Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 24 Aug 2020 › Segment 24 of 40
Are Abdullah bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf to blame for the UAE-Israel deal?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says it is unfair to blame Abdullah bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf for the UAE-Israel deal, since the UAE's ruler does not care what scholars think.
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Mufti Abu Layth turns to Israel's bombing of Gaza over almost two weeks, which he says few people are speaking about, and to the deal in which the UAE recognised Israel, noting reports that Trump expects Saudi Arabia to follow. He offers his thoughts to those who have suffered loss and injury. He says it is unfair that people are attacking Abdullah bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf over the deal, since he does not think the ruler of the UAE cares what scholars say; he has heard from sources close to bin Bayyah that he was not pleased with the treaty but held that the ruler's decision is to be honoured, and he does not think Hamza Yusuf had anything to do with it.
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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
you're doing it's a sacrilege to what you know over a billion people hold sacred but still you know let's not trigger something like that either so cool i just wanted to make that clear um right now another topic people another topic so we've got uh right something a bit more uh unfortunately dark and unfortunate that what israel has been doing for almost you know the most part of two weeks now
it's been bombing dropping uh crazy bombs on gaza um not many people as you can see there speaking about it but amidst all of that you have got um if i we've got something uh that a lot of people have been speaking about and that is the uae and the israel deal which has been broken recently to recognize israel and with it you will see
if i can just bring up here uh right just one moment right uh trump is expecting ksa i don't know if that's true but he's expecting ksa to sign up to that deal as well pretty soon kingdom of saudi arabia that is so whether they will or not allah but um that's just to so what is going on here what are my thoughts about this so first and foremost my daughters heartfelt
my thoughts uh go out to all those people who've been unfortunately who have suffered the lot first of all the loss of life or the loss of loved ones or just harm and injury as a result of what's been going on in the past two weeks so you know may allah make things easy right as far as the uae thing is concerned a lot of people have been messaging me as well almost the you know you speak about this what are your thoughts yeah i mean first of all
i just want to say about people are going at sheikh abdullah bin bayer and they're going at hamza yusuf i do think that's a bit unfair to to be honest i think that's not not a bit that is i do think it's unfair um because i don't think in all honesty the the kind of king the ruler of uae really gives a crap i don't really think he even cares about what sheikh abdullah bin bayer has to say about anything whether he may pretend on certain things
but they don't really care i don't think they they will just have people you know hold a council on something and i did hear that this is what i've heard from sources close to sheikh abdullah that sheikh abdullah wasn't actually pleased about the treaty but he had just agreed in saying that when the king has passed a ruling then that king's ruling so the uh the uae his ruling is to be honored um not that he was happy with what the kind of details were in fact or this
is what i've heard allahu allah i don't know whatever i've just heard this but i do think okay with putting that aside i do think look the king doesn't really care these people don't care about what ulama or scholars or whatever and i don't think hamza yusuf had anything to do with it at all so i think just dragging his name into it i don't think is fair this is just my opinion as far as this actual ruling what what do i think about it well look oh look it's israel is not go right okay israel
is a at a state level it is a terrorist at a state level okay this is not anti-semitism i'm not against jewish people um i you know i'm not against people whatever ethnicity they are the truth is at a state level it has committed war crimes and this is something the un are aware of this is something people have written about many people have written about this norm chomsky so many other academics have written uh finkelstein so many people have highlighted the atrocities
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