# Is Islam meant to be applied the same rigid way everywhere? *A final message: Islam came with flexibility for all peoples* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/7/ - Date: 2019-05-04 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Daniel Haqiqatjou and Women praying in the Wardrobe -Mufti Abu Layth (38:06–41:09) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSevqg0low&t=2286s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/ **Topics:** Islam and modernity; Legal theory and method **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: Islam was revealed to a tiny population but came for all mankind, so it is flexible enough to take in every people's backgrounds and needs. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says Islam came with the flexibility to incorporate people's backgrounds, perspectives and needs. **Evidence, his words at 39:23:** “with people Aslam came with the flexibility to not only incorporate these people but their backgrounds their perspectives their needs” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSevqg0low&t=2363s) ## Longer summary In a final message Mufti Abu Layth says Islam came for all times and that things evolve with people. He notes that the whole human population in the Prophet's time was under about 210 million, roughly today's Pakistan, and the Arabian Peninsula perhaps 100,000 to 200,000 people, fewer than a small British city such as Wolverhampton or Derby. Islam therefore came with the flexibility to incorporate people's backgrounds, perspectives and needs, not as a Procrustean bed into which everyone must be cut to fit. He cites the hadith in which the Prophet told someone who narrowed things that he had restricted the vast mercy of Allah, and signs off. ## Sources and names cited - report: you have restricted something vast, the mercy of allah ## Transcript (machine tier, 38:06–41:09) [37:31] Harvard you that because you appear presentable because you can speak English right more than these movies they give you a platform or they share your things so it's it's ironic subhanAllah we have to remember look people I'm gonna leave whoa is that the time I'm gonna leave us with this final message I just want us to ponder over look we have to understand that Islam it came for all times now with the day and age with the people things would evolve now I want you to just understand something check this out [38:06] people the whole human race the whole human race in the time of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was approximately under 210 million people that means today let me give you an example that means today Pakistan as an example is around probably about 205 million people that means that the people of Pakistan is an example today the population of Pakistan was the [38:45] population of the entire planet Earth of human beings in the time of the Prophet right Arabia Arabian Peninsula had no war it had between probably 100 to 200 thousand people that's all that means if you took the UK today a town like Dudley would probably have more people living in it or like Derby if you took Derby or these small areas like wolf the small [39:23] kind of I don't know if their towns or cities but probably cities some of them like Wolverhampton small cities in the UK I'm giving you examples so you can relate to them would have more population in them than the entire Arabian Peninsula in the prophet's time now you can imagine why I'm saying this is to understand that look with people Aslam came with the flexibility to not only incorporate these people but their backgrounds their perspectives their [40:02] needs Islam did not come just as a you know all be like us or or you force yourself you know the bed of pro crusty is you know that every person was fitting this bed just cut his feet off or cut whatever off to make him fit it's not like that if it came for the whole of mankind it came to it came to facilitate for their understanding so don't try to narrow it's like in the hadith of the Prophet where he said to the person who tried to say something no it should be like this he said look the [40:39] yakked iwasa the mercy of allah so vast and you restricted it so people those are some words I hope they can they carry some meaning to use this any questions you have as always feel free to reach out to me we've really stretched today's session I've gotta hit the gym it's gonna be a late one people take very good care of yourselves till next week Salam aleikum Iraq metal lighter I love about a capital ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment KuSevqg0low/s/7. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kusevqg0low/s/7/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.