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A response to Hamza Maqbool (Deobandi/Maliki) - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki
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machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossaryunfortunately I've had a fresh refutation people against me I don't know why these things happen but they do so based on my Sofia story not Sofia story but my narrative and explaining that Sofia the wife of the prophet sallallaahu alayhi wasalam wasn't held a slave and she wasn't raped and these kind of things and and I put that out and to be fair hamdulillah many Muslims kind of that I've come across who I've come across my material
received it well and they were kind of they they they were very receptive to it and it's interesting because some people kind of hate me so much so they were kind of like who you know like they you know they have to receive it but they still have to take a big so you know it's like we can't take it just nicely from him so one person said oh well you know okay he might be right on this but he's still a government spy god the hate
runs deep I tell you you know so there's like that story of the of the of this this husband whose wife is never happy with him which is always complaining you know you're you're so kind of you know you're useless you are you bla bla bla bla useless name she say to him this one day what kind of a man are you they the this is like an audible saying she says what kind of a man are you says he knows that guy he's a real man like look at him he can fly so I'm
flying so then the husband says really he says okay then so the husband the next day flies in this story he flies over the house right so he's flying over and she sees this person flying and then she says so he comes and he says hey did you see somebody flying over the house today and she says yeah I did and he goes well uh-huh who do you think that was that was me so she goes is you huh she goes no one day one of your legs
was bent so this is the you know some people you can't please them so anyway and some Muslims surprisingly are still problematizing my this is the shocking thing check this out forms so they say oh you know you said this you said that Sophia the wife of the Prophet the Prophet couldn't have taken her as a slave or married her there and then because she had to sit a night there which is a verse in the Quran you know I live in a to her phone I mean come here the RunAs virgin that and but this
refers to Muslims and she was in a Muslim you know it surprises me that look first of all first of all it doesn't me telling you this this narrative bothers you and you find it can't settle well with you but what does settle well with you is that the Prophet allegedly just snatched her and raped her that night and held and that settles well with you if that you don't have any qualms in problematizing this you find a problem oh but hmm but you know was this is for
Muslim well did the Prophet marry a non-muslim is that what you believe because all the everybody say is that she was a Muslim when the Prophet married her so if you're saying yes the Prophet snatched her on that night and she embraced Islam and then the Prophet well the Mamba she embraces Islam do the rulings of Islam not apply and then people say oh but we want to go with this ruling that oh four captives they don't need that kind of an aid they're waiting period they can just wait one mental cycle well even first of all that's absurd because it goes against the Quran secondly even if you
except that what she did all of that on one night or in two nights what she let me get this right she first of all husband all this people are dying she embraces Islam becomes goes through an it has a menstrual cycle then marries the Prophet all this in one night why are you trying so hard to prove this narrative I don't get it whose side are you on you know you're working so hard to prove this kind of lowly opinion against the Prophet I
don't get it why but anyway so in response to that some people got upset because on there I mentioned that because know many of the prophets marriages were not witnessed and people like the school of Medina the the whole Maliki method says you don't need witnesses for a marriage you only need witnesses or you can make an announcement before the marriage is consummated so people get some people oh my god oh my god what's this guy saying [Music]
so they have this kind of like hard taco attack because they talk wise above that of the prophets obviously right so you know they they kind of Islam is to another standard obviously the Prophet and not like the Prophet and the companions or Imam Ali can meet their standards so so they like oh my god that doesn't meet up to my standard of Islam so somebody tweeted share Hamza well at my booth this is not share Hamza Yusuf I don't want you to mix this up with Jay Hamza Yusuf this is sure Hamza wallet Maqbool Hamza Maqbool
he's a an indo-pak scholar from Chicago I believe Maliki although you know very kind of still very do Bundy influenced strongly the Obon influence but I mean I respect him and I actually have a good healthy you know friendly I think relationship with him I think this is what I think from my end I mean he's been here he's been to my house I've hosted him we've taken care you know we've he's visited he's chilled out with us it was not a good love and he's actually got a good sense of humor so I
respect that but somebody asked him what is the position of witnesses in Anika in the Maliki mother this is on Twitter all witnesses mandatory is it being easy it is being said that the Maliki say that a public announcement of nikka is mandatory and witnesses are not mandatory wa alaikum Salaam so chef machmood responds who said that right okay so the person says a student of
mufti Abu layth al-maliki so at this stage I will beloved sheikh hamza mcpaul makes what I would call a mistake of trying to go out trying to lash out against me in saying now upon that's upon people move to Abu layth al-maliki ISM as Maliki as
Lawrence of Arabia is of Arabia and he says as a student of knowledge I can safely say no wait they as a human being I enjoy hanging out with him meaning the guy can chill he can have a laugh with you as a student of knowledge I can safely say he doesn't represent the Maliki school in any form I'm
familiar with Oh Maradona hi I'm Mary John it nibiru he hi I believe a daddy say ah these people as Maliki as Lawrence of Arabia is of Arabia hi hi hi well witnesses he is
shocked to this question he's shocked okay well as the poem goes that not my Bulbul Ishida Osuna has Husker that you may have heard the song the beloved song of the nightingale so happily abject Tom Kabuto many-body I now brace yourselves it is my turn to speak people Oh al
Kaffee one of my heroes if not they'll bomb the dawn hospital Maghrib p50 alumina till Molly key right are you who soon I am whose ruler yeah yeah no charge but image I see take a seat inshallah Kitab única guitar bendiga people Keith Urban League our loyalty to Mika this by the way this book is written for the fatwa according
to the Molly Keys Y&R T Tunica Valera shooting in the merlic and the nikah is valid according to Moloch without witnesses chameleon a little Bay as buying and selling is valid according to the Mauna Kea voyage had una female stock balloon and they can make people make it be known in what comes this is before they consummate the marriage the Maliki in my Malek even up the board but
wait wait baba we haven't finished no [Music] Jam right these people these people these people these people I want you to take a look at this this is you've got a book of Oba Carr apne unis a certainly the Sicilian it is known as the German of in reference to the Moodle wanna his book was referred to as the mus health of the Mauna Kea the Quran of the Maliki I it was referred to us by the way and I
don't mean this as disrespect but I remember when chef Hamza bull was here and I spa and we spoke about the Jami he'd never even heard of the Jami he didn't even need it said like what is that I am oh and that's only the Quran of the Mauna Kea but that's no disrespect and I'm the one who doesn't know Maliki fake huh Nakia Nakia routine yeah don't don't hasten don't hasten did he do let's take this slowly slowly
slowly so from the Moodle when I mean I don't want our people who don't wanna all the Malik woman tells of watchable a Reba Gina whoever married without any witnesses or documentation for it Allah ladies to tell as long as it wasn't done on purpose to make this a secret marriage I mean harris-teeter fernika huija is when the guard is well yes had and he
mentions female stuffed balloon that when it comes to the future they can they can get witnesses make an announcement what he says he had he says that had a cooler will be not this is all done before they consummate the marriage let's go on now right what does he say Abdul Wahab is quoting Abdullah Hubble birth daddy yes a who Abdul yes a hole in the night académica the nikah contract is valid according to us
al-maliki yeah al-maliki yeah people it is valid merely ish heart without witnesses healer friendly a be any favor Shafi'i as opposed to or abu hanifa & schaffer he says anak terminal food for ash bahasa era ha one and now man Anouk said to be hit to a stop follow me a Sharpton flocked karani well koala and then he says if this is valid then this the hadith is only referring to a short to come and he says what was shirt until Kamali well favilla
and then he brings a hadith from the mood of wanna from the Madonna and Esther was thakura apna Wahab on the homs idea of the law Elessar limit of the light matter who for the weather whoo yeah Holly Samaha Martha Yuma and he married her off to him and there was nobody else to witness it nobody except them what God looking at me through their liquor and rasool allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam and that is what is being transmitted from the Prophet as well when he married off of mine he said Allah okay okay I'm in a
tube into Robby Idol Harry's the first he said prophecy should I don't marry you to her the person said yes but I are soul Allah he said uncle to kaha I have done the nikah for you well um yesh had and there were no witnesses and if not more words from the Malik ear says wa ala alika Umar and Omer did that when he married his daughter to soda min or wa f barnaby he higher why these are the Dunn's of the Malik Lea people the must have the Quran of the Maliki ibaka rapini Yunus
let's go on in the what is he say right
so let me see oh there is I thought it slipped wall is hard to shorten feyza was it the whole wall is hard to having witnesses is a condition to consummate the marriage not laugh is Hetal act laugh is Hetal act not in the validity of the nikah so the nikah is jure is and your knowledge of the Maliki method is by if by people don't you come here attack my knowledge of the Maliki method color
no way on earth people this is Khalil it nice hug commenting on it no Rajab he says look what is hard to shorten feature was it the whole laugh is Hetal act and then he brings the hadith of if from if know what half of Hamza up the ladder I just read to you and it mentions look at this call de odd speaking in the tum be hat Masaru must have been an unleash had leisa be shortened fee settle up that this is not all the yard says that this is the measure of our method that it is not a condition in the Maliki method for
the validity of getting married and this is what luck me has said this is what if my Eunice has said this is what if not Rashi that said they mentioned that you do is hard oil on Allahu Akbar hey Baba this is this I tell you people can criticize me on many things you can criticize me for being modern you can attack me for my outlook right I will shred your arguments to a million pieces I openly welcome you to any discussion with me on
the Maliki method we will very clearly see within minutes who is more well-versed on the school of Medina Baba I've dedicated an entire portion of my life in passion to the school of Medina right so to say I have no knowledge of the school of Medina behave yourself that further kokia para you know this is what as dog says Doug the famous poet calico para dear journal say come me that the heavens have a messed with somebody so crazy Janaka rockin a
cartoon so dog na me if I don't burn the whole thing and raze it to the ground then you can change my this is the thing so if you want to challenge me on my knowledge of the Maliki myth have any day in every day I'm sitting right here so don't you dare say that I have when the truth is we both know and I don't want to attack you like this we both know that your knowledge of the Vatican mathematical method does not exceed a few books that's all you haven't even heard of
most of these texts I could guarantee that let alone I could name texts which I've got right here that you wouldn't even know that they're in print so this so before people point fingers please think you know this one these are not nice you know this stick to stick to your indo-pak kind of audiences you know those people shalwar kameez ha ha ha but what ding ding your day you know now what to do what to do those people they your audience those people you can call out they won't know anything about the Maliki method
right stick to those people you know those kind of still delving in there all debates of the the open these or the Braille V's or these kind of things right but if you decide to tread these grounds then tread softly my friend that's what I'd like to say because the next time and I could have pulled out so many so many books here this yet trust me when I say I went lightly I went
lightly yes a so please by all means and by oh and of course I enjoyed chilling with you as well I loved that one by the way your people want to take a dig they go oh by the way I like the guy's humor and then they're just trying to stab me with that it's like okay you know like what you could say is look you could say I disagree with this person's interpretation of things you could say you know this person's interpretation doesn't reflect the interpretation I'm used to you could say
that but to say this person has no knowledge and this person is as linked to the Maliki method as Lawrence of Arabia was to Arabia and behave yourself right behave yourself that's what I'd say nah so and let this be a lesson to these other foods like of running like this as well to people like that other people trying to find faults in my knowledge come to me upon every battle I'm right
he had come to me why why are you running to these people to assess my knowledge these people can't assess my knowledge I mean they they themselves don't have that kind of knowledge and I don't say that to kind of be arrogant I'm just being honest I just love honesty that's all so don't want to these people to assess my knowledge ask me I'm Sifu G I'm sitting right here so so this is the thing so I saw that today and I was disappointed you know because I thought wow you know he's a person who I I kind of like I said he came here and I was
very respectful and and he should have known by just visiting me and knowing that well he didn't even actually know some of these books existed when he came forget existing you didn't even know of them he should learn from that alone there okay this guy I may disagree with him but at least he knows his stuff you know maybe he's wrong yeah by all means maybe I'm misguided by all means but to say that he's ignorant he doesn't actually know these things he's making them up then that is to mislead people so anyway let's move on people next question next question so that's so
another one bites the dust keep them coming people keep them coming I'm all day every day I'm here I'm ready waiting right so what's another question that we've got here let's take some other questions he's a relatively young scholar and I've got nothing against him like I began by saying I was actually disappointed by hearing that he said this to the extent that I actually didn't believe it so when the person said in posted this life on my thing
saying that Hamza wallet Maqbool share Hamza bull said this about you I thought that that's this person's interpretation but then they posted the actual screen shots of his twitter saying this that you know oh he's you know I can safely say that basically this guy knows nothing and he's as linked to the Malachy method as Lawrence of Arabia is to Arabia that was his actual wording so he kind of disappointed me that why would you say that when the truth is we all know and anybody who's spoken to us knows that you know that actually if
anything your own knowledge of the school of Medina is quite weak but I wouldn't attack people for their knowledge of the school of Medina because to me it doesn't bother me you know like at the end of the day each for that you know to their own like I'm not here to pick on people and say he doesn't know much or he doesn't know much but it shocks me that they would say that about me I was like come on Kazuya like this one not nice this one why are you why you do this on what why this kolaveri right so anyway
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