# What did the Green Lane Masjid khutbah say about Mufti Abu Layth? *The Green Lane khutbah against him: 'how can a jahil be a mufti', mocking the deen, blaming parents* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ckwrlhtbygo/s/1/ - Date: 2018-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply To Zakaullah Saleem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:29) - Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWRLHtBYgo&t=0s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ckwrlhtbygo/ **Topics:** Responses to critics; Salafism and Wahhabism; Creed and the schools of theology **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The khutbah called him a jahil who cannot be a mufti, said he mocks the deen, the people of tawhid and hadith, and blamed his followers' parents for not teaching them the correct aqidah. Mufti Abu Layth reports each charge with mockery and notes a well-funded Salafi organisation targeting one man on Facebook. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says he has been sent a clip of another Jumu'ah khutbah from Green Lane Masjid in which a segment was dedicated to him; the video carried his name, though the maulana referred to him only as 'this mufti on Facebook who dresses like this and makes jokes'. He reports the maulana's argument that a jahil cannot be a mufti, and mocks its reasoning as 'how can a person be capable when he is incapable'. He reports the further charges that he mocks the deen of Allah, mocks the people of tawhid and mocks hadith, and remarks that he is also one of the people of tawhid and asks why the maulana distinguishes between them. He says that while he is not dissing all Salafis, the Salafis of Green Lane seem very upset, and contrasts a globally funded multi-million pound organisation with himself as one person using Facebook for free. He reports the maulana blaming the parents of those who follow him online for never teaching them tawhid and the correct aqidah, and jokes that he blames his own parents too and that everyone should sit their parents down for that chat. ## Sources and names cited - Maulana Zakaullah Saleem [?] (imam at Green Lane Masjid; named in the video description) - Green Lane Masjid (Birmingham) - khutbah - jahil (ignorant person) - tawhid - aqidah (creed) - Salafi (Wahhabi) - mufti ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–5:29) [0:00] Check this out. There's been another Juma Hutba. I got a video clip of a Juma Hutba sent. A whole Juma once again from Green Lane. Green Lane Sharif Sharif Shar autbah people not a whole but a segment of autbah dedicated to me. [0:26] So Sheh Molana Sahib there's no harm in mentioning Molana Sab's name obviously the Molana to be fair the video had my name on it as in do not take knowledge from Muy Abu but uh he just referred to me as this MUI on Facebook dresses like this and makes a joke. So this was molana one of the ims molana I believe his name is [0:58] all right. So, so Molana Sahib takes a part of his Juma segment out to address me [snorts] and he says, "You know this jahil, how can a person be a muti when he's a jahil?" [laughter] What an argument. I just love the reasoning like that. I I love it. [1:21] [laughter] How can a person be capable when he's incapable? I love it. That's that's how you win arguments, people. So he said, "How can this person this jah this ignorant person he's mocking he's mocking the dean of Allah?" Hi Dean of Allah. [1:47] Right? So he said how this person's mocking mocking the first of all I just want to say people look you guys and I'm not dissing all salifies or anything but salifies let's just say here green lane seem to be very upset here I mean you're a multi- globally a multi-billion dollar kind of sect with so many contingents, so many units, international petrol dollars, all of these things. [2:24] You have even in the UK a multi-million pound organization, a group with all these people and followers. Yeah, I'm just one person [laughter] using Facebook free. Look how many of them there are gunning for me. [2:46] This this has to this is where the words of gabber gab sing fit so true. So Molana Sahib he kind of says, "Oh, this person he, you know, he he he he mocks Islam, mocks our the people of Tohed. [3:16] the people of [laughter] molana. We're also from those people of [laughter] you know why why are you why are you differentiating between when it comes to between us and you we're [laughter] all we're all the people of He says he mocks the people ofhed he mocks the hadith he mocks the he mocks and he mocks and he's a jah How can such people be [3:56] a muti? They are jahil. And then he says then he says I blame their parents. [laughter] So all those people following me he says that those people online because they're jah as well listening to me. So then he says you know really I blame their parents. [4:25] [laughter] He says I blame all their parents because why? How do their parents no their parents never taught them tohed their parents never taught their parents never taught them the correct akida. That's it. The correct akida is what has messed up these people today. So, they're all on Facebook live watching MUA Boule. [4:53] Uh, [laughter] I blame my parents, too. [laughter] Let's Let's blame everybody's parents. I want everybody to sit down and have that one to what? This is time to have that chat with the parents now. Say, uh, dad, mom, please sit down. We need to have that discussion. [5:17] [laughter] control. So he puts it down to the lack of in Muslims. But look, let's be honest. Let's be honest. Everybody's [snorts] everybody's really is something that Muslims have put together over the ages. ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment cKWRLHtBYgo/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ckwrlhtbygo/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.