Funny Fatwa: Football is more haram the gambling & alcohol | Mufti Abu Layth
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machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossaryRight. This was an interesting post I'd seen. Uh believe it or not people, [laughter] this beautiful brother that you can see there. The beautiful uh is she zab uh alhamdi. All right. You're doing it right. who says in his fatwa 600page uh book called uh on football he says I have no doubt I may have doubt in this reality I may have doubt
slight extent is this a simulation I may have a 1% doubt is this a dream I may have doubt on my senses did I really see that was that an optical illusion did I hear something or Did I imagine it? But I have no doubt, not even a blink of an eye, that football is more haram and harmful than alcohol and gambling, which are prohibited by consensus of the scholars.
PEOPLE, [laughter] [gasps] I mean, I'm not making that up, people. [laughter] That is actually what she zeb [laughter] the viab.
What's his name? [laughter] Let's let's go back to his name. What is it? It is uh sheh zab. There it is. Zab which it should have been zubab [laughter] which means the fly you know a little fly called zubab. It's zab. [laughter] [gasps] I have no doubt not even a blink of an eye that this is more haram than all of those things.
gambling, alcohol, every you name it. More haram than that is football. Now, I'm not even into football, but I have to say that is the most ridiculous fatwa [laughter] that I've come across in recent times. So, people, where where have we got to? Was that a naked mulvi? Yep. Let's That was not a a mulvi.
That was our Where's he gone? All right, people. Celebrating our 20k subscribers. [music] Put
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, December 16). Funny Fatwa: Football is more haram the gambling & alcohol | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2envv2nuehw/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Funny Fatwa: Football is more haram the gambling & alcohol | Mufti Abu Layth." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded December 16, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2envv2nuehw/
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@misc{abulayth-2EnVV2NUehw, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Funny Fatwa: Football is more haram the gambling \& alcohol | Mufti Abu Layth}}, year = {2020}, month = {12}, date = {2020-12-16}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2envv2nuehw/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2envv2nuehw/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }