# Who should I listen to about political ideas in Islam? *Learn Islam before trying to save Muslims; Hamza Yusuf on the caliphate myth* - 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 - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUwTJQAmx0&t=1111s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/ **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) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says Abdullah al-Andalusi should at least become a scholar of Islam and learn the Book of God before trying to save the world's Muslims, and tells him to go and establish his caliphate, mocking him and saying his sympathisers include Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He says such people mislead vulnerable young Muslims and advises parents to steer youngsters away from groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir [?], which he calls a cancer. He recommends instead converts who are scholars, such as Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, whose lecture he says calls the caliphate these days a Muslim myth and a fantasy with no obligation. He closes by saying that anyone who speaks about ideas within Islam should at least be a scholar, who can still be wrong but whose views have some substance. ## Sources and names cited - Abdullah al-Andalusi - Hamza Yusuf - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - Hizb ut-Tahrir [?] ## Transcript (machine tier, 18:31–22:53) [17:54] didn't want anything to do with this he went back to birth dad and just started to teach again he wrote his book on a surah v he could have been writing at a rally to let's do jihad others some of the scholars did did he mama Sally no Canizales Ali this is what happens when we get you know illiterate islamically illiterate jhil kind of like converts it will come to islam and they want to teach us islam never read a single surah in their life [18:31] with understanding of the quran this is it they come and they want to start from the pulpit you want to start by establishing the caliphate huh sounds about white are your hashtag white privilege listen this is the thing and this is a 90 coats on Mufti herbal late said about was Ali and oboes Ali said in his book right somebody said please don't call him a jack he's a jar hildo what does he know about I've said to him does he know anything about Islam [19:07] are you even a scholar of Islam look at least be a scholar of Islam dedicate some of your goddamn life to learning the Book of Allah can you can you do that much before you save all of us brown people on this globe which are so dying to do as a savior can you at least take a bit of time to learn what a lie saying in the Quran oh I can't do that god forbid why would I want to learn Arabic why would I want to study the Quran why would I want to [19:41] do this oh why was it hmm I know let's just establish a high-heel of our Khilafah go it okay go establish it if you want to establish it that bad go why don't you go to Portugal vas vas issue a star from Portugal ah you know like oh I'll tell you what go would you want to go [20:20] where your other simple sympathizes like Abu Bakr al-baghdadi and other people are which we do understand go establish a cocoa cocoa establish it once it's established let us know yeah this is why they mislead several young vulnerable Muslims and this is why it's this is why I say to people look if you know people your youngsters and they if they start listening to or getting influenced by hate think groups like Hezbollah did were a cancer honestly just try to steer them away from that kind of nonsense you know sure if you want people who've [21:00] converted then crews scholars who've converted like che comes they use of amazing scholar you know people che comes a Yusuf as a lecture on this by the way go to share comes the use of you to be as a lecture on the Caliphate these days this is just a Muslim myth is a fantasy there is no obligation these are the words of here comes Yousuf that's a true you know somebody who at least dedicated his life to studying Islam right not just a convert face that you know because I've got the right what is it the lack of melanin or what if I have the right to our melanin deprived [21:40] brothers brother they have the right to kind of tell us how to establish the salaah thought so anyway so those are my words to to me Carini Oh hahaha to my beloved ah un besito de la vie so is that okay and in this or no is that no you don't you don't understand that all nothing will stop poppy see little star you like it like that but that's what I'd say look this people [22:19] be weary of these kind of claims I joke and laugh about this but there are many people who've spent lifetimes getting misguided by these kind of people right so I would advise that look 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 they can still be wrong they can still be wrong but at least then they have some substance to what they saying ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 4WUwTJQAmx0/s/5. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/4wuwtjqamx0/s/5/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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