Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 24 Aug 2020 › Segment 28 of 40
Is defending the holy land worth Palestinian lives?
hajj haj hadj hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith sujud sajdah sajda sujood ka'bah ka'ba kaabah muftis jahannam jahanam jahannum koran quraan al-quran shaykh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs deen al-din ad-deen ad-dinLife before place: accepting a lost fight, and the UAE deal again
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says human life comes before any holy place and that Muslims must accept the fight against Israel is lost.
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Mufti Abu Layth says God did not send us to preserve bricks, that preservation of life trumps all, and that Muslims must accept the war against Israel is lost. He says Muslims rightly grieve the deaths but gloss over their guilt-tripping of Palestinians, and cites a hadith that a Muslim's honour is more important than the Kaaba being destroyed and rebuilt, and that the whole earth is a place of prostration, so Jerusalem is not needed. He predicts that people would stop caring about Palestinians once they were relocated. Recalling a stick-and-knife fighting class whose teacher said the first rule against a knife is to run, he says these people will not back down. He closes by saying the UAE ruler probably made the deal for his own gain and that it is unfair to put it on bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf, who he hears are unhappy with it.
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Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, Muslims need to know when a fight is lost and accept that the one against Israel is lost.
“this is my understanding that we need to know when a fight is lost that this against israel is lost”
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a pilgrimage there and to be honest no matter how holy it is to us it's arguably that area is more holy and more sacred to the jewish people so if they took it they're only going to take care of it they're not going to you know they're not going to go around turning that area into a toilet or doing something like that remember it's sacred territory for them as well in fact i would feel it's more sacred for them so even though it's a different religion but tkr you know it doesn't it's only bricks and mortar you know it's not it's not life more valuable
it's you know the allah didn't send us on this earth just to preserve some bricks preservation of life trumps all and at the end of the day look they they just want to set up a temple if they want to set up the temple and they take over and they won't be killing people and it's what dedicated to the israeli prophets who by the way are all in the quran so okay but we have to just accept that this battle is this war is lost there's no point fighting a lost war because it's just what is really tragic is the amount of
people dying and muslim and i think even though muslims are making a big deal about that which is rightly so but they don't seem to be making a big deal about like they seem to be glossing over the fact that wait a minute why are we we guilt-tripping these people to put up with it we should be life comes before place like if you had if you had the choice to save a life or the kaaba the hadith teaches you that if the hadith is a muslim not even his life his honor is much more
important than the entire kaaba being destroyed rebuilt destroyed rebuilt destroyed rebuilt destroyed goes up to seven times the honor of a muslim it says here you've got entire hundreds thousands lives being killed blood being shed and people you know yeah they're upset about it but they're like yeah but the holy land what the hell is the holy land yet what is this holy land you know the holy land the holy land we need to realize that look human life comes first these people who are tyrants are not going to back off so you you know what
does allah say in the quran the prophet said that the whole earth is a sacred place for for us to to bow down we don't need jerusalem so i feel that look we it's we need to this is my understanding that we need to know when a fight is lost that this against israel is lost and you need to you know you need to just we need to kind of like just accept that and and realize that these tyrants israel is a tyrant terrorist state it is not going to back down it is going to
butcher a missile children so and there needs to be some kind of this needs to stop but how do people stop it they're never gonna it doesn't seem like they're gonna stop so this is my suggestion but you see the irony is i bet you people all of a sudden wouldn't care about the palestinians because they were they only care about them so long as they're in palestine they wouldn't care about them if oh yeah let's get them relocated and living in a another place in another nice city somewhere they wouldn't all of a sudden all of a sudden that care would just go away you'd be like
stay in stay in palestine and die ah that's my thoughts on it mine i don't know um and i'm very look and i'm this is not and you can rewind and watch what i've just said in case you've missed it i'm not saying i'm being very clear that israel is is it being a terrorist state that's what it's doing but we have to realize like if there's a person here and you know it's look i i did a while back i did escrima yeah which was uh
it was stick knife sword kind of fighting but there was an emphasis on stick and knife but i remember the teacher he told us look there's a simple rule in life yeah he said like if you ever confronted with a knife right he said look the first thing don't look he said that listen to this the first thing is run do not it's not look you have to realize that there's certain things that are not they're not it's it's no it's a handicapped thing it's too easy to be stopped
he said however if that's not an option that's where this skill comes in to try and defend to try and block to try and turn the attack but by the first means is you're not an equal option here don't try and punch the person and do like if you can get away that's because if a person a similar if person has a gun obviously now he's going to shoot he'll have to do some zigzags but the point is so actually if they've got a gun i think it's better to fight them i would actually charge them if they had a gun but i would run if they had a knife so the the point is that look
you've you've got to understand that this these people are not going to back down and they're going to butcher relentlessly and mercilessly so i would say that yeah so i hope that doesn't upset certain people but yeah but this uae thing i don't think it's done jack okay i don't think he's broken any piece and i do think that the king of uae is just doing it to kind of he just got his own deal maybe israel is paying him a bunch of you know you must definitely be getting a huge whack for doing that maybe america said to them look if you do this
will broker a deal with you so there must be so many backhanders going on with that and i think it's unfair to put the sh the the price of that on the shoulders of sheikh abdullah bin bay and sheikh hamza yusuf because i don't think they really had any hamza yusuf i don't think had anything to do with themselves even though he does kind of like sign off for the king and stuff like that but then you know he's kind of stuck as well you know you got to be honest it's not like i don't think he would be happy with that uh and no i've heard from my sources that he's not happy with
the decision either cool right all right let's uh mufti what about the kashmir issue yeah i feel that look the kashmir issue similarly if that is an option if it is an option that they were to relocate them all then fine you know but then personally i would say that it's slightly different i would see some differences because you see the difference with the kashmir issue is it's a heavily militarized zone it's not a um
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