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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 5 Jan 2021 › Segment 7 of 35

Can we call coronavirus the UK virus?

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Should we call it the UK virus? Mutations, government agendas and the Wuhan lab

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 7 of 35 in the recording2021-01-05-S07

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No: the virus did not originate in the UK, which only has a mutation; he believes it came from the Wuhan lab, though not on purpose.

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A super chat asks whether the coronavirus can be called the UK virus since it originates there. Mufti Abu Layth says it does not originate there; the talk is of a mutation, and viruses mutate all the time, which is why there is no universal flu jab. He says he is somewhat suspicious of what the government says and thinks it sometimes highlights things like the new strain in line with enforcing lockdowns, while not denying the virus is real. He says the virus did come from China and that he believes it came from the Wuhan lab, manipulated rather than released on purpose. He agrees with a chat comment that people's stubbornness made the lockdown necessary and corrects a claim that the virus is two years old.

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Can we start calling coronavirus the UK virus, since it originates from there?

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Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the coronavirus came from the Wuhan lab and was manipulated there, though not released on purpose.

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“I do believe still that it was um it was the kind of result of laboratory kind of work. I think that the corona virus came from the Wuhan lab.”

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authentic is then the m of IM Malik but what Malik has taught us in the book is that we reject as well as accept these hadith. So there's hadith in the MA that Malik is rejecting. Rahimahi from Germany says much love much love to you too Gio Gio. He says Li.

So Dean you're doing it. Much love for the super chat. There's another super chat there by Isa. Can we start calling Corona virus the UK virus originates from there? Uh it doesn't originate from there but they're speaking about the mutation. Now to be fair you know there's when you look at works um viruses often mutate all the time given in many cases even within a set number of weeks a virus will mutate.

Hence we don't have things like um you know we don't have a universal flu jab. It has to keep getting uh updated because the virus is is changing. So the corona virus is no exception and it was meant to change and and it has although I am somewhat uh I am somewhat suspicious of what the government has to tell us.

You know I I find it difficult to believe uh that everything the government is saying is true. So I think sometimes they push a particular agenda like highlighting this new strain uh certainly in line with needing to enforce certain lockdown procedures and certain things. Now one could say well that's why they're doing it but I I don't know which one comes first.

It's difficult sometimes. I don't know. Although the virus is obviously true. I'm not denying that. Right. So, what is going on? Virus are deadb [Laughter] according to Allah receiving their risk.

So, M yeah it somebody said that the virus came from China. It did. It did come from China and I do believe still that it was um it was the kind of result of laboratory kind of work. I think that the corona virus came from the Wuhan lab.

And although I don't buy into the fact uh that it was on purpose, but I do think that it was um manipulated. Okay. So the virus is a real virus, but they were working on the corona virus for many years in the Wuhan. What's going on?

Oh, that just froze for a moment there. So, um I do feel that it came from the lab. But yeah, let's move on to more interesting questions, people. What is going on? What are the Facebook people saying? Let's see. Had people not been stubborn and this lockdown wasn't necessary? Sure, that is true.

um COVID 19 has now has lived now two years. Uh I don't know about lived I I suppose it's in circulation but it's more probably probably you know still under one and a half year emerges in 2019 probably October time right Salam from Kansas Navidid you're doing it Nav you're doing it Hassan Radwan a you're doing it you're doing it

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, January 5). Can we call coronavirus the UK virus? [Video, segment 2021-01-05-S07, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/7/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Can we call coronavirus the UK virus?" Video, segment 2021-01-05-S07, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 5, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eo90sv4jvho/s/7/

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