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Is it permissible to rebel against tyrant regimes? | Mufti Abu Layth

malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam imams prayer leader muftis hukm ahkam hukum hukam ahkaam mubah mubaah sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice jannah janna jannat koran quraan al-quran fitan strife trial

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do you believe in rebelling against tyrannical ruler permissible it's not impermissible to but you know these things the problem with these things is the fitna aspect it's it's like a balance of probabilities that do does one um go against you see by by creating an insurgency there will be bloodshed and that's the problem you see you don't know how bad it will this is why when they said to imam malik about rebelling he said that the problem

0:42

is that it brings with it such calamities that sometimes you think well you know the other evils were just okay you know it's like look saddam hussein saddam hussein was a tyrant but in all honesty he you know saddam hussein ruling iraq was a paradise compared to what iraq is right now and because obviously he was a tyrant don't get me wrong but what i'm trying to say is what you have now is just fitna it's an interesting term you know this fitna

1:20

it doesn't mean people use it today to mean like oh semi-naked women so dumb i mean that's never been the term fitna in the quran or the sunnah of the prophet it was never referring to uh you know the seduction or the the attractiveness or the appeal of women and today this is what apparently the appeal of sex is what you know the modern muslims have just rebranded the word fitna to mean that and and even though linguistically one could say oh this is a fitna to you know if a person was about to give

1:58

it all in that moment he would suck give it all up just for [Laughter] for for that special uh so yeah linguistically one could say oh this was a fitna for me yes but that's not the islamic usage of the term fitnah was to do with uh upheaval and uh over arching instability of a a societal great not just societal even look we're talking at an um you know we're talking

2:38

regional or geographical cataclysmic instability that's what fitna would have meant so utter lawlessness that that was fitna not this semi-naked woman showing her legs is somehow you know or saying oh my god a woman's in a bikini this is fitna

3:09

this is not the fitna of the quran right so

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, October 19). Is it permissible to rebel against tyrant regimes? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lq4rpugaxwc/
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BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-Lq4rpUGAxwc,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Is it permissible to rebel against tyrant regimes? | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {10},
  date = {2020-10-19},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lq4rpugaxwc/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lq4rpugaxwc/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}