Memoirs of a Mufti: Deceitful Imams Disrespecting Islam -Mufti Abu Layth

hmm some memories are some memories people I remember once I share a memory with you folks remember many years ago when I was doing my heap memorizing the Quran in Islamabad in Pakistan by towards the latter part of Ramadan they allowed us to go home so on our break so I'd gone home to the village so this is into Azad Kashmir those ends now I was there and see because I'm memorizing the Quran I've done perhaps about 16

Jews or something like this so I'm there and I go to the Torah we're and in sari in the daytime I go into the Masjid so the Imam sees me and he knows that who I am and he knows that I'm here memorizing the Quran so he said oh oh mashallah oh you're back you're here so I said yeah I'm just here on on a break and he said yeah yeah yeah yeah and so I said I just you know small talk I just said masha'Allah what Jews are you guys on today so he said to me oh how many

Jews have you memorized and you know back then I I don't know if I was naive but I think there was an adopted simplicity I had a very simple you know in my very early practicing days when I like obviously I was always Muslim but when I became fully like I immersed myself into I want to learn an hour I took a very ascetic kind of simply simple approach and very kind of hermetic like became like a hermit so this was in my late teens and I very you know like oh I don't want this is why I understand when people are going through

this stuff because I went through it as a teenager right so for a short while anyway until a hundred allah-allah haha rescued me from but there was that kind of hermit lifestyle and you gotta give this up for the sake of Allah and I'll just give it up like whatever it was out give it up like I wouldn't like I remember one of the things was I used to have long hair yeah so you know with the undercut back then so you could kind of tight as a ponytail thing so I just have long hair like that and I remember people saying this is haram you can't have these you know for the sake

of Allah so I went to the barbers to shave all my head like I was like for me it was if I want Islam I you know whatever people because at the time I don't I hadn't didn't have knowledge so what people told me to be Islam I perceived it to be true and so I just made the sacrifices like people told me you're not allowed to have luxury in life so I just find like I just gave stuff but people actually told me that it's really some nights you shouldn't you know people ought to kind of lay out mats and sleep on the floor and stuff like this so I was like okay it's how I stay this is so I went through all of

this kind of these phases so when I see people going through that stage of Islam I identify I understand why they it's not that I don't have an understanding that they think like oh this guy what does he know I went through that but Hum Dil I went through in an age where it was just deemed a phase and I was young and and then with time I kind of started to learn stuff and so Hamed allows kind of gave up that that kind of nonsensical approach but anyway back to this village so I was there and I said to him that I've memorized the Imam I've memorized

about 15 Jews so he said to me now I've got one of those major matrices one of those oh yeah one of those proper syncing awesome ones but the UC at that so I told him I've memorized half the Quran so he said the Imam said oh right that's okay wait we're ahead of you you don't know you haven't got to weigh on the 17th Jews so I was like okay now come to our wake-up time I'm there and the Imams he starts recite

ting and I wasn't paying attention first and then I started listening and he's just reading nonsense like he's not reading anything he's just going then he's just saying like a random like a common phrase to end like so like versus like cantaloupe I'll never say at all a lot like Bob and then you just I was like huh like what is he reading and so what caught my attention is he started reading certain verses from like Surat Annisa so I thought okay isn't that sort of - didn't he say to me is on the 17th

Jews so now I started to pay attention what is he reading so he was reading nothing he was just going like I was like how come I can't make out anything he's reading apart from like carob you know in the LA Academy mat that one of us here are in the like Antikythera my time alone you know just like although I leave I'm bossy and you just say like few words like that and that's it going

to so Jude so I'm thinking that made back come on you can't be like so I'm thinking zoom in with so he starts reading random verses from like a verse from surah yaseen like a popular verse so I'm thinking what isn't that verse from and then he'll read a popular verse from surah Baqarah and then in the story [Music] and in between he'll put like a verse a real verse but like a popular one so let's say you're gonna say something like I don't know like he's gonna Oh

mark Ana Muhammadan you know like something I had a mirror I had a marriage le come that verse isn't gonna come in other places of the Quran so you thinking wait wait a minute isn't that verse form and then he'll just jump to a verse from like surah Baqarah and you're thinking oh I know that very well haha that verse is from surah bakra eyes and you think what is he and then I realize this guy's blagging it he's in full on black mode this guy's

flagging the hell out of the era of the Quran no he's not reading any Quran this this is nothing this so I was like a cha cha cha cha cha he gave calorie up this is what's going down so afterwards we finished and so of he's gone into his kind of room where he had this you know the Imams room so I've gone in day so he see me is incredibly nervous and the guys like he looks at me and he's like so he's waiting so I don't want to embarrass him right too much like I was

kind of I want to see his response so I'll go masha'Allah so I'll go to mashallah so when when it was a bit so there were one two people still there I said I said yeah I said what what what Jews were we listening to today and stop he looks at me and he goes the 17th just I was like I'd like one of those straight faces I go MA so I go how was

the ask him I go how was the tea now what do you think had how do you find it oh my god because now like the cat was out of the bag the game was busted he knew I was on to him so he just went I've got not how did you find the kid ah how was it was it was it and so he goes to me mmm whatever what do you think of it I got I think mashallah [Music] so what happened is he waited for one two of these people to leave the room

and and then he goes to me I've been look I know the Quran he's the Imam of the mosque and this is a mosque where they have the rich so they have students who also they teach them here as well basically they call him in that part Pakistan we call him dervish so these kind of students who live in the mosque and study like that so and he wasn't he he wasn't like a young lad I mean he was young I mean by that it wasn't like it like a teenager kid or something this guy was probably like

maybe in his late 20s 30 like that kind of age so I was probably just at the time about 19 or something something like that so he goes he said to me oh you know what it is I I know the Koran solid trust me I know it so well you can test me but I have this disease I have this illness comes when I stand up on on the muscle on the Sujatha when I stand on the mat I forget everything and it's like an it's an illness I've got trust me it's a mental illness I'm not you know I wouldn't I'm not trying to mess around with the Quran I'm not trying to you know I'm not trying to do this I'm

not trying to do that and so it was hilarious so he goes to be pleased pleased I keep my you know my dignity don't expose me don't do this don't do that so I just said to him look I just said look you it's it's not my business yeah but you know what you're doing is wrong you know you've misleading these people man I said like look if you can't read the Quran then don't read it like oh if you want somebody else to read it get them to read it or if you're gonna read short surahs reach over but don't kind of like isn't this is like a joke with the Quran and I said look as far as exposing you is concerned like I go look

it's you know what you're doing is wrong Allah knows what you're doing is wrong and it's not going unknown like people know this but I said it's your responsibility I'm not here about trying to create some drama about you but I just think this is wrong and you know the son and he and he said to me he said look I'm just I've just got tomorrow's day left and then I'm gonna make one of those students read the rest of the Quran so please so I was like yeah cool whatever I just said look whatever like you know you know basically you know what's right and you know what's wrong and then I just really didn't attend them on a

mosque after that but yeah mine some interesting fun in games huh and then that good for nothing check this out see when you do something when you help someone he like after that he was suspicious that I had told me I hadn't I just keep myself to myself you went to my grandfather who was quite a simple man lived his life my paternal grandfather was a Singh simple man not my maternal grandfather he was a adorned

in the making but this my paternal grandfather was a very simple somebody very religious always prayed Easter had Jude always read the Quran through a certain portion of the night very kind of simple you know like a man like that and he went to him and he said oh do you know your son sorry your grandson has become a Wahhabi like check that out like what the hell and you told him that he's he's destroyed his Islam and he's done this and he's done that and not that obviously I wasn't a hobby but the point was that just as a propaganda just in case I expose him so he wanted to

take a pre-emptive shot at me baki politics honor this is what they call in the local lingo slang I should be shot anyway so now let's get to some of these questions people let's get to some of these questions what's going on I thought I'd I don't know why that memory came up but I thought let's share it with you guys