Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 · 14 Jul 2020 › Segment 40 of 42
How do some imams use religion to exploit young women?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith imam imaam prayer leader masjed masaajid masajid mosque muftis koran quraan al-quran sura soorah suwar soora chapter mecca makka mekka 'alim aalim ummah umma ummat subhan allah subhaanallah subhanallaah ma sha allah masha allah mashaa allah deen al-din ad-deen ad-dinImams who sell girls a pious fantasy, and the toxicity of religious circles
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machinesummary, machine-writtenImams who use religion to sell girls a fantasy of a pious relationship are despicable; girls should wake up from such fantasies and crimes should be reported.
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Mufti Abu Layth says he has an issue with imams and religious figures who use their religious card to gain entry. He describes tight-knit religious groups as, in his experience, the most toxic communities, often made up of obsessive and unusual people, though he says this is not meant against autistic people. He says some girls dream of an Islamic husband with whom they will read hadith, pray and spend a honeymoon in Makkah, an idea he calls almost borderline blasphemous, while such men are as sexually driven as any other and some play on these fantasies to lure girls. He tells girls to wake up from such fantasies, says criminal matters should always be reported, and calls imams who sell these fantasies despicable for giving Islam a bad name, as distinct from a man's private relationships, which are his own business.
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Mufti Abu Layth says imams who sell girls fantasies of a pious relationship, knowing there is a clientele for it, are as far as he is concerned absolutely despicable.
“these Imams who are selling these fantasies because they know this a clientele this punter ship for it they are as far as I'm concerned absolutely despicable”
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the back I would be like are you anyway alleyway yeah yeah yeah why are we meeting in an alleyway why are we meeting in it because I don't understand when you want to meet with a Quran recited what do you want to do because it's not even like okay if people might say oh he's a scholar and we're gonna I want to ask him a question what do you ask Quran recite is I don't know like what what do people ask for on recite is
they ask them to recite some Quran surah kahf Perl eg no no no not here you know in the alleyway over there mmm listen so I would say that and the other thing look what I want to say is well here is look these people as well they do I do have an issue with Imams and these people using that card to kind of gain
entry because what we've got we've got a community unfortunately and I say to people look religious communities you know religious these kind of religious religious people are the worst people honestly I find them the most toxic communities I would never be a part of you know like I these people usually all have mental health issues I'm telling you they're not normal this kind of you know the very what I mean by religious the kind of ones that are in groups and they do all this stuff and then usually not all but the majority of them you will find are like weird people they're not your kind of
average kind of people and that's guys angles they like obsessive OCD can a type autistic type they like strange and this is not against autistic people but they as though the autistic because of unfortunately their religion which really is Islam is never meant to do something like is meant to make your life more easy and comfortable but yeah so what happens is a lot of these women sometimes or not women's these girls they sometimes have this vision that oh I'm gonna you know I'm gonna marry some guys and he's so Islamic and mashallah
we're gonna wake up and read the hedge it together mashallah and we're gonna be under you know we're gonna be doing OMA together mashallah and he's gonna be taking my kids to the Masjid masha'Allah and you know it's all gonna be all new and but I Khartoum Minister Marathi well other than subhanAllah you know from here Surat al-baqarah is being recited and from the surah al-anam and mashallah I wake up and it's you know what the hi and I go to sleep when he's well late
[Laughter] oh it's amazing mashallah Sally you know all this you need to wake up that never happens ok and these guys these Imams and these people are as Turkey and as you know sexually obsessed as every other kind of guy LT that you either use that you are trying to avoid for example and in many cases some of these people
are worse and they know sometimes that girls have these weird religious fantasies of like oh so they then play on that to say well like they pretend that they might be like a relationship and oh yeah and they sell them that dream and because they know that women are like some of those girls are like oh my god that dream you know I want to be oh my god in my honeymoon I want to be by mica that is the most stupid thing personally to me that I've ever heard
that why on earth would you want to be on a honeymoon in Makkah that's like that's that's like almost borderline blasphemous to me but anyway so it's like oh yeah oh we're gonna get married oh you're the honeymoon so look you know it's gonna be lets say moments of passion and like unbridled sex and all this kind of stuff so we're shall we do it I know yeah micaiah let's go to
Makkah to duel is the etosha bars the jar with a small deal a mini did Giles no problem but there is one the jar with the big deal the big deal so this is the issue yes so I would say that these Imams play on this as well and then they sometimes lure in certain people so look you have to beware of these people if they start playing that
card okay if they start trying to say oh yeah we could we can do the herd Jude together we could do this together and the girls that have these visions as well they need to kind of be he kind of they need to wake up out of this oh we're gonna read the hedges together we can it wake up for God's sake worried the head you read it you know you don't be need to fantasize this whole thing so this is unfortunately these are just problems that are they in our unfortunately our Muslim communities so I do hope
if I mean if there are criminal issues always report them okay but at the same time don't have these fantasies and these Imams who are selling these fantasies because they know this a clientele this punter ship for it they are as far as I'm concerned absolutely despicable because they are giving Islamabad name see to me it's not their personal lives like they may just have so for example he may have just known a girl not because he's not selling her a dream and she's not buying a dream she just knew him Andy she may have been his girlfriend to me that's
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