# Opening: sound check, a UK curfew and tonight's plan

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/1/
- Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:29–8:51)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=29s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth checks the sound, comments on new UK coronavirus restrictions and previews the night, from Shari'ah rulings to the Pagan-gate row.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth opens with a sound check for viewers on YouTube and Facebook and jokes about his coffee and about whether he needs a toilet break. He laments that, after a month of being urged to eat out, the UK faces new coronavirus restrictions and a curfew, and hopes gyms will not be closed. Mufti sets out the night's plan: some mind-boggling Shari'ah rulings with the evidences, a brief review of the book In God's Path, and the 'saga' he calls Pagan-gate. He describes that row as a tag-team wrestling match between Daniel Haqiqatjou, whom he calls 'Danny Boy', joined by Dawah Man, and Omar Suleiman with Yasir Qadhi and others on his side, and says none of them is innocent and that it is a house of cards.

## Sources and names cited

- In God's Path (Robert Hoyland)
- 'Pagan-gate': the row over Omar Suleiman and a libation ritual at a border protest (2020)
- Daniel Haqiqatjou
- Dawah Man
- Omar Suleiman
- Yasir Qadhi

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:29–8:51)

[0:28] alright let me just

[1:08] first and foremost just do a quick sound check just bring out both of me those from facebook and those from youtube that's it i can see you all now you're doing it folks you're doing it you're doing it yeah somebody said mufti loves a good chai yeah i had to i won't lie i had to go get my uh you know i've been experimenting with the whole french press thing and coffee and

[1:52] it's ah these things have to be done right i didn't uh yeah it's uh as always people yeah uh up somebody said about the the you know the timing it's a bit like the oh that's i'm just checking the mics fine it's a bit like the drinking rule it's gotta be monday somewhere you know what they say it's got to be 6 p.m somewhere so that's what it's a bit like [Laughter]

[2:30] so what is going down what is going down people we've got quite a bit to cover hell yeah absolutely people absolutely so let me just give that a twirl somebody said uh somebody quite concerned that does mufti uh not need a toilet break there have been times where i have needed one [Laughter] but i think i'll i'll manage all right so how are you doing i'm doing well lyle

[3:08] and i'm doing well so all right frowty frogger is in the house abu safura claire jones you're doing it as always you're doing it as always you guys as always absolutely oh and a shout out a special requested shout out going out to the drinking companion aka nadeem

[3:38] you're doing it man you're doing it so people people yeah first and foremost we have to come to the uh sad and unfortunate news that yep in the uk coronavirus the scare tactics are there again but after a month of uh help out eat out go out as much as you can now the whole of the uk is about to be treated like brown daughters

[4:17] [Laughter] they're gonna have a curfew man i hope the curfew is not generic i mean okay to be more precise i hope they don't sting gyms and they don't mean you gotta be inside your home that's like just military state totalitarianism because people like me who are vampires that will hi uh it's gonna it's gonna make us have to be maybe on the wrong side of the law nothing new there i guess

[5:01] so people's peoples right alright shadman you're doing it man you're doing it so let's see what are we going to be covering tonight uh right we'll be taking a look at um a few topics i wanted to discuss briefly shariah some interesting rulings some mind-boggling perspectives on what people's assumptions are the shady i'm what it sometimes actually is of course as always as always people you know placing a

[5:41] veneer of evidence and and showing as always quoting from the yeah the bible on earth as always quoting from the evidences i'll be showing you the evidences in addition to that oh i did want to do a brief review of the book in god's path want to take a look at that i know as you know so desperately anticipated the saga people the saga that has been

[6:21] breaking down over pagan gate danny boy and you've got on the other hand omar soleiman none are innocent but it is an interesting game uh it is one which i feel personally is is one of house of cards

[6:54] yes yes absolutely i do feel there's a lot of house of cards that's going on i don't think any of these people are entirely innocent or as you know so as they sometimes portray and we gotta take we gotta take apart this house of cards play that's going on danny boy on one side umar suleiman on the other he's got a whole a whole tag team situation going on with yes is in there as well hell yeah yeah as always we it doesn't disappoint with a small d

[7:33] so we've got yasir khadi biggie d [Laughter] who's on that side you've got people like omarisa i mean sorry he's also joined the you know he's been tagged into the situation you've got a bunch of people on that side on this side you've got uh danny boy the who's the currently the underdog right

[8:12] rising in the ranks of this championship and he's brought in as a tag team scenario none other people than dawa mahan dawa man so we're going to be taking a look at that kind of tag team wrestlemania scenario going down but yeah before anything let's get back to yeah we'll speak about big d biggity and the crew later on but right now let's look at some of these things oh

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment jTYEM-eEe78/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/1/

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