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How should we approach Aqeedah (Creed) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

aqidah aqida theology aqeeda aqaid malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam imams prayer leader maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis iman imaan eemaan eeman sahabah sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat deen al-din ad-deen ad-din

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good another of what is your opinion honestly that the hawea look I've highlighted before all Crete today is dogma right the Sahaba the Prophet never ever talked Creed like never taught dogma like that I'm not saying I'm not openly criticizing I'm not condemning put it like this I'm not condemning Creed altogether but I'm recognizing Creed is part of an institutionalization process Creed began hundreds of years after the Prophet so in the prophet's time in the Companions time in their

0:38

students time in their students time up until the tobacco survey in in the time the Salif believe it or not one thing they didn't used to teach was Ikeda like read they never used to say we believe in this this this this this and had a long list they did have beliefs but what they believe they never taught like that they taught us the madonna of imam malik is transmitted with over 30,000 mesial on Phil where are his things on on up either you can try to extrapolate but why didn't he teach it because people never used to teach creed like that Creed faith in Allah should just be

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simple as the Prophet taught it what came afterwards is all part of an institutionalization process I recognized there's no I don't think there's too much harm in accepting it in allowing people to teach it and stuff like this it's it's the it's got sincere reasons behind it as well but unquestionably one of the reasons behind it as well is to control people because by listing let's say a hundred and so may 160 beliefs now when you don't believe in one of these i Chuck you out and you no longer are a Muslim or you no longer are this kind of stuff is nonsense and it's

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nothing but institutionalization of the religion right so that's the issue with creed

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, February 13). How should we approach Aqeedah (Creed) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apsuidppis/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "How should we approach Aqeedah (Creed) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded February 13, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apsuidppis/
BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-6APSuiDPPIs,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{How should we approach Aqeedah (Creed) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {2},
  date = {2018-02-13},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apsuidppis/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apsuidppis/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}