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Islamic institutes, preachers' depth of learning, and passionate converts

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DiscussionRecorded 19 Sep 2019Responding to RefutationsSegment 4 of 6 in the recording2019-09-19b-S04

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Mufti Abu Layth says the preacher was, he believes, referring to the Yaqeen Institute, and that if this is what they promote they need to revisit themselves. He says he respects and applauds Omar Suleiman's social justice work and protests for discriminated communities, but says such preachers have not really studied Islam in depth or qualified through a formal institute, are put on a pedestal by the institution and must then cement it, and were mostly very Wahhabi-inclined at one point. He says Asadullah al-Andalusi [?] once held ridiculous views about killing ex-Muslims and apostates, which he thinks he has since turned away from. He applauds converts for a step he thinks few born Muslims would take, mentioning Hamza Yusuf as one who studied deeply and to whom many are indebted, while noting that some converts with turbulent backgrounds embrace Islam as a cause.

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just so it comes across no no she obviously she was way too young to have been with other men and things like this that's a possibility but they cannot prove these chains to begin with okay and then the other thing is that these people have a conflict of interest if they use these hadith to justify their all marriages to little children because they say well I Shama was only nine and that's the truth that's the God's honest truth many of them have done that and

13:07

maybe they don't I'm not saying they all do that today but that they use it as a justification and it's nonsense it's nonsense utter nonsense okay so I did say you know to a certain law andalusi and I know he was referring to you clean Institute and I say to them as well that look if this is what you're promoting you need to seriously revisit yourself okay because first of all these people haven't even studied Islam like that these people you know these these kind of institutes they're good for social

13:47

work they do I respect chef Omar Suleiman in all the great social justice thing he does in he goes out on protests he leads protests he rallies the cries of people being discriminated against against black people suffering against Latin American people suffering they were the Native Americans in their rights and and I highly I applaud that I think that's amazing what he does but the truth is these people haven't really studied Islam to that depth you know they get the title shirt and stuff like this they haven't really liked they haven't studied the books like Pahadi Muslim

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things like this they've never really been through a formal Institute of learning they have not really qualified in any Islamic way they just give nice sermons and preach and and they're intelligent people I'm not saying they're not intelligent and then they get given a pedestal and then now because they've been put there by the institution by the clergy they back and they have to then cement the institution and most of these people were at one point anyway very Wahhabi inclined I don't know about today maybe they slightly distance themselves today from

15:04

that the kind of but they still that is their religion that is with the kind of views that these people kind of learnt initially about Islam and even this Assad Allah and never see here is ridiculous views on how you should kill X Muslims and apostates and he had this channel called our films and the ludicrous stuff the nutcase things that that were being said I think he he's turned away from that and it was a proper he was just basically like the poly bond what was this about yeah this is another problem which sometimes

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comforts and I'm not optimal sizing comforts and many people who embrace Islam it's a magnificent look you guys take a step which I think seldom like IIIi don't think many Muslims would take that step if they were to exchange places so I applaud that I think it's amazing and some of them have gone out to study Islam deeply and they've made great profound changes within Muslim societies and in touch the hearts of men like Sheikh Hamza Yusuf who many of us are highly indebted to there's other great we've shared nor other great you know people they've

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converted to Islam they've done now studied so much and done things and made great kind of pathways but then you get some people who they become very passionate about Islam because they've embraced it may be because they background was very turbulent and they needed a cause and now they find a cause which is now oh I found a new religion

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2019, September 19). Islamic institutes, preachers' depth of learning, and passionate converts [Video, segment 2019-09-19b-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/4/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Islamic institutes, preachers' depth of learning, and passionate converts}},
  year = {2019},
  month = {9},
  date = {2019-09-19},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/4/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c9vke9rpq9o/s/4/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2019-09-19b-S04, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}
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