Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 22 Sep 2020 › Segment 11 of 29
Are there enemies of Islam today?
salah salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat sujud sajdah sajda sujood muftis dalil daleel adillah adilla proof riba ribaa sood usury jahannam jahanam jahannum as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingAre there enemies of Islam today? Critics, haters and Jay Smith
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This segment57:56 to 1:04:58 · 7 min 02 sGeneral teaching
The answer in brief
machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says some people do hate Islam, but criticising or leaving Islam is not the same as hating it, and he will not engage those driven by hatred.
In more detail
Mufti Abu Layth closes his answer on prayer and takes a super chat asking whether there are enemies of Islam in today's society. Mufti says he is no conspiracist who thinks the whole world is against Muslims, but it would be naive to deny that some people and powers hate Islam, and that the media proactively distorts it as today's fashionable villain. He says a critic of Islam, or someone who has left it, does not necessarily hate it, while some people are consumed by hatred, which he calls a disease that destroys those who invest in it. Mufti names the Christian polemicist Jay Smith as someone he sees as obsessed with hating Islam and says he has no interest in engaging such people. He adds that the same people who doubt Muhammad existed accept Jesus, although non-Muslim sources mention the Prophet from his lifetime or a year or two after.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedAre there any enemies of Islam in today's society? What do you think about the term 'enemies of Islam'?
Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth says that a person criticising Islam does not, to him, mean that the person hates Islam.
“if a person is an islam critic or they criticize islam that does not translate to me as they hate islam”
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to me that look it's it's it's a kind of right answer but for the wrong reasons you know you you are kind of right that you want to pray and you should pray you're right but for the wrong reasons that you're doing it out of this kind of oh my god i'm cursed as though god curses you and the only way this god lifts his curse is if you fall in prostration to him that sounds to me like the ancient you know
beliefs of the pagans and heathens and so that that's my take that's how i uh if it's meaningful take it accept it if it's not right so salam spondan aftab you're doing it with the super chat you do and it much love much love salaam mufti are there are there any enemies of islam in today's society what do you think about the term enemies
of islam yeah um you see there are people who hate on islam it's unquestionable that i wouldn't doubt it for a second i don't think the world hates on islam but i don't you know i'm not some kind of conspiracist in that sense that the whole world is against us it's all a jewish conspiracy [Laughter] i'm not you know that kind of stuff the illuminati and all of this
but at the my private jet again right so but it's incredibly naive to think that there aren't people and powers at times that do hate on islam for whatever reason and they do proactively like the media proactively goes out of his way to malign to distort the image of to hate on to create biases against islam unquestionably the media it's unfair what the media does about
islam because islam is the villain the fashionable villain today so you know it's vilified i don't but i'm not trying to say that we now start becoming negative and hating on people in turn no i don't believe in that at all but i'm not naive either i do it i understand that not every person who criticizes islam hates islam that is not the case i don't believe so that's not my understanding if a person is an islam critic or they criticize islam that does not translate to me as they hate islam
they have an opinion just as i have an opinion on many things they have an opinion if somebody has left islam it does not necessitate that they hate islam it does not necessitate it could just be islam has not made sense to them so but on the same token or you know on that note there are also many people who just hate islam they just obsessed with this hatred and i'll tell you something about hatred people you know hatred is this kind of disease
it is almost a it is almost poetic justice how allah has allowed this emotion to manifest that once a person immerses himself or herself into hatred they drown like they eventually fall on that sword themselves this and this is poetic justice it's as the poet he says that it is that this hatred is like
that you know wow look at the god's law in hatred and jealousy and that look at the law he set out in it that the person who who kind of invested in it it destroyed and consumed them so this is the thing you know people like jay smith um a christian polemicist he's always argue clearly somebody who just hates islam like it doesn't matter what islam could say you know protect the ozone layer he'd be
like what the hell you know he just he's just obsessed with the hatred of islam and there are people like that unfortunately so those people i'm i have zero interest in engaging any person that i feel and i suppose to some extent it's my assessment subjective but if i feel a person it is full of hatred towards islam it's not about being objective it's not about them being critical critical i don't mind criticizing i don't mind but if i get the vibe that they just bitter and hatred and just like you get with some people and i've said in the past as well some people are
just a sub story on repeat and these kind of things i not interested in engaging right so yeah j smith i i watch you know sometimes youtube recommends these things and i've seen them and they're ridiculous they're absolutely ridiculous you know they're just like he'll just bring on anybody they'll just say anything oh yeah so this clearly proves uh muhammad did not even exist oh [Laughter] you know what i'm intrigued by that
these same people will say jesus existed and there's literally no evidence on earth to say jesus existed at least for the prophet muhammad there there is evidence there is evidence one can dispute the strength of the evidence there's non-muslim sources quoting referencing muhammad from either the end of his life or just one two years after you've got byzantine sources you've got some uh the middle eastern sources in his lifetime documenting the prophet so you've got within uh but the point is that you've got nothing
like this for jesus now we do believe jesus existed but it's surprising that these people have no loyalty to objectivity it's just a prejudice we hate islam that's it these arguments will only use them against islam we won't use them ourselves [Laughter]
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