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Thoughts on Muawiyah? | Mufti Abu Layth

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1 · 0:00What do you think of Mu'awiya?The companions · Succession and the first civil wars · source not recordedmachine 1 min 56 s0:00on YouTube

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um somebody asked what's my thoughts on amir muhammadillah and i do i uh see said iran as a great figure in islam i do highly respect him i i understand that he they they had disagreements amongst the companions i actually kind of like the uh the statesmanship of maawyas he was incredibly astute and really knew how you know some people are cut out to rule and i would feel that muawiyah was one of those people that was cut out you know he's cut from that cloth like he knew how to rule and you can't deny that i mean in his 40 years of

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rulership he never within sham had an uprising against him like that's just amazing isn't it and i quoted the story once where he went past uh this he he was going past this place and this lady was complaining and she's saying ah she used to be really pro ali and anti moabia and he said that i've heard your crops or whatever and she said she was complaining that she didn't have the crops and things like this and he said so you want me to would you like me to assist you from the state fund to give you some and she said yeah okay and he said okay i'll give you and then he said to her he said you know

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if i if it was ali [Laughter] he wouldn't give you because he would say no you know there's a certain system and i'm not i'm just going to give you and and she says yeah that's because he's more just [Music] [Laughter] just laughs you know you gotta love it though he kind of laughs and he says to the guy he says give her the crops [Laughter] and i just i just love that narration like the way i don't know it's it's it's amazing

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, February 13). Thoughts on Muawiyah? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dynujs-dtmu/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Thoughts on Muawiyah? | Mufti Abu Layth." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded February 13, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dynujs-dtmu/
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@misc{abulayth-DYnuJS-DTMU,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Thoughts on Muawiyah? | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {2},
  date = {2021-02-13},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dynujs-dtmu/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dynujs-dtmu/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}