How does one become a mufti? | Mufti Abu Layth

ouch - all right so let's take some questions so some people had a fast right so some people had asked all right so how do you how does one become a multi Hey rather how does one become a Musti well this this hot long story you know this one right so right now look becoming them of T what do i what

do I advise first of all they say for everyone people are still going on about Billy all right focus focus right so look Bingham of T the same for everyone it is a very uphill struggle okay it is however if you are somebody who's interested in learning about the theme and having not just learning sorry in

having a very like a in-depth advanced level understanding of the theme then it is an amazing task or objective or achievement if you've done it it is unquestionably perhaps you know the greatest thing I've ever achieved in my life I feel right so that's unquestionably in addition to a few other dodgy deals a few County Court

judgments and and a few convictions I feel that it really is it's one of the to me as an individual it is the most amazing thing I've ever achieved in my life it's it's really made my made me who I am today if I if I can say that so I absolutely love it to bits if somebody said to me I'll give you a million pounds but they were to completely strip

this multi thing off as in room eradicate that multi knowledge from me and there's many things I would do quite easily for a million pounds and a lot less evidently from the games that we play apparently really knows about them okay what's the least amount you do these hypotheticals oh but they corrupt people they corrupt my innocent mind you know so anyway I I wouldn't honestly I the world I wouldn't give it up for that because it means that much

to me it's made me who I am it is an integral part of my essence today so you know I would definitely if somebody asked me I'd like to become a Mufti would you advise me I would say look first of all it's not for everyone because there is there's going to be a a whole a continuum of study and learning study doesn't have to mean like nerd like study like you become a nerd it just means you have to have an interest you have to somebody said shame on you

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was saying assalamualaikum brother pork [Laughter] camel anyway so right so coming back to these focus focus people focus focus focus right so the the issue is that look there's going to be a continuum of learning let me put it as learning because when you say studying it's too dull and boring and nerdy and stuff like this but learning so there's going to be

like a continuum a lifelong that the first stage will easily be anything between six years at least two maybe eight something like that between that so there is a certain amount of commitment you know you have to learn the Arabic language you have to go through the basic sciences of Islam that will include all the you know whether it's going to be the language the Arabic language and its grammar and those things the morphology and you'll learn that you'll have the books whether it's filter practice Islam pray do things go Hajj marry divorce inheritance the penal just is cold everything transactions

from a beginners level to an intermediate to an advanced so you're learning the rulings are going to a school of thought then the differences of opinion your evidence is there evidences then arguments and in-depth learning you can learn a soul which is legal theory why do people allegedly make the rulings they do what does that school say what does this school say what are the underlying differences in principles you're gonna cover that what are some of the the universal can almost like almost a bit like a constitution a bit like that not a full-on constitution but like that why is it different so

you're gonna learn that once again from a new foundation to intermediate to advanced level you're gonna learn Islamic history Creed what are the leaves what are people what Creed it's a very theological kind of thing a shoddy school the different schools the differences of opinions of seed of the Quran going through the entire top seed learning that and a solo hadith what is the science of studying the chains of hadith grow at the gradation grading hadith the different books you're gonna cover that most Alex called hadith almost all out hadith you will then cover the actual books of

hadith like read Buhari hopefully from cover to cover sorry Muslim cover to cover you'll cover the main six books Abu Daoud tell me the Messiah II even imagine you'll cover the motto of Imam Malik maybe one to other books these kind of things you're covering them you're learning you're going through all of this stuff at the literature you learn a bit of literature a bit of poetry a bit of you know prose things like that you're going through all of that and then you you can't specialize in if that in fatwa where you just read intricate rulings you read about case studies and you know what are the principles of Fatah and so this this

whole thing it is a it is quite immersive it's quite it it will be intense at some points the best method to do it is obviously going to be like full-time in a madrasah probably you can do part-time some motherís offer part-time courses if you're slightly you know more matured now with age and you don't feel that you know obviously you can't just pack up and go and study you could maybe do a part-time cause even places in the UK offer things I see I'm not too cleared up with all the different colleges what they offering I

know that within Birmingham we've got a motherís up with if many motherís says but we've got Hasan at college which I think they might call it City as an ADD College CHCO but it's in it's close to Alum Rock it's it's in that part of of Brom and if you I know they've got a part-time course which is free so you go part-time there's people like chef Yasin teaching the chef I'm sure you know very you know could headed kind of scholars and people you know with

since it's on them you know they know what they talking about so so these are some things and you could then you could obviously have to mishmash you'll have to kind of maybe study up to a certain level and do other things but you have to remember and this is really important I want to give this now this part is somebody said are you joking no no this is true I mean there's many other mattresses there are there is a sofa in in promised wall in Birmingham you've got you've got other places but these are just two that I'm familiar with now you have to remember something and this

is important that these places of study unfortunately will always have an institutionalization about them some more than others you know in the world of institutionalization some places are more institutionalized than others as an axiom so it's and people won't allow you to be very free-spirited they won't allow you to have free thought if you question a lot of things in some places like this city has an ADD college to be fair they they as long as you're respectful I think they're okay weed because some of my friends and

students like like shaaban awesome some of some of these guys very close to me you see probably you see them in in a lot of photos you see mean a lot of photos with them now these guys have finished their studies there I know they engaged a lot in dialogue had a lot of respectful debate think the right word but a dialogue during their studies and the teachers were fine with it you know people actually a scene was very calm secure you know I don't feel insecure don't feel threatened but there are other places where people will get very upsetting mother asses you know when you question them they want to you know

they'll expel you that's that problem solved so you know I there's some mother where somebody he had short back insides and they you know like as a hiccup and he was I think in his final year and they expelled him final yeah what the hell you know so this this is the kind of nonsensical kind of bureaucracy that you're gonna have to be against okay if you're going through a mother Assad and

it's until you haven't finished and you don't become yourself you won't be able to speak your mind I mean maybe amongst friends you will but if you speak it too much in front of people I don't know it might be is you know it's hit or miss it's maybe some places might tolerate you other places these institutions are not free thinking institutions they become very insecure usually some you know there's a few places where people have got chucked out over silly things you know like they trim their be it and they just expel them in the despite this is like the

sixth year oh hey check the guy out what the hell you know short bike it that's a joke and it's not even a funny one so I think look these things there is I don't know what's being offered in depth by chef Abdul Hakim Murad in Cambridge he has a course I don't know if he'll accept beginners but if he will I think his place would be awesome because he obviously is going to be very you know very kind of professional and he's not going to really care about these kind of sectarian debates and

stuff like wise people like chef Akram Ned we very you know very kind of compassionate in their understanding and I'm not sure I know he has an online course I don't know whether he has another kind of study setup but if you do want to become a Mufti or a scholar it is to me I would say it's one of the best thing if it's for you but remember the struggle there you will in addition to having to work hard or learn stuff the best way to learn stuff is just to enjoy honestly me I just try to enjoy it

I would I would actually as boring as this is gonna sound now I would find these debates that I would read about in the book so exciting Malick's it was I said whoa so I would you see the more interesting you find it the easier it is to remember and to commit to memory and teach it to people and talk about it you know like when you're with like-minded friends you can talk about it you could say oh well you know I read this interesting thing what do you think about this and that way you will commit it to memory so I

used to do a lot about a lot of that well I used to always discuss things with people and that would help me memorize these kind of rulings and things like that Otto because I enjoyed them so that's a but remember you will be against the institution as in there is a institutionalized bureaucratic kind of resilience to free thought to critical thought that you will have to keep kind of battling against until you reach the top of the hill so but once you're at the top of the hill barcia

robots you know it's then you wear the crown then you're like you know what HR correcting me Oh may I say that Haditha he quoted happens to be week [Laughter] you know when you can pull that card on people power/power reverse follow you knows on this group right I'm on this

group and I think I mentioned this once before and it's they they just tackle things like Islamophobia and stuff like this and they've got me on there for for ages I just just as a passive you know just listen to updates about things going on how they're tackling things in the media how they're doing all these kind of stuff and it's good to you know it's good to be up-to-date to know what's going on now this one time they got into a little debate or something discussion and they said this about and I think I mentioned this before and I'll come back to the debate in just a moment

but there was a point where the person he said ah I've got proof for this and I said debate you want to debate I said a cha how to pour having bring you proof so he brings this hadith and I said to him by the way you know where you pull rank and you say well you know just just so you know that I specialize in hadith since you claim to however these bring the honey and then he posted this thing

and then I said nah man bring the Senate bring the chain and then as soon as he brought as it model fabricated oh whatever right so the thing is that so so it does have its perks people it has its perks