Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 13 Apr 2021 › Segment 7 of 50
Should my faith make me happy?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith imaam imams prayer leader maaliki malikite malikiyyah muftis iman imaan eemaan eeman janna jannat paradise koran quraan al-quran salafi salafis wahhabi wahabi wahhabism 'alim aalim al-din ad-deen ad-din religionFaith ought to make you happy: Islam is meant to complement your life
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machinesummary, machine-writtenYes: Mufti Abu Layth says faith should make you happy, not hateful or bitter, because Islam is meant to complement daily life.
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Mufti Abu Layth reads a message saying he allowed the writer to think freely without conforming to the values of the traditionalists, that the writer is happier and more in touch with Islam, and that his reason-based approach is the future of Islam. He says this sums up his message: if you say you have faith in your life, it ought to make you happy, not horrible, hateful or bitter, and Islam is meant to complement day-to-day life. He reads another message listing lessons taken from him: that this is not 'your dad's deen', that Salafism has a hard grasp on the internet so that it is nearly impossible to find anything that is not dogmatic, which he says is unfortunately true, that being sceptical about hadith is not crazy, an introduction to the Maliki school, and that the deen is natural and should complement life.
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Mufti Abu Layth says faith ought to make a person happy rather than hateful or bitter, and that Islam is meant to complement day-to-day life.
“if you say you have faith in your life you ought it ought to make you happy”
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got to kind of scroll through the whole thing um he says he has tackled a lot of my questions and a lot of what i believed were problems with modern day molars as in mullahs amidst all the negativity i'd like to say keep doing you avra [Laughter] am i just doing myself in or just keep you helped us so much may allah grant you a high rank in jannah and allow your legacy to help muslims in the future can't wait for your video to feel of the quran i'm pleased to call myself your student
i'm on it honestly i'm honored i don't know what i've said about doing it to see but it you know these things would be very very awesome rational faith alright i recognize rational faith um mufti abu leith allowed me to think freely about things without conforming to the predetermined values of the traditionalist since watching mufti i am happier and more in touch with islam his reason-based approach is the future of islam honestly that there's so you know that
what rational faith has written here honestly this is just summed up my kind of message honestly that has always been it that you that if you say you have faith in your life you ought it ought to make you happy not horrible not hateful not bitter not and islam really is just meant to complement your your day-to-day life that's what the dean is meant to do right i highly respect him and despite things we disagree on he's my favorite scholar [Laughter]
i'll always have his back rationality giorgio man right so and look we've just i've read out a comment today from sami al-imam you're doing it from canada it's written that the things the biggest ideas and lessons were one is numbered them he said one this isn't your dad's dean you do and it two salafism is a hard has a hard grasp on the internet and it's nearly impossible to find anything that's not dogmatic
that is unfortunately true three showed me that i'm not crazy and being skeptical about hadith four brought me into the maliki method alright you're doing it you're doing it five people five showed me that the deen is a natural one the and that should complement your life right what would you like to let me know that you are super funny all right sugar and chicken [Laughter] you know that's a gift as well because you know it's things like humor are something that just
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