Don't let people bully you into beliefs | Mufti Abu Layth

what is going on but let's take let's take controversy one by one a kicker Kajal make a line time to pick a number and get in line this so five pillars five pillars mashallah this on muslim muslim journalism you know journalism this guy you know this daily this this and these five pillars they are so

obsessed with me and it's amazing because they they claim to be an international muslim organisation that is covering global events affecting this muslim ummah and yet they are they are covering me so I'm loving it this is Wow because you know at the end of the day no press is bad press people because when they look whoever they reach out to it's not really my crowd okay so whoever they reach out to they will definitely

be at least a five to ten percent margin that will go away watch me and think actually this guy is making sense and then there were Allah so this is so I'm in many ways kind of indebted to these people for continuously and persistently and consistently being obsessed with me it's great effort man it's hard work I gotta say but they they show truest akarma anything they can find on me they

will publish it publishes a grand word for them but they will just make some online little article so today I saw one that was sent that almost he doesn't believe in the afterlife says it's symbolic I've got many video clips which are on YouTube where I'm already tackling this issue and what they've got is an extract of mine from my discussion with Abdullah Cordell where I'm speaking of the afterlife and I've said that the imagery in the Quran

is in my understanding symbolic now you don't need to agree with that I've not asked you to agree with that that would be ridiculous if I asked you to agree with me then that would just be dogma but you see to me that's my reading of the Quran we know Allah when he and people may say how first of all what is symbolism like let's say if I asked you to represent the concept of freedom how would you do it one example is you could have let's say

here's a here's an image let's say a beautiful white horse running fast along I mean it's running along this often is in a kind of a a picturesque scene that is used to demonstrate freedom the sim it symbolizes freedom a dove white dove is often used as symbolism for the concept of freedom to me the continuity that this dunya life does not end here

there is continuity that continuity is complex to explain so the this kind of imagery is simply symbolic it is just to help certain people who would need it to get party otherwise the Prophet himself said nobody can even conceptualize what the afterlife is about so the Prophet said or Mahaprabhu barely by shutting up not a single human could ever conceptualize if you can't even conceptualize if you can't even conceptualize

something how can you express it in words so to me the afterlife the imagery in the Quran is symbolic you may say well really and then I will draw your attention to Allah describing himself in the Quran and what is much greater than the afterlife is God himself and God uses imagery he uses symbolic imagery Allah who Norris emeriti will of Allah is the light of the heavens and year this is symbolism this isn't literal so if Allah can be symbolic when referring to himself what

is heaven in hell so that's an you see you may disagree with me and that's fine it doesn't bother me that you disagree with me there's been many people I mean if you look at great people in the past even a rushed the Maliki legend if you look at the great Sufi even ROV and his writings many of it and he's highly revered by the Sufis he said many similar he said this kind of he said exactly this but this is just all symbolic and he said that even when God says he's gonna punish people it's just a lower sense of mercy like it's still

he's gonna reward them that's what he meant and he said a verb comes from the word Zuba from sweetness but my point of saying this is that look there are certain proper concepts which are problematic to many people and I would accept that they have problematic so if we were to say that things like let's let's say you've done a crime and for that crime you must be burnt there is an element of a punishment being commensurate and many people will find

this concept in common clash so in in contrast they will find it kind of clashing with the concept of compassion the concept of mercy the concept of they find it many people most Muslims just don't think about it that deeply but if they did they will struggle because to them they will think well you know it shouldn't really be like that so this is why I've said look this is my reading of the Quran I feel that this imagery was they and it was they really for the for

the people it was revealed to and we are just an extension so saying that the Quran is enticing men towards let's say shade but if you lived in a cold part of the world if you lived in Antarctica or the north you know Arctic or Alaska I mean telling you that Heaven's gonna have shade it's not really appealing to you or telling you that look heaven is gonna have rivers of milk no I mean I don't think most men today is in this part of the world find that appealing at all in fact I'm sure many people will find it quite

the opposite they don't want a river of honey like I wouldn't want a river of honey I wouldn't want a river of milk but these kind of things were of appeal to when they were revealed so it just used imagery that would resonate with the people that's all so and you can disagree with that that's fine I'm not asking and there's many people who will take this literally there's others who will take it metaphorically and others who would take it symbolically and I've got look detailed videos on YouTube where I discuss this you can watch that and that's fine but I think you know

what's what's shocked what's interesting and amusing and also depressing was not as in depressing for me but depressing to think about what other people are going through people that there are what these people are trying to I mean miserably obviously if they're failing I mean it doesn't work with me but but with the amongst themselves they are bullying people into beliefs like let's bully this person because he believes something a bit different

believes people believes not even you know this bullying of all kinds this bullying of and bullies are always just evil right miserable low lives but this bullying in in institutions bullying in schools bullying in workplaces in in all kinds of environment this bullying of that nature that exists everywhere and this is to bully somebody so they they can't even be free in their beliefs how

miserable is that that they won't even they don't want people to be able to just believe for themselves like no no we must control this person's belief structure that is such a miserable existence to live like that and well why he one of the things I'm so grateful for is that I've kind that Allah gave me the circumstances to kind of leave this religious people bubble that I'm not really I mean I'm obviously what I say

impacts them and they have to respond to me and things like but my day-to-day life has nothing to do with like religious that religious people bubble at all and I love it honestly I'm so he is one of if I could give you guys advice those of you that are religious gradually build you you know expand this bubble and then burst it and then just live your life I mean be true to your faith but leave it being true and genuine to yourself don't be in these relate these

bubbles of religious people are them some of the most judgmental places to be trapped in honestly I'm and I'm being honest about this like I spoke last week about shell chaos and you know today I bumped into somebody and we at the hairdresser's I like you do and we had this brief chat about this and and we spoke about certain things and we mentioned this thing about sure here's our adi now share here sir called the just saying a few things and getting so much slack I can say anything I can do anything I

dress how I want I do what I want I believe what I want what makes sense to me I speak it I teach it I live it and I don't care and what these people have to say does not bother me and yet in this way with this attitude Allah has granted me that the love of so many people that they find solace in my words that yet these people in these bubbles they stay you have to watch every word so

carefully share here sir are they made a simple example of saying things like oh this the Islamic world and the Islamic world you know that kind of institutionalized ways like the Newtonian way and today it's like the you know we're in Einstein's world and we need to kind of upgrade our way of thinking and he got so much slack and he's probably gonna have to justify what he said and he's gonna have to kind of like play gymnastics and explain because he's worried about the crowd forget that crap forget these people man you

understand be true to who you are leave this this in in this world I tell you it will be the greatest regret that you have you know those of you that are familiar with star the Osama cannon a great you know an amazing inspiration from the states who unfortunately is suffering with a terminal illness ALS and going through which is a neuronal did

kind of illness now in his in current times it's impacted his his speech because it's kind of causing everything to dilapidate mela you know grant amis may allah grant his family ease he's an amazing he was an amazing person did great work and is doing great work now in in this time when his speech and these things have been impeded he's exploring so he's still on social media is still kind of active in and people write things up for him and things like

that and and he says that he's been exploring things like music and how it gives him solace and how it helps him and these kind of things and he's he said that you know one of these greatest kind of regrets if you like is the fact that for so long he deprived himself of being of of this just because of what others you know following what these shakes will say and what that mallanna will say and what this person will say and and any you know that in a way like expressing in a way that i wish i'd

never really just just lived real and true for myself that that's what this life is people that's what allah has given you as a gift he's giving you a mind use it leave it don't don't be trapped in this bubble don't let people bully you into believing things that oh if you don't believe this list of things we will believe you they can't believe you who do they this is twenty nineteen people you know we're not living in something like 1642 that this the audacity that people have and it is

exactly that very nature that monstrous nature that monstrosity that has chased chased people from what i believe is this beautiful theme it's chase people away from and people may say that I'm crazy and eccentric and I chat all kinds of things maybe I do but I can tell you that by nothing from what I've said has a person ever left this theme but many many have come back to it and found solace in the

faith by words that I have said so surely they must carry some meaning that there must be something in them in this way of thinking yet these people this kind of Taliban eyes this kind of caveman culture of trying to do we will force faith this kind of policing people's ideas this is the antithesis of what Islam came with this this theme was born free people yet today they've locked it in Chains the prophet

sallallahu alayhi wasallam never taught people creed if you cannot find a single hadith that mentions beyond a handful of things in what to believe in believe in God that they will things will not end in this life that there was revelation and that God is all-powerful this was it for over a hundred and fifty years the self of this Ummah people you know from the Sahaba from the turban in from the at-fault a being to the likes of Imam Malik the dawn of al-madinah never taught people Dogma they never taught they never wrote

down what you meant to believe it was wisdom in that return to the way of the cell of people the age of the mullahs is over okay the rain has been lost people that what I would say is that look think for yourself that's what this thing came for if I could give any kind of advice and just be don't allow this to just kind of permeate the Muslim scene

because it will just really destroy the face of Islam so that if I can give you know if you can take any message from what I'm saying take that right I would write following on from that right following on from so that's this this article that these people were saying with Abdullah kunda all right I think I just saw on here it said that after lagoon doll was on it tuned in hello Salman a Louis Allen who Shama deed right so people build bridges talk

to people with a Muslim non-muslim ex-muslim apostate whatever talk to them okay and it's great to talk and when people have opposite ideas I think we should have dialogue okay I've I've asked as well because I know that star Daniel hockey code Jew has spoken in the past about apostasy I've asked Daniel hockey Gazoo for a dialogue on apostasy let's see if he accepts if he does accept I think it would be amazing it would be amazing so

that I think because we need to kind of discuss things okay cool so move