Can Sikhs & other religions be considered ahlul kitab? | Mufti Abu Layth

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mmm could other monotheists be considered and look it up I think seek believe in the same concept of God as if Nara be yeah I think and and I believe that there were certain scholars that believed that we could consider many people of the Indian subcontinent as advocate herb and I think but it was a man from the Salafi hadith scholars of the 20th century also wrote about that saying that that was his view and I find that definitely very interesting and the Sikhs I would say in many ways are very close I would I could

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see that that would make sense because the Sikhs do believe in Eckankar which is one God and they even the name Allah appears if I correct I believe is it sixty something times in in the Guru Granth Sahib and they have several Muslim Saints in the and Guru Nanak Dev ji sahib was highly influenced by you know muslim thought i mean whether people acknowledge that or not but he was and some of his close friends were you know Madonna was Muslim and another

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people were Muslim so and he was from what I'm aware of I believe that he could wear as a guru nanak could read persian farsi read arabic i believe he could speak a certain amount of farsi speak I don't know about speak Arabic but maybe he could speak a certain amount but yeah

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, June 6). Can Sikhs & other religions be considered ahlul kitab? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-qlsbj_c8y0/

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@misc{abulayth-QLSBj-c8Y0,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Can Sikhs \& other religions be considered ahlul kitab? | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {6},
  date = {2020-06-06},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-qlsbj_c8y0/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}