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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 9 Feb 2021 › Segment 21 of 37

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Chat banter about embarrassing names

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OtherRecorded 9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 21 of 37 in the recording2021-02-09-S21

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Mufti Abu Layth jokes about names that sound embarrassing in English and says people should change them by deed poll.

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Responding to a chat remark that some Indian names are funny, Mufti Abu Layth jokes about Sikh and Muslim names that sound embarrassing in English. Mufti says anyone with such a name should simply change it by deed poll. A question about Manchester goes unanswered.

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could tell straight away or if i was speaking to somebody that's asian i could tell straight away or white that immediately and maybe there's the tiny anomaly where you miss it uh but almost you know 99 of the time buying on straight away you know exactly but that's not as easy with americans though uh especially with the desi americans some of them have you know they don't have that um so i don't know how that is then is that the british english that allows that to happen or i don't i don't know that

1:41:19

right so uh what is going on someone said indian names are funny like deep dip [ __ ] [Laughter] i've not heard of that one i've heard hardy dick [ __ ] i've heard [Laughter] sorry i'm who are you i'm dick [ __ ] yes you know shouldn't be so hard on

1:41:57

yourself really that's not like no no that's hard no no no no hardeep's my my brother that's crazy man honestly the sikh community they need to you know it must be so embarrassing having those names it's the same thing that certain muslims have like but you know they have like button butti and like you think what the hell that is so embarrassing [Laughter] oh my god i you know if you did have a

1:42:37

name like that just go to deedpol and change it for god's sake you know it's so easy to just change your name i mean why would you suffer for the rest of your life by being called bhatti or being called but it's like and this there's others as well there's uh i'm trying to think of some now um i can't i don't know i can't nothing's coming to mind but there's loads like that oh that's it my boob

1:43:12

have you seen my boob huh what no have you seen my boob so these names people need to change them what are your thoughts on manchester because i'm the peer saheb of manchester

1:43:45

let me check the super chats did i miss any rami you're doing it you're doing it much love much love see people rami is also part of the executive task force now it's doing it rami he's making a me contribution so so people how much is too much what is the islamic view of materialism versus asceticism the bible i think has a quote about the struggle for the rich man to enter paradise the quran sends some signals against wealth but seems more so about abuse of wealth but still huge emphasis on giving from wealth so okay

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  title = {{Chat banter about embarrassing names}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {2},
  date = {2021-02-09},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/21/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-02-09-S21, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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