# How should I deal with online hate preachers?

*Mock and block: critics who need him for views*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/25/
- Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:32:53–1:39:28)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=5573s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/

**Topics:** Social media; The Mufti and the channel

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says critics who use him for views, especially hate preachers, should be mocked and blocked, and that their obsession harms them more than him.

## Longer summary

Responding to a chat question about one of his online critics, Mufti Abu Layth says that people who talk about him only to gain views, especially if they are also hate preachers, should simply be mocked and blocked, since nobody would watch them otherwise. He compares what follows to an 'ex syndrome': once mocked and blocked they crave attention and monitor his every move. He says people either love or hate him, that his haters become hooked on him and boost his viewership, likens himself to heroin for them, and says the hatred will consume them for years. He adds that jealousy plays a part in some cases, since they too want a following, and says that if they were not so hateful he would invite them onto his shows.

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:32:53–1:39:28)

[1:32:32] they're not selfie themselves they don't may not even like selfies but that's the only answer they find so they start to believe and like this there's a gradual but it's not necessarily so dangerous but it's just a gradual influence who's this gita you see look listen as i've said before

[1:33:15] people who you know people who need to talk about me just to get views right these kind of people who if if if they happen to also be extremist hate you know hate preachers at the same time you know then with these people all you do is just mock and block

[1:33:41] because then they become obsessed and and to be fair also there's an understanding that look you know it's very clear that they nobody will watch them unless they talk about me so there's a huge the drive as well for them is just to get viewers so that's one thing the other thing is that you know when people are that hateful uh that kind of vile and cancerous and it's like you just mock them and block them and then they are hooked on you

[1:34:20] [Laughter] they will not be able to get you out of their head i mean they will just and that and in that is is their kind of consequence because you know i'm telling you forget the any of these people years from today they will still be kind of like just burning with hatred about me and and this is it's similar in in a weird way you see it's a bit like like x like like the kind of like hateful x syndrome

[1:35:00] except f for the love of god i don't know why these guys develop it with me but it becomes that because what happens is you see you see these people become obsessed by the fact that okay one clearly maybe not in all x syndrome cases where but here you clearly mock them for who they are and then you block them and they crave attention and they they need that and and the fact that you don't give it to them then they will monitor your every move they will watch you you know so so religiously and they will

[1:35:39] um they'll become obsessed that you will consume their soul [Laughter] so and i say i don't know you know it's it's like it's like a you could call it a curse i have that you know whether it's a blessing or a curse that first of all people either just love me or they hate me and the haters especially they get hooked on me honestly they probably contribute so many of my viewership

[1:36:17] is because they have to religiously you know they are so they can't help it they they are addicted to me [Laughter] oh my god it's it's it's it's so amusing to watch at times but it is what it is and and i and i i say this openly you know that they they shouldn't take this addiction lightly i mean i don't mind it helps my viewership but this is going to burn them for years they will not be able to get over me i mean look at the example i gave

[1:36:54] earlier on its fools will be hooked on me for like it's like seven years six years five and i i don't even i've never met these people i don't engage with them i don't you know there's nothing there but still they will be so yeah i kind of take it as a compliment i take it as a compliment but i i do feel that whoa this you know what is this man like i have this power to to get to people get so hooked on me that they can't get off it and it's worse when they're haters because they just

[1:37:33] it's like i'm like heroin to them [Laughter] honestly that's actually what i'm like to them because the way heroin destroys someone then i just seem to passively just because they become so consumed with me and so much hatred it just consumes them don't worry about it man just live life chill man don't worry about it man and i have to say as well which maybe not with all but with a uh with several amount of them there's there's an element of jealousy which then contributes to that kind of ruin

[1:38:12] because you know to a lot of these people as well they crave that you know because they because they want a following they want a uh you know they want people to like them as well they want people to to just hear them and they they want this as well [Laughter] and some of them i think look if you weren't such such a hateful person you should just told me yeah i'll bring you on one of my shows but this is it this is it let's move on people

[1:38:49] all right what's going on right i'm i gotta just refresh oh right here it is yeah early muslims had less knowledge empirical and scientific knowledge and thus have less accuracy in the interpretations and truth so we must reinterpret and reform according to empiricism i'm not so sh the way i i wouldn't really say that what i would say

[1:39:25] somebody's saying i'm a big fan of mufti but i'm disappointed i live to disappoint ya that's my style you know as far as the jesus debate thing is concerned yes all of those questions uh most of them have already been answered in uh my address to shaykh there's probably what like about you've got about five hours of watching the so you'll actually find most the questions answered and there's a few things still left in the shaykh thing which i haven't yet got to which i will be doing so this topic of jesus

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 8XuHMCz2N3U/s/25. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/25/

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