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Is pork the only meat that is haram in the Maliki school?

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Imam Malik on food: only the pig is haram

LessonRecorded 9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 5 of 37 in the recording2021-02-09-S05

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Mufti Abu Layth says that in the Maliki school no meat is haram in itself except the pig, which does not mean the imams urged people to eat everything.

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Mufti Abu Layth explains that Imam Malik held that, of food, only the pig is haram because it is mentioned in the Quran, excepting animals offered to other gods or found already dead. Mufti says this does not mean Imam Malik told people to eat dogs, tigers or elephants, just as soil is not haram to eat but is not good to eat; declaring something haram is different from whether people eat it. He accuses the mullahs of a god complex in declaring haram what God did not, and says the imams would probably have found such foods disgusting but did not claim the right to forbid them. Mufti then answers a chat insult with a joke about the word fuzul.

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Mufti Abu Layth says that in the Maliki school no meat is haram to eat in and of itself except the pig.

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“but in and of themselves no meat was haram on earth whether it was from the sea the land or the sky nothing is haram bar pig in the maliki method”

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that allah has not declared haram as haram you know do not just you utter things stop don't for a moment think you are god you're not god you see so you don't you just think you have the right to declare it haram just because you find it uh disgusting or sick or a deviant practice or you find this a problem in society and it may be these things to several people but still you're not god and that's the

29:58

principle that these imams kind of stood by and hence when imam malik stood by the ruling that uh all that really when it comes to food not very few things are actually haram just pig is the only haram creature because it was mentioned in the quran nothing else was haram according to malik so yes i don't mean if they've been offered to other gods and things like that then they are haram or if they'd already been killed and you found them dead because then this was more

30:36

a an issue of food poisoning and stuff like this but in and of themselves no meat was haram on earth whether it was from the sea the land or the sky nothing is haram bar pig in the maliki method and so you see imam malik wasn't trying to say go around eat tigers or you should eat lions or you should eat elephants or you know eating and like people start to say oh imam malik saying oh you could eat dogs then

31:12

it's like you know imam ali's not saying go around eat dogs because he said dogs are not haram to eat you see i mean he never said dogs are not haram to eat but he said this principle that nothing is haram to eat except the pig so people say ah so not even a dog so you know so they say ah look what the maliki say you know it's like oh so but this is not what he was saying he wasn't saying go around do these things you know soil is not haram to eat you know if you pick up soil and eat it it's not haram to eat doesn't mean it's good to eat so there's

31:51

a difference between declaring something haram and between whether people eat it or not but just because you don't eat it don't for a moment not for a split second think you are god and thereby declare it don't do that this one not nice my friend right so and this is the problem that the mullahs had you see that they have this god complex they say huh allah never said is haram chalo

32:29

if god was busy don't worry they say i'm here i'll declare it haram and you think acha unless this is your dad's religion you know it does it doesn't really make sense so these are the important things to remember when when you're discussing alcohol or from imam abu hanifa's time or certain or sexual practices or dietary uh rulings from imam malik it's not that they are trying to advocate that people should be doing these things or eating these things or go around

33:09

eating gorillas or eating monkeys or eating they would never and in fact they would have probably found these things disgusting but they wouldn't say that you know it doesn't give us the right to declare to pretend we're god so that's an important point answer questions will instead of naming you for sale they shall name you fuzul

33:44

oh wait so you know means like useless the diminutive form of of that then fazool so it's not only useless it's a small useless thing [Laughter] a small useless thing i'm sure there's i'm sure there's medical help for that [Laughter] don't worry about it man you you come live and we can discuss the medical issues put on our stethoscope we'll do we'll do some role play

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[Laughter] so people question for fmc oh i see i can still spiritual florentino people spirit of florentino question for the chart mufti was imam al-hazari against science and reason why was he against great philosophy hmm was he against science and reason see back then science reason all of these things really and uh

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, February 9). Is pork the only meat that is haram in the Maliki school? [Video, segment 2021-02-09-S05, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/5/
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