# Is it right to attack critics of Islam personally? *Mohammed Hijab's provocations share the blame for the escalation* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/23/ - Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:35:34–1:41:10) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=5734s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/ **Topics:** Dawah and debate culture; Views on contemporary scholars; Preservation and variant readings **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says Mohammed Hijab bears some responsibility for provoking the Quran-tearing, and urges Muslims to attack arguments, not people and their families. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says part of the Quran-tearing was a triggered reaction to what Mohammed Hijab has been doing: tit-for-tat taunting, bringing opponents' families and wives into it, until they look for what Muslims hold sacred. He replays a speech of Hijab's in which Hijab berates Muslims who have doubts and challenges Christians and orientalists on the preservation of the Quran, telling them to be quiet. Mufti notes a comment that Hijab may have apologised and welcomes it if so. He says Muslims should attack arguments and make them look silly, but not get personal, since that provokes acts that over a billion people find sacrilegious and could lead someone enraged to do something terrible, while saying those who desecrate are still responsible for their own actions. ## Sources and names cited - Mohammed Hijab - David Wood ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:35:34–1:41:10) [1:34:56] was gonna happen and he didn't actually approve of it although i don't i mean i just watched that clip i don't know whether he actually expresses it on that clip or but i heard allahu allah maybe i've heard wrong but i've heard that he didn't approve of that and he didn't know that was gonna happen um and in the clip i saw i haven't watched i don't know what happens after that but the clip i saw he doesn't kind of laugh at it or anything but uh apostate prophet is kind of laughing his head off that oh my god he's ripping the quran and i feel that this is exactly the problem okay [1:35:34] and this is you know and then you've got what muhammad but i want to say here as well about muhammad hijab look listen part of this is a triggered reaction to what muhammad hijab has been doing so look i i want to say here that look this is growing because it's like tit-for-tat you see like you're you're kind of taunting them they're taunting you you start bringing their family into it they start you start saying to you know sexual stuff at his wife he now [1:36:13] doesn't know about your wife to say back to you so he thinks well what do you hold sacred to you you hold the quran sacred i know let's rip the quran you see so there is a certain responsibility coming back on you you know on muhammad hijab because you are triggering these people you know allah [1:36:45] that these people will then curse allah that this is because this is what you do like you i know that you're not telling them and you wouldn't ever be content with that happening but you are triggering this so i did play a speech of muhammad hijab last week some muslims can have doubts about it i don't get it but then you have muslims say i have got doubts i don't know and this can't be quiet have some guts be a man stop being a slave of your entities come on it's an inferiority complex why [1:37:22] some people have been calling me and giving me some uh uh emails brother i have doubts what counts man what embarrassment is that why you have doubts why so tell me now you find any manuscript in the whole wide world in the whole wide world oh you've played this last week but i think the volume was i was playing what does it do for me nothing if the heart possibly was abrogated possibly for us what what's the problem i don't understand why you have doubts what kind of man are you anyway what kind of woman are you what kind of muslim are you what kind of muslim are here just be honest about the situation putting [1:38:02] doubts in that one's hearts and that one's mind and this one's soul be quiet in mind this is all in our tradition we have so we we have a chain of narration yes we have a chain of narration tell me now how an orientalist has any argument against the quran the preservation of quran tell me how yes for instance you have not read anything david would you have not written a damn thing what are you reading is why all you get your information from is me i'm your teacher boy and all of you people i'm your teacher [1:38:36] and you know it don't pretend to be our teacher you have nothing on us you have no you know nothing don't ever don't ever come and step up to us or lie all of you and i know you're listening to me i'm shaking you need to use the toilet now i know you do now listen listen carefully and i want you to all listen i know the enemies of islam are listening to me let me take my glasses off let would be very scared just like apus was very scared many of them would be very scared because you know when we come to the truth and the haqq when we come with the truth and the hack and the and and all of the details like this what are we going to do what are you [1:39:16] going to do there's a company to all those people out there the christians how dead talk about preservation it actually makes me angry listen to what he said not as stupid running around the street speakers caught up talking nonsense no chain don't speak to me don't speak about islam don't ever open your mouth about islam again don't open your mouth don't ever open your mouth you have no chain and a lot of you are losing faith and you shouldn't know the christians lose faith i tell you lose faith it's better for you because it's the nonsense you have no chain of narration no change and you're comparing with all audacity [1:39:53] because of this so wow so my point is that look you've so somebody i read in a comment somebody's saying that muhammad hijab may have apologized for part of this i don't know if he has if he has okay good but um right the the point is that you see this is what triggers this don't trigger these people like that don't kind of attack them like that don't attack their wives and stuff like this look it's not this isn't what islam teaches anyway what i would say is [1:40:31] attack their arguments make them make their arguments look silly make their arguments look dumb that's that's fine but you know if if it gets like personal because all that's going to happen they're going to come out now they're going to do something stupid like silly like try and rip the quran now some idiots gonna get obviously so enraged he might you never know what he might do to them and this isn't this is not what islam teaches okay so even though that's really they need to think about their own actions they you know they're responsible if you're gonna do something so stupid you need to think about what ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment KWmtt2TQAO0/s/23. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/23/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific 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