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Should Muslims mourn Husayn every year on Ashura?

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Should the death of Husayn be mourned every year?

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Mufti Abu Layth does not see annual mourning for Husayn as an Islamic practice and does not do it, but he does not condemn those who do.

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Mufti Abu Layth asks whether the anniversary of Husayn's death should be commemorated and says he does not personally do so. He says that in his opinion holding days of mourning or matam every tenth of Muharram is not an Islamic practice, but that he does not condemn people who choose to do it. He says all Muslims acknowledge it was a huge tragedy, but he does not feel it needs to be mourned every year or ritualised as the Shia have done; if they want to, he says, it is a free world and that is their take on Islam.

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Mufti Abu Layth says that in his opinion ritual annual mourning for Husayn is not an Islamic practice, though he does not condemn people who choose to do it.

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“I don't feel it's in my opinion it's not a um an Islamic practice but people who do do it I wouldn't personally I don't personally condemn them I don't condemn people who choose to do it”

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you know this this kind of thing but um so I that's my kind of take on the whole thing should we commemorate um this kind of death anniversary of um of of Hussein and I'm not I don't personally um do that I don't um to me it's not a you know this thing of commemorate like doing a matam this kind of um where you're mourning a like to have

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days of mourning so when you every 10th of Muharram we mourn Hussein uh I don't know I don't agree with that I think that that's um I don't feel it's in my opinion it's not a um an Islamic practice but people who do do it I wouldn't personally I don't personally condemn them I don't condemn people who choose to do it in my perspective of things I don't see it as a practice um I don't do it like that I obviously acknowledge I I'm sure all Muslims

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acknowledge that it was a huge tragedy but I don't feel it needs to be kind of mourned every year as an anniversary if a person personally does that sure that's fine but I don't think this this is to be like ritualized the way the Shia have it ritualized but that said if they want to do it you know it's a it's a free world it doesn't really that's their take of Islam and they want to do it you know fine I mean but I don't I don't personally see it I don't see it in my understanding it's not the Islamic thing to do but I get that that's their take

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, October 16). Should Muslims mourn Husayn every year on Ashura? [Video, segment 2020-10-16-S15, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/15/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Should Muslims mourn Husayn every year on Ashura?" Video, segment 2020-10-16-S15, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded October 16, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/15/

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@misc{abulayth-2020-10-16-S15,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Should Muslims mourn Husayn every year on Ashura?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {10},
  date = {2020-10-16},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/15/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iabl5vis3rg/s/15/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-10-16-S15, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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