Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth 173 · 14 Jul 2020 › Segment 5 of 42
What do you think of Shah Wali Allah?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith shari'ah shariat sharee'ah maqasid al-shariah maqaasid maqasid ash-shariah aims of the law muftis 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa sheikh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs walee awliya awliyah guardian salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingShah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi: reviving hadith studies and the spirit of the Sharia
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth calls Shah Wali Allah an amazing scholar, ahead of his time, who revived hadith studies and wrote on the objectives of the Sharia without using the word maqasid.
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Struggling to read the Facebook comments in his new layout, Mufti Abu Layth takes a question asking his thoughts on Shah Wali Allah. He calls him amazing, an old scholar of the Indian subcontinent, and points to his video on the subcontinent's contribution to hadith and the Delhi school. He says Shah Wali Allah was ahead of the curve and reinvigorated hadith studies and the maqasid al-shari'a, the objectives or spirit of the law, though, curiously, without using the word maqasid. His famous book Hujjat Allah al-Baligha speaks of the hikmah and spirit of the Sharia, and Mufti says he never understood why he avoided the term. Chat then asks whether he knows a particular shaykh, which he takes up next.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Shah Wali Allah was an amazing individual, ahead of the curve, who reinvigorated hadith studies.
“he was an amazing individual very you know ahead of a head of the curve really and something he did was he reinvigorated hadith studies”
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right sure mm-hmm right so what's going on somebody said Musti check out your sweat patch I haven't got a sweat patch bro that's just the shade of this it's got different shades to it and none Ibraheim talk a bit do you believe in Illuminati conspiracy theories I I don't believe in Illuminati conspiracy theories of what
is going on people's peoples so let's look at the Facebook questions you know what it is I've I've kind of changed the the layout on this screen so the Facebook questions I have to kind of lean in to see them now they're so tiny I'm gonna have to do something about this for next session hmm because this this are not nice thoughts on sha volula yeah Xiao Li a la de LOI I think Xiao Li Allah is amazing
chao-li Allah - Louie for those of you that don't know indian sub-continent old scholar I've got a huge I'm not a huge but I've got a a detailed video to some extent about Xiao Lu la da la weeds on YouTube if you go to my playlist about hadith studies and in there I've got one about the indian sub-continent scholars and the contribution to hadith so in the I speak about the whole Delhi school and how they contributed and amongst them Xiao Li la de and yeah definitely I mean
he was an amazing individual very you know ahead of a head of the curve really and something he did was he reinvigorated hadith studies and not just that also mikasa the Sharia but he didn't use the word mohassid for some reason which I don't I never could understand why he didn't do that so mikasa the Sharia is the spirit of the law so it's called the objectives of the Sharia and he seems to not use that his famous book Raja - Lila Birla ha speaks of the hikmah of the Sharia and the kind of
spirit of the Sharia and the objectives the Mikasa like he's speaking about the Mikasa do without using the word Mikasa I don't understand why he was doing that maybe that's just how he learnt it but yeah what seem her saying la loves thuds Waseem how are you doing man how are you doing ghost ghost salaam aleikum waleikum assalam right so do you know of sharehouse ronald Huck Owaisi or dr.
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