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Inappropriate Names | Mufti Abu Layth
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machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossarywhat I'm saying my parents butchered my name well team they definitely did they just made up the name they just go what should we call him you know shall we go with the traditional name that exists I don't know names Abdul Rahman here we go with Mohammed should we go with the slicker name like I don't know something Salim Samir I don't know they're trying to Waseem they go on ah forget it just make one up
welcome we're gonna whack him anyway so [Laughter] you know that's an interesting discussion folks people need to pay attention to the names that they choose for their children I mean having a name like like let's say
having a name like anis in in the West spelt Amos I've actually seen that I'm not I'm not making this up people you know I passed me buh-buh-bah have I ever lied before that I would like today this is least I've seen the name anus I thought what anus idea what what is this they've had the name seriously now why
are you totally why are you setting that person up for what is this like a kind of euthanasia longitudinal assisted suicide Amos I mean you've got the you've got the Arabic name are us I mean with all due respect you do not want to name your child living in the West us because they're gonna go like us I mean they're not gonna say with a name
let's be real people they're not gonna go oh they're gonna just say us like what kind of oh and then you give them the first name [ __ ] her [ __ ] her [ __ ] her what rather this is this is why we need to think these things through we need to kind of like focus yeah you know the problem is nobody reads the Quran it
says a fella taka-kun use the acha you know this one this are you say mr. [ __ ] mr. [ __ ] no [ __ ] ass no these are not nice you know this one big problem [Laughter] so so bottle bottle bah people need to think these things through people they need to kind of focus okay
so yeah I was in Pakistan once and I mean I was in Pakistan for a period of time but this one time I came across somebody in a village and his name was mocked all which meant murdered I thought what I thought maybe his name is moon or something and I've misheard it so I said this is my bully said no no
mock tool I thought were they hinting something was this was it a threat when you're born and tamaak tall anyway
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2019, November 6). Inappropriate Names | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fiq59zcj9ku/
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@misc{abulayth-Fiq59Zcj9KU, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Inappropriate Names | Mufti Abu Layth}}, year = {2019}, month = {11}, date = {2019-11-06}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fiq59zcj9ku/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fiq59zcj9ku/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }