Recordings › Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth · 29 Sep 2017 › Segment 1 of 13
What happened with Nouman Ali Khan and Mahira Khan online?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenTwo 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.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the first thing to discuss is the elephant in the room, an event that almost broke the internet, and that two incidents of a similar nature but worlds apart happened at the same time and both concern how Muslims respond. The main one involves Nouman Ali Khan, whom he describes as an inspirational figure and the leading authority on the Quran in the English-speaking world today, and the propaganda and attempts to take him down in the past few days. The parallel case he has been asked about is the Pakistani actress Mahira Khan, who faced a huge campaign after being seen smoking a cigarette with a Bollywood actor in a partially revealing dress. He says the reaction and attitude of Muslims in the two cases is very similar, which is why he wants to comment, and asks viewers to share the stream and post questions.
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I think what's first and foremost the elephant in the room we have to discuss what's been going on this whole fiasco this whole this tsunami event that almost broke the internet right so there's two key things that are similar in nature but different massively different worlds apart but they kind of took place at a similar time and they're to do with a Muslim attitude in terms of responding the key
one I'd like to focus on but also will kind of like to draw our attention as well the similarity to the other parallel event as well the key one involves a an amazing inspirational figure a personality and a star a scholar of the Quran leaving the most leading authority in the english-speaking world on the Quran today as far as Jen as far as people out the in terms of on social media or available I don't know if people are hidden away and they may possess
infinite knowledge on certain topics but generally is austere nominally hon okay and this whole kind of propaganda and these attempts to take him down that have taken place this in in these past few days we had a similar kind of reaction to although of a different nature to a Muslim actress as well that I've been asked about called mahira Khan and she is an actress from from Pakistan and Bollywood and a similar in a similar
way they'd been a huge campaign to take her down because she was seen also smoking a cigarette with a bollywood actor wearing a kind of low I don't know like a dress some kind of like partially revealing dress so although these two in are worlds apart they happen more or less around the same kind of time I mean these kind of things and the reaction and attitude from the Muslims is very similar so this is why I'd like to comment on this those of you just tuning in if you can like and share the live feed in Charlotte get it out there let
other people benefit and post your questions below and I'll get to them first of all I want to say Zhi Shan is in the house our North Island Zhi Shan animal sermon right so I'd like to say that the way this incident has been regarding no Manav Sadhna mana Lacan has been kind of handled is utterly utterly despicable it is antithetical to the entire message of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam okay from the offset I want to clarify
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2017, September 29). What happened with Nouman Ali Khan and Mahira Khan online? [Video, segment 2017-09-29-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/1/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2017. "What happened with Nouman Ali Khan and Mahira Khan online?" Video, segment 2017-09-29-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded September 29, 2017. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/1/
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@misc{abulayth-2017-09-29-S01, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{What happened with Nouman Ali Khan and Mahira Khan online?}}, year = {2017}, month = {9}, date = {2017-09-29}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/1/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/1/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2017-09-29-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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