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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 19 Jan 2021 › Segment 31 of 41

How does Ibn Rushd compare to other critical-minded scholars?

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QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 31 of 41 in the recording2021-01-19-S31

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Ibn Rushd is the most philosophical and most inclined to reason of the critical-minded scholars, Mufti Abu Layth says, and steadier in temperament than one he calls quick to takfir.

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Asked how Ibn Rushd compares to other scholars whose names the captions do not catch [?], Mufti Abu Layth says all of them are critical-minded, but Ibn Rushd is much more philosophical and more inclined towards reason than the others; the order he then gives is also lost in the captions. He turns to one of the scholars named, whose name the captions render only as initials [?], and says he was not philosophical: although he did a lot of good, spoke about welfare and challenged many things, he had a strong side of hate, as if he had two personalities, and was trigger-happy in declaring people disbelievers. By contrast, Mufti says, Ibn Rushd's personality was steady: traditional, inclined to philosophy, ruling for welfare wherever he could, and never snapping.

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Mufti Abu Layth says Ibn Rushd is more inclined towards reason than the other critical-minded scholars he was asked about, though all of them are critical-minded.

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“I Rush is more inclined towards reason than the others the others are all of these are inclined to some reason”

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wow you know I mean seriously coming from you know he mentions uh quite a few things I thought I'd sh share that it was definitely very interesting and he was a legend and somebody I'm generally very inspired by um there are some books that have been written about him there's somebody uh I forgotten the name they've written it's called Ian or something but it's it's a dramatized uh story in Arabic about the life of I rush but Co that uh do um read up on that if you you know if you have more interest in him but

cool a legend of the Maliki M People AB Al all right people let's move on we're getting a bit late how does and compared to and yeah um you see all of these people to be fair that you've mentioned are critical minded the difference is that I Rush is incredibly philosophical much more philosophical than um than all the rest

there I Rush is more inclined towards reason than the others the others are all of these are inclined to some reason but if I was to put them in order then it would go and then that's how I would place them in favoring reason um but they are all critical minded It's just what kind of pulls their the the their their fancy in that in that angle

cool and I T yeah he he's not really somebody that's philosophical or anything like that and the problems with just to briefly with andn but more so is you see although he did a lot of good and he did speak about welfare and he was critical and he challenged a lot of things and and that's cool that's great if he just stopped there you know when you're on a rooll and you're like you know I think I should just stop here you're like n you know when I'm doing this good

so uh he decided to just keep going and keep swinging and you see the problem is he had a strong side of hate to him almost like a whether almost as though he had multiple personality disorder schizophrenia bipolar this guy was he was like two this he has this side that like when he hates he just you know he like hates everyone just like and and and cfir C cfir CF cfir and so it's weird his person whereas the personality of Rush is

static you know somebody loves philosophy he's always inclined that way he's not like he was never this kind of like to doesn't snap pretty much the same you know somebody just you know he's in he's traditional but he's in line of welfare rules for it wherever he can and he's just static he doesn't kind of snap even t a snaps and that's the problem you know we don't know what do you do with that when you've got a you know you've got this person just C it c c trigger happy so yeah that detracts

cool people let's take uh let me take a quick somebody said my first time here don't worry trigger first time there's a lot we experience first time don't worry someone help trigger with the a direct channel in opening up a direct channel to how to write questions so somebody said Dan fourth in Toronto is Bangladesh okay I don't know that but

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, January 19). How does Ibn Rushd compare to other critical-minded scholars? [Video, segment 2021-01-19-S31, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/31/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "How does Ibn Rushd compare to other critical-minded scholars?" Video, segment 2021-01-19-S31, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 19, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/31/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{How does Ibn Rushd compare to other critical-minded scholars?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {1},
  date = {2021-01-19},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/31/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/31/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-01-19-S31, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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