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Recordings › Insights to a personal journey: An interview with Mufti Abu Layth · 2 Jul 2014 › Segment 6 of 8

Why does Mufti Abu Layth not dress like a traditional mufti?

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Attacks on his appearance as a mufti

QuestionSource not recorded · questioner not identifiedAnswered 2 Jul 2014Segment 6 of 8 in the recording2014-07-02-S06

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The attacks do not bother him much: he holds his appearance permissible and wants to be a role model for Muslims who cannot relate to the traditional look.

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Mufti Abu Layth says he is attacked a lot for his appearance but it does not bother him much, because he believes he has done nothing wrong Islamically and has shown his evidence academically. Some accept it is permissible but think a mufti should know better; he replies that there are already many muftis and imams with an Eastern appearance, and that many Muslims who want to connect with the din feel they cannot become that, so he wants to offer an alternative role model, Islam being for all places, times and cultures. He says people see the hate online but not the private support from those who have chosen to study the din, which makes the criticism worth it.

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Do the attacks on your appearance bother you?

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instrumental to teaching and to to dawa in general I know it's helped me um ever so much and I know it's helped many people really just reach out to other people that would have been almost impossible to to connect with uh if it were not for social media difference in Islam is is definitely a mercy and anybody I cannot understand anybody that would wish to contradict that message it is absolutely

a mer a mercy and it is a message of Tolerance and acceptance I I do get attacked a lot for my appearance it doesn't really bother me to that extent now um [Music] um one of the reasons I persist if you like is because I feel that first of all I'm not I haven't done anything wrong from an Islamic perspective I have always demonstrated um what I believe sufficiently with

evidences um academically from a veryy perspective that what I'm doing is not really wrong I believe that the that it's fine within Islam the alternative angle is that well okay even if it is fine but you're a Muti and you should know better this is the angle that people come with at times that they accept that okay this isn't necessarily I mean there's some that won't accept but there's many that will accept but they will just struggle with me as a Muti being having an appearance like this and I feel that we have enough we

have many mutis or imams or that don't for example have this appearance that have a very let's say an Eastern Outlook in terms of their appearance they will wear the th they will wear the IM and we have that as a role model for people but I believe that there's many Muslims out there many hundreds of thousands of Muslims who are not interested in the dean but have a certain interest and I know people that would want to associate with the dean but they feel they cannot become that person they feel that look I I'm interested in this this whole thing I want to be a part of

it I want to connect but I cannot become that if that what the if that's what the end product must categorically look like so I believe that if we can provide these people an alternative role model that look you don't have to be like that Islam is for all places and all times it's for all cultures so if if there's even some people that I can reach out with that message and and believe me and this is something which many people don't see they see sometimes on social media a lot of the hate um kind of targeted at me and pointed at me what they don't see sometimes is a lot of the support and a

lot of those people who have chosen to study the dean that do contact me privately that do talk to me that do kind of share their type of insights with me they don't get to see that positive side and and alhamdulillah if if it can provide some then you know it's worth the little slack that I get in in in place of

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2014-07-02-S06, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/6/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2014, July 2). Why does Mufti Abu Layth not dress like a traditional mufti? [Video, segment 2014-07-02-S06, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/6/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2014. "Why does Mufti Abu Layth not dress like a traditional mufti?" Video, segment 2014-07-02-S06, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded July 2, 2014. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/6/

BibTeX

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Why does Mufti Abu Layth not dress like a traditional mufti?}},
  year = {2014},
  month = {7},
  date = {2014-07-02},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/6/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/7uxklqh8-ig/s/6/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2014-07-02-S06, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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