# Why does it matter that the word 'abuse' was used about Nouman Ali Khan? *'Abuse' implies rape; the campaign destroyed a man who made the Quran relevant* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/11/ - Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (32:43–36:37) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=1963s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/ **Topics:** Speech and everyday conduct; Views on contemporary scholars; Social media **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Calling flirtatious messages abuse misuses a word people understand to mean molestation or rape, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, and it was used to destroy a man who made the Quran relevant in English. He calls the campaign coordinated, driven by ulterior motives, and an act of Judas. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth illustrates how words carry connotations: saying someone uses drugs and then explaining that he means taking too much paracetamol and ibuprofen is technically true but not what people understand. In the same way, he says, when people hear abuse they understand molestation and rape, and this word was thrown at someone who dedicated twenty years to producing an unparalleled explanation of the Quran in English and reignited love of the Quran in hundreds of thousands if not millions, making it relevant again in an English-speaking world whose scholars had reduced the Quran to background music and confirmation bias. He says he was taken down within seconds in a coordinated effort, and that although he can be detached from emotions he was hurt watching it. He says ulterior motives were at play, power, hate, envy and money, with certain people funded and pushed to come out, and calls it an act of Judas. He describes memes, swearing and the superimposing of the man's photograph on pornographic sites, and says those who began it are responsible even if they did not do these things themselves, just as Judas could say he never crucified Jesus. ## Sources and names cited - Nouman Ali Khan - the allegations against Nouman Ali Khan (2017) ## Transcript (machine tier, 32:43–36:37) [32:22] there and there are countless examples like this so when people use words like abuse they are dangerous words because they imply the real abuse not just oh you know you may have broken some rules of corporation that's not what people understand it's like if I said to you so-and-so you you know he's his own drugs if he said what's wrong with him I said well he uses drugs and he said no way and I said yeah and then I said oh no by that I mean he takes paracetamol and ibuprofen when he does when he [33:00] really shouldn't he takes too much ibuprofen that's what I meant and it's unhealthy I mean what what did I lie are they not drugs yeah but that's not what people understand roof has a usage when you use words they carry connotations they carry understandings when people say you've abused buddy what is understood is that you have molested over this big molestation there's been rape there's been these are the understandings that people have you throw this around somebody dedicates 20 [33:38] years of his life to produce the most unparalleled explanation of the Quran in English he reignites a love for the Book of Allah in the hearts of thousands sorry hundreds of thousands if not millions because he has you know millions of followers he once again makes the Quran relevant for people the Quran I'd lost relevance in the english-speaking world who the scholars have ignored the Quran which scholars do you know that actually made the Quran [34:16] relevant that taught the Quran they may be irrelevant they its background music the Quran is not even secondary tertiary kind of like sources within Islam it's like oh yeah here's my ruling now I'll just confirm it with this confirmation bias nobody's interested in oh he dedicated his life and made it we've reconnected people and they took him down within seconds within seconds and it was a coordinated effort honestly [34:53] this is what and I am somebody I am somebody who can be slightly detached from emotions I think but I was hurt watching this honestly I was hurt I thought you know wow and what lie I am NOT wrong when I say that they were just ulterior motives that played nothing but power structures power play a grab for power hate and envy money was behind [35:31] this people that were supporting and pushing certain people to come out it was because they you know they they they heavily fund certain thing it's disgusting what was behind the scenes and yet they threw him absolute act of Judas an act of Judas was perpetrated and do you know the amount of things that the amount of means I've seen insulting swearing I start using like actual swear words soup photoshopping his photo superimposing [36:09] his photograph on pornographic sites doing things like this I mean did well like the people who began this are responsible for them and they you know what their excuses well I never did it this is what Judas said about Jesus well I never crucified him the Roman scheme you know I just I just yeah you know I just pointed him out and listen but it's not me that stuck him up on the cross nothing but a Judas that they've done it's despicable from Islamic standards and they justified that we are social justice worries and you know what the ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 6_dmOJl-_bI/s/11. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/11/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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