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5Pillars' coverage of Mufti Abu Layth and its article claiming he denies the afterlife
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth reacts to a 5Pillars article claiming he does not believe in the afterlife, which drew on a clip of him calling the Quran's afterlife imagery symbolic. He says no press is bad press and that he has addressed the issue in many videos.
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Taking the controversies one by one, Mufti Abu Layth turns to 5Pillars, which he describes as a Muslim news site that claims to cover global events affecting the ummah yet keeps covering him. He says he is enjoying it, since no press is bad press: of whoever they reach, a margin will watch him and find he makes sense, so he feels indebted to their persistent attention. He says they publish anything they can find on him, and that today's article says he does not believe in the afterlife and calls it symbolic, based on an extract from his discussion with Abdullah Kunde [?] in which he said that the imagery of the afterlife in the Quran is, in his understanding, symbolic. He notes that he already has many videos on YouTube addressing the issue.
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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
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2019, August 21). 5Pillars' coverage of Mufti Abu Layth and its article claiming he denies the afterlife [Video, segment 2019-08-21-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/1/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2019. "5Pillars' coverage of Mufti Abu Layth and its article claiming he denies the afterlife." Video, segment 2019-08-21-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded August 21, 2019. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/1/
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@misc{abulayth-2019-08-21-S01, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{5Pillars' coverage of Mufti Abu Layth and its article claiming he denies the afterlife}}, year = {2019}, month = {8}, date = {2019-08-21}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/1/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ewmbn7jv9dk/s/1/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2019-08-21-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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