# The snowman fatwas: building a snowman as an idol, or permitted by the dolls hadith - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/23/ - Date: 2021-01-26 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:45:37–1:52:26) - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKcNwGGIBA&t=6337s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/ **Topics:** Views on contemporary scholars; Tawhid and shirk **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks two fatwas on snowmen, one calling them idols and one permitting them by a hadith about dolls, saying such reasoning makes Muslims a laughing stock. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth turns to what he calls pressing matters: after heavy snow in the UK he plays a clip of the head of a group he calls 'the green turban lot' [?] ruling that a child making a snowman is making an idol and that the parents, not the child, will be sinful. He then shows another fatwa permitting snowmen because of the hadith in Bukhari that girls had dolls, and mocks the need to search hadith collections to decide whether children may build a snowman, saying such thinking has made Muslims a laughing stock and that one's Islam is massively problematic if it operates that way. He lists this alongside other figures he regards as disappointing public faces of Islamic teaching, including the ones he calls Danny boy [?] and Dawah Man. ## Sources and names cited - Dawat-e-Islami ('the green turban') [?] - report: the girls had dolls (unresolved; cited from Sahih al-Bukhari in the second fatwa) - Sahih al-Bukhari - Dawah Man - Daniel Haqiqatjou [?] ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:45:37–1:52:26) [1:45:18] somebody said na mufti was taller that's my presence you see my presence gives that so people all right let's move on right and in me little discussion people is all right let's move before we get to the me thing another interesting question and then i'm gonna come back to this hadith uh understanding hadith and things like that but in between people pressing matters one must attend to rather [1:45:55] right and that is as we can see right so people those of you who were in the uk or are in the uk uh know that and actually maybe in other parts of the world as well we've been struck with so much snow uh just suddenly at the blue right now with the snow comes the mass comes what no not not all the traffic accidents that happens with it comes the messiah people the messiah so here we are dealing with pressing [1:46:36] [Music] issues [Music] if you make it you're making an idol and the children won't but the the children not so much but the parents [1:47:16] will be sinful let me just play that again he's just pointing at the snowman right there you can see next to the kid kid's clearly going to hell for that foreign [1:47:52] all right so people this is uh the head of the the green turbine lot now he's given the ruling on the kids making a snowman as you can see and he says well this is making an idol and because the child is still a child it's his parents that will be thrown into hell [1:48:27] you're doing it man you're doing it i mean you're just on another level of comprehension and you know then there was this next there was this fatwa of uh if i show you this [Music] making a snowman is permitted because there's a hadith in bukhari that the women had dolls and because they could make dolls to sorry the girls little girls had dolls now [1:49:05] [Laughter] honestly what on earth is happening people what on earth is happening this uh you know if you have to justify children playing in the snow and making a snowman by saying let me find a hadith from bukhari to justify [1:49:37] oh my god seriously that you know i just don't wha what what is actually happening here people what is happening i mean this this is uh this is basically what you're doing going for honestly i i what is happening if you have to justify you know hey dad can we go make a snowman [1:50:08] wait [Laughter] yeah let me quickly go through seven thousand hadith i mean we become so handicapped that we can't think you know if you have to ask a question like that you know your islam is massively problematic massively if that's how you operate that can i build a snowman right let me look at the muslin of imam ahmad [1:50:50] honestly that this is we have become a laughing stock i mean this ah i don't know is it is it just me people or i don't it's ridiculous right yes so people what is going on yeah that's the green turban lot [Laughter] you know this is this is the problem in it in the religious circles this is all we get we get that we get danny boy danny boy those of you remember daddy boy [1:51:27] the great the genius danny boy 31 why people why so you get danny boy you get you know you're gonna get dawa man you're gonna get shady you're gonna get i mean this is the this is the kind of unfortunate kind of what you see for islamic teachings it's it's just disappointing [1:52:15] everywhere you turn you find somebody with sympathy huh he says maybe there's a lot of actors who live around here but yes so uh salaam musti would you start peace talks with farid yeah i mean i you know i'm gonna be honest i there's very few people who i've had a kind of um you know like a hatred for them in my heart very few all these people that i've ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment eoKcNwGGIBA/s/23. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/23/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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