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Can I pray for a non-Muslim who has died?

muftis haraam forbidden akhirah akhira aakhirah akhirat hereafter duaa duas duaas supplication deen al-din ad-deen ad-din

DMX's death, praying for non-Muslims, and music

LessonRecorded 13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 36 of 50 in the recording2021-04-13-S36

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Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims may pray for a non-Muslim like DMX who touched many lives, since no one has a monopoly on salvation, and that music is not haram.

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Responding to a chat comment that DMX has died, Mufti Abu Layth says the death of anyone who has affected many lives is a solemn reminder, and recalls the Prophet standing for the funeral of a Jewish woman and saying that she was a soul. He plays a few seconds of a DMX clip and reads its lines about each person having a star that they need only find, which he says echoes the message of Islam that a person must strive for what is written for them. He urges people not to be reluctant to pray for someone who was not a Muslim but touched many lives positively, saying that everyone is God's creature, Muslims have no monopoly on God, the afterlife or salvation, and narrow-mindedness cannot echo the voice of God. He adds that music is not haram and that he has a video on it.

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social studies have demonstrated this let alone when you take it to an nth degree and add violence and all these kind of things and attacking religion people become fundamentalists this is why at the beginning of the 20th century religions worldwide became fanatics not just islam even christianity because they faced this threat incognito much love for the super chat much love right yeah dmx has gone you know i i saw that there was a clip i did actually think i wouldn't mind sharing it but uh i don't have it here but

2:18:58

uh you see i feel it's actually the reason i actually thought about his clip was because he says some lines in it i don't know if i have it on um this phone here actually if i do i can i don't listen too much of this uh you know i'm not up to date with all the rap kind of thing but i feel that first of all when any person who has made an impact on the lives of people has died you know it's it's it's it's kind of like a solemn reminder isn't it it's how the prophet salallahu stood up

2:19:37

when they carried that jewish lady and people were surprised you know and they said that you know yeah rasool allah this is this is you and that's a uh you know that's she's not a muslim and he said but it's a soul and this is how it because it impacts people isn't it and it's humanity so i do feel that there is that um kind of thing and he's clearly touched the lives of many people you know he clearly did and so there was a clip it's just like i think two three two lines just a couple of seconds really

2:20:17

i'll see if i can get it up here it might help actually um and i thought what what was being said was uh quite i don't know all right i'll see if i can bring the actual clip up um let's see one moment people it's not just the stuff that he's saying it's not just the stuff they say you're subscribing that's sorry that's my beloved daily hating on someone who says crap like that what you

2:20:56

said [Music] in the sense let's see [Music] wow i thought that was very powerful and you know may allah allah make easy's afterlife i mean i mean for anyone who dies you know something

2:21:35

don't have this reluctance to think well no you can't why should i say a dua for someone who was not a muslim or you know somebody that however they were like if they lived a life that influenced that touched positively the lives of many people whether they did other things or whatever they weren't muslim but you know ultimately everybody is god's creature and allah you know we do not have monopoly of god we do not have monopoly of the afterlife or salvation and we just think that

2:22:14

so long you know for so long we think we somehow are the lucky you know god chosen people why what have you actually done just been born in an you know in a particular family what makes you think that that and the fact that you are so narrow-minded you know goes to show to me speaks volumes to me that surely you cannot be you know echoing the voice of god yeah all right so yeah music is fine i've got a video based on that music is not haram somebody said

2:22:53

ahmad said dmx is amazing of you know in our time i just heard you know like of course uh i have in the past you know obviously i've come across certain things but i'm not so into that scene but i know he has a huge presence and i saw the this clip and i just thought wow these words they did well they just so they so hard hitting that hit take a look again yeah let the haters burn look at the lyrics like

2:23:31

we have to do is recognizing it what you do everyone who sees it will be blinded see like that lesson that we each have a star all we have to do is find it wow that is so i find in that echoes clear echoes found within the message of islam that you know that a person has to strive that there is something written there for you but just don't give up on finding it and and when you do find it you will shine in it and i thought that that was so powerful um

2:24:09

yeah so somebody said music is haram you must live a miserable life then uh right but he's right so okay i don't know people commenting about somebody hip-hop all right so what is going on people what is going on with the the spiritual centers in our bodies real some people use them to make their souls travel into the spiritual

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-04-13-S36, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/36/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, April 13). Can I pray for a non-Muslim who has died? [Video, segment 2021-04-13-S36, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/36/
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