# What qualifications does Mufti Abu Layth have?

*Mufti Abu Layth's educational background*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/13/
- Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:07:09–1:10:12)
- Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=4029s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/

**Topics:** The Mufti and the channel; Personal stories and reflections

**Question as asked:** What is Mufti's educational background?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth lists degrees in psychology and education, an alim and mufti course and ijazahs, but says degrees mean little to him.

## Longer summary

A chat question asks about Mufti Abu Layth's educational background. Mufti says degrees honestly mean little to him, then lists a bachelor of science in psychology, which he took out of passion, a postgraduate teaching qualification, a master's in education, an alim course equivalent to a master's in Arabic and Islamic studies in Pakistan, his mufti course with ijazahs in the major hadith books, and an ijazah with a chain in the Quran. He says his respect for research begins at PhD level.

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:07:09–1:10:12)

[1:06:29] learn from but still these are issues of legalities so disclaimer this disclaimer please to please to disclaim [Laughter] wait is that my is that my lawyer on the line he's like what are you doing [Laughter] right so yeah so uh i'm not i'm saying that these i advocate them in where they are legal legal legal legal people people some jackaroo some

[1:07:08] jack at all right what is going on what is mufti's educational background [Music] you see one people expose me too quickly they catch me out they go yeah he doesn't even know anything so

[1:07:36] yeah i mean i've i have a bunch of degrees and stuff but you know to me these degrees honestly mean nothing i think degrees don't teach people anything the amount of people i've spoken to with degrees and they're so um i i genuinely don't really think there's anything special to but i mean my own i have uh in religious studies islamic studies i mean religiously being islamic studies but i have um i have a degree in psychology which um a bachelor's of science which to be

[1:08:16] fair i really did enjoy doing and the only reason i did it not for the degree but for the passion in psychology i have a postgraduate degree in teaching in being a qualified teacher i have a master's in education um yeah those are the kind of degrees but i have my own um aalim course uh degree which it was a qui is equivalent to a masters in pakistan which would then be a masters in arabic and islamic studies i have

[1:08:53] my mufti course and ijazat which go through the masha'ikh going right back to these major books of hadith i have jazza asani in the quran going back to the prophet in a chain of transmission from my teacher teacher teacher all the way um yeah so these are really the um the main um yeah those are the main kind of qualifications i guess i did have some college stuff back in the days you know nvqs in it and stuff like that but those days are

[1:09:30] long gone right so yeah these are the kind of things but i don't honestly i don't to me you know if somebody said i have a degree or have a masters masters is okay maybe at the beginning that level of research is at the beginning where people really start some they're just starting okay a phd level of research i would respect that see that's where my respect starts yeah so that's how it works respect you know it's it's not easily earned you see

[1:10:11] right so what is going on how do you explain the prophet and the companions seeing gabriel in human form i don't you see the prophet seeing gabriel when the prophet sees jibril it's in this trance-like state people are not seeing it it's it's a vision that the prophet is having alone people may have assumed

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment l4n4wD2jjps/s/13. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/13/

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