/12/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (47:41–49:52)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Moses; Philosophy and ideas; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says universal morality does not change, only ritual law: the Quran corrects the biblical conquest narrative by implying the Israelites inherited Egypt rather than slaughtering another people.

## Do animals have morality, and does that mean morality just evolved?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/13/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (49:52–53:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Philosophy and ideas; Quran and evolution
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth sees a sense of justice in primates as evidence of a raw moral fitrah that humans develop further; the guest warns this can suggest morality is merely evolved and says rooting it in God is the necessary step.

## If we all recognise harm, why do people still do terrible things?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/14/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (53:58–58:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Philosophy and ideas; Soul, nafs and consciousness; Reason and revelation
Cites: Quran 16:90 (Allah commands justice and ihsan) (https://quran.com/16/90)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says empathy can be overridden by instincts such as power, and that a shared consciousness shapes the moral feel of an age; he notes the Quran commands justice without defining it, which the guest links to the Mu'tazila.

## How should the stories in the Quran be read?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/15/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (58:24–1:02:23)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes his dissertation on jihad in the Quran and his project translating Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah's suppressed study of the Quran's narrative art, which he says is right.

## Are the stories in the Quran meant to be literal history?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/16/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:02:23–1:09:21)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Stories of the prophets; God and the divine attributes
Cites: Quran 18:22 (the number of the People of the Cave) (https://quran.com/18/22); Quran 42:11 (there is nothing like unto Him) (https://quran.com/42/11)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues, following Khalafallah and Ibn Rushd, that the Quran's stories are sacred literature and legend, using symbol and parable for theological ends rather than reporting literal history.

## Can I accept evolution and still take the Quran's stories as true?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/17/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:09:21–1:13:07)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Quran and evolution; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest calls for reading the Quran wholesale as sacred literature, accepting evolution as scientific fact while holding that religion's symbolic truths, not science, ground human rights and meaning.

## Does the Quran speak in symbols and metaphors?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/18/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:13:07–1:15:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; Stories of the prophets
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees with Ibn Rushd that the Quran speaks in symbols and that scripture is a kind of art, but asks whether the guest thinks the prophets and their stories are fictitious.

## Are paradise and hell in the Quran meant literally?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/19/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:15:55–1:20:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest, following Ibn Rushd against al-Ghazali, says belief requires accepting the afterlife, not literal readings of its details; Mufti Abu Layth agrees the afterlife is symbolic but says the prophets' stories are of this world.

## Why does the Quran tell the same story in different ways?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/20/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:20:23–1:24:52)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Quran's stories are set in sacred, not historical, time and follow archetypes that speak to the Prophet's own circumstances, which is why the same story, such as Lot's or the golden calf, is told differently.

## Did Jesus really speak in the cradle, and did the earlier prophets exist?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/21/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:24:52–1:30:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; How to read the Quran; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says historians can be confident that Muhammad and Jesus existed but less so of earlier figures, and that the Quran's Jesus stories, such as speaking in the cradle, are dramatised; Mufti Abu Layth says no clear verse says Jesus spoke in the cradle.

## Did the Prophet Muhammad perform miracles?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/22/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:30:29–1:34:56)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; How to read the Quran; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that the Quran implies the Prophet performed no miracles and ties signs to compulsion, so traditionalists read miracles in from hadith; both speakers appear to reject the view that every prophet needs a miracle.

## Did angels really fight at the battle of Badr?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/23/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:34:56–1:39:02)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; The life of the Prophet; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the angels at Badr are a literary description of God strengthening the believers' hearts, since the named Muslims who killed the enemy chiefs are known, and that the same reading applies to earlier prophets' stories.

## Who were the riders seen at Badr?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/24/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:39:02–1:42:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth takes the Badr angels as strength and vigour rather than a physical event and floats a theory that the riders seen were Persian knights of the House of Karen; the guest prefers a purely literary reading.

## Should archaeology worry believers about the Quran's stories?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/25/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:25–1:45:37)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; How to read the Quran; The ancient Near East and scripture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest, as a self-described Islamic modernist following Fazlur Rahman, says believers need not fear archaeology, since the Quran re-attributes Jesus' miracles to God for theological rather than historical ends.

## Is the story of Adam in the Quran a myth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/26/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:45:37–1:52:45)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/voxmweq6rz4/s/1/; general teaching
Topics: Adam and the creation of humans; Quran and evolution; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest reads the Adam story as sacred myth whose point is human dignity, improving on the Babylonian and biblical accounts by removing original sin and blame of the woman; Mufti Abu Layth holds the figures and events were real but told to appeal to listeners.

## Does the Quran treat every human life as sacred, even in war?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/27/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:52:45–1:56:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Public law and governance; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Quran holds every human soul sacred, which classical exegetes on jihad missed; Mufti Abu Layth says Muslim scholarship must shift from outdated fiqh to ethics.

## Does the Quran actually say the miracles happened?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/28/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (1:56:12–2:01:55)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; Jesus in the Quran; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 5:112-115 (the table requested by the disciples of Jesus) (https://quran.com/5/112-115)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran often never states that a miracle occurred, as with the table for Jesus, and that the prophets were real though later assumptions colour them; the guest says the Quran rearticulates the discourses of its milieu.

## Who was Dhul Qarnayn, and who are Gog and Magog?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/29/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (2:01:55–2:06:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; The ancient Near East and scripture; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth identifies Dhul Qarnayn most likely with Cyrus the Great and reads Gog and Magog as havoc-wreaking forces, later the colonial powers; the guest says this already relies on ad hoc literary reinterpretation.

## Is the Dhul Qarnayn story based on the legend of Alexander?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/30/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (2:06:50–2:11:24)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture; Tafsir and verse study; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says scholarship shows the Dhul Qarnayn story derives from a Byzantine Christian legend of Alexander walling in Gog and Magog, known to the Quran's first audience; Mufti Abu Layth asks why the Quran then tells it so ambiguously.

## Why does the Quran tell the story of Dhul Qarnayn so briefly?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/31/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (2:11:24–2:17:04)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; The ancient Near East and scripture; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Quran retells the known legend concisely to show the Prophet's knowledge from God, while stripping its Christian imperial ending; Mufti Abu Layth objects that its unusual wording is too vague for that.

## What do the unusual words in the Dhul Qarnayn verses mean?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/32/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (2:17:04–2:25:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Quranic Arabic; The ancient Near East and scripture
Cites: Quran 18:83-86 (they ask you about Dhul Qarnayn; he followed a sabab) (https://quran.com/18/83-86); Quran 18:89-90 (a people for whom no covering was made) (https://quran.com/18/89-90)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues the wording of 18:83-90 is too vague to be a retelling of the Alexander legend; the guest says the Syriac subtext explains it and that without it the passage invites endless speculative readings, and they agree to differ.

## Why does the Quran give so little detail about some prophets?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/33/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (2:25:43–2:33:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Stories of the prophets; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the brief, repeated stories are archetypes recalled to console the Prophet, which audiences already knew; Mufti Abu Layth argues that following an archetype does not show a story was invented.

## Why does the guest criticise Yasir Qadhi's views on jinn and evolution?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/34/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (2:33:08–2:41:04)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Jinn possession; Quran and evolution
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest criticises Yasir Qadhi's dogmatic style and his literal readings of Dhul Qarnayn, evolution and jinn, offering a medical explanation for exorcism accounts; Mufti Abu Layth jokes about the zombie theory and calls Brubaker courteous.

## Are the jinn real, or a symbol?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/35/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (2:41:04–2:47:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn, angels and the devil; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Quran rearticulated a late antique belief in jinn to subordinate them to God, that he does not literally believe in them, and that Shaytan personifies human evil; Mufti Abu Layth agrees that inner impulses are personified as good and bad forces.

## Yasir Qadhi's reply to Jay Smith over 'holes in the standard narrative'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ttq_cxlvaso/s/1/
Date: 2020-12-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi's reply to Jay Smith & ultracrepidarian | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:58)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Preservation and variant readings; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A played clip of Yasir Qadhi answering Christian polemicists who used his 'holes in the standard narrative' remark, calling them unqualified and likening variant readings to accents.

## Is Jay Smith a reliable critic of the Quran's preservation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ttq_cxlvaso/s/2/
Date: 2020-12-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi's reply to Jay Smith & ultracrepidarian | Mufti Abu Layth (6:58–13:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Christians and other faiths; Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he agrees with Yasir Qadhi that Jay Smith and David Wood are not clued up and chase sensation, repeating academics' summaries without understanding them.

## Yasir Qadhi still has not explained his 'holes in the narrative'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ttq_cxlvaso/s/3/
Date: 2020-12-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi's reply to Jay Smith & ultracrepidarian | Mufti Abu Layth (13:57–19:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says that the controversy over 'holes in the narrative' is one Yasir Qadhi landed himself in deeply, since he never offered a response or clarity at the time beyond suggesting people take his course. He expects critics like Jay Smith to chase him over it because they know he cannot answer it. He jokes at length about Yasir Qadhi wanting Muslims to popularise the word 'ultracrepidarian', saying it shows he has lived most of his life in a library. He says he respects him for saying he holds a different view and for raising awareness that there are some forty views, but is disappointed that in what was meant as his final word he again evaded explaining what he actually believes.

## Is it haram for men to wear necklaces, rings or earrings?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z06drwxqxge/s/1/
Date: 2020-12-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reaction to Yasir Qadhi on mens jewellery | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–8:38)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/vhqvm47pns0/s/3/; general teaching
Topics: Jewellery, gold and silk for men; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Masculinity and gender roles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth disagrees with Yasir Qadhi that men's jewellery is effeminate, saying men have always worn it and Western executives are no benchmark for Islamic etiquette.

## A clip of Shaykh Hassan Ali on the evil eye from loved ones
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mnpgdvjs2nk/s/1/
Date: 2020-11-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is NO evil eye in Islam (Detailed Overview) | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:41)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A played clip in which Shaykh Hassan Ali says the evil eye can come even from loving relatives, with a story about his own son.

## Why do critics refuse to debate the authenticity of Sahih al-Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/v-1hd1uambm/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-20 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why people run from the Bukhari debate? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Debate challenges and reviews; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Critics who say Mufti Abu Layth knows nothing about Sahih al-Bukhari decline his invitation to debate it, and Jonathan Brown admitted on Facebook that he lacked the research. Mufti says al-Farabri's reliability can only be asserted from sources centuries later, not from anyone who knew him.

## Who vouched for al-Farabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/v-1hd1uambm/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-20 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why people run from the Bukhari debate? | Mufti Abu Layth (3:59–6:37)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Debate challenges and reviews; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sahih al-Bukhari reaches us through al-Farabri alone, and nobody who knew him vouched for him, so Mufti Abu Layth says the whole edifice rests on one man. Critics who only know how to debate the Shia avoid this question.

## Why do preachers attack views in public that they tolerate in private?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/v-1hd1uambm/s/3/
Date: 2020-10-20 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why people run from the Bukhari debate? | Mufti Abu Layth (6:37–10:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Views on contemporary scholars; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Most preachers are controlled by the crowd that follows them: the same figures who are friendly off camera attack Mufti Abu Layth on camera because their followers expect it. Al-Farabri likewise took an opportunity that brought fame, which does not oblige others to be blind.

## Why do scholars avoid showing unity across Barelvi, Deobandi and Salafi lines?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/v-1hd1uambm/s/4/
Date: 2020-10-20 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why people run from the Bukhari debate? | Mufti Abu Layth (10:33–13:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Scholars from different sects who met privately refused even a group photo, saying their followers were not mature enough to see it. Mufti Abu Layth says this shows preachers feeding their followers' expectations out of fear of being disowned.

## Was Iblis condemned for using his reason?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (3:56–7:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Jinn, angels and the devil
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Iblis was condemned for arrogance and stubbornness, not reason, and much of what people picture about angels is imagination filling in the Quran's outline.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says Iblis was never condemned for using reason; the problem was his arrogance and stubbornness.
Evidence, his words at 4:34: “never problematized for reason this is a misrepresentation it was arrogance and it was stubbornness but it was it was not reason was not the problem” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=274s)

## Why does Mufti Abu Layth not believe Jesus will return?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/3/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (7:08–11:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The second coming of Jesus; Reason and revelation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): What collapsed the belief for him was its incoherence: a this-worldly event so spectacular must have a purpose, and the answers given raise hundreds more questions.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says what really collapsed for him the belief that Jesus will come back was its incoherence.
Evidence, his words at 9:06: “but what really collapsed that belief that let's say jesus will come back is the fact the incoherence of the matter” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=546s)

## Does questioning religion with reason destroy faith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/4/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (11:40–13:38)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Not for him: he says he has put every matter of the deen to his reason and his faith stood the test, though he does not ask others to do the same.

## Was Jesus born without a father according to the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/5/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (13:38–19:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 6:101 (how can He have a child when He has no companion; he calls it Medinan) (https://quran.com/6/101)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth leans to the scholars who hold Jesus had a natural birth, arguing that the verse refuting God having a child only works if every human is born of two parents.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he would be in line with the scholars who say Jesus was of natural birth.
Evidence, his words at 16:44: “to make it coherent to me that makes sense that hmm you know i i'd be in line with those scholars that say well no you know that jesus was of natural birth” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=1004s)

## Why do most Muslims believe in the virgin birth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/6/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (19:49–21:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Pre-Islamic Arabia
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the belief spread through the dominance of the Christian narrative across the empires surrounding Arabia.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says belief in the virgin birth spread among Muslims through the mass proliferation of the Christian narrative around Arabia.
Evidence, his words at 19:49: “now what simply led to it is the mass proliferation of the christian myth that this had happened because the christians had this myth that was everywhere” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=1189s)

## Does evolution contradict the Quran's account of Adam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/7/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (21:39–31:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran and evolution; Human origins; Adam and the creation of humans
Cites: Quran 23:12-14 (insan from an extract of clay, then a drop in a firm lodging, then the stages of the embryo) (https://quran.com/23/12-14); Quran 21:30 (every living thing from water) (https://quran.com/21/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says evolution does not clash with Islam, reading 23:12-14 as Adam passing through a womb and Adam as the first human with full consciousness.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says evolution does not clash with Islam at all.
Evidence, his words at 21:39: “i've said that look there's nothing evolution does not clash with islam at all” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=1299s)

## If God made the laws of nature, can He break them?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/8/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (31:16–37:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; God and the divine attributes; Quran and evolution
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): God is not stuck with the laws of nature; He created them by choice and keeps to them, just as He keeps His promises about salvation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says God is not stuck with the laws of nature but created them by choice.
Evidence, his words at 32:36: “it's not that god is stuck with them he has rather created them uh so he's created them obviously by choice” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=1956s)

## If humans evolved, why are there still chimpanzees?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/9/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (37:20–43:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran and evolution; Human origins
Cites: Quran 49:13 (We created you from male and female) (https://quran.com/49/13)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Nobody claims humans came from chimpanzees; both share a common ancestor, and evolution is now shown through genetics, which he says poses no problem for Islam.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says nobody claims human beings came from chimpanzees; they descend from a common ancestor.
Evidence, his words at 39:16: “nobody has said homo the hominins are from chimpanzees so chimpanzees are panning you've got guerillin you've got homonym these all descend from a common ancestor” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=2356s)

## Why do some Muslims struggle to accept that Adam might have had parents?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/10/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (43:06–50:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Quran and evolution; The afterlife
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says nothing in Islam falls apart if Adam had parents, so the resistance must come from something other than Islam, and God keeping His own rules is no limitation.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says God sticking to the rules He created is not a restriction on Him.
Evidence, his words at 45:04: “first of all he's the one who created them it's not that he's being forced to stick by them he says this is my son now you're never going to see it change” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=2704s)

## Does the Quran say Adam was made from clay or from a drop of sperm?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/11/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (50:36–55:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quran and evolution; Adam and the creation of humans; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 23:12-14 (insan from an extract of clay, then a drop in a firm lodging, then the stages of the embryo) (https://quran.com/23/12-14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Taking 23:12-14 entirely literally leaves one stuck, since the same insan made from clay is then a drop of sperm; the clay may refer to something like DNA.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says taking the whole of Surat al-Mu'minun 23:12-14 literally leaves one stuck.
Evidence, his words at 53:06: “so to take that entire verse literally you're stuck you know it's a very difficult thing most people don't take it absolutely literally” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=3186s)

## Why doesn't the Quran clearly deny the virgin birth?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/12/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (55:00–57:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Christians and other faiths
Cites: Quran 3:59 (the likeness of Jesus is that of Adam) (https://quran.com/3/59); Quran 4:171 (the Messiah, His word) (https://quran.com/4/171); Quran 3:64 (People of the Book, come to a common word) (https://quran.com/3/64)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): To build bridges with the Christians: the Quran used their terms and left room for their belief without affirming it, compromising only not on the Trinity.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran did not affirm the virgin birth but gave Christians the space to infer it, as a middle ground.
Evidence, his words at 56:52: “the quran did not affirm it but it gave them the space to infer it because it allowed that middle ground” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=3412s)

## If human reason is limited, why rely on it in religion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/13/
Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (57:31–1:04:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Atheism and the existence of God
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Reason has limits, but it is the best tool humans have for any shared dialogue, and a God who calls people through reason would not then demand belief in the irrational.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says reason has its limitations but is the best that human beings have for any intersubjective dialogue.
Evidence, his words at 59:26: “everybody with any reason recognizes that reason two has its limitations but it is the best that we as human beings have for in any uh inter-subjective dialogue” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=3566s)

## Why the circumstances of the marriage rule out a six-year-old Aisha
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/udjvem_s0sy/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-12 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Aisha was not a child Her age at the time of Marriage | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; The wives of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Aisha cannot have been six when the Prophet married her, because the marriage was meant to give him companionship, household help and support after the year of sorrow, which a child could not provide. Her engagement of several years before that, and the fear that she would convert her fiance, point the same way.

## Writers who place Aisha in her teens, and how narrators exaggerated ages
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/udjvem_s0sy/s/2/
Date: 2020-10-12 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Aisha was not a child Her age at the time of Marriage | Mufti Abu Layth (5:13–9:18)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The age of Aisha; The wives of the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Several modern writers conclude that Aisha was in her teens at marriage, and the speakers explain the hadith's figures as numbers garbled and exaggerated downwards by narrators. Khadija's age, by contrast, was exaggerated upwards from about twenty-eight to forty.

## Who did Shaykh Omar Baloch study with?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/3/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (3:50–9:38)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes studying with Dr Israr Ahmed from the age of about thirteen and then with Imran Hosein in New York.

## What is Imran Hosein's approach, and why did he disagree with Israr Ahmed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/4/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (9:38–14:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; The age of Aisha; End times and the Day of Judgement
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth praises Imran Hosein's stand on the age of Aisha but finds his outlook almost conspiratorial; the guest says Imran Hosein and Israr Ahmed fell out over eschatology.

## Is there an order and coherence to the surahs of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/5/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (14:32–21:36)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Scholars and imams of the past
Cites: Quran 17:1 (https://quran.com/17/1); Quran 18:1 (https://quran.com/18/1); Quran 3:59 (https://quran.com/3/59)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth and the guest trace Farahi's school of Quranic coherence, which the guest illustrates with surahs that come in pairs.

## Is America losing its place in the world?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/7/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (22:55–27:25)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that America is in an internal crisis and has lost the soft power of alliances and credibility that matters more than military strength.

## Why do so many people admire Trump's style?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/8/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (27:25–33:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth condemns Trump and his views but admits a grudging admiration for his impunity; the guest ties Trump's rise to Fox News and a politics of fear.

## Are mosques in America at risk from far-right anger?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/9/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (33:13–36:13)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Race, nation and identity; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest warns that rising white supremacist anger in the US, fed by scapegoating and Fox News, means every mosque now needs security.

## Will people's better judgement win out over hatred?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/10/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (36:13–38:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Current events commentary; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth is optimistic: he sees better judgement prevailing over time, especially among the young.

## What does defunding the police mean in practice?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/11/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (38:47–41:19)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Current events commentary; Extremism, crime and justice
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes police in his area withdrawing after criticism and a country too polarised for real conversation.

## Why is America so polarised?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/12/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (41:19–46:28)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Current events commentary; Race, nation and identity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that demographic fear and the hollowing out of the middle class by big corporations are driving American polarisation.

## Will AI destroy jobs or create new ones?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/13/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (46:28–50:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Technology and media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth suggests AI also creates new industries; the guest agrees but says automation will take labour jobs first for the sake of profit.

## Does the Quran predict that modern industrial society will collapse?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/14/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (50:17–52:47)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 10:24 (https://quran.com/10/24)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest reads Quran 10:24 as a warning that oil-based modern life will collapse; Mufti Abu Layth expects human knowledge to find new energy.

## Is humanity better off today than ever before?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/15/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (52:47–58:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that humanity lives in unmatched prosperity built on trust in the future; the guest doubts people have become any less greedy.

## Have nuclear weapons made the world more peaceful?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/16/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (58:31–1:02:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that nuclear deterrence has ironically kept the peace; the guest fears what the people holding the weapons might do.

## Does the Quran say every city will be destroyed before Judgement Day?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/17/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:02:24–1:05:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; End times and the Day of Judgement
Cites: Quran 17:58 (https://quran.com/17/58); Quran 4:147 (https://quran.com/4/147)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest reads Quran 17:58 as a sign that humanity is headed for trouble; Mufti Abu Layth points to verses of blessing and God's lack of need to punish.

## Is the world getting better or worse?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/18/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:05:36–1:08:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth sees humanity heading in a more positive than negative direction; the guest says the loan-based Western economy will bust.

## Are people basically good, or is the system the problem?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/19/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:08:50–1:12:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth sees goodness in people despite immorality; the guest says the problem is a system run by corporations, not individuals.

## How did Iqbal see Western civilisation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/20/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:12:44–1:16:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Modern reformers and movements
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest sets out Iqbal's two-layer view of the West; Mufti Abu Layth says the prophets' message was simply to reconnect creation with the Creator.

## Is Western culture uniquely shallow?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/21/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:16:33–1:21:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Soul, nafs and consciousness
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the pull of glitter and the thirst for knowledge are human, not Western, and that people now seek meaning more than ever.

## What is the main theme of Surah al-Kahf?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/22/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:21:06–1:24:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Islam and modernity
Cites: Quran 18:28 (https://quran.com/18/28)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees consumerism is destructive and reads Surah al-Kahf as also being about identity and belonging.

## Why is lending money for profit considered wrong in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/23/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:24:20–1:26:11)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth tests why profit on loans is a problem; the guest points to profit-sharing partnership as the alternative.

## Can the bank take my whole house if I default near the end of my mortgage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/24/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:26:11–1:30:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Britain
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says that, in UK practice, mortgage lenders are far more lenient with defaulters than landlords, and asks to discuss riba as a concept.

## Is it better to rent or to take a mortgage?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/25/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:30:43–1:35:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that, compared with renting, a mortgage is probably the better option, and presses the guest on what is wrong with riba as a concept.

## Is bank interest the same as the riba forbidden in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/26/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:35:53–1:42:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the riba of the Quran meant loan sharking, not modern banking; the guest says today's banks are loan sharks.

## Why might the Quran's ban on riba not apply to modern loans?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/27/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:42:19–1:46:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Cites: Quran 59:7 (https://quran.com/59/7); Quran 2:279 (https://quran.com/2/279)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that Quranic riba belonged to a zero-sum economy and does not apply to modern loans; the guest describes its human cost.

## Does bank lending help society prosper?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/28/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:46:53–1:50:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Money and finance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that bank lending, by recycling the same money, is what has allowed modern societies to prosper; the guest warns of endless debt.

## Is investing as a partner better than lending at interest?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/29/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:50:43–1:55:10)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth accepts partnership as a better model but says lending and investing both run on greed; the guest calls today's system worse than riba.

## Is it wrong to expect something back when you lend money?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/30/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:55:10–1:59:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says modern lending has safety nets that loan sharks lack, and that people being motivated by a return is nothing wrong.

## Does the Quran motivate people through self-interest?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/31/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:59:04–2:04:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell; Motivation and purpose
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth suggests, tentatively, that even the Quran motivates through self-interest; the guest distinguishes healthy from harmful selfishness.

## Are the descriptions of paradise in the Quran literal?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/32/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (2:04:13–2:06:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Paradise and hell
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he takes the Quran's imagery of paradise as symbolic, a motivation for people, rather than literal.

## Are Islamic mortgages really different from normal mortgages?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/33/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (2:06:11–2:12:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans; Money and finance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth calls Islamic mortgages a loophole that does the same thing as a conventional one at a higher price with an Islamic veneer.

## Is an Islamic economic system realistic or utopian?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/34/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (2:12:33–2:19:01)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Public law and governance; Money and finance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that Islam offers a complete welfare-minded social order; Mufti Abu Layth presses him on whether it is utopian.

## Who is Dr Khalil Andani and how did he come to study Islam academically?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/2/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (3:01–6:48)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; How to study Islam
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes leaving a career in accountancy to study Islamic studies at Harvard, where he finished a PhD and now teaches religion at a US college.

## Did Muslims always see the Quran as God's word in the form of a book?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/3/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (6:48–12:59)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; How to read the Quran; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that the idea of the Quran as God's literal words in book form was not held by all Muslims historically, and that the Quran presents itself as a series of oral revelations manifesting a heavenly writing.

## What difference does it make that the Quran was first oral and only later written down?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/4/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (12:59–19:58)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; How to read the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that the Mushaf is a secondary product that loses the context and immediacy of the oral revelation, like a printed map compared with live navigation.

## Did revelation end with the Prophet, or does inspiration continue?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/5/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (19:58–22:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; Sufism and tasawwuf; Sunni-Shia dialogue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says that for Shi'is, Sufis and arguably jurists some form of revelatory inspiration continues; Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran will always continue to mean different things to different people over time.

## Does 'Kitab' in the Quran mean a book?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/6/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (22:36–27:58)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; Quranic Arabic
Cites: Quran 2:183 (https://quran.com/2/183)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Kitab in the Quran means divine writing or prescription rather than a physical book; the guest distinguishes the heavenly Kitab Mubin from the Arabic Quran, and Mufti Abu Layth agrees Kitab cannot mean book.

## Is the 'Book of Allah' the same thing as the written Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/7/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (27:58–33:53)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Preservation and variant readings
Cites: Quran 9:36 (twelve months in the Kitab of Allah) (https://quran.com/9/36)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that equating Kitab Allah with the Mushaf is a later interpretation that downsized the Quran's concept of a transcendent divine writing.

## Do Ash'aris and Maturidis believe the Arabic Quran is God's eternal speech?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/8/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (33:53–39:44)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; God and the divine attributes
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In Ash'ari and Maturidi theology God's eternal speech is not Arabic sounds and letters; the Arabic Quran expresses it and is created.

## Why do so many Muslims think God speaks Arabic if their scholars said otherwise?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/9/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (39:44–46:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says scholars' habit of not discussing this before ordinary people helped the public believe something different from their own scholars; the guest describes the popular Hanbali view that even the Mushaf is uncreated.

## Is the Ash'ari view of God's speech really different from the Mu'tazili view?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/10/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (46:24–50:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Creed and the schools of theology; Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Ash'aris borrowed heavily from the Mu'tazila but differ on whether speech is sounds and letters or meaning; Mufti Abu Layth says sectarian politics produced ambiguous creeds.

## Is Arabic an eternal, divine language?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/11/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (50:31–52:33)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Quranic Arabic; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects grammarians' claim that Arabic is eternal; both describe the Ash'ari view that revelation takes the language of its audience.

## Was revelation words dictated by Gabriel, or inspiration the Prophet put into words?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/12/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (52:33–57:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Prophethood and miracles; How to read the Quran
Cites: Quran 42:51-52 (https://quran.com/42/51-52)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues that Quranic wahy is non-verbal inspiration through the ruh which the Prophet put into Arabic; Mufti Abu Layth says he finds himself with those who hold revelation was expressed within the Prophet.

## How reliable is the story of the first revelation in the cave?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/13/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (57:30–1:03:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The life of the Prophet; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Cites: Quran 96:1 (https://quran.com/96/1)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest doubts the historicity of the cave story, attributing it to al-Zuhri; Mufti Abu Layth says he would take the whole description with a pinch of salt.

## Were the companions allowed to change words of the Quran, and was that only a temporary concession?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/14/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:03:08–1:10:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Individual hadith explained
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest argues the Prophet allowed multiple oral forms of the Quran; Mufti Abu Layth says this dynamism was the Quran's inherent nature, not a temporary concession.

## How did Muslim theologians reconcile God being one with his many names and attributes?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/15/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:10:02–1:20:44)
Status: general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Creed and the schools of theology
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest and host trace how the Mu'tazila, Hanbalis and Ash'aris reconciled God's oneness with his many names and attributes.

## Do Salafis believe God has a body?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/16/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:20:44–1:24:04)
Status: general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Hanbalis and modern Salafis in effect believe God has body parts and so project a human image onto God; the guest notes philosophers and Isma'ilis objected that attributes give God parts.

## Where do anthropomorphic ideas of God in Islam come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/17/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:24:04–1:28:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: God and the divine attributes; Christians and other faiths
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth suggests anthropomorphic texts were partly inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition; the guest describes the Sufi, philosophical and Isma'ili view that God's names describe relations, not his essence.

## Opening: introducing Edip Yuksel, who refuses titles and insists all are equal
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/1/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (0:35–4:28)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest rejects titles such as professor, saying that in religion, philosophy and politics only the words count, not the name or rank of the person speaking.

## The guest's background: languages, translations, books, Beltways and a constitution for Turkey
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/2/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (4:28–12:57)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; Quran-only movement; Technology and media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes his languages, his Turkish and English translations of the Quran, his books on the number 19, his unpaid religious work, his Beltways transit project, a proposed Netflix documentary and a draft constitution for Turkey.

## Why did Edip Yuksel write a reformist translation of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/3/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (12:57–21:29)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Guest conversations; Tawhid and shirk
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Was the hadith literature a conspiracy against the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/4/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (21:29–27:59)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; False and fabricated hadith; Hadith collections and their history
Cites: Quran 4:140 (do not sit with those who mock the signs of Allah) (https://quran.com/4/140)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the hadith corpus is a deliberate conspiracy against the Quran by its enemies, including the Umayyads, and that reports such as the Banu Qurayza massacre and the killing of a woman critic were fabricated to justify later rulers' crimes.

## Does the guest think every hadith is fabricated?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/5/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (27:59–31:53)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Sunnah versus hadith; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Cites: Quran 42:21 (partners who legislate what Allah has not permitted) (https://quran.com/42/21); Quran 6:19 (this Quran was revealed to me to warn you) (https://quran.com/6/19); Quran 25:30 (my people have deserted this Quran) (https://quran.com/25/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says not every hadith is evil, but truth is mixed with falsehood and even genuine sayings cannot be a source of religion, since the Quran makes God the only source of law and limits the messenger's duty to delivery.

## Were the Prophet's judgements meant to bind Muslims after his death?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/6/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (31:53–38:24)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Prophethood and miracles; Public law and governance
Cites: Quran 60:12 (the pledge of the believing women) (https://quran.com/60/12); Quran 6:19 (this Quran was revealed to me to warn you) (https://quran.com/6/19)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Prophet's authority as judge and leader was for his lifetime only, that his bay'ah was a reciprocal social contract in which women voted, and that his messengership ended once the Quran was delivered, so obeying the messenger cannot mean obeying Bukhari.

## Can Muslims do ijtihad from the Quran alone?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/7/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (38:24–41:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); How to read the Quran; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 54:17 (we have made the Quran easy to remember) (https://quran.com/54/17)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth agrees with the guest that making Islam Bukhari-centric is a problem, as his BukhariGate series argues. The guest says the Quran declares itself easy to understand and that whoever thinks it difficult or rejects its clear verses loses access to it.

## Are any hadith genuine, and what about reports confirmed by history?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/8/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (41:00–48:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reports that disrespect the Prophet; Isra and Mi'raj; The age of Aisha
Cites: Quran 25:30 (my people have deserted this Quran) (https://quran.com/25/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says even genuine sayings of the Prophet are not religion and that the hadith paint contradictory portraits of him. Mufti Abu Layth agrees that the Mi'raj negotiation, the child-marriage report and the Uraynah torture reports are false narrations.

## Can hadith be sifted with criteria, or must the whole corpus be rejected?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/9/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (48:57–52:50)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Quran-only movement; Hudud and punishments
Cites: Quran 24:4 (those who accuse chaste women without four witnesses) (https://quran.com/24/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's practice survives as a living tradition in fiqh and that he accepts a hadith only if it passes reason, the texts and the principles. The guest replies that narrators who fabricated a stoning verse forfeit all credibility, like a false witness in the Quran.

## Does any hadith actually explain the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/10/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (52:50–59:27)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; How to read the Quran; Sunnah versus hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest challenges hadith followers to find a hadith that explains the Quran, says the Quran uses the word hadith negatively and sunnah only for God's law, and holds that descriptive reports are history, not religion.

## Does the Quran abrogate its own verses?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/11/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (59:27–1:08:39)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to read the Quran; Preservation and variant readings; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism
Cites: Quran 4:82 (they would have found many contradictions) (https://quran.com/4/82); Quran 2:106 (we do not abrogate a sign or cause it to be forgotten) (https://quran.com/2/106)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest denies abrogation, reading 2:106 as about miracles replaced over time, since ayah in the singular never means a verse. Mufti Abu Layth says he is not against abrogation in principle but that 2:106 does not prove it and that no verse was ever lifted from the Quran.

## Does the Quran ban slavery, and what does 'what your right hand possesses' mean?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/12/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (1:08:39–1:19:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Tawhid and shirk; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## If the Quran abolished slavery, why is there no explicit verse saying so?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/13/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (1:19:08–1:26:59)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Tawhid and shirk; Quranic Arabic; Legal theory and method
Cites: Quran 12:41 (one of you will pour wine for his master) (https://quran.com/12/41); Quran 12:23 (he is my Lord, innahu rabbi) (https://quran.com/12/23)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## What is the miracle of the number 19 in the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/14/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (1:26:59–1:33:33)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Quran-only movement; Prophethood and miracles
Cites: Quran 74:30 (over it are nineteen) (https://quran.com/74/30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the number 19 proves the Quran is God's word letter by letter and that Muslims otherwise have no objective evidence for its divine origin; he recounts a Turkish scholar insisting the bismillah has twenty-one letters rather than nineteen.

## What numerical patterns does the guest find in the Quran's word counts?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/15/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (1:33:33–1:38:44)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Quran-only movement; Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest lists word-frequency symmetries in the Quran, such as dunya and akhirah 115 times each, month twelve times and day 365 times, and says the number 19 is a test that most people fail.

## How does the guest's number 19 differ from Bible numerics, and how does he read 74:29-31?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/16/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (1:38:44–1:45:14)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Tafsir and verse study; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 74:29-31 (lawwaha lil-bashar, over it are nineteen) (https://quran.com/74/29-31)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says 19 is a test most people fail, distinguishes his system from Ivan Panin's Bible numerics, and retranslates 74:29-31 as describing a precise, obvious mathematical structure rather than scorching the skin in hell.

## Could the number 19 patterns in the Quran be a coincidence or a human habit?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/17/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (1:45:14–1:52:57)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to read the Quran; Quran-only movement; Prophethood and miracles
Cites: Quran 74:1-2 (O you who are hidden, rise and warn) (https://quran.com/74/1-2)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the 19 structure cannot be chance or subconscious habit, that mathematicians cannot refute it, and that 19 appearing only in chapter 74 and being unveiled in 1974, nineteen times seventy-four lunar years later, is a prophecy.

## Did Rashad Khalifa claim to be a messenger of God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/18/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (1:52:57–1:56:52)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Prophethood and miracles; Preservation and variant readings
Cites: Quran 72:26-28 (he reveals the unseen to a messenger he chooses) (https://quran.com/72/26-28); Quran 33:40 (khatam al-nabiyyin) (https://quran.com/33/40); Quran 9:128-129 (the last two verses of Surat al-Tawba) (https://quran.com/9/128-129)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Rashad Khalifa did claim to be a messenger, not a prophet, commissioned to unveil the miracle of 19, and that the Quran calls Muhammad the last prophet rather than the last messenger. Khalifa held the last two verses of Surat al-Tawba to be interpolations.

## Why was Rashad Khalifa assassinated?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/19/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (1:56:52–2:02:04)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran-only movement; Extremism, crime and justice; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Rashad Khalifa was declared an apostate by a 1989 Madinah gathering under Ibn Baz and killed within a year by a group linked to al-Qaeda, and he lists coincidences of the number 19 around the murder, Y2K and the 9/11 attacks.

## How does the guest translate the verses on cutting off the thief's hand, jizya and polygamy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/22/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:12:32–2:16:30)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Hudud and punishments; Polygamy and mut'ah; Contested verses
Cites: Quran 5:38 (the thief, cut off their hands) (https://quran.com/5/38)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest's translation renders the thief's punishment as cutting off the means, the tax on non-Muslims as war reparations, sa'ihat as women active in society, and polygamy as permitted only for widows with orphans in exigent circumstances.

## Is al-kitab the same book given to every prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/29/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:29:34–2:32:11)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Tawhid and shirk; Tafsir and verse study; Salvation and non-Muslims
Cites: Quran 108:1 (we have given you al-kawthar) (https://quran.com/108/1)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Why were the Israelites told to sacrifice a heifer, and what does it teach about religious detail?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/31/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:36:06–2:38:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Moses; Tafsir and verse study; Legal theory and method
Cites: Quran 2:67-71 (the heifer of the Children of Israel) (https://quran.com/2/67-71)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The heifer was commanded to break the Israelites' lingering reverence for their Egyptian masters' cow worship, and the rabbis' frivolous questions about it exemplify the clerical obsession with detail. Mufti Abu Layth agrees and recalls arguing the same.

## What does the word salat mean in the Quran according to the Quran-only view?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/32/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:38:46–2:42:40)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Prayer; Quranic Arabic; Quran-only movement
Cites: Quran 75:31 (he neither believed nor prayed) (https://quran.com/75/31); Quran 33:56 (Allah and his angels send salat upon the Prophet) (https://quran.com/33/56); Quran 9:103 (take from their wealth a charity and pray for them) (https://quran.com/9/103)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest defines salat from the Quran as solidarity rather than ritual: with God, which is remembrance and connection, and with people, which is the secular Friday gathering; the essence is dhikr, not physical form.

## Should social media companies be allowed to censor people as the new public square?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/35/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:49:10–2:53:05)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Social media; Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Middle East and the wider world
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Twitter suspended him at the Turkish government's instance and that corporations now controlling the virtual public square should be regulated and bound by due process; Mufti Abu Layth agrees the question is a fascinating one.

## Is consciousness in the brain, or is the brain a receiver for the soul?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/36/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:53:05–3:00:56)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/7/; general teaching
Topics: Soul, nafs and consciousness; Philosophy and ideas; The afterlife
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that consciousness is non-local and the brain a receiver like a radio; the guest disagrees, describing a human as matter plus information that is backed up in God's record and restored to a new body at the resurrection.

## How did Dr Shehzad Saleem come to research the history of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/2/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (2:56–10:32)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Teaching the history of the Quran at Al-Mawrid in 1999, the guest was shocked by questions in the Muslim sources themselves: multiple extant readings, reports of a lost rajm verse, compilation by two witnesses, differing companion codices and the Shia account. His book is the result of the quest that followed.

## Is the Quran preserved exactly as it was revealed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/3/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (10:32–17:05)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Views on contemporary scholars; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Quran is preserved absolutely, dot for dot and in the revealed order, and that the other readings need a separate explanation; preservation in its original language is what distinguishes it from the Bible. His view develops Farahi's thesis as transmitted through Islahi and Ghamidi.

## How was the Quran preserved: by memory or in writing?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/4/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (17:05–21:00)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Mutawatir and certainty; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran was preserved primarily by thousands of companions memorising it and passing it on generation to generation, which is what tawatur means; writing was secondary and always needed a hafiz's testimony.

## Did the Prophet leave a written Quran, and what did the caliphs really do?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/5/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (21:00–24:57)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Hadith collections and their history; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): At the Prophet's death the Quran lived in the community's recitation, teaching and notes; he deliberately left no official codex. The caliphs merely spread copies, and the guest says the Bukhari narratives about their compilation are weak in chain and content.

## Where do the variant readings of the Quran come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/6/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (24:57–28:54)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Tafsir and verse study; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 75:16-19 (upon Us is its collection and its recitation) (https://quran.com/75/16-19)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Quran was revealed chronologically and then recompiled in a new divine order, as 75:16-19 describes; remnants of the earlier recitation kept by the companions are the biggest source of the qira'at. The final order was fixed when the Prophet revised the Quran twice with Jibril in his last Ramadan.

## How did the earlier recitation and other readings get mixed up with the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/7/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (28:54–36:47)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Hadith collections and their history; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 75:17 (upon Us is its collection and its recitation) (https://quran.com/75/17)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest names four sources of the variant readings: remnants of the earlier revelatory sequence kept by the companions and later blurred with the Quran under al-Shafi'i's scholarly transmission, the mixing of similar passages, companions' explanatory synonyms taken as readings, and fabrication in the second and third centuries.

## Is the hadith that the Quran was revealed in seven ahruf authentic, and what does it mean?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/8/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (36:47–41:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Mutawatir and certainty; Authenticating hadith
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the seven-ahruf hadith is ambiguous, as al-Suyuti admitted, that its forty-odd interpretations are inconsistent and its versions unsoundly reported and contradictory, so they cancel each other out. He refrains from guessing what the Prophet originally said.

## Why did Muslim scholars record disagreements about the Quran's text rather than hide them?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/9/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (41:59–47:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; The second coming of Jesus; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the scholars transmitted the variant reports out of sheer honesty, just as they preserved and marked scribal errors in the mushaf, and that variation was inevitable once the revealed sequence was rearranged. Mufti Abu Layth notes in passing that he agrees with Ghamidi that there is no second coming of Jesus.

## What was the qira'a al-'amma, and why does Morocco recite a different reading?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/10/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (47:15–52:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The common reading of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali and the companions, al-qira'a al-'amma, is the mushaf we have, while the other readings stayed in scholars' books; Morocco reads Nafi' only because a third-century ruler imposed it on account of Imam Malik's preference. Mufti Abu Layth adds that the early generations were more secure in their faith than later, institutionalised Islam.

## How did the seven canonical readings of the Quran come about?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/11/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (52:29–57:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Mutawatir and certainty; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the second and third centuries leading reciters were given the privilege of ikhtiyar, choosing one of the inherited variants for each verse by their own criteria, and Ibn Mujahid later popularised seven of them. Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees these readings are not mutawatir and not on the level of the common reading.

## Why did the reading of Hafs from Asim become the standard Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/12/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (57:45–1:02:58)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest relays Ghamidi's thesis that Hafs alone transmitted the common reading without adding his own choices, so his reading coincides with the original. The seven-ahruf hadith was taken as licence for the reciters' choices, and Ibn Mujahid's seven prevailed through his standing and state position.

## If Quraysh did not pronounce the hamza, why does the Hafs reading of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/13/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:02:58–1:09:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Quranic Arabic; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says dialect only changes pronunciation, not the word, and such variation was permitted, while the claim that Quraysh had no hamza is itself unproven. Mufti Abu Layth says he had concluded that the Quran came in a standardised formal Arabic that used the hamza.

## Do the early manuscripts with different words undermine the preservation of the Quran?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/14/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:09:29–1:15:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Quranic Arabic; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 1:4 (maliki / malik yawm al-din) (https://quran.com/1/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says such manuscripts were bound to exist once people wrote down the readings, and that a reading needs correct Arabic and a chain to the Prophet, with ijtihad only in preference. Mufti Abu Layth adds that the harshest critics of the readings were Muslim grammarians of Basra such as al-Mazini, until later grammarians like Ibn Malik embraced them.

## Isn't it too convenient that the one preserved reading is exactly the Hafs Quran we have?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/15/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:15:59–1:21:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; How to read the Quran; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 75:16-19 (upon Us is its collection and its recitation) (https://quran.com/75/16-19)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth states his own view that the Quran was always dynamic and allowed some flexibility of wording, as Imam Malik and al-Shafi'i held companions could substitute words. The guest answers the convenience objection by saying the reasoning, not the result, should be judged, and that later scholars missed the verses of al-Qiyamah because of a flawed report from Ibn Abbas and a hadith-centric mindset.

## Where does the claim that the Quran is preserved to the very dot come from?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/16/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:21:11–1:24:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Preservation and variant readings; Islam and modernity; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the slogan that the Quran is preserved to the very dot is not traditional but a creed cemented in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when religious people entrenched themselves in fundamentalism against modernity and colonialism. Early Muslims were comfortable with a Quran that was preserved while allowing variation.

## If a religious teacher seduces someone, is the other person also to blame?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/y9p342tx6t0/s/1/
Date: 2020-06-01 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A mufti, a convert & hanky panky! | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says both the mufti and the woman in the shared story are to blame, and dismisses the claim of a magic spell.

## Is it worse to use religion as a cover for wrongdoing?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/y9p342tx6t0/s/2/
Date: 2020-06-01 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A mufti, a convert & hanky panky! | Mufti Abu Layth (6:20–8:54)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Sexual ethics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says people should not use religion to cover what they do; dressing seduction in religious language is a sick game.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if you are going to do something as a human being you should just do it and not use religion.
Evidence, his words at 6:20: “my point is look if you're gonna do something as a human being you're gonna do it just if you're gonna do it just do it don't use religion” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9P342Tx6T0&t=380s)

## Should a person accused of magic be killed?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/y9p342tx6t0/s/3/
Date: 2020-06-01 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A mufti, a convert & hanky panky! | Mufti Abu Layth (8:54–10:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Hudud and punishments; Arabic poetry and men of letters
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says calls to kill the 'magician' show the sorry state of Muslims and why they are a laughing stock.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that this is unfortunately the state of Muslims and why they are a laughing stock.
Evidence, his words at 10:09: “you would see the fire but you're just blowing into cold ashes this is the state of Muslims unfortunately you know so this is why we are a laughing stock” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9P342Tx6T0&t=609s)

## Have Muslims moved towards giving the Quran primacy over hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/2/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (2:24–6:20)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sunnah versus hadith; Islam and modernity; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the ummah has split: a traditional strand that in practice lets hadith override the Quran, and a growing body of thinking lay Muslims who already see the Quran as primary. Some scholars agree but are trapped in traditional discourse or silenced by dangerous circumstances.

## Does the Quran prescribe stoning for adultery?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/3/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (6:20–11:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hudud and punishments; Sunnah versus hadith; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran's penalty for adultery is flogging, not stoning, which the guest says entered Muslim law from hadith and is biblical in origin, so explaining Islam to the public must start from the Quran. Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees completely that the Quran must have primacy.

## Does the Quran prescribe a punishment for apostasy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/4/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (11:34–14:11)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 2:256 (there is no compulsion in religion) (https://quran.com/2/256); Quran 88:22 (you are not a supervisor over them) (https://quran.com/88/22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Quran prescribes no worldly penalty for apostasy, only punishment in the hereafter, and 'there is no compulsion in religion' is stated as emphatically as the testimony of faith. Rightly representing the Quran is about pleasing Allah, not the kuffar.

## Why did earlier scholars not see what reform-minded scholars see today?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/5/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (14:11–18:08)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Legal theory and method; Narrator criticism; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Past scholars were great but fallible and bound by their time, like people in a smoke-filled room or marchers in a procession, while today we can see the whole history of ideas from the balcony. Mufti Abu Layth adds that the apostasy rule rests on one problematic narration from Ikrima in Bukhari.

## Can hudud punishments such as stoning or hand-cutting change with the times?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/6/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (18:08–24:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Hudud and punishments; Legal theory and method; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 2:282 (write down your loan agreements) (https://quran.com/2/282); Quran 5:2 (when you leave ihram, hunt) (https://quran.com/5/2)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that stoning was a pre-Quranic practice abrogated by the Quran and that the Sharia's punishments reflect their age, as Maliki scholars and the Ottomans applied. The guest agrees that the spirit of the law can require departing from its letter, as Umar did when he suspended hand-cutting in a famine.

## Is using reason to interpret Islam just preferring my own intellect over revelation?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/7/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (24:41–27:18)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Reason and revelation; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 22:46 (have they not travelled the earth so as to have hearts with which to understand) (https://quran.com/22/46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The intellect alone is not a reliable guide, but an intellect guided by the Quran is tamed and becomes the right tool for understanding revelation. The word aql itself means the tether that keeps a camel from straying, and the Quran praises its use.

## Why do Muslims treat reason as the enemy of tradition?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/8/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (27:18–32:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Hadith in legal reasoning and hadith absolutism; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Historically the Ahl al-Hadith defeated the Ahl al-Ra'y, which preserved the tradition but left reason demonised; today reason and tradition must work together. Mufti Abu Layth says asking whether one prefers reason to revelation is a false framing, since the real choice is between one understanding of the Quran and another.

## How old was Aisha when she married the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/9/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (32:34–41:29)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The age of Aisha; The wives of the Prophet; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Writers such as Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood and Jamal Badawi conclude that Aisha was in her teens, and the report that her sister Asma died at a hundred in the year 73 puts her at about eighteen when she moved in with the Prophet. The guest explains the hadith's six and nine as numbers exaggerated downwards, as Khadija's forty was exaggerated upwards.

## Why do the circumstances of the Prophet's marriage rule out a six-year-old Aisha?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/10/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (41:29–48:03)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; The wives of the Prophet; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The marriage after the year of sorrow was meant to give the Prophet a companion, a carer for his children and a support in the da'wah, which a six-year-old could not provide, and Aisha had been engaged for years to a man whose mother feared she would convert him. Mufti Abu Layth suggests her age was exaggerated downwards after the ifk slander to defend her purity.

## Is questioning Aisha's age just an attempt to please non-Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/11/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (48:03–54:33)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The age of Aisha; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 4:65 (they do not believe until they make you judge in their disputes) (https://quran.com/4/65); Quran 33:36 (it is not for a believer to have a choice once Allah and his Messenger have decided) (https://quran.com/33/36)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says he once made the same accusation, but came to see that a girl of nine is not fit for marriage and that Muslims themselves do not marry girls at that age. A report being in Bukhari does not make it the final word, since scholars have always differed with Bukhari where something more authentic exists.

## Can a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari be questioned?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/12/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (54:33–1:01:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Mutawatir and certainty; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sahih means Bukhari and Muslim verified the chains, which says little about the content, since reliable narrators still err and insert explanations; only the few mutawatir reports, mostly practices like the number of units in prayer, are beyond doubt. Mufti Abu Layth says he believes all the hadith on Aisha's age are weak.

## Can Sahih al-Bukhari be proven to be the book Imam al-Bukhari wrote?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/13/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:01:06–1:05:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Mutawatir and certainty; Text criticism, reason and the Quran
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that what is really mutawatir is the living tradition, not any hadith, and that Sahih al-Bukhari cannot be proven to be Bukhari's exact book since it rests on one unvouched transmitter, Farabri. Each report should therefore be weighed against reason, the Quran and the principles of Islam like any other hadith.

## How should hadith be evaluated, and did the companions ever misreport the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/14/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:05:05–1:11:36)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Reports demeaning women; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Hadith should be judged one by one against the principles of the religion, observation and reason, as the earliest Muslims did before reason was sidelined. Aisha herself rejected several companions' reports, such as the dog, woman and donkey breaking the prayer, the dead punished by weeping, and the bad omen in a woman, showing how reports were misrelayed.

## Is criticising Sahih al-Bukhari an attack on Imam al-Bukhari?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/15/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:11:36–1:15:32)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Hadith collections and their history; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Imam al-Bukhari deserves credit for sifting hadith and his shorter narratives are usually the more authentic, but he was a human being and his book is not the Quran. Mufti Abu Layth says BukhariGate critiques the myth of an untouchable gold standard, not the man.

## Does Islam teach that jinn can possess people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/16/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:15:32–1:20:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth does not believe in jinn possession, saying the Quran and Sunnah do not support it. The guest recounts a young man at his da'wah centre whose 'possession' appeared only around believers in it and vanished in front of doctors, which he reads as a psychological phenomenon rather than a jinn.

## Does the Quran support the idea that Shaytan or jinn can control a person?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/17/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:20:45–1:25:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jinn possession; Jinn, angels and the devil; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 2:275 (like one whom Shaytan has driven to madness by his touch) (https://quran.com/2/275); Quran 114:5 (who whispers into the hearts of people) (https://quran.com/114/5); Quran 17:65 (over my servants you have no authority (also 15:42)) (https://quran.com/17/65)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse cited for possession is about rising on the Day of Judgment, and the Quran as a whole gives Shaytan only the power to whisper and no authority over Allah's servants. Possession would also destroy personal responsibility and let any criminal evade punishment, and Mufti Abu Layth says the claim that jinn can take any form makes the whole idea absurd.

## Was Jesus born of a virgin, and how could a jinn father a child?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/18/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:25:40–1:29:36)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Jesus in the Quran; Jinn possession; Guest conversations
Cites: Quran 6:101 (how can He have a child when He has no companion) (https://quran.com/6/101)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he has recently become inclined to the view of Abdul Karim Athari and Tamanna Imadi that Jesus was born naturally, since the Quran never explicitly states a virgin birth and 6:101 argues from the absence of a companion. The guest sets that controversy aside and says a jinn, being a different species, could not impregnate a woman.

## If possession were real, why is there no sahih hadith of the Prophet casting out a jinn?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/19/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:29:36–1:33:31)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Christians and other faiths; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The Gospels make exorcism a chief miracle of Jesus, but the Quran never mentions it and there is no sahih hadith of the Prophet casting out a jinn, so the guest calls the belief overstated. Following Bilal Philips's study, he says the symptoms match psychological illness and medical treatment should come first.

## Is belief in magic spells and jinn possession part of Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/20/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:33:31–1:40:04)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Jinn possession; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Belief in possession and magic spells holds Muslims back and harms mental health, and the guest says it is not a religious teaching because no verse or authentic hadith establishes it, whatever people believe they have seen. Mufti Abu Layth notes that to believers in jinn the ordinary explanation seems the far-fetched one.

## Where did Shaykh Kashif Khan study, and what is the difference between Salafi and Ahl al-Hadith?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/2/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (3:16–8:28)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Salafism and Wahhabism; Guest conversations; The Indian subcontinent
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest studied with Salafi scholars in Pakistan, mostly privately; he says Madinah graduates prefer the name Salafi and the Pakistani Ahl al-Hadith prefer Ahl al-Hadith.

## How did Shaykh Kashif Khan become religious, and does he regret his zealous phase?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/3/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (8:28–17:39)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Guest conversations; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes turning religious through the internet, cutting off friends and failing his degrees to travel with scholars, and says he does not regret it, calling it a developing experience.

## Why did clerics in Pakistan insist on reopening mosques during the coronavirus lockdown?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/4/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (17:39–20:12)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Pakistan; Covid-19; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the clerics privately regard the coronavirus as a conspiracy and turned mosque closures into a religious issue that the authorities were reluctant to confront.

## Do religious scholars lose their independence when they depend on donations?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/5/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (20:12–25:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Education, madrasas and seminaries; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest refuses to earn from religion because dependence on a group or donors forces scholars to say what their audience wants; Mufti Abu Layth says denominational dependency cripples independent thinking.

## Is it haram for medical students to dissect dead bodies?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/6/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (25:17–29:14)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Medical questions; Salafism and Wahhabism; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says dissecting cadavers for medical training is permissible, and cites a Salafi fatwa forbidding it as an example of Ahl al-Hadith rigidity.

## Can women be stopped from going to the mosque because of fitnah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/7/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (29:14–35:45)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Women in worship and mosques; Interaction between men and women; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says there is no evidence for keeping women from the mosque beyond fear of fitnah, since even harassment in the Prophet's time did not lead to a ban; Mufti Abu Layth cites Malik's report of men and women making wudu together.

## Is a woman on her period ritually impure?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/8/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (35:45–42:21)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Purification; Sexual ethics; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says menstruation is a hygiene matter, not impurity; the guest cites late Hanbali scholars who permitted intercourse during menses and Abu Hanifa's longer breastfeeding period to show how varied the fiqh is.

## How clearly was zakah defined in the Prophet's lifetime?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/9/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (42:21–47:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Zakat and charity; Public law and governance; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says some salaf and Ibn Taymiyya counted taxes paid to the authorities as zakah; Mufti Abu Layth says zakah was not clearly defined in the Prophet's time and its later rules were a pragmatic tax decision.

## Were the people who refused zakah after the Prophet's death apostates?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/10/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (47:29–55:16)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Succession and the first civil wars; Zakat and charity; Apostasy and blasphemy
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says taxes that fund welfare can count as zakah, and that the refusers fought by Abu Bakr were rebels against the state rather than apostates; Mufti Abu Layth says he is inclined to that view.

## Is it haram for a husband to drink his wife's breast milk?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/11/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (55:16–1:04:24)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Intimacy in marriage; Sexual ethics; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says classical jurists allowed a husband to drink his wife's milk, and Mufti Abu Layth says the Maliki school considers it pure and not haram, unlike a stricter Hanafi view.

## Do some muftis use lenient rulings for themselves but give strict ones to others?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/12/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:04:24–1:07:01)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Divorce; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says some muftis take concessions such as the Ahl al-Hadith view on triple talaq for themselves while giving people harsh rulings, citing an account about a mufti in his neighbourhood.

## Can a past relationship or an accidental touch make my spouse haram for me?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/13/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:07:01–1:13:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Hanafi fatwas of hurmat al-musahara that dissolve marriages over a premarital relationship with an in-law or an accidental touch destroy families, and that the Maliki school does not hold the ruling.

## Does a triple talaq count as one divorce or three?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/14/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:13:31–1:19:17)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/6/; a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Divorce; India and Hindutva; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says triple talaq drives many to the Ahl al-Hadith view that it counts as one, while some Ahl al-Hadith scholars privately hold it counts as three but will not publish this for fear of controversy.

## Why do people react so strongly when a scholar challenges established views?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/15/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:19:17–1:23:10)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Cults, clergy and religious abuse; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says people feel threatened when their views are challenged, and that independence from groups and donors is what lets a scholar research and speak honestly.

## Is a marriage between a Muslim and a non-Muslim valid?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/16/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:23:10–1:28:23)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The marriage contract; Sexual ethics; Hijab and niqab
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he holds that a nikah between a Muslim and a non-Muslim would be valid, especially for converts whose spouses remain non-Muslim; both say quoting recorded minority views gets them accused of opening Pandora's box.

## Is looking at an image of a naked person the same as looking at a real one in Islamic law?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/17/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:28:23–1:32:23)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sexual ethics; Legal theory and method; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says he cannot call something haram without a text prohibiting it, so he presents the scholars' differing views on looking at a reflection or image and leaves the choice to the asker.

## Does lowering the gaze apply to images and screens?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/18/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:32:23–1:40:19)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Sexual ethics; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says most classical scholars took the forbidden gaze to be the lustful one, and that jurists distinguished seeing a person in the flesh from a reflection or screen, a matter on which there are two opinions.

## Do non-Muslim women in a Muslim country have to cover up?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/19/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:40:19–1:44:16)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Interaction between men and women; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says early scholars held that non-Muslim women cannot be forced to cover and that the prohibition on looking was applied only to believing women.

## If pornography is not called haram, does that mean it is encouraged?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/20/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:44:16–1:47:50)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sexual ethics; Legal theory and method; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest distinguishes saying something should not be done from declaring it haram; Mufti Abu Layth restates that they are not encouraging pornography, which may be harmful, but not calling it haram.

## Is masturbation haram in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/21/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:47:50–1:51:38)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sexual ethics; What breaks the fast; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says no Companion is reported to have forbidden masturbation and that the only evidence cited against it is the advice to fast; Mufti Abu Layth says modern society demonises men's sexuality.

## Did classical scholars permit masturbation, and for women too?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/22/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:51:38–1:56:54)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sexual ethics; Polygamy and mut'ah; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest cites al-Shawkani's treatise and some Hanafi, Maliki and Hanbali reports permitting masturbation, and says some held the prohibition applies only to men; Mufti Abu Layth notes Malik's disdain as a social attitude.

## Is pornography today like the concubines of the past?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/23/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (1:56:54–2:02:05)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexual ethics; Salafism and Wahhabism; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest rejects likening pornography to concubinage or mut'ah, calling it instant gratification, and describes Salafi efforts to suppress permissive classical texts; Mufti Abu Layth says these are real questions that need open discussion.

## Doesn't the Islamic teaching on modesty make pornography haram?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/24/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:02:05–2:08:19)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexual ethics; What breaks the fast; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the general teaching on modesty is not enough to declare something haram without clear evidence; Mufti Abu Layth says he is not convinced by the report that eating ice does not break the fast.

## Does masturbation or other sexual activity break the fast?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/25/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:08:19–2:13:27)
Status: general teaching
Topics: What breaks the fast; Sexual ethics; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says only intercourse is agreed to break the fast, citing Aisha's report and al-Albani; Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees that masturbation per se does not break the fast.

## Why do people get so upset about Islamic rulings on sex?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/26/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:13:27–2:21:08)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Sexual ethics; Schools of law and following them; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest blames a culture of shame in the subcontinent, and says the classical scholars and al-Bukhari show there is no shyness in learning the religion and that legitimate differences cannot be denounced.

## Is oral sex between spouses haram because the private parts are impure?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/27/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:21:08–2:23:40)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Intimacy in marriage; Sexual ethics; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the arguments against oral sex within marriage, from the right-hand prohibition and from impurity, do not hold, since one's own body is not impure; Mufti Abu Layth says he agrees.

## Why talk publicly about permissive opinions if it might encourage people?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/28/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:23:40–2:28:54)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: How to study Islam; Sexual ethics; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says knowledge cannot be hidden in the internet age and that people lose trust when scholars conceal it, so it is better to tell them the recorded opinions.

## Did Abu Hanifa hold that there is no hadd punishment for sodomy?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/29/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:28:54–2:33:37)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Hudud and punishments; The Hanafi school and Imam Abu Hanifa; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says Abu Hanifa held there is no hadd for sodomy, that Salafis attack Hanafis for it, and that a Salafi mufti used the same view to shield one of their own scholars.

## Isn't it better to feel guilty when sinning so that you repent?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/30/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:33:37–2:36:00)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Sexual ethics; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says most scholars hold watching pornography is haram and people should not watch it, while academically the evidence resembles Imam Ahmad's 'I dislike it but do not say it is haram'.

## Does Islam teach us to feel guilty?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/31/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:36:00–2:41:14)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Funerals and burial; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says guilt-tripping is not an Islamic concept but one taken from the Judeo-Christian tradition, and the guest says forbidding evil applies only to what the texts clearly prohibit.

## Does making people feel guilty about pornography make things worse?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/32/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:41:14–2:45:11)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Religious guilt and scrupulosity; Sexual ethics; Technology and media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says telling people simply not to watch pornography is unrealistic and that guilt-tripping over what is not categorically haram may add to depression; the guest likens past bans on television and the internet.

## How should someone approach studying Islam with an open mind?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/34/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (2:54:03–3:01:51)
Status: general teaching
Topics: How to study Islam; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest urges viewers to study sincerely, without bias or partisanship, across all books; Mufti Abu Layth says the transparency of the early scholars is badly needed today.

## Do the prophets' bodies decay in the grave?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z__38zt8flq/s/2/
Date: 2020-04-07 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (1:19–8:19)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Responses to critics; Prophethood and miracles; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth did not teach that the prophets' bodies decay: he read out a question and described a devotional and a factual approach, noting most Muslims take the devotional one. He says critics who present it as disrespect to the Prophet are lying.

## Does the Mufti teach disrespect for the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z__38zt8flq/s/3/
Date: 2020-04-07 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (8:19–12:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Replies to attacks on the Prophet; The age of Aisha; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: he says he has repeatedly defended the Prophet, denying that he married a child and rejecting narrations he finds insulting. Those accusing him took none of these stances.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he has stood up for years and said that the Prophet did not marry a child.
Evidence, his words at 8:57: “for years i've stood up and said that the Prophet did not marry a child” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__38zt8FlQ&t=537s)

## Message to critics: criticise truthfully, not with lies
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z__38zt8flq/s/4/
Date: 2020-04-07 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (12:46–15:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; The Mufti and the channel; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth believes in Allah and His Messenger but rejects folkloric, medieval readings of Islam. He asks critics to attack his real views, not lies.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not accept folkloric, medievalist interpretations of Islam, which he feels are not compatible with this day and age.
Evidence, his words at 12:46: “your folkloric and maybe kind of medievalist kind of veneers that you give Islam I don't accept I don't feel that it's compatible with this day and age” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__38zt8FlQ&t=766s)

## Should we recite Sahih al-Bukhari to protect ourselves from the coronavirus?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/h4ixl17jyeu/s/1/
Date: 2020-03-30 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: How NOT to respond to Covid-19 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–11:00)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Covid-19; Magic, the evil eye and superstition; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: reciting Sahih al-Bukhari is not the way to tackle the coronavirus, and the Quran itself is not a medical cure; people can simply make du'a.

## Abdul Raheem Limbada and the dream of the coronavirus as a man
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/k8vl17cezw0/s/1/
Date: 2020-03-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Maulana Limbada & Coronavirus Dream | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–10:13)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dreams and visions; Covid-19; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth mocks a preacher's account of a dream in which the coronavirus appeared as a man sent to punish, calling it nonsense that people are preaching and sharing.

## How did Hamza Ali Abbasi do in his debate with Harris Sultan?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wkhoro-qb20/s/1/
Date: 2020-01-12 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Hamza Ali Abbasi's discussion with Harris Sultan | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheists and polemicists; Pakistan
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Hamza Ali Abbasi showed genius-level intelligence and came out on top against Harris Sultan.

## Is it good that Hamza Ali Abbasi left showbiz for religion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wkhoro-qb20/s/2/
Date: 2020-01-12 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Hamza Ali Abbasi's discussion with Harris Sultan | Mufti Abu Layth (1:52–5:18)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Pakistan; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth welcomes Hamza Ali Abbasi's turn to religion but hopes he does not become a full-on mullah and stop being a bridge.

## What should I think about when choosing a name for my child?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fiq59zcj9ku/s/1/
Date: 2019-11-06 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Inappropriate Names | Mufti Abu Layth (0:03–4:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Raising children
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says parents should think carefully about the names they give their children, especially names that will be mocked in the West.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says people need to pay attention to the names that they choose for their children.
Evidence, his words at 0:42: “you know that's an interesting discussion folks people need to pay attention to the names that they choose for their children” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiq59Zcj9KU&t=42s)

## Should Muslims build bridges with ex-Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/1/
Date: 2019-09-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A reply to Asadulah Al-Andalusi on the age of Aisha (r) | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheists and polemicists; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: he hopes Muslims can talk with ex-Muslims and critics as fellow human beings, as the early converts were won by human connection. He contrasts this with a preacher who refused any friendship with them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he hopes Muslims can build bridges with ex-Muslims and anyone who has issues with Islam, since we are human beings first and foremost.
Evidence, his words at 0:37: “I hope we can build bridges with X Muslims or anybody who has issues with Islam” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vke9Rpq9o&t=37s)

## How old was Aisha when she married the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/2/
Date: 2019-09-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A reply to Asadulah Al-Andalusi on the age of Aisha (r) | Mufti Abu Layth (2:30–6:57)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the report that Aisha was six or nine is false and that she was in her late teens, about seventeen to nineteen. Promoting the child-marriage story and then taking offence at the charge of paedophilia is irresponsible.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says the story that Aisha was six, seven or nine is not true and that she would have been in her late teens.
Evidence, his words at 3:45: “this story is not true that I share was six years old or seven or nine” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vke9Rpq9o&t=225s)

## Are the hadith about Aisha's young age authentic?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/3/
Date: 2019-09-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A reply to Asadulah Al-Andalusi on the age of Aisha (r) | Mufti Abu Layth (6:57–13:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Narrator criticism; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says every chain for Aisha's young age is flawed, resting on narrators accused of tadlis and all going back to Urwa. Those who defend them put al-Bukhari's sanctity above the Prophet's honour.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he can show that every chain brought to prove Aisha's young age is massively flawed.
Evidence, his words at 7:31: “I will show you how each and every one of these chains that you bring is massively flawed” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vke9Rpq9o&t=451s)

## Islamic institutes, preachers' depth of learning, and passionate converts
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/4/
Date: 2019-09-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A reply to Asadulah Al-Andalusi on the age of Aisha (r) | Mufti Abu Layth (13:07–16:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Converts and newcomers
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the preacher was, he believes, referring to the Yaqeen Institute, and that if this is what they promote they need to revisit themselves. He says he respects and applauds Omar Suleiman's social justice work and protests for discriminated communities, but says such preachers have not really studied Islam in depth or qualified through a formal institute, are put on a pedestal by the institution and must then cement it, and were mostly very Wahhabi-inclined at one point. He says Asadullah al-Andalusi [?] once held ridiculous views about killing ex-Muslims and apostates, which he thinks he has since turned away from. He applauds converts for a step he thinks few born Muslims would take, mentioning Hamza Yusuf as one who studied deeply and to whom many are indebted, while noting that some converts with turbulent backgrounds embrace Islam as a cause.

## Converts who start teaching at once, with lines of Urdu poetry
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/5/
Date: 2019-09-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A reply to Asadulah Al-Andalusi on the age of Aisha (r) | Mufti Abu Layth (16:22–19:20)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Converts and newcomers; Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth continues that some people, as soon as they embrace Islam, start teaching it to others. He recites Urdu and Persian verses, poorly captured in the transcript, on a road that does not lead to a destination and on taking two or three steps without completing a journey, and on embracing even those who are not one's own. He says he has never claimed piety, and cites the Quranic rebuke of those who consider their becoming Muslim a favour. He says it bothers him when he sees this, and that it is not exclusive to converts, as many born Muslims tread the same path.

## How should Muslims respond to ex-Muslims who hate God?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/6/
Date: 2019-09-19 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A reply to Asadulah Al-Andalusi on the age of Aisha (r) | Mufti Abu Layth (19:20–24:15)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Atheists and polemicists; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Meet hatred with love: hating God does not harm God, so there is no need to abuse such people. Many ex-Muslims are hurting, and Muslims can stay their friends.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if someone hates God, Muslims need not attack or abuse them but can extend a hand of humanity and remain friends.
Evidence, his words at 20:38: “I can extend a hand of humanity a bridge of compassion” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vke9Rpq9o&t=1238s)

## Mohammed Hijab's liberalism lecture argues like a sectarian polemic
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/j6pxwgpnwd0/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muhammad Hijab's talk on Liberalism & Islam | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:24)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Dawah and debate culture; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth turns to a university lecture by Mohammed Hijab on liberalism, which people had sent him and which claimed liberalism is baseless. He says the lecture seemed aimed at a Muslim audience and that, since Mohammed Hijab is intelligent, he is unsure whether he has not grasped the concept or is deliberately arguing to win points, but calls it a very poor job. He explains that the lecture argues against liberalism the way Muslims conduct sectarian debates: finding a figure the opponent supposedly reveres, such as Abu Hanifa, Ibn Taymiyya, Imam Malik or a Shia ayatollah, and quoting him to corner the opponent through compelling authority. He says this tactic makes no sense outside religion, where people do not feel bound by allegiance to such figures.

## What is liberalism, and do liberals have to follow John Locke?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/j6pxwgpnwd0/s/2/
Date: 2019-08-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muhammad Hijab's talk on Liberalism & Islam | Mufti Abu Layth (6:24–12:43)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Liberalism is essentially a stance against authoritarianism, not allegiance to historical philosophers. Agreeing with Locke on one point does not make anyone a Christian or bind them to his whole philosophy.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says liberalism is, in essence, simply a stance against authoritarianism.
Evidence, his words at 7:01: “liberalism is simply a stance against authoritarianism that's all it is in essence” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6pXWGpnWd0&t=421s)

## Should Muslims campaign against LGBTQ people, and is homosexuality unnatural?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/j6pxwgpnwd0/s/3/
Date: 2019-08-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muhammad Hijab's talk on Liberalism & Islam | Mufti Abu Layth (12:43–19:02)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Muslims should leave LGBTQ people alone, since fighting them will only deface Islam. Calling homosexuality unnatural is inaccurate, as it is widely found in nature, unlike incest.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he feels Muslims should really leave LGBTQ people alone and let them be.
Evidence, his words at 13:21: “I feel that we as Muslims should really leave the LGBTQ people alone” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6pXWGpnWd0&t=801s)

## Can people be moral without religion?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/j6pxwgpnwd0/s/4/
Date: 2019-08-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muhammad Hijab's talk on Liberalism & Islam | Mufti Abu Layth (19:02–24:46)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Reason and revelation; Atheists and polemicists; Character and virtue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: humans know that killing is wrong without scripture, which came to reinforce it, and secular European societies have reached ethics without God. He strongly disagrees with deriding that.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says human beings knew killing was wrong without scripture, and the commandment came only to reinforce it.
Evidence, his words at 21:37: “of course they knew that to kill was wrong the commandment simply came as a reinforcement” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6pXWGpnWd0&t=1297s)

## Ethics evolve: slavery, human agency and the genetic fallacy
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/j6pxwgpnwd0/s/5/
Date: 2019-08-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muhammad Hijab's talk on Liberalism & Islam | Mufti Abu Layth (24:46–29:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Islam and modernity; Philosophy and ideas
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth argues that if ethics do not develop over time and only seventh-century ethics count, one would have to say slavery is fine, since the Quran acknowledged its ubiquity without abolishing it at the time, which he calls ridiculous. He says people hold liberal attitudes without having read Locke or Rousseau, being capable agents, not automatons. By the lecture's logic, he says, everything in Islam first championed by others would belong to them, as Socrates and Plato spoke of God and the soul first, which he calls an infantilising theory. He gives his own opposition to capital punishment, shared by most people in Europe, as an example of a view held without allegiance to Rousseau, Locke, Bentham or Bertrand Russell.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that human beings are very capable agents who construct their worldview as they go along, not people who adopt views because they read philosophers.
Evidence, his words at 27:59: “human beings we are very capable agents we are constructing our worldview as we going along” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6pXWGpnWd0&t=1679s)

## Is capital punishment, including for apostasy, justified?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/j6pxwgpnwd0/s/6/
Date: 2019-08-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muhammad Hijab's talk on Liberalism & Islam | Mufti Abu Layth (29:52–37:17)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Apostasy and blasphemy; Extremism, crime and justice
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth opposes capital punishment as absurd, killing to stop killing, and calls justifying death for apostasy as treason a stupid argument. He welcomes Mohammed Hijab's apparent move away from the classical ruling to kill apostates.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says he finds it ironic and absurd that, to stop people from killing, the state kills people.
Evidence, his words at 34:49: “I find that so ironic that to stop people from killing people we kill people” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6pXWGpnWd0&t=2089s)

## 'Islam gave these rights first' and blinding people with jargon
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/j6pxwgpnwd0/s/7/
Date: 2019-08-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Thoughts on Muhammad Hijab's talk on Liberalism & Islam | Mufti Abu Layth (37:17–43:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth addresses the lecture's point that Islam gave rights such as voting 1,400 years before the suffragettes, saying that is fine to mention but people alive in 2019 will ask why Muslim rulings are still backward today, so it is nothing to gloat about. He criticises dropping philosophical names and terms that impress those who do not know them but make Muslims look weaker to those who do, as some did in arguments for God, and parodies such jargon. He says a real discussion would define liberalism and admit that some fascist versions of it exist and can be dangerous, but that liberalism is an attitude against imposed authority, not a separate religion. He concludes that the lecture was a straw man resting on Locke, Hobbes and Kant, and hopes Mohammed Hijab might reflect on it.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that throwing in impressive philosophical jargon makes Muslims look much weaker to those who know and to non-Muslims.
Evidence, his words at 39:51: “it makes you look much weaker than you actually are” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6pXWGpnWd0&t=2391s)

## Daniel Haqiqatjou's post that praying in a closet is a Sunnah for women
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/1/
Date: 2019-05-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:33)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Women in worship and mosques; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Daniel Haqiqatjou's post claimed that a woman praying in a closet revives a Sunnah and that this is better for her than praying in the Prophet's mosque.

## Have Muslims really kept women out of mosques for 1,400 years?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/6/
Date: 2019-05-04 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (31:44–38:06)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Women in Islam; Responses to critics; Women in worship and mosques
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: women prayed in mosques from the Prophet's time on and classical scholars held many such views, so the '1,400 years' claim fails; Mufti Abu Layth doubts Haqiqatjou's scholarly training.

## Why is it so hard for Muslims to find a partner?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/sgwylug7xu0/s/1/
Date: 2019-02-28 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why Do Muslims have Trouble with Romance? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:59)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Choosing a spouse; Love and romance; Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says there is a crisis among Muslims in finding relationships, and advises using matrimonial sites sensibly and leaving early if someone seems odd.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says there is a crisis of people trying to find relationships.
Evidence, his words at 1:51: “and I think but there is a crisis I can't see there is a crisis of people trying to find relationships” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgwylUg7XU0&t=111s)

## Reply to Abdullah al-Andalusi: the 'white saviour' and the caliphate
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/s/1/
Date: 2018-09-03 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Response to Abdullah al Andalusi (0:00–9:31)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Caliphate; Converts and newcomers
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth mocks Abdullah al-Andalusi's call to establish the caliphate as a 'white saviour complex', while praising converts who devoted themselves to study.

## Is it rape if a husband uses religion to pressure his wife into sex?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cz26by1mmns/s/1/
Date: 2018-07-08 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. III -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Abuse in marriage; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says using religious threats to pressure a wife into sex is still rape and categorically haram.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that pressuring a wife into sex by threatening her with Allah's punishment is no less rape than threatening to beat her.
Evidence, his words at 2:33: “that is no less rape that's just like saying in other words a deferred beating so that's just threatening her still because it's still a threat but it's a threat with a deferred punishment” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz26by1mMns&t=153s)

## Thanks for the correction, but the chain is still flawed
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cz26by1mmns/s/3/
Date: 2018-07-08 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. III -Mufti Abu Layth (7:00–12:34)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth accepts that three forum quotes were misrepresented but says he never relied on them: his case rests on the narrator's tadlis, which his critics have not refuted.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that one should be grateful when people point things out.
Evidence, his words at 7:36: “I first of all know we should be grateful when people point things out hamdu lillah man lam yasha Kareem a slim ish couldn't love whoever does not is not grateful to people is not grateful to Allah” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz26by1mMns&t=456s)

## Critics silent on marital rape, and a story about research and conclusions
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cz26by1mmns/s/4/
Date: 2018-07-08 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. III -Mufti Abu Layth (12:34–19:12)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Abuse in marriage
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says his critics avoid the real issue of marital rape, and challenges them to produce a sound chain for the hadith.

## Is it haram to pressure a wife into sex by saying God will be angry?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ngz8jo6o0f4/s/1/
Date: 2018-07-08 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. II -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:25)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Abuse in marriage; Individual hadith explained
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: marital rape is categorically haram, and so is religious blackmail, using God's anger to get sex. He reads the hadith of the angels cursing a refusing wife as justifying that.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says, repeating what he said in an earlier session, that marital rape is categorically haram and that this includes religious blackmail.
Evidence, his words at 3:44: “I've said that marital rape is categorically Haram and that includes religious blackmail” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGz8JO6O0f4&t=224s)

## Was al-A'mash a reliable hadith narrator?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ngz8jo6o0f4/s/2/
Date: 2018-07-08 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. II -Mufti Abu Layth (4:25–13:53)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Narrator criticism; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth cites classical critics who say al-A'mash committed tadlis, sometimes hiding weak narrators, and made many mistakes. This does not mean every narration of his in Bukhari and Muslim is weak.

## What is the point of checking a hadith's chain of narrators?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ngz8jo6o0f4/s/3/
Date: 2018-07-08 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt. II -Mufti Abu Layth (13:53–16:28)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate); Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Chain criticism exists only to judge whether a hadith's content is sound; content against reason, the Quran or Islam's principles is a problem. Treating Bukhari as infallible is nonsense.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says chain criticism was not a goal in itself but was only invented to know whether the content of a hadith was sound.
Evidence, his words at 13:53: “chain criticism was not a goal in itself chain criticism was only this so we know the teaching of the Prophet was correct” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGz8JO6O0f4&t=833s)

## Viral claims that Mufti Abu Layth insulted the companions
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/1/
Date: 2018-02-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (0:00–4:30)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Responses to critics; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; The companions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth explains that he called the crying-tree reports unestablished, and only suggested that, if accepted, some companions exaggerated out of love; that is not blasphemy.

## Is it blasphemy to say some companions exaggerated out of love for the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/4/
Date: 2018-02-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (16:30–18:41)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The companions; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): No: Mufti Abu Layth says suggesting that companions may have exaggerated out of love is not blasphemy, noting he alone defended Mu'awiya when he was abused online.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that if the reports were authentic, his answer would be that maybe some companions exaggerated out of excessive love.
Evidence, his words at 17:03: “but the question is if you did believe them what would you respond by and I would respond by saying well fine that's you know maybe out of the excessive love that they exaggerated” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM4jHsWJ_uM&t=1023s)

## Are some hadith about the Prophet actually blasphemous?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/5/
Date: 2018-02-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (18:41–26:22)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Replies to attacks on the Prophet; Reports that disrespect the Prophet; The wives of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says reports that the Prophet married a nine-year-old, was bewitched or became impotent are the real blasphemy, and urges scholars to denounce them.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says that reports such as the Prophet having relations with a nine-year-old or becoming impotent are rubbish that should be denounced as blasphemy.
Evidence, his words at 21:49: “absolute utter rubbish these things are rubbish garbage being rigged educated in the name of Islam fuel for Islamophobia I urge you I beg you to please denounce this rubbish as blasphemy” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM4jHsWJ_uM&t=1309s)

## How old was Aisha when she married the Prophet?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rm4jhswj_um/s/6/
Date: 2018-02-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadiths on Prophetic Miracles and Responding to Claims of Blasphemy - Mufti Abu Layth al Maliki (26:22–28:52)
Status: general teaching
Topics: The age of Aisha; Replies to attacks on the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth holds that the evidence shows Aisha married in her late teens, and warns that reports of a child marriage feed Islamophobes.
Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel): Mufti Abu Layth says all the evidence demonstrates that Aisha was in her late teens when she got married.
Evidence, his words at 27:00: “I do mention Ayesha I don't know specifically but all the evidence demonstrates she was in her late teens when she got married” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM4jHsWJ_uM&t=1620s)

## Are Muslims obliged to establish an Islamic state or khilafah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ij2ml87ptrs/s/1/
Date: 2017-09-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Should Muslims Establish Khilafah - Shaykh Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:10)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Caliphate; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says religion is a personal matter between a person and God, and believers have no obligation to obtain a society or a state, though if they have power they must run it by God's command. Prophets such as Ibrahim and Isa, and Zakariya, Yahya and Maryam under Roman rule, never sought power and remain examples.

## Did the Prophet migrate to Madinah to set up a state, and when did the khilafah end?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ij2ml87ptrs/s/2/
Date: 2017-09-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Should Muslims Establish Khilafah - Shaykh Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (2:10–5:11)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Caliphate; Succession and the first civil wars; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest says the Prophet left Makkah because he was forced out, not to found a state, and the khilafah rashidah ended with Ali, after which Umayyads and Abbasids were kings in all but name. The Quranic promise of khilafah was for the first generation only, and the 1924 abolition ended a powerless kingship, not a khilafah.

## Why is the call to restore the khilafah dangerous for young Muslims?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ij2ml87ptrs/s/3/
Date: 2017-09-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Should Muslims Establish Khilafah - Shaykh Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (5:11–8:49)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Caliphate; Extremism, crime and justice; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the nostalgic 'Bollywood version' of Islamic history, in which a perfect khilafah existed until 1924, is a fantasy, since the khilafah rashidah never went beyond Ali. Guilt-tripping young Muslims with it and with Dar al-Harb rhetoric breeds the extremist narrative and needs tackling.

## If Muslims want a khilafah, why not first establish Islam in the countries they already have?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ij2ml87ptrs/s/4/
Date: 2017-09-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Should Muslims Establish Khilafah - Shaykh Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (8:49–12:29)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Caliphate; The Indian subcontinent; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says those pushing a purely politicised Islam are, in his understanding, near the modern Khawarij and use the same evidences as ISIS. The guest says Muslims already have fifty countries, that Pakistanis who sought Nizam-e-Mustafa now want to leave, that khilafah groups cannot even unite, and that Allah does not give what people do not deserve.

## Should scholars give fatwas based on minority opinions if it makes life easier?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zoo6w9bfn7i/s/1/
Date: 2017-09-06 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Giving rulings based on minority opinions- Shaykh Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:27)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Legal theory and method; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In this clip Shaykh Akram Nadwi says scholars may give fatwas on easier minority opinions in minor matters of fiqh, since ease has always guided the jurists. Mufti Abu Layth speaks only at the end.

## Is it wrong to choose the easier opinion in Islam?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zoo6w9bfn7i/s/2/
Date: 2017-09-06 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Giving rulings based on minority opinions- Shaykh Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (5:27–8:07)
Status: general teaching
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Legal theory and method; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says choosing what is easier is the nature of Islam, citing hadith that the Prophet always chose the easier of two options. Islam came to connect people with God, not to make secondary details the main issue.

## Is choosing the easier scholarly opinion just following my desires?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zoo6w9bfn7i/s/3/
Date: 2017-09-06 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Giving rulings based on minority opinions- Shaykh Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth (8:07–12:28)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Schools of law and following them; Divorce; Scholars and imams of the past
Cites: Quran 95:4 (We created the human being in the best stature) (https://quran.com/95/4)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In this clip Shaykh Akram Nadwi gives examples of al-Shafi'i, Abu Hanifa and al-Tabari giving easier minority rulings, and says choosing among the jurists' opinions is not following one's nafs. Mufti Abu Layth only asks the question.

## Apostasy: execution as divine policy, tribal loyalty and treason in wartime
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/1/
Date: 2016-03-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues (0:06–5:25)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Public law and governance; Orthodoxy and how Islam spread; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The speakers present the execution of apostates as tied to wartime treason and tribal loyalty in early Arab society rather than to belief alone, and say the Quran should be the primary reference in the discussion.

## The verse on men having a degree over women, read in its passage
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/2/
Date: 2016-03-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues (5:25–6:47)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Tafsir and verse study; Women in Islam; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The verse about a degree over women is read by one speaker as concerning women in their waiting period, not a general ranking of men above women.

## Western human rights, unquestioned presuppositions and the labels liberal and conservative
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/3/
Date: 2016-03-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues (6:55–14:45)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Islam and modernity; Legal theory and method; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Both speakers say Muslims should question their own presuppositions and scrutinise Western values rather than dismiss or adopt them wholesale. One objects that Western moral markers shift every decade; the other that labels like liberal and conservative replace argument.

## Riba and Ibn Abbas: his disagreement on riba and his combining of prayers
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/4/
Date: 2016-03-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues (14:45–17:23)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Money and finance; The companions; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ibn Abbas is reported as holding that riba lies only in delayed exchange and as combining prayers without travel or fear, which one speaker uses to show that labelling a view easy or liberal is not an argument.

## Is morality innate? Language acquisition, divine command, and insecurity in faith
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/5/
Date: 2016-03-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues (17:23–23:55)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Reason and revelation; Philosophy and ideas; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The speakers hold that the Quran treats humans as having an innate moral sense, compared to an innate capacity for language, and say faith should not depend on silencing those who question it.

## Ritualisation of the deen and the angels' question about Adam: can believers ask?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/6/
Date: 2016-03-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues (23:55–29:07)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Stories of the prophets; Reason and revelation; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The deen has been ritualised so that scholarly conclusions cannot be questioned, while the angels' question to Allah about creating Adam is read as a model that believers may ask questions.

## Creation before Adam: Neanderthals, bashar and insan, and the formation of man
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/7/
Date: 2016-03-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues (29:07–32:56)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Quran and science; Human origins; Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Creation before Adam is discussed through a distinction between bashar and insan and two ways of reading the fossil record. The speaker raising it says he has no verdict either way.

## Is the face part of a woman's 'awrah in the Maliki school?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hcscudhd8bu/s/1/
Date: 2014-05-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti Abu Layth & Ustadh AbdusShakur Brooks: A discussion on Maliki Fiqh (0:00–6:22)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Hijab and niqab; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): One speaker argues that neither the Maliki nor the Hanafi school counts the face as 'awrah, so covering it is at most a precaution against fitnah.

## Must a young woman cover her face because of fitnah?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hcscudhd8bu/s/2/
Date: 2014-05-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti Abu Layth & Ustadh AbdusShakur Brooks: A discussion on Maliki Fiqh (6:30–11:31)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Hijab and niqab; Women in worship and mosques
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The speakers disagree: one holds the books require covering where there is fitnah from young women, the other that such a rule would swallow the Prophet's own practice.

## Did Imam Malik allow a woman to show her face to her husband's friends?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hcscudhd8bu/s/3/
Date: 2014-05-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti Abu Layth & Ustadh AbdusShakur Brooks: A discussion on Maliki Fiqh (11:31–19:50)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Hijab and niqab; The Maliki school; Interaction between men and women
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): One speaker reads Imam Malik's fatwa allowing a woman to eat with her husband's friends as proof that the face is uncovered; the other cites the later split between young and older women.

## Is Imam Malik's own fatwa the Maliki madhhab?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hcscudhd8bu/s/4/
Date: 2014-05-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti Abu Layth & Ustadh AbdusShakur Brooks: A discussion on Maliki Fiqh (19:50–22:26)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: The Maliki school; Schools of law and following them; Hijab and niqab
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The speakers disagree on whether Imam Malik's own words or the later transmitted madhhab decide a ruling; one says Malik's hijab fatwas were relaxed and left the face uncovered.

## Can a woman go out of the house without a need?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hcscudhd8bu/s/5/
Date: 2014-05-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti Abu Layth & Ustadh AbdusShakur Brooks: A discussion on Maliki Fiqh (22:26–27:38)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Women in Islam; The Maliki school; Interaction between men and women
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): One speaker holds women went out only for need; the other that hadith and Maliki texts show women in public and travelling, with no text forbidding going out.

## Is it haram for a woman to go out for a walk?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hcscudhd8bu/s/6/
Date: 2014-05-09 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti Abu Layth & Ustadh AbdusShakur Brooks: A discussion on Maliki Fiqh (27:38–38:20)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Women in Islam; Schools of law and following them; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): One speaker says nothing makes it haram for a woman to go for a walk and challenges the other to produce a Maliki fatwa forbidding it; the other asks whether fatwa must follow the madhhab's protocols.

## Opening: music and sharing the link with the guest
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/1/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:35)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Music and housekeeping while Mufti Abu Layth shares the stream link with the guest.

## Apology for the delay and how the dialogue was scheduled
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/2/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (1:35–4:52)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth apologises for being late, explains why Friday evenings suit guests in America, and says he postponed another MindTrap to hold this dialogue.

## How the dialogue came about: a guest who waited two hours at the last meetup
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/onzjd7xmdhe/s/3/
Date: 2025-10-18 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (4:52–7:32)
Status: latest answer on its topic
Topics: Quran-only movement
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest waited two hours at the previous meetup, said his followers wanted a dialogue, and tonight Mufti Abu Layth wants to hear a Quranist make the case for the Quran-only position.

## Opening: sound trouble and welcoming Lupe Fiasco to MindTrap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/1/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (0:01–3:14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: after sound checks Mufti Abu Layth introduces his guest, the rapper Lupe Fiasco.

## Closing: thanks, the guest's message and sign-off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/27/
Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (2:06:40–2:11:21)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: thanks, the guest's closing message and Mufti Abu Layth's sign-off.

## Sign-off: wrapping up a late, extended stream
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8zy0ndqvl2u/s/2/
Date: 2021-04-19 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Saudi Arabia & Sahih Al-Bukhari | Mufti Abu Layth (8:05–8:27)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth closes a late, extended stream, saying he is losing his voice.

## Opening: unwell and late, the last Monday Night before Ramadan, plans for a get-together
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/1/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:29–10:56)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth opens the last Monday Night before Ramadan, says either start date for Ramadan is fine, and suggests a viewers' get-together once Covid restrictions lift.

## Questions noted for later: fasting at work, a hadith on Quran 4:159
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/3/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (12:14–14:53)
Cites: Quran 4:159 (as cited in a chat question) (https://quran.com/4/159)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth notes questions on fasting at work and on a hadith linked to Quran 4:159 to come back to, and thanks a supporter.

## Setting up the supporters' messages; technical trouble
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/5/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (21:27–24:08)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth prepares to read a compilation of supporters' messages and deals with technical trouble.

## Apologies for the equipment, and no Monday Nights during Ramadan
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/22/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:22:23–1:23:41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): There will be no Monday Nights during Ramadan, though MindTrap and other content continue.

## Calling for Facebook questions; shout-outs and a guest suggestion
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/34/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:05:50–2:09:48)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth asks for Facebook questions and responds to a suggestion for a MindTrap guest.

## Opening: sound check, a critic's reaction video, the Peak District and the latest MindTrap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/1/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:32–8:14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping before the questions: a sound check, a note that a critic's reaction video will be discussed later, and a recommendation of the MindTrap episode on gender with Professor Adis Duderija.

## Preview of tonight's continued response to Yasir Qadhi
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/4/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (19:36–21:11)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth previews the second part of his reply to Yasir Qadhi, on the Maliki school, beliefs that crept into Islam, the Mahdi and the Dajjal reports.

## Closing: super chats, a session before Ramadan, and a revolution of hearts and minds
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/39/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:52:50–3:58:32)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Closing remarks: one more session before Ramadan, questions via Instagram, and a call for a faith of reason, compassion and love.

## Opening: tonight's plan, the Disclosure series, a Twitter storm and a song
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/1/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:21–12:56)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth sets out tonight's plan, chiefly a long reply to Yasir Qadhi on the second coming of Jesus and a Twitter storm over a suckling fatwa, and plays a song.

## Sign-off: a recap of the night
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/45/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:33:50–3:35:10)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recaps the night's topics and signs off until next week.

## Opening: sound check, greetings and quick replies to the chat
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/1/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:24–4:56)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping before the questions: a sound check, greetings and quick replies to the chat, including the streaming software he uses.

## Tonight's clips under the microscope, and a project coming soon
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/3/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (7:30–11:06)
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth previews the clips he will respond to tonight, on ear piercing, non-Muslim friends, the Khawarij and drugs, and says a new project is coming soon.

## A prospective MindTrap guest who has gone quiet
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/27/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:25:03–1:26:20)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A planned MindTrap conversation with a speaker who offered to come on was postponed, and Mufti Abu Layth has not heard back since.

## An open challenge: defend Salafi aqidah from the Quran alone
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/39/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:16:57–2:20:01)
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth repeats his open challenge to Abdul Rahman Hassan and any Salafi imam to defend Salafi aqidah from the Quran alone, on MindTrap.

## Sign-off: subscribe, the Discord coming soon, take the chance
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/57/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:17:40–3:18:26)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth closes the stream with reminders to subscribe and a note that the Discord is on its way.

## Opening: sound check, a lockdown haircut and a news story
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/1/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:15–7:40)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth checks the sound, jokes about a lockdown haircut and shares an odd news story.

## Losing muscle in lockdown and a members' Discord server
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/9/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (53:18–56:30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth announces a members' Discord server linked to Patreon, separate from the open fan group.

## Closing: the members' Discord, a tractor story and sign-off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/37/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:22:43–3:27:07)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth previews the members' Discord server and signs off with a story.

## Opening: travel declarations, the 200th session and plans for the channel
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/1/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:23–12:22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth marks his 200th session, mocks the new travel declarations and sets out plans for the channel.

## Tonight's plan: the raven of Cain and Abel, and Reddit versus Wall Street
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/2/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (12:22–16:35)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth announces the night's topics: the raven in the story of Cain and Abel, and what the Reddit versus Wall Street saga says about money.

## Sign-off: Mind Trap or meetup this week, and thanks to patrons
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/27/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:04:03–3:06:41)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth signs off, promising a Mind Trap or meetup this week and thanking his patrons.

## Opening: welcoming Shaykh Atabek Shukurov and an audio check
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:08–2:37)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth welcomes Shaykh Atabek Shukurov from Uzbekistan, introduced as a voice of reason, and checks the audio.

## The guest's laptop battery runs low; viewers' questions deferred
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/19/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:23:10–1:24:25)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest's laptop is running out of battery, so viewers' questions are kept for a follow-up session.

## Closing: thanks, a promised follow-up and the guest's book on Hanafi principles
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/22/
Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:32:29–1:34:20)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thanks the guest, promises a follow-up, and recommends his book Hanafi Principles of Testing Hadith.

## Opening: greetings and the night's agenda
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:22–7:07)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth opens the session and sets out the night's topics, from his BukhariGate afterthoughts and the hadith ripple effect to a docetism clip and a snowman fatwa.

## Sign-off: subscribers, Patreon, Discord and next MindTrap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/36/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:05:53–3:09:05)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth signs off, thanks subscribers and patrons, and announces a MindTrap episode later in the week.

## Opening: a near-sabotaged stream, a birthday treat and tonight's plan
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–7:57)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth overcomes technical trouble, thanks his patrons and sets out the night's plan, from a preacher's misquotations to Ibn Rushd.

## Closing: subscribe, thanks to patrons, and this week's Mind Trap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/41/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:12:21–3:14:30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off: Mufti Abu Layth thanks viewers, shares his social media links and says a Mind Trap discussion is due this week.

## Opening: sound check, how he is feeling, and tonight's plan
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:25–7:56)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: greetings, a sound check, and the list of tonight's topics, from world events to a hadith describing God.

## Announcement: a Mind Trap discussion with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid on BukhariGate
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/23/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:30:41–1:34:44)
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Announcement: a Mind Trap discussion on BukhariGate with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid is set for next Thursday, and he asks viewers to be respectful.

## Sign-off: subscribe, Patreon sessions, and Instagram for contact
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/43/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:11:21–3:12:47)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off: thanks to viewers and patrons, and Instagram as the way to reach him.

## Opening: sound check, Covid recovery, a spoof of the lockdown announcement
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:10–8:22)
Topics: Covid-19
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth reports on his Covid recovery, plays a spoof of the UK lockdown announcement and mocks the vaccine promises.

## Dr Abdul Majid's response to BukhariGate, and an invitation to Mind Trap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/3/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (10:15–14:02)
Topics: Responses to critics; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth has invited Dr Abdul Majid onto Mind Trap to discuss BukhariGate, and says he found no actual refutation in the response he watched.

## Banter: what he is drinking, and a shout-out
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/5/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (16:14–17:21)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Banter about his drink and a shout-out before the questions.

## Closing: subscribe, a DNA result next week, Patreon sessions
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/35/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:45:27–2:47:12)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off: subscribe, a DNA result promised for next week, and Patreon sessions resuming.

## Closing: the guest's projects, his statement of faith, and a safe space for views
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zasz48lx_wi/s/36/
Date: 2020-12-11 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (2:47:50–2:54:04)
Topics: Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest describes his planned article and book, affirms that he believes the Quran is divine revelation and that his views are legitimate, and Mufti Abu Layth says no one has the authority to silence learned opinions by calling them misguided.

## Mufti Abu Layth opens the stream and lists tonight's topics
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/1/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:27–7:47)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth opens the stream and lists the night's topics, from Khabib and the French cartoon crisis to a reply to a critic.

## Mufti Abu Layth closes the stream and announces Mind Trap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/33/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:16:06–3:17:51)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off: Mufti Abu Layth announces a Mind Trap guest for the next day and thanks supporters.

## Opening: sound check, a UK curfew and tonight's plan
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/1/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:29–8:51)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth checks the sound, comments on new UK coronavirus restrictions and previews the night, from Shari'ah rulings to the Pagan-gate row.

## Forms of intoxication, and a word on the latest Mind Trap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/3/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (24:54–27:58)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says intoxication can mean power or knowledge as well as alcohol, and recommends the latest Mind Trap episode.

## Closing: Hamza Tzortzis on Mind Trap, the September meet-up and sign-off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/29/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:56:53–2:59:14)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Closing: Mufti Abu Layth says Hamza Tzortzis has agreed to come on Mind Trap and points viewers to his September meet-up video.

## Opening: a Sunday-night stream past midnight and tonight's plan
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/1/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:24–7:08)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth opens the stream and lists tonight's topics, including David Wood tearing the Quran, the UAE-Israel deal and a quarrel with a critic.

## Sign-off: Ali not named in the Quran, Patreon, and farewell
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/40/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:57:12–3:01:07)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off with a quick answer that Ali is not named in the Quran, channel notices and farewell.

## Opening: sound check, technical trouble and the children say hello
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/1/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (0:30–4:56)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth checks the sound, his children say hello and he gathers his notes for the night.

## Preview of the night: the masala segment, a Peshawar killing and a Netflix show
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/4/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (14:15–16:30)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth previews the night's topics before turning to questions.

## Sign-off: subscribe, Patreon and plans for the week
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/31/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:40:17–2:43:04)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth signs off and announces next week's plans.

## Opening: sound checks, chat greetings and tonight's plan
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/1/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (0:39–9:53)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: greetings, sound checks and the announcement that the Hagia Sophia and the Islamabad temple will be discussed tonight.

## Sign-off: subscribe, daily videos and next week's mind traps
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/42/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (2:32:34–2:34:38)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off and channel announcements.

## Opening: sound check, and Facebook stars now visible
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/1/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (0:07–1:59)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth checks the sound and says Facebook stars now show up on his screen.

## Mufti Abu Layth introduces his guest, Shaykh Omar Baloch
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/2/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (1:59–3:50)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth introduces Shaykh Omar Baloch, a New York imam trained in Jungian psychology and CBT.

## The stream drops and comes back
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/6/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (21:36–22:55)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Technical trouble: Mufti Abu Layth gets the stream back online.

## Closing: a promised episode on Dhul-Qarnayn, and goodbyes
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/38/
Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (2:27:20–2:28:43)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off: Mufti Abu Layth plans a return episode with the guest on Dhul-Qarnayn.

## Opening: welcoming Dr Khalil Andani to MindTrap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/1/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (0:54–3:01)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth opens the stream and introduces his guest, Dr Khalil Andani, a scholar of Islamic theology and history.

## Viewer questions begin; the guest's connection drops
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/18/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:28:45–1:33:10)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth opens viewer questions and reconnects the guest after his connection drops.

## Closing: where to find the guest, and sign-off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/xznxiyp0b5s/s/23/
Date: 2020-07-03 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (1:40:08–1:41:43)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: the guest says where to find him and Mufti Abu Layth signs off.

## Closing: how to reach the guest, conferences, peace with Sunnis and Shias, and parliamentary speeches
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/34/
Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:45:14–2:49:10)
Topics: Guest conversations; Extremism, crime and justice
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest invites contact through his website and proposes Zoom sessions and conferences with Sunni and Shia scholars, saying he debates fiercely but bears no animosity and defends anyone's rights; he points viewers to his parliamentary speeches and his refutation of ISIS.

## Opening: audio check and introducing Dr Shehzad Saleem
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/1/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (0:18–2:56)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping before the conversation: an audio check, then the introduction of the guest, Dr Shehzad Saleem, a specialist on the compilation and variant readings of the Quran from Ghamidi's institute.

## Closing: thanks, where to find the book, the guest's contact details and his final message on critical thinking
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/f2bcgwatu5g/s/25/
Date: 2020-06-19 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (1:51:36–2:00:26)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Closing thanks and practical notes: where to buy the book and its concise edition, the guest's public contact channels, and his final message that Muslims must be seekers of truth who question everything and hold opinions on reasoning rather than dogma.

## Opening: welcoming back the guest and sharing the stream
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/1/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (0:22–2:24)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping before the conversation: the guest, Dr Shabir Ally, is welcomed back after the previous session was cut short, and the stream is shared out.

## Closing: thanks, the guest's apology for a short Q&A, and his Facebook live the next day
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/23/
Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:49:55–1:53:17)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The guest apologises for the short Q&A and announces a Facebook live the next day on the seven ahruf and recitations of the Quran; Mufti Abu Layth thanks him and signs off.

## Opening: welcoming Shaykh Kashif Khan from Australia and an audio check
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/1/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (0:40–3:16)
Topics: Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth welcomes Shaykh Kashif Khan to the MindTrap episode and checks that the audience can hear them.

## Sign-off: thanks, more sessions to come, and how to reach the guest
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/housirokbvu/s/35/
Date: 2020-04-19 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Kashif Khan | Policing thought, Pornography & Pandora's box | MindTrap with Mufti #15 (3:01:51–3:03:52)
Topics: Guest conversations
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth thanks the guest, says more sessions will follow and signs off.

## Instructions to moderators: block haters, not provocative questions
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z__38zt8flq/s/1/
Date: 2020-04-07 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:19)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth asks moderators to block only haters and trolls, since anyone may ask him anything about Islam.

## Plans for a live Q&A, contact details and sign-off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/sgwylug7xu0/s/2/
Date: 2019-02-28 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Why Do Muslims have Trouble with Romance? -Mufti Abu Layth (4:59–9:04)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth announces a possible live Q&A in two weeks, asks viewers to contact him through Facebook Messenger and signs off.

## Closing: removing the cobwebs of folklore, and sign-off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yy74xfro_e4/s/6/
Date: 2019-01-14 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who Was Khidr (a.s.)? -Mufti Abu Layth (29:07–30:39)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off: Muslims should be confident in their faith and clear away folklore and superstition.

## Sign-off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/15/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (1:26:21–1:26:50)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth signs off, wishing the audience a good night and telling Yasir Qadhi not to take his words to heart.

## Sign-off and where to follow the page
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/x6sffyrljey/s/17/
Date: 2018-08-30 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: BukhariGate Part 1: Sahih Bukhari is NOT so Sahih -Mufti Abu Layth (1:48:34–1:49:06)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth signs off, invites viewers to like the page and subscribe to the YouTube channel, and says goodbye until the following week.

## Opening: unwell but live, Facebook sharing and greetings
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/1/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (0:03–3:54)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping and greetings before the talk; a question about riba is referred to an earlier YouTube clip.

## Close: miracles and reason to come, follow the pages, closing prayer
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/41/
Date: 2018-03-13 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (2:31:10–2:34:25)
Topics: Prophethood and miracles
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Sign-off with a preview of talks on miracles and on the meaning of reason, an invitation to follow his pages, and a closing prayer.

## Opening: a response to a question on the age of Aisha
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/1/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:18)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A lecture answering a question about Aisha's age at her marriage, opening with excerpts of its main points.

## Jokes about Rushdie's hairline and a mock hair-transplant offer
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/10/
Date: 2022-08-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth (52:44–55:22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth jokes about Rushdie's hairline and offers a mock hair transplant, repeating in passing that the attacker only gave Rushdie the limelight.

## Statement on the break-in at Mufti Abu Layth's home
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t9ei_hrzl84/s/1/
Date: 2021-05-18 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: They Invaded My Home (0:08–1:29)
Status: latest answer on its topic
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth describes masked men breaking into his home and terrifying his family, and asks whether this is the character Islam teaches.

## Response to accusations over Palestine remarks and claims he is not Muslim
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t9ei_hrzl84/s/2/
Date: 2021-05-18 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: They Invaded My Home (1:29–9:07)
Topics: Current events commentary; The Mufti and the channel; Sects, sectarianism and takfir
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he has always supported Palestine and only argued for safe passage for its people, that 'exile' was a slip of the tongue, and that those calling him a non-Muslim and invading his home are not following Islam.

## Responding to viewers' love: a grown-up child, and haters as a measure of impact
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/4/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (14:53–21:27)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he does not feel he deserves viewers' praise and reads his critics' obsession as a sign that they feel threatened by his ideas.

## Reading supporters' messages: ease of deen, the Bukhari series, apostasy
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/6/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (24:08–29:29)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Supporters' messages thank Mufti Abu Layth for making the deen easy and for his work on Bukhari, the age of Aisha and apostasy.

## Humour as a natural gift
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/8/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (32:07–33:26)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says humour comes naturally and cannot be faked, and that he asks serious interlocutors to excuse his.

## More messages: a middle path between Salafism and Quranism, and 'God is not dumb'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/20/
Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:14:11–1:18:09)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Supporters' messages describe finding a middle path between Salafism and Quranism and using the intellect in faith, and Mufti Abu Layth responds.

## News clip: the Pharaohs' Golden Parade in Cairo, and the Amenhotep III theory
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/2/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (8:14–12:37)
Topics: The ancient Near East and scripture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A news clip on the Pharaohs' Golden Parade in Cairo, with Mufti Abu Layth recalling his discussion of whether Amenhotep III may have been Sulayman.

## An Urdu poem of living on after the beloved
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/3/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (12:37–19:36)
Status: latest answer on its topic
Topics: Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads and explains an Urdu poem on living on after the beloved, a mix of despair and hope.

## Jealousy, entitlement and the critics who resent his following
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/7/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (36:02–42:30)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says much of the hostility he receives comes from jealousy and a sense of entitlement among critics who resent his following.

## Perfume reviews: his top two fragrances
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/8/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (42:30–49:54)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reviews perfumes and names Creed Aventus and Layton as his joint favourites.

## Quick chat items: critics seeking attention, a claim about Foucault, steroids and a joke question
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/15/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:31:12–1:34:16)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Brief replies to chat: attention-seeking critics, a claim about Foucault he cannot comment on, steroids referred to earlier videos, and a joke question.

## A critic's reaction video: the Wahhabi jibe and the setup
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/30/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:06:48–3:10:56)
Topics: Responses to critics; Salafism and Wahhabism
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth introduces a critic's reaction video that he says distorts his views, and trades jokes about the label Wahhabi.

## Donors, deathbed remarks and 'no hatred': an invitation to the critic
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/38/
Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:45:06–3:52:50)
Topics: Responses to critics; Anger and forgiveness
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he dislikes his critics' conduct but has no hatred for them, and invites the critic to a dialogue on MindTrap.

## Opening: Qadhi's post on the drama of refutations and tonight's plan
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/1/
Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (0:03–2:46)
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Yasir Qadhi has complained about refutations; Mufti Abu Layth says ideas, not people, are being refuted and that tonight's session will reply to Qadhi's video on the second coming of Jesus.

## Qadhi's post on the 'drama of refutations', and tonight's reply
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/13/
Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:03:51–1:06:29)
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says Yasir Qadhi, who complained of the drama of refutations, cannot change the rules after his clips on the second coming of Jesus, and introduces his reply.

## An Urdu poem: if anyone asks who I am, say nobody special
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/4/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (11:06–14:11)
Topics: Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads and briefly explains an Urdu poem about being nobody special and about a companion whose absence empties life.

## Chat remarks: an unclear music question and a jibe about his earring
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/11/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (37:10–39:54)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth skips a music question he cannot make sense of and laughs off a jibe that his earring and necklace make him look like a woman.

## Chat banter: jinn-obsessed people, a 'space gun' and Harun Yahya's sentence
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/40/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:20:01–2:23:08)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Light banter with the chat, including a joke about people obsessed with jinn and the remark that he would have liked Harun Yahya on MindTrap before his long prison sentence.

## A missed Jeffrey Lang question, Melchert's book, and a joke about 'protection'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/44/
Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:28:46–2:30:31)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he will look into Christopher Melchert's book on the formation of the Sunni schools of law, and jokes about an earlier question.

## Perfume reviews, a joke question and the Dogecoin rally
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/2/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (7:40–20:02)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rates perfumes, with Tiziana Terenzi as the house that has impressed him most, and notes the crypto bull run with a word of caution.

## A sung Andalusian Arabic poem shared from YouTube
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/3/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (20:02–23:50)
Topics: Arabic poetry and men of letters
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays a sung classical Arabic poem and calls it majestic.

## Yasir Qadhi's mugs and Bollywood lines: do his critics watch him?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/8/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (49:37–53:18)
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays a clip of Yasir Qadhi with branded mugs and wonders aloud how closely his critics watch him.

## Debate invitations to Abdul Rahman Hassan and 'Danny boy'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/15/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:12:41–1:22:19)
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth invites Abdul Rahman Hassan to defend Salafi creed and 'Danny boy' to define ijma', saying critics pick on Shabir Ally instead.

## Chat banter about embarrassing names
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/21/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:41:20–1:43:46)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth jokes about names that sound embarrassing in English and says people should change them by deed poll.

## Clips: three critics' videos attacking Shabir Ally
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/33/
Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:48:08–2:59:51)
Topics: Responses to critics; Hudud and punishments
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks videos in which three critics attack Shabir Ally's views, including his view on hudud.

## A modern Arabic love poem: choosing honour over a friend's wife
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/10/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (55:20–1:03:22)
Topics: Arabic poetry and men of letters; Love and romance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads an Arabic love poem in which the poet turns down his friend's wife, preferring honour to betrayal.

## Damascus, 1998: the two people who inspired Mufti Abu Layth to memorise the Quran
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/12/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:07:17–1:17:17)
Status: latest answer on its topic
Topics: Memorisation and recitation; Personal stories and reflections
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Kidnapped in Cairo: Mufti Abu Layth and the Egyptian police
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/17/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:32:28–1:48:21)
Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/13/
Topics: Personal stories and reflections
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recounts being kidnapped in Cairo and the farcical police inquiry that followed.

## Clip: a raven mimicking human speech
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/20/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:10:08–2:14:58)
Topics: Science, the universe and big questions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth shows a raven mimicking speech and says crows and ravens are equally intelligent corvids.

## Chat interlude: short sellers buying back, new moderators and Shaykh Atabek on Mind Trap
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/23/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:36:33–2:45:28)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Chat interlude: Mufti Abu Layth appoints new moderators and recommends his Mind Trap with Shaykh Atabek.

## Why names intrigue Mufti Abu Layth: a name that sounds rude in Urdu
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ijwbevcc6o8/s/24/
Date: 2021-02-02 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #200| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:45:28–2:48:29)
Topics: Language and semiotics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth jokes about a name that sounds rude in Urdu and says he finds names intriguing.

## A clip on parent titles for LGBTQIA+ families, and gender-neutral language
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/2/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (7:07–11:03)
Topics: Sexuality and orientation; Islam and modernity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays and reacts to a clip on alternative parent titles in LGBTQIA+ families and comments on gender-neutral language, saying people forget humans are part of nature.

## Perfumes, quick chat replies and gym injuries
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/4/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (16:21–18:58)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth chats about perfumes, jokes about a chat question and describes injuring himself exercising at home after Covid.

## An invitation to Sunni Defence, bad blood with Farid, and interrupting in debates
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/21/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:37:45–1:44:17)
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth invites a presenter of Sunni Defence to discuss BukhariGate on MindTrap, describes the bad blood with Farid, and defends occasional interruptions in debate.

## Quick chat: Mufti Abu Layth's height and diet
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/22/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:44:17–1:45:37)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth answers chat questions about his height and diet.

## The snowman fatwas: building a snowman as an idol, or permitted by the dolls hadith
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/23/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:45:37–1:52:26)
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Tawhid and shirk
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Quick chat: LSD, paratha and nihari, and jinn as microbes
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/29/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:25:08–2:27:45)
Topics: Jinn, angels and the devil; Psychedelics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In quick chat replies he refers to his video on psychedelics, jokes about food, and says reading jinn as microbes is one interpretation, held by Rashid Rida.

## Quick chat: Mufti Abu Layth's taste in music
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/30/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:27:45–2:30:22)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth answers a chat question about the music he listens to.

## Dawah Man on intimacy positions, citing Ibn al-Qayyim, played and mocked
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/35/
Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:59:20–3:05:53)
Topics: Intimacy in marriage; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks a preacher's advice, attributed to Ibn al-Qayyim, against the woman-on-top position as encouraging femininity in men.

## A classical Arabic love poem on how the prophets' attributes are shared out
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/2/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (7:57–11:43)
Topics: Arabic poetry and men of letters
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recites a classical Arabic love poem in which the beloved gets the prophets' beauty and the poet their sorrows.

## Clip: Matt Hancock pressed on voting against free school meals
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/4/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (15:09–18:19)
Topics: Britain; Covid-19
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A clip of Matt Hancock pressed on voting against free school meals, which Mufti Abu Layth calls the unconscionable neglect of this government.

## Under the microscope: a text on the fast breaking through a 'direct channel'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/10/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (34:42–37:12)
Topics: What breaks the fast
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth mocks a fiqh text saying the fast breaks when a substance reaches the stomach or brain through a 'direct channel'.

## People are cruel: complaints used to try to stop a retreat he spoke at
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/25/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:44:04–1:49:09)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Personal stories and reflections
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recounts how a self-styled journalist tried to get a 2016 retreat he spoke at cancelled by complaining to the venue and the police.

## 'Danny Boy's' Telegram post calling female academics 'snarling witches'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/26/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:49:09–1:56:13)
Topics: Responses to critics; Women in Islam; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth mocks a commentator's post calling female Islamic Studies academics 'snarling witches', and says men who block women's education are insecure.

## Reaction to a niqabi's clip using driving as a metaphor for sex
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/39/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:07:46–3:09:50)
Topics: Intimacy in marriage
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A clip of a woman in niqab using a driving metaphor for intimacy, in which Mufti Abu Layth sees nothing wrong.

## A risque proverb from al-Andalus: 'the nerves are connected'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/40/
Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:09:50–3:12:21)
Topics: Al-Andalus and the Maghrib; Arabic poetry and men of letters
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A bawdy Andalusian proverb, 'the nerves are connected', shared by Mufti Abu Layth as a joke.

## The storming of the US Capitol and Trump's 'go home, we love you' video
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/2/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (7:56–13:29)
Topics: Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Clips of the Capitol riot and Trump's 'go home, we love you' video, with Mufti Abu Layth's mocking commentary.

## Chat round: Trump's Twitter ban, Surah Ya Sin in the morning, and banter
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/5/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (25:46–30:07)
Topics: Blasphemy, insult and free speech; Memorisation and recitation
Cites: Surah Ya Sin (https://quran.com/36)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Light chat: he is unsure how he feels about Trump's Twitter ban and says reciting Ya Sin each morning is not a sunnah.

## Super chats read out: bitcoin, an escort question, prophethood and the story of Lut
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/14/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (59:36–1:03:06)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Housekeeping: super chats are read out, with the questions on prophethood and on the story of Lut kept for later.

## Poetry: a ghazal on love, beauty and patience
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/15/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:03:06–1:06:52)
Topics: Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A poetry interlude: he reads and explains a poem about love, beauty and patience.

## Staying positive: the 'Super Mario effect' and Pogba's advice
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/22/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:28:13–1:30:41)
Topics: Goals, habits and willpower
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): An interlude on positivity: learning as a game and a footballer's advice on gratitude and goals.

## Mind Trap guest suggestions and the 'blacklisting' mentality
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/34/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:22:25–2:29:34)
Topics: Guest conversations; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Guest suggestions for Mind Trap; he says his only criteria are that guests be interesting and interested, and he criticises the blacklisting culture.

## Two to three months in prison: learning, poetry and the humanity of inmates
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/36/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:38:30–2:48:51)
Topics: Personal stories and reflections
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A personal story: prison was bearable, even fruitful, and he found a humane side in feared inmates.

## A preacher's 'discoveries': Gog and Magog in Kyrgyzstan and Noah's ark at al-Judi
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/42/
Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:02:00–3:11:21)
Topics: Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Stories of the prophets
Cites: Quran 11:44 (the ark came to rest on al-Judi) (https://quran.com/11/44)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mockery of a preacher's claims to have located Gog and Magog in Kyrgyzstan and Noah's ark in Turkey.

## Rumours that Mufti Abu Layth is behind a social media preacher
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lnoaqllkvno/s/1/
Date: 2021-01-08 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who's behind Bro Hajji's account? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–3:02)
Topics: Social media; The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth dismisses as a crazy conspiracy theory the claim that he, Yasir Qadhi or Mohammed Hijab is behind a social media preacher he likes.

## Dawah Man on pigs, wife-sharing and handshakes, played and mocked
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/14/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:00:54–1:07:11)
Topics: Interaction between men and women; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks Dawah Man's claims about pigs and handshakes, and says shaking hands is not haram.

## A preacher's video on masturbation: would you do it in front of your parents?
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/31/
Date: 2021-01-05 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:18:13–2:21:42)
Topics: Sexual ethics; Religious guilt and scrupulosity
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks a preacher's anti-masturbation video built on the question of whether you would do it in front of your parents.

## Reaction to the clip: Qadhi joins Zakir Naik in calling it not haram, with jokes about 'the nobility'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/yzrvpdckjxq/s/2/
Date: 2021-01-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Yasir Qadhi on Masturbation | Mufti Abu Layth (4:00–6:38)
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Sexual ethics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth notes that Yasir Qadhi, like Zakir Naik before him, now says masturbation is not haram but merely not a noble deed, and jokes about left-handers and 'the nobility'.

## The clip: Omar Suleiman on jinn possession, the riba verse and disobedience
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/2/
Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (2:41–6:34)
Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
Topics: Jinn possession; Views on contemporary scholars
Cites: Quran 2:275 (those who consume riba stand as one struck by Satan) (https://quran.com/2/275)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): In the clip Omar Suleiman says jinn possession is real and affirmed by the riba verse, that most imams have seen supernatural cases, and that disobedience, especially leaving prayer and riba, removes Allah's protection and invites possession.

## Mufti Abu Layth challenges Shadee Elmasry to debate Maliki fiqh
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/s9jka9zji28/s/1/
Date: 2020-11-12 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Debate challenge to Shadee Elmasry on Maliki Fiqh | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:32)
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; The Maliki school
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says his critics do not know Maliki fiqh and challenges them to debate him on any Maliki topic.

## Light-hearted replies to viewers about what to boycott
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/anlfdeeoh5y/s/5/
Date: 2020-10-29 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Cartoons of The Prophet & Boycotting France | Mufti Abu Layth (13:38–15:15)
Topics: Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Jokes about what to boycott; Mufti Abu Layth doubts Mohammed Hijab would come on to debate.

## Mufti Abu Layth's sixth-form story: walking out and landing a college place by mistake
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/5/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (33:47–42:58)
Topics: Personal stories and reflections; Tawakkul and trust in God
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth tells how walking out of sixth form with a friend led, by a case of mistaken identity, to a place on a business course the same day.

## Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: answering critics, soft drinks and Syrian rue
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/7/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (46:55–50:22)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Intoxicants and substances
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says he only answers persistent public critics, that non-alcoholic drinks are halal, and that he has not read the reports on Syrian rue.

## Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: Sunni and Maliki, beards and quick answers
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/10/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:10:06–1:12:12)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Beard, moustache and hair
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Quick answers: Mufti Abu Layth says he is Sunni and Maliki, and that the din is not in the beard.

## Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: Birmingham over London and channel housekeeping
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/26/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:46:42–2:49:56)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel; Personal stories and reflections
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth picks Birmingham over London and handles housekeeping in the chat.

## Mufti Abu Layth mocks a critic's clip on intimacy and slit bedsheets
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/32/
Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:11:27–3:16:06)
Topics: Responses to critics; Intimacy in marriage
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth ridicules a critic's story that intimacy was once seen as so foul that couples used slit bedsheets.

## Mir Taqi Mir's death anniversary: Mufti Abu Layth reads his Urdu poetry
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/2/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (8:51–24:54)
Topics: Urdu poetry; Free will and destiny
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth marks Mir Taqi Mir's death anniversary by translating his Urdu verses and calls him one of the few poets he would give the crown to.

## Mufti Abu Layth rates Dawah Man's video marketing
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/23/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:21:50–2:25:06)
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rates Dawah Man's marketing and production as clever, while saying his religion is skewed.

## Clip: a Dawah Man and Daniel Haqiqatjou interview that calls Omar Suleiman a fasiq
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/24/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:25:06–2:27:01)
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Tawhid and shirk
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Clip: Daniel Haqiqatjou's video on the libation ritual
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/26/
Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:33:51–2:39:01)
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Tawhid and shirk
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Soul mates and twin flames: a question laughed off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/8/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (26:56–28:39)
Topics: Love and romance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth jokes that he is too old to know about twin flames and does not answer the question.

## Chat asides: an edited comedy appearance and a podcast invitation
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/14/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (48:47–49:56)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Chat asides about an edited guest appearance and a suggested podcast guest.

## Music interlude and a remark on poets
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/21/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:22:56–1:27:21)
Status: latest answer on its topic
Topics: Poetry, quotes and the mind
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A music interlude, followed by a remark that poets keep compassion and free thought alive in the Muslim world.

## A misspelt comment read as a question about the saxophone
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/32/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:20:36–2:22:34)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A joke about a viewer's misspelt comment.

## The critic he nicknames Gangu Teli and his Twitter meltdown
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/36/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:35:13–2:39:40)
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth's account of a critic's Twitter attacks on him and of who the critic is.

## An offer to discuss Sahih al-Bukhari live, and a demand for a moderated debate
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/37/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:39:40–2:47:19)
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews; Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recounts inviting the critic to a live discussion on Sahih al-Bukhari, which the critic declined in favour of a moderated debate.

## 'How I destroyed his career': mocking the critic's response video
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/38/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:47:19–2:54:57)
Topics: Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth mocks a critic's video claiming to have destroyed his career.

## A closing clip of advice against riding three on a motorbike
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/39/
Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:54:57–2:57:12)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A humorous closing clip about riding three to a motorbike.

## Introduction: the Quran-preservation debacle and a leaked 2016 email
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/s/1/
Date: 2020-08-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Farid Gangu Teli leaking Yasir Qadhi's emails | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:34)
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth introduces a commentary on who leaked a private 2016 email of Yasir Qadhi on the Quran's preservation, an episode he calls a cataclysmic debacle.

## Who leaked the emails: the missing link revealed
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/s/2/
Date: 2020-08-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Farid Gangu Teli leaking Yasir Qadhi's emails | Mufti Abu Layth (2:34–5:11)
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Preservation and variant readings
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): After years of uncertainty over who leaked Yasir Qadhi's email, Mufti Abu Layth says it has transpired that Farid was behind the leak.

## Ismail Patel's published exchange: the apology and the 'academic' consulted
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/s/3/
Date: 2020-08-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Farid Gangu Teli leaking Yasir Qadhi's emails | Mufti Abu Layth (5:11–8:46)
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Ismail Patel published his email exchange with Farid, in which Farid apologises for the leak and says he had consulted Abdul Rahman Hassan as an academic.

## Opening poetry: a clip from a female poet, and Eid greetings
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/2/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (4:56–8:10)
Topics: Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth plays a clip from a female poet he admires and wishes viewers a belated Eid Mubarak.

## Chat replies, Urdu couplets from an anthology and a backlog of Eid messages
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/7/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (26:44–36:32)
Topics: Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads Urdu couplets from an anthology and answers chat between questions.

## Mocking a reported fatwa permitting a kiss without lust, and chat banter
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/9/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (41:19–45:55)
Topics: Interaction between men and women
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth jokes about a reported fatwa allowing a kiss without lust and replies to chat banter.

## Back at the gym, Quran preservation, a Salafi joke and a clip
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/11/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (47:45–51:41)
Status: latest answer on its topic
Topics: Health and the body
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Light interlude: Mufti Abu Layth is back at the gym, points to his earlier answer on Quran preservation and plays a clip.

## A dream of Ibn Abd al-Barr dressed like a professor
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/14/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:10:54–1:14:42)
Topics: Dreams and visions
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recounts a vivid dream of meeting Ibn Abd al-Barr, who looked like a professor.

## A Birmingham mosque, meeting Mufti, and the new Patreon
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/18/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:27:28–1:30:19)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth speaks well of a Birmingham mosque, explains how to meet him and announces his Patreon.

## A viral picture of 'Aisha's sewing machine'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/20/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (1:33:13–1:36:23)
Topics: Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth debunks a viral image claiming to show Aisha's sewing machine and urges Muslims to use common sense.

## Masala segment: mockery over who leaked Yasir Qadhi's 2016 emails
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/29/
Date: 2020-08-04 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 (2:26:34–2:38:23)
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A comic segment in which Mufti Abu Layth mocks those he presents as behind the leak of Yasir Qadhi's 2016 emails.

## The week's chatter: a podcast plug, Kanye West for president and a viral video
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/2/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (9:53–17:03)
Topics: Current events commentary
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Light chatter about the week's news and viral videos before the questions begin.

## An Urdu poem by Ahmad Faraz: the enemy of my life was once dearer than life
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/34/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (1:58:38–2:01:41)
Topics: Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads and translates an Urdu ghazal by Ahmad Faraz on a lost love who was once dearer than life.

## Arabic poetry: Antara ibn Shaddad's love for Abla
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/35/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (2:01:41–2:08:00)
Topics: Arabic poetry and men of letters; Pre-Islamic Arabia; Love stories from history
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reads and translates love poetry by Antara ibn Shaddad for Abla, including his lines of pride in his dark skin and his courage.

## A viral clip of a preacher who rarely leaves home because of women
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/a6h5lye4mn8/s/41/
Date: 2020-07-14 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 (2:27:15–2:32:34)
Topics: Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth shows a viral clip of a preacher who says he avoids going out because of women, calls him sincere in his way, and jokes about the clip.

## The letter's attack on Shaykh Akram Nadwi, and a played debate clip: 'one, two, three, kufr'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mlnpcjxypqm/s/3/
Date: 2020-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: People Attacking Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi | Mufti Abu Layth (7:51–11:31)
Topics: Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Debate challenges and reviews
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The letter also demanded that Shaykh Akram Nadwi be called a deviant. Mufti Abu Layth plays a debate clip of one signatory repeatedly counting 'one, two, three' and pronouncing kufr, which he holds up as absurd bullying.

## Introduction: a map of Qadian and another Qadiani video
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/s/1/
Date: 2020-03-31 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–1:21)
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth opens by locating Qadian on a map and announces that he will respond to another Qadiani video made against him.

## The caller from Canada: trolling, the word Qadiani, and pictures of Mirza
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/s/3/
Date: 2020-03-31 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (4:01–9:16)
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Dawah and debate culture
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth recounts telling a caller that the trolling did not suit him and asking whether he believed Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a prophet, then mocks pictures of Mirza on screen.

## Mirza's death from cholera, closing jokes and sign-off
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/s/6/
Date: 2020-03-31 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (21:10–24:08)
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth closes with Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's death from cholera, more jokes about his appearance, and a sign-off.

## A visit to the Al-Mahdi Institute symposium on Fadak
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/1/
Date: 2020-02-28 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Fadak between Fatima (r) & Abu Bakr (r) Detailed Overview | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:33)
Topics: Sunni-Shia dialogue
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth describes attending a Sunni-Shia symposium on Fadak at the Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham and calls for more collaboration.

## Reaction to Daniel Haqiqatjou's post about Mufti Menk writing 'Almighty' instead of 'Allah'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iqvd5_ag6de/s/1/
Date: 2020-01-17 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Daniel Haqiqatjou on Mufti Menk | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:05)
Topics: Views on contemporary scholars; Social media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth mocks Daniel Haqiqatjou's complaint that Mufti Menk tweets 'Almighty' rather than 'Allah' as petty, says Haqiqatjou is not trained in the Sharia, and says he is driven by hostility to the left rather than scholarship.

## Moving to Yasir Qadhi, by way of an Urdu couplet on Moses at Sinai
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/1/
Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–2:34)
Topics: Urdu poetry
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Before turning to Yasir Qadhi Mufti Abu Layth recites Urdu verses on Moses at Sinai and on passion carrying one to one's destiny.

## 5Pillars' coverage of Mufti Abu Layth and its article claiming he denies the afterlife
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Don't let people bully you into beliefs | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:38)
Topics: Responses to critics; Technology and media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth reacts to a 5Pillars article claiming he does not believe in the afterlife, which drew on a clip of him calling the Quran's afterlife imagery symbolic. He says no press is bad press and that he has addressed the issue in many videos.

## Closing: build bridges, talk to everyone, and an invitation to Daniel Haqiqatjou
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/5/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Don't let people bully you into beliefs | Mufti Abu Layth (18:17–19:17)
Topics: Dawah and debate culture; Apostasy and blasphemy
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Talk to everyone, including ex-Muslims, and hold dialogue where ideas differ. Mufti Abu Layth has invited Daniel Haqiqatjou to a dialogue on apostasy.

## Opening: al-Yaqoubi's heated public remarks about Mufti Abu Layth, and the title 'His Eminence'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/otqqc3k4hwa/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-21 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth (0:00–2:35)
Topics: Responses to critics; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Al-Yaqoubi criticised Mufti Abu Layth in a public gathering for mocking al-Nawawi, for his remarks on homosexuality and for calling himself a mufti; Mufti says he was surprised and partly flattered, and teases the title 'His Eminence'.

## Introducing the controversy over a famous Instagram 'couple goals' pair
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ypfqphdsbgg/s/1/
Date: 2019-08-01 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Umm Abdullah & Hasanat Scandal | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–4:26)
Topics: Social media; Cults, clergy and religious abuse
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth introduces the social media controversy around a famous Muslim Instagram couple accused of living double lives.

## Banter with the chat after the al-Suyuti answer
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/noe0z72gubs/s/2/
Date: 2019-07-18 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My thoughts on Imam Suyuti's book on sex | Mufti Abu Layth (2:32–4:34)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Light-hearted banter with viewers after the al-Suyuti answer, with no ruling given.

## Backdrop: trolling by Ahmadis and the video that prompted the reply
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/decxag9d9g8/s/1/
Date: 2019-01-15 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–6:33)
Topics: Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Technology and media
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): The reply was prompted by an Ahmadi video claiming Mufti Abu Layth borrowed his views from them, followed by days of online trolling. Mufti says he opposes persecution of Ahmadis but will respond.

## Introduction: Yasir Qadhi's khutbah on orthodoxy and why he is replying
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7cylt19gx5k/s/1/
Date: 2018-10-20 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:53)
Topics: Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth introduces Yasir Qadhi's khutbah 'The Importance of Orthodoxy in Islam', which he believes was aimed at him, and says he will reply to its three points despite warnings of repercussions, while affirming his respect for Qadhi.

## An imam faking his tarawih recitation: a memory from Mufti Abu Layth's hifz days
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fntmxwadpac/s/1/
Date: 2018-08-31 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Memoirs of a Mufti: Deceitful Imams Disrespecting Islam -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–13:18)
Topics: Personal stories and reflections; Memorisation and recitation
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): 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.

## Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earth
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/1/
Date: 2018-05-29 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:01–3:55)
Topics: Responses to critics; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says a scholar who accused him of misquoting Ibn Ashur accepted, after a civil discussion, that he had not, even while still disagreeing.

## Calling it a misquotation is poor scholarship
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/7/
Date: 2018-05-29 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (19:25–21:38)
Topics: Responses to critics; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth says the misquotation charge reflects weak Arabic or a fixed mindset, and that scholars he consulted confirmed his reading of Ibn Ashur.

## Introduction: reflections on Shaykh Hassan Ali's video, and respect for him
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmsmkldegso/s/1/
Date: 2018-04-01 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reflections on Sh. Hassan Ali's video of Jesus Christ's 2nd coming - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–1:19)
Topics: Responses to critics; The second coming of Jesus
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth introduces his reply to Shaykh Hassan Ali's video on the second coming of Jesus and affirms his respect for him despite earlier disagreements such as on jinn possession.

## Reaction to being called a probable kafir by Shadee Elmasry and others
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/icr0sv2urcu/s/1/
Date: 2018-03-15 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Shadee Elmasry - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–2:36)
Topics: Responses to critics; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Views on contemporary scholars
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth rejects being called a probable kafir and apostate by Shadee Elmasry and others, says no pressure can remove him from Islam, and calls the readiness to throw people out of Islam a god complex.

## Rapid-round replies: steroids, state control and prenuptial agreements
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zs1rln2djss/s/6/
Date: 2018-03-05 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Zina, Marriage and Relationships - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (22:06–24:00)
Topics: The marriage contract; Intoxicants and substances; Public law and governance
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Steroids are a matter of legality rather than theology, prenuptial agreements are not legally binding in the UK, and Mufti Abu Layth says he is against state control and favours a hands-off approach to governing.

## Reactions to his Safiyya narrative, and the parable of the wife who is never pleased
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bc8qsiofawe/s/1/
Date: 2018-02-28 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:01–2:28)
Topics: The wives of the Prophet
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth notes that his account of Safiyya was mostly well received, but some critics still found fault, which he illustrates with the story of a wife who cannot be pleased.

## Introduction: the Sunni Defence live session and its charge of an 'attack on the Sunnah'
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/1/
Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:54)
Topics: Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth introduces a live-streamed refutation of his video on the crying-tree report, titled an 'attack on the Sunnah', and says he will respond after giving the backdrop.

## Introduction: the critic's video and the charges it makes
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/r7s1dcclcwu/s/1/
Date: 2018-01-02 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Abu Ibraheem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (0:00–3:56)
Topics: Responses to critics
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth sets out who the critic is and the critic's charges against him before replying to them point by point.

## Opening: riba as a complex, over-claimed and symbolic subject
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/1/
Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:04)
Topics: Riba, mortgages and loans
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Riba is a complex but over-claimed subject that has become symbolic in Islam. Mufti Abu Layth asks viewers to bear with a detailed explanation.

## Mufti Abu Layth's credentials and course of study
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/0ovisexs4ca/s/2/
Date: 2017-01-11 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Age of Aisha (ra)- Mufti Abu Layth (1:18–7:50)
Topics: Education, madrasas and seminaries
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): Mufti Abu Layth studied in Damascus and Pakistan, completed the full Islamic sciences course with hadith and ifta authorisations, and holds degrees in psychology and education.

## Opening reflection on everyday miracles and an introduction of Mufti Abu Layth
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/1/
Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (0:01–3:57)
Topics: The Mufti and the channel
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): An introducer reflects on everyday life as a miracle and introduces Mufti Abu Layth's studies in Damascus, Islamabad and Karachi.

## A last point on praying behind an imam, and farewell
URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hcscudhd8bu/s/7/
Date: 2014-05-09 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Mufti Abu Layth & Ustadh AbdusShakur Brooks: A discussion on Maliki Fiqh (38:20–39:43)
Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked): A brief last point on praying behind a sinful imam, then the conversation ends for a radio show.