# Would the Mufti debate a Salafi scholar on aqidah?

*Open challenge to Salafi scholars: prove your aqidah from the Quran alone*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cv8zmcmypk0/s/1/
- Date: 2020-11-17 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Debate challenge to any salafi scholar on aqeedah | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:46)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV8ZMcMyPk0&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cv8zmcmypk0/

**Topics:** Debate challenges and reviews; Salafism and Wahhabism; Creed and the schools of theology

**Question as asked:** Will the Mufti debate Salafi scholars?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Yes: he challenges any learned Salafi to prove their aqidah obligatory from the Quran alone. He says he is sure none can do it clearly.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he guarantees that no Salafi scholar can clearly prove from the Quran alone that the Salafi aqidah, as they preach it, is valid and a must.

**Evidence, his words at 1:25:** “i guarantee you they won't be able to prove their ah either from the quran quran only” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV8ZMcMyPk0&t=85s)

## Longer summary

Asked whether he would debate Salafi scholars, Mufti Abu Layth issues an open challenge to any learned Salafi to come on his channel and debate their aqidah. His condition is that they prove their aqidah valid, and obligatory as they preach it, from the Quran alone, without hadith or quotations from Ibn Taymiyya. He says he guarantees and would swear by Allah that none of them can do so clearly and conclusively, even with all their minds together and one spokesperson. He recalls an earlier meeting in which someone who came to debate him was left unable to answer.

## Sources and names cited

- Salafi
- aqidah
- Ibn Taymiyya

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–2:46)

[0:04] will muftibulate debate any salafi scholars bring any salafi scholars to debate me i will debate any salafi scholar on their akida there you go open challenge open challenge challenge i give the challenge uh and if they want to just come on my mind trap anybody who upholds the salafi akida and is learned in it i give them the challenge they can come on my mind trap i will openly i will leave them speechless

[0:45] they'll forget their akida they'll be like i i just want them to come and prove they're either to be valid from only the quran sunnah remember the condition quran muslim just just only only i guarantee you none of them can do it none of them can do i've got that much confidence in it they can put all their minds together have one spokesperson you know i had this guy turn up once a medina graduate and we had this meet up and he came to debate me or

[1:25] he was left speechless he he literally couldn't speak like i was like right so they won't debate me on these things mufti is my favorite muslim dear drdo right so i love the conflict the confidence is well placed i guarantee you they won't be able to prove their ah either from the quran quran only okay nothing else i don't want no

[2:02] ibn tamiya dada even a tamiya's quote i want just the quran you prove your either to be valid right as you as you preach it to be a must and i'll debate you on it right you won't be able to do it i guarantee it i to that extent that i can swear by allah they will not be able to not i mean not conclusive not i don't mean they'll just say oh look this means this and no no no clear clear quran clearly not a single they won't be able to prove it

[2:41] you know the way they have the salafiyah

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment cV8ZMcMyPk0/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cv8zmcmypk0/s/1/

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