Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 19 Jan 2021 › Segment 14 of 41
Who is Dr Abdul Majid, your Mind Trap guest?
imaam imams prayer leader masjed masaajid masajid muftis haraam forbidden riba ribaa sood usury salafis salafism wahhabi wahabi wahhabism 'alim aalim in sha allah insha'allah in shaa allah insha allah inshaa allahWho is Dr Abdul Majid? The coming Mind Trap on BukhariGate and their history
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth will discuss BukhariGate with Dr Abdul Majid on Mind Trap, despite past hostile videos, and hopes it will be positive.
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Asked who Abdul Majid is, Mufti Abu Layth announces a Mind Trap discussion with him on Thursday about the questions he raised in BukhariGate, saying he wants people to engage, since silence does not show an argument's worth. He describes Dr Abdul Majid as a Salafi-oriented scholar based in Luton, ethnically Indian, who lived in Dubai and has a doctorate whose subject he means to ask about. He recounts that around early 2018 the doctor asked for a dialogue on the second coming of Jesus and was invited down but did not come, and that when an imam released old WhatsApp audio of Mufti telling jokes with swear words, framed as abuse of his critics, the doctor made a video slating him. Mufti says he has openly said swearing is not haram, and that the clip backfired. He says the doctor's recent BukhariGate replies were first smug and then rude, though without swearing, but he still hopes the discussion will be positive.
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Mufti Abu Layth says swearing is not haram.
“it's not like I say I don't swear I've said openly swearing is not Haram I mean I'm not swearing at someone”
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this is uh uh this this one this one demand you know jenta demand the public demand who is Abdul Majid who is Abdul Majid oh Abdul Majid yes of course that's uh this week we're going to be having a uh um a discussion on M trap inshallah on Thursday night which uh will deal which will cover the topic of uh bukari gate why not it won't cover why bukari G
but it'll cover my this whole these questions that I've raised so that'll be interesting I yeah you know what it is I want people to engage me because the problem is that you see when nobody engages you obviously they're not engaging you because really a lot of them are just too insecure and they're not clued up on these kind of topics but still it doesn't show the worth of the argument unless it's being kind of discussed so
yeah Ma Ma so so I'm I think that will be fun who is he he is a umth scholar a salafi im who is based in luten England he this is all I know about him that he uh came to the UK he's ethnically Indian but he came to the U he he lived in Dubai for a I think a substantial period of time he his name is I mean he
has the title doctor so he says he's done a PhD I'm not sure doesn't say what his PhD is in it's a good point actually I'll ask him what is your PhD what's the thesis in um and he he he lived in Dubai he came here I think maybe 10 15 years ago and he's been I think an Imam of a mosque or he's been operating I'm pretty sure maybe an Imam or a kind of U part-time Imam in some mid but yeah cool I do think uh I think it'll be inter like I mentioned I did think that I did watch some of his stuff I'm going to be
honest like in some of his things initially um he you see the backdrop was he first made contact with me when the Jesus thing happened HH Jesus thing so and that time he was very polite and respectful and he said he'd like a dialogue on uh the the second coming of Jesus so I said yeah cool and we had some intermediaries and I kind of messaged saying look what invite him down let's come down but he didn't really come down and I think he wanted me and assar or something she
assar to attend his Masjid whil he gives a speech on the matter which you know come on that was never going to happen I mean and so um so I mean okay so maybe he took a offense to that um that you know we kind of we didn't ghost him but we didn't we weren't interested in going to his Masque but I did invite him down at that time this is going maybe in this is early 2018 I said to him look come you know you could be a guest you can stay we'll sort out accommodation and we'll have a dialogue but he didn't turn up he
didn't follow that through then I remember a while later um I don't know whether it was a I don't know when uh maybe like half a year later or something um some of these people they my my haters haters as the bukari gate thing started so a lot of people started kind of hating on me because they didn't know how to answer it so one of these people I knew who was a u an like an Imam he lives in America from years ago like three years ago he had some
uh WhatsApp clip audio notes of me kind of cracking some jokes and swearing um and you know to be honest this is nothing new it's not like I say I don't swear I've said openly swearing is not Haram I mean I'm not swearing at someone in the thing I'm kind of telling a joke so I'm telling a joke that has swear words in it and stuff so he decided to I don't know release that on YouTube in and they thought this will somehow bring me down because I was this was the time bukari gate was going on so they
thought that um this will somehow or it was kind of boiling up bubbling up bukari gate was so they thought that this will somehow bring me down obviously what what they didn't realize is this you know I don't pretend to be Pious I mean this in fact so many people watched it and actually loved it I was like okay okay that weirdly backfired um although when it was first released I was kind of disappointed because they made it out as though I was swearing at someone which it wasn't like if you can understand Udu you can tell
I'm just cracking a joke but they titled it that look this is how he speaks to his uh detractors and people who challenge him and it wasn't it was just you know me saying oh you know somebody says this you can check it out but it's in uru and so at that time Dr Abdul Majid what he did was he made a video really kind of slating me like really going in at me and I remember because you know some people sent it to me at the time few people sent it to me at the time saying oh my God and he really went in May you know this
person's disgusting and he's like this and he's scum and blah blah blah and you know like all this and because of that I kind of had no interest in ever engaging him just because of the kind of tone and stuff he was using about me um now recently he kind of emerged again with this bukari gate I've got the answers to Mu AB bukari gate now his first clip was kind of I don't know like it was still a bit smug but it was kind of okay I just didn't understand why his points were but and then he seems to have got offended again because he made a video
clip saying look um so the first clip he goes on for about two hours I I didn't get the point though so I said that in a Monday nights and uh he does say in it I'd like I challenge you know I want a discussion so I said yeah t let's have a disc come on M trap then he made another video putting a bit of Il me point in there but also being quite rude like um but not fullon rude but saying things like you know Abu his worshippers AB you know this kind of stuff and going on um saying like oh Abu
just thinks his his he thinks everything about him is so good he thinks his Arabic is so good he thinks this is so good he think oh you know like being constantly taking being very kind of um um you know but he's not fullon like he you know he wasn't kind of swearing at me in this but he was being hence I still I said look let's you know I don't want to kind of let's call him on still let's have this chat and let's see how it goes so I'm hoping that the discussion is positive it doesn't turn into this kind of uh cuz when he spoken about me even just last week or sorry
two weeks ago on this clip it was a bit borderline not borderline it was rude but it just wasn't swearing so I was thinking to myself well hm Jello even if he wants to it's not like it's the first time but I'm hoping he can bring and answer the questions cool let's move on people uh Muti check my super chats are you super Jolly huh Mr super Jolly hi hi hi hi
why does uh my jolliness bother [Laughter] people you know why uh you know uh unes nanii s he was uh a great debater he's from um a kind of uh a a shoot of the dndi backdrop although he had his own opinions and quite different not all Dio bundis agree with them they very
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