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Is the word 'wahabi' offensive? | Mufti Abu Layth

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0:00

Right, move this. It's wrong to use the term Wahhabi. Wahhabi happens to be one of the names of of Allah. Wahhabis are not Allah. Right, heavy ma'am love you that Hadith came to mind and so it does. Right, so Wahhabi is it derogatory to use the term Wahhabi?

0:28

I mean, it might be derogatory to the people that you call Wahhabis, but it's not wrong in Islam to say the word Wahhabi because Wahhab is also a name of Allah, but that's not what's meant here by any sense and people understand that. See, Wahhabi is in reference to Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. And the sorry thing is that you see he's the one who did all the you know you know we have this word put.

0:56

It's in our lingo. You know, when somebody does some garbar when they they kind of do a bit of fitna facade. They kind of mess things up. So, we call that put. So, this guy he does all this put so to speak. And and people don't kind of give rag or him. They don't kind of have a go at him.

1:22

I mean, they do, but the name that embodies that disaster of what he did is his dad is that gets it for free. Because his name was Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. That's his dad's name. So, so people going Wahhabis Wahhabis. I mean, don't get me wrong. I will say it as well at times, but the in essence that's his dad who's getting it for free I guess, but but people mean by him.

1:50

So, they mean the movement the Wahhabi movement and things like this. It's not wrong Islamically, but obviously it can be provocative and I mean people use it, I get it. I I use it at times, so it's not a

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, January 16). Is the word 'wahabi' offensive? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gnnlias4r6e/
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  title = {{Is the word 'wahabi' offensive? | Mufti Abu Layth}},
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  date = {2020-01-16},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
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