# Does Abul Kalam Azad praising Mirza Ghulam Ahmad prove anything? *The video's charges: Abul Kalam Azad's praise of Mirza, tattoos and earrings* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/s/2/ - Date: 2020-03-31 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (1:21–4:01) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EER9UKa1eA&t=81s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/ **Topics:** Ahmadiyya and false messiahs; Responses to critics **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Abul Kalam Azad may well have spoken kindly of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, as people who knew and liked a decent man would. Mufti Abu Layth finds it illogical that the critics accept a prophet who achieved nothing yet call his view that tattoos are not haram absurd. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says Abul Kalam Azad may well have spoken kindly of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, since Mirza may have been a decent person and people who knew and liked him would be expected to say nice things about him. **Evidence, his words at 1:55:** “he may have been a nice guy he may have been a very decent human being so people may have said nice things I expect them to” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EER9UKa1eA&t=115s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth describes the video: it plays a clip from one of his Monday night sessions in which he was asked what Abul Kalam Azad said about Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and whether he said nice things about him. He restates his answer that Azad may well have said this, that Mirza may have been a nice, decent human being, and that people who knew and liked him would be expected to say nice things about him. He says the maker is the same man as before and mocks his blocked nose. He reports that the video calls him a deviant for saying tattoos and earrings are halal, and replies that he does not get the logic of people prepared to believe a prophet who never achieved anything while finding it absurd that he says tattoos are not haram. He then recounts that after the video he began receiving repeated phone calls from Canada, which he first took for a shipping query, until he answered and found a man greeting him with salam. ## Sources and names cited - Abul Kalam Azad - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:21–4:01) [1:16] now in the video they're playing a clip of me saying that I um that I've not misquoted but I'm wrong uh I'm being asked a question in one of my Monday nights about Abul Kalam Azad what did he have to say about Mirza didn't he say some very nice things about him so in it I say that he may have he may have said this but I say look at the end of the day uh you know [1:55] he may have been a nice guy he may have been a very decent human being so people may have said nice things I expect them to people who know him and who like him may say very nice things about him so this person brings this is the same guy I've uh damn I haven't brought his clip here but he is the one who taught right so it's the same guy with the persistent block nose right so along with the intellect the nose is also blocked right so [2:33] he he says well uh look oh Abu kalamazad from India is praising you know this guy muftiability is a deviant look at his Islam tattoos are Halal you know this is halal uh wearing earrings is halal you know I'm sorry I don't get the logic like you know you guys are prepared to believe that Prophet never really achieved anything but you're not and you don't find that absurd but you find me saying oh tattoos are not Haram so [3:12] absurd but anyway what happened is now that he made this video whoever made this video I started to get a lot of uh people started but it's coming from Ontario Canada and I thought hmm okay and then they call again and again and I thought you know what maybe because I'm I'm a proper shopaholic sometimes and I've ordered loads of things and I forget sometimes I order things and I forget about them until they arrive so I thought maybe this you know like a a shipping thing going on a query so they're trying to get into it why would why would somebody [3:50] call me so like several times from Canada otherwise so I answer it and it's some guy saying assalamu alaikum thank you hello hello all right so so now I get this call and this person there's no voice somebody said there's no voice is there no voice ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 7EER9UKa1eA/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7eer9uka1ea/s/2/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.