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What did Mufti Abu Layth think of Mu'awiya?

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His view of Mu'awiya: a great figure and an astute statesman

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Mufti Abu Layth highly respects Mu'awiya as a great figure and an astute statesman, while acknowledging the Companions' disagreements.

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Asked his thoughts on Mu'awiya, Mufti Abu Layth says he sees him as a great figure in Islam whom he highly respects, while acknowledging the Companions had disagreements. He says he likes Mu'awiya's statesmanship: he was cut out to rule and in forty years in al-Sham faced no uprising. He relates a story of a woman, once a partisan of Ali, who complained of her crops; Mu'awiya gave her provision from the state fund and said Ali would not have, to which she replied that this was because Ali was more just, and Mu'awiya laughed and told his man to give her the crops.

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What are your thoughts on Amir Mu'awiya?

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Mufti Abu Layth says he highly respects Mu'awiya and likes his statesmanship, calling him cut out to rule.

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“some people are cut out to rule and I would feel that Mario was one of those people that was cut out”

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people that support the elite and then they're gonna get more funding and then they can advertise more and do stuff and and we've all watched that you know the Netflix kind of documentary on it which was really scary by the way somebody asked what my thoughts on Amir Maharaja lon I do I see cinema are eroding ron has a great figure in Islam I do highly respect him I understand that he they they had disagreements amongst the Companions I actually kind of like the the statesmanship of mahalia's he was incredibly astute and really knew how

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you know some people are cut out to rule and I would feel that Mario was one of those people that was cut out you know he's cut from that cloth like he knew how to rule and you can't deny that I mean in his 40 years of rulership he never within sham had an uprising against him like that's just amazing isn't it and I quoted the story once where he went past this he was going past this place and this lady was complaining and she's saying oh and she used to be really pro eilean auntie Maria and he said that I've heard your crops or whatever and she said she was complaining that she didn't have the

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crops and things like this and he said so you want me to would you like me to assist you from the state fund to give you some and she said yeah okay and he said okay I'll give you and then he said to her he said you know if if it was ally he wouldn't give you because he would say no you know there's a certain system and I'm not gonna give you and and she says yeah that's because he's more just wow he just laughs you know you gotta love it though he kind of

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laughs and he says to the guy he says give her the crops and I just love that narration like the way I don't know it's it's it's amazing right people

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, February 28). What did Mufti Abu Layth think of Mu'awiya? [Video, segment 2020-02-28-S11, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/11/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{What did Mufti Abu Layth think of Mu'awiya?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {2},
  date = {2020-02-28},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/11/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/11/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-02-28-S11, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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