Mufti's thoughts on secular humanism & Islam | Mufti Abu Layth

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oh what are your thoughts on secular humanism and being a secular muslim sure i mean i i'm not once again you see when you say these things i don't fully know if what you're conceptualizing and what i'm conceptualizing are the same thing i don't know when you say a secular muslim what does that mean i don't know like to me that really if you mean by it somebody who respects secular values respects a secular society allows freedom of all religions

0:39

allows freedom of speech allows to me that is what by default a muslim just ought to be we don't need to call that a secular muslim that is by default uh the position of a muslim what's happened along the way is the institutionalization of islam and the institutionalization of certain muslims and clergy so yeah i mean that um so if that's what you mean i 100 agree with that there's nothing wrong in i mean humanism is awesome humanism is about putting human beings at the center

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i would say that is um the primary message of islam even though it seems to have got drowned out by all these other things because when the prophet came to medina that was his message in essence it was all about the humanness when they asked him what shall we do he said you know that salam just say establish peace make it white just talk to say a nice word to people

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and feed people you see so it was about being kind and and feeding people giving people something that they actually need so it wasn't about convert and get the mem you know get brainwashed and a debate and you know force this rule or do that control it was about humanism so yeah

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  title = {{Mufti's thoughts on secular humanism \& Islam | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2020},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
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