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Is it haram to take part in another religion's rituals, like eating prasad at a gurdwara?

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Mufti Abu Layth's own view: rituals, intention and visiting other faiths

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Mufti Abu Layth would personally avoid ritual-filled protests, but says joining another faith's rituals to experience them is not haram or shirk, as intention decides.

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Mufti Abu Layth says that in his view it is all a facade, then gives his personal analysis: he would not himself attend a protest full of ritual, because as the voice of reason he sees such rites as superstition and they would undermine his message. Mufti says a protest should be a protest, and he does not see what a hippie ritual has to do with a protest for human rights. He says Omar Suleiman's post was wrong to call such rituals haram and kufr, because it depends on intention, and that laying down that lofty card is what tripped him up. Recalling school visits he arranged as a religious studies teacher, he says covering one's head at a gurdwara or eating the prasad offered there is not haram or shirk, because the aim is to experience what other communities do. He ends by repeating that Haqiqatjou is the Frankenstein that this circle created.

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Mufti Abu Layth says it is not haram to eat the prasad offered on a visit to a gurdwara, because the objective of going is to experience what those people do.

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“do i feel it's haram to have that prasad no because you are there your objective for going there is to experience what these people do”

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so i would say that look this whole thing you know you can't have it both ways you guys create a monster and then you are happy for this monster to attack other people now this guy seems heavily i don't know he seems autistic now he seems to be just hinged on you guys [Laughter] well there's one bite you know this one so he's now coming he's not letting them go boy this is hilarious honestly and it's ultimately on honestly i hate to break it to some

2:49:03

of the people but look some are better than others but everybody it is all a facade you know in the words of the poet it is nothing but a perpetual deception that i've seen this life and world from up close that is all it is even with these scholars with all of these people and you know what my analysis on this you see personally what is my understanding

2:49:42

i would say now personally me i this is just me i would i'm not down with superstitious rituals i'm my whole thing of the voice of reason is that i i'm not into hocus pocus i would personally not partake generally in like weird hocus-pocus rituals because to me that undermines my message of the voice of reason because i see that ultimately as just superstition so i don't if it's somebody like me i would i wouldn't go to these kind of protests that are just all about like everything is ritualized it's all about you know we're gonna do

2:50:22

some like if people say like if people said to me let's go to a protest and the protest is about asylum seekers tk if you're gonna go go but if they say okay we're gonna go to a particular protest where we can all get together sing kumbaya army lord and we're gonna you know uh we're gonna say hari krishna three times then we're gonna go around ringing bells and then we're gonna do this kind of special rain dance and then i i find that stuff dumb i'm gonna be honest with you i find it stupid i find it dumb i don't know what the purpose is what what are you trying to achieve with this kind of stuff if you're there for a protest then do a protest

2:51:01

you know if you're there to do some kind of look i've got no problem people doing their own worship but you know why are you conflating these matters i don't see them as like this is not a sacred uh pilgrimage you're going on you're just going to protest at the border so if you said we're going to go to the border and stick up white flags this is an international understanding for we want peace you know we're going to go there and people are going to tie themselves in chains to show do you get you know fine you know as bueno that's good you know you go there you do that but if people say oh we're going to go to a place and we're going to all wear these strange hats and we're going to dance around the fire and we're going

2:51:39

to do stuff [Laughter] why don't you just go to that then because i don't see and then i'm just being honest i'm giving you my two pence like i don't see what these two have to do with each other one is to do with some kind of like a hippie ritual which fine people can do it but one is a protest for people's human rights so but i get why um you know and this is where um drops himself in it you see because he does these things for the clout and i get that but then you see that post he made

2:52:17

see that post was wrong like he shouldn't in his post try and be about halal haram he says oh by the way these rituals are haram and kufar for us to do them in islam like i wouldn't say that i would say look if a person did some rituals it would be it depends on his intention if he's worshiping that god and doing it like that it is if he's doing it for some other intention it's his or her intention like if you if you ask me if i wh when i was a teacher uh at a secondary school we arranged religious site visits so okay so we would go to a masjid or an islamic center

2:52:56

would take the kids as because when i taught religious studies would take him to a church would take him to a gurdwara now when you take him to a gurdwara you would have certain rituals that the gurdwara want you to do so for example when you go in you must cover your head you must take your shoes off take care i did that we will do that when you go in they tell you sit here this is what the experience is why are you there you're there to experience what these people do that is the whole purpose of your visit it is to experience what these rituals are they will be reading from the guru granth sahib all the students will sit down you'll sit down they'll offer you prasad and they will be offended if you did not

2:53:35

eat their prasad if you took it that is and you didn't if you threw it away it would be an offense but this is the prasad they have do i feel it's haram to have that prasad no because you are there your objective for going there is to experience what these people do like we want to have a world where people know what other communities do they come to a mosque they see muslims praying this is what okay they sit quietly they take their shoes off they might cover up they might even imitate an uh a wudu that is part of the experience it is not haram it is not shirk this is just your experience you're not worshiping a

2:54:14

particular god you're just the experience okay is this what they do okay they sit here okay they try this okay they go to the longer they have food but you see um here saying oh if we did that that would be haram and we don't do we don't allow these things in islam but then you see by laying that high lofty islamic card you yourself will trip up because now you're going to be caught out and saying well um you know but here you are doing a ritual so whereas if you're going on a protest the objective is not to go do experience rituals the pro the

2:54:52

objective is to protest so why don't you just go to a protest you know you don't need to do a kumbayami load kind of like a so i find that incredibly confusing once again to me it's not that these things are haram i personally i would never attend that kind of stuff because i i find superstitions just dumb of themselves i i'm not you know it undermines my whole message for the voice of reason but i would say to people if they want to experience what other religions they want to learn about other religions then by all means you can go there you can see you can take they'll undertake those rituals at that location

2:55:31

to see what it is so if you go in they say take your shoes off you can take your shoes off cover your head you can have the food see oh is this what they do this is not it doesn't take you outside of islam and i would never preach that that oh my god this is kufa this is haram but we generally that that's not how worship is done in islam of course and every person who does that knows that's not islam so this was my kind of analysis on all of these i see that danny boy is obsessed but he is the very frankenstein that they created and now they stuck

2:56:10

with him and then you see they bigged him up whilst he was dissing uh feminists and he was dissing uh leftists and he was dissing he was all awesome for them you know he was number one he was a great studying islamic sciences a man of great understanding you know nobody had a problem with him then abu isa never spoke about him then yasir adi spoke about him positively then maghrib supported and endorsed him then uh omar suleiman for years paid his salary then and then all of a sudden when he starts speaking against them

2:56:52

it's so that's what it is people let's wrap this up i thought we've got to go over that it's been awesome we've covered a hell of a lot of things somebody said we need hamza thoughtsis we need hijab on mindtrap sure absolutely i uh i have messaged hamza thoughtsis he did say he would come on as soon as he frees up from his other stuff but cool guys don't let a french person see that i don't know what that is cool guys it's been awesome

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, September 22). Is it haram to take part in another religion's rituals, like eating prasad at a gurdwara? [Video, segment 2020-09-22-S28, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/28/
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