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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 5 Jan 2021 › Segment 10 of 35

Can I take a mortgage, and can I urinate standing up?

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Mortgages and urinating standing up

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 10 of 35 in the recording2021-01-05-S10

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Bank interest is not the Quran's riba in his understanding, and urinating standing up is fine, with care over splashing.

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A super chat asks what Islam says about two things: taking a mortgage with riba and urinating standing up. After joking about the questioner's priorities, Mufti Abu Layth refers to his detailed video on riba and says that in his understanding the riba of the Quran refers to loan-sharking, not to regular bank interest. On urinating standing up he says yes, it is fine: the Hanafi school had a problem with it but the other schools are fine, and Imam Malik when asked did not object, only advising care with splashback. He adds that there is a hadith in which the Prophet relieved himself in that manner, so there is no sin.

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I have a question on two things: one is mortgage, one is urine. Can I undertake a riba mortgage? Can I urinate standing up? What does Islam say about these topics?

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Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, the riba of the Quran refers to loan-sharking and not to regular bank interest.

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“my understanding is that ribba is not ribba of the Quran is referring to loan sharky. It is not referring to regular interest that that takes place in the banks.”

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Nick Hobbes has said remove yourself from circles of toxicity honestly and I I I go a step further to say that unfortunately most religious circles are toxic. You know, if you've got if try and rem I know this is going to sound controversial, but I would say try and have circles of friends who are just normal people, you know, not just the because these religious circles, they they're very very suffocating and claustrophobic and toxic in my perspective.

Right. Uh I'm going to come back to that question on the um uh about the right. So Adnan Ashraf Salam I have a question on two things. One is mortgage, one is doing urine.

You know what? Adnan has got his point. You know what? He's got his priorities in life. One is two big problems right now in life. Can I undertake a ribba mortgage? Can I urinate standing up? [Laughter] One of these is going to drag me to hell.

But which one is it? Can I urinate standing up? Question is, Adnan Bisab, can you? Is this a talent? Are you trying to brag about it? He's like, hey, look at me.

I can do it standing up. I can do it. No hands, one leg. So right now can what? Oh sorry, sorry. What does Islam say about these topics? Yeah, I missed the most important part. What does Islam say about these topics? So Islam says when it is first of all on ribba, I've got look I've got a detailed video refer back to it.

Check it out. Uh in my video, my understanding is that ribba is not ribba of the Quran is referring to loan sharky. It is not referring to regular interest that that takes place in the banks.

Right? So that's not ribba in my understanding. So the other all and I've got a detailed video. So the reason I keep referring people to my videos, I'm not going to do justice here. You know, I'm not going to be able to sum up all of those views. As to your other great crisis of 2021 that can you urinate standing up?

Well, my answer is yes, you can. I hope you can. Right. So it is fine. I know that Hanfi Madhab did have a problem with it but the other Mhabs have been uh pretty much fine. Imam Malik when asked about it he you know he didn't have an issue. He just said well you know just be weary of the kind of splashback so to speak but uh that's it really.

And this hadith that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam uh did also relieve himself in such a manner. Um and it is it's there's there's no basically there's no sin. There's no problem. Don't worry about it. Cool. All right. Let's move on people. How can I get in touch with you? Insta. Uh, somebody says,

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-01-05-S10, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/10/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, January 5). Can I take a mortgage, and can I urinate standing up? [Video, segment 2021-01-05-S10, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/10/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Can I take a mortgage, and can I urinate standing up?" Video, segment 2021-01-05-S10, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 5, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/10/

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