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People Attacking Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi | Mufti Abu Layth

hadith ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith shari'ah shariat sharee'ah maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice kufr kuffar kaafir kufar kaafirun disbelief iman imaan eemaan eeman jahannam jahanam jahannum koran quraan al-quran ahl al-sunnah ahl as-sunnah ahlus sunnah ahl al-sunna sunnis shiah shiite shi'i twelver ithna ashari salafism wahabi wahhabism sufis sufism soofi tariqah tariqa tareeqah turuq tareeqa 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa sheikh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs al-din ad-deen ad-din

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1 · 0:00What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi?Views on contemporary scholars · Sufism and tasawwufmachine 2 min 37 s0:00on YouTube
2 · 2:37What was in the letter attacking Shaykh al-Yaqoubi, and who sent it?Sects, sectarianism and takfir · Views on contemporary scholars · Cults, clergy and religious abusemachine 5 min 14 s2:37on YouTube
3 · 7:51The letter's attack on Shaykh Akram Nadwi, and a played debate clip: 'one, two, three, kufr'Sects, sectarianism and takfir · Debate challenges and reviews · guest speechmachine 3 min 40 s7:51on YouTube
4 · 11:31Why does Mufti Abu Layth say both the attackers and the admirers of Shaykh al-Yaqoubi need balance?Sects, sectarianism and takfir · Views on contemporary scholars · Prophethood and miraclesmachine 3 min 56 s11:31on YouTube
5 · 15:27Why is demanding that a scholar make takfir a form of bullying?Sects, sectarianism and takfir · Views on contemporary scholars · from live chatmachine 1 min 25 s15:27on YouTube

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0:00

a lot I'm people mostly masala tea masala so people's people let me just see people's what is going on you know this one this one let me just what this one this one not nice my friend right so trying to find your Yahoo Chiara mother yeah that mother yeah dude right so right we're coming to people I'm almost the on momento un momento this is the masala RI so people what's

0:38

been going on is I came across this this is those of you who know chef yaku be Muhammad yaqoob' prominent Syrian scholar has his own Sufi tarita and to be fair as far as I have to say as far as you know Sufi scholars go so as far as any kind of Sufi orders go he's definitely if somebody said to me I want to be part of an order I have to be part

1:18

of a Sufi order but they felt that they have to then I would probably say yeah definitely somebody like you know Sharia Kuby because at least he's you know he's a scholar and he's is level mind you know level-headed he's spoken against things like extremism but he's also relevant you know it's not just many people might do things but he's reasonably within you know some extent is reasonably relevant that said I do think people overdo it with him and I'll come to that in a moment but I I think as far as he's concerned at least he has an enemy side to him he's concerned about knowledge you know he's concerned about certain

1:57

things he tells his people to study and this and that I do think he likes a bit of the you know the protocol a chat uh you know uh I want my fans and support is it I guess who doesn't ha that's people will say but who doesn't like having all these funds and supporters and this pyramid II Allah Allah Allah but what's more interesting is he's being attacked and you know something look I don't mind people having issues with different people have got issues with me I in the past raised a an issue with

2:36

Sharia Kuby when he issued the Buhari and though certain statements and I felt they were misleading having issues with people isn't is not an issue everybody can have it you're entitled to your opinion the problem is when it's just a sectarian game so what's happened is this this board there are the defenders of the Islamic board for defending sunni beliefs so they had issued this statement to chef yaku be that that he's

3:15

look after his Hatem and he's that they wrote a letter to him in the english language and they demand as you can see him bold at the bottom this is the board of allah ma and messiah for protecting the beliefs of Islam oh this is the federal board people the federal the feds this is the feds right so of Islam and Allah Sunnah they happens to be in Bradford if ever if ever is LA was to be

3:55

in danger or Alyce Sunnah was to be in danger I want you all to know that there is a board people that is there ready with the capacity to deal with the crisis on the level of Corcovado 9 and that board is based in Bradford so what they said in their letter right so just to this is some examples of what was said in this letter basically this letter was just taking digs at him trying to bully him so they're trying to bully him saying to him that look why are you not calling

4:34

certain people cafard why did you praise Mufti Turkey for why did you how dare you praise Mufti duckies at the Oh Bundy you know how do you not call Shia kafir why are she are not careful you need to declare Shia kaffir so there's all these things were cool Shia kaffir cool do bond is at least called the a Kabir the the leaders of the do Bundy's kaffir a shuffle etern ton we should be called a kafir this is a note we should be called a Kaffir or she that montgomery should be called a Kaffir Salafis Wahhabi should be called kaffir the the study group sorry the

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study group the study Quran that was done and praised by Hamza Yusuf why have you haven't you condemned the study Quran and why haven't you condemned Homs a you sir for praising it there was a full-fledged bullying session full-fledged people full-swing that why haven't you done this how dare you and this is some of the signatories on here not to be honest I don't I read a name Bundy Alvie and I did find a clip to do with Bundy Alvie and I'll share that in a moment the only other name I was surprised to

5:53

see here that I recognized was peer Sahib Shami sob to be honest I'm surprised that peer Sahib Shami has has put his name to something like this maybe they put it without actually fully kind of validating it with him because I assume I could be wrong I assume sakip Shami is usually you know more intelligent than to get involved in these kind of things and put his name to these kind of things that's the impression I have of him unless he is happy to put his name on this kind of stuff I don't know but I would have thought that so I was quite surprised to see his name the the other names all

6:32

these people I I've never really heard of them I'd I don't know there I've heard of that Bundy Alvie sob now but I was trying to track down this board people that who are these this board that is bullying the hell they trying to bully share Mohammed yaqoob' and it was really difficult like I mentioned tracking them down especially since Bradford you know you got to go to Bradford you know Northwest has got some coronavirus cases it's not easy people no es facil Noah's vessel it's muy muy difícil but but pero pero

7:11

we did get a I want us to know that we are in safe hands people we are in safe hands right because the Islamic board for protection of Sunni beliefs has got this they've got these people right just chill out right they've got this okay so and if we listen to their rules on who we can call who we can why are do Bundy's not kaffir why are Shia not Kathy why our Allah hadeeth Salafi is

7:51

not careful even chef Akram nerdy they had one of the pages by the way that the letter was like like ten pages long or something or twelve I think it's like a booklet like how why is chef Ackerman odd we not being called he's a deviant he's a hobby how dare you praise sure I'm not do we how do you you know if we don't get an answer if we and then I did that name with that name that's the only other name that I did recognize because he has a clip of a it's it's an audio clip on YouTube of a debate that is

8:29

having with some do Bundy's and he has the ultimate strategy people the ultimate strategy and it's one that wants it you you get it in your head you cannot forget it people so it's quite a tricky one because once once you're gonna hear this you're not gonna forget life will never be the same people I'm here is

8:56

this is going on

9:51

oh my god honestly we could not you know something we all lie we couldn't make this stuff up you know this is how absurd this stuff is that people trying to bully grown men into beliefs and just because they're hating on this guy you better agree one two three Kuro one two three one two three people that is you're never gonna forget that now that that is the ultimate argument one two

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three yeah germinating of cool I'm Jani needing it one two three Kuro one two three this oh my god to that I think was the one of the senior figures of the defenders of our faith I for one and absolutely I feel safe knowing that the defenders of our faith are out there and

11:04

really it's just an issue of a the in Cervantes oh sorry do after you in English one two three one two three man that's hilarious man honestly I don't know what he's I think his actual point they was he wanted them to listen and things but he kept going on in the debate about saying I think initially said I want you to list certain three things but and then we'll debate but then he kept saying just do one two three do one two three but this coming

11:43

to this point people these when do we learn that you can't bully people I mean you know these defenders of the faith for God's sake defenders assemble one two three three pay on three okay one two three assemble so I came across that and I was like oh my god this is so ridiculous how you know it's like and obviously share here who be hasn't responded to them which Asian at all because I mean that would just be ridiculous

12:20

but seriously here that's the one that you know the the old madhuri dixit the thing this this is this this this was the root you know the root you have to return to the as'll to the root so people huh but you know on the same token i wanted to say that people need to calm down as well with some of these things I was reading I think somebody replying about chef yaku be saying that look oh my god surely I could be such a noble person which fair enough he may be a very noble person and I I do believe

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he's you know a respectable person but then they wrote like five pages exalting and saying that you know I've witnessed his miracles and I've witnessed his you know he's like AI ants and they said oh my god he I saw him read the Shema ill I wish every page in four hours he read the Shema it in four hours it was from

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his Kurama it was a miracle it was a miracle I thought four hours can somebody pass me whatever is there smoking am I the only one sober here it's like yeah these are not fair you know this one I say now one two three Goro would you be so okay so anyway man this so this was the thing that we need people need to be a bit balanced as well because you see sometimes when you overdo it what you do is you provoke people to kind of hate on those people

14:16

so if you start going on about this person is like oh he's up there like I had somebody say to me that you know sure he could be his Arabic is so magnificent it's so magnificent it's as magnificent as the pre-islamic Arabic [Laughter] the GUP is way too much that a cop courney take easy it could the other ping the air I was like next time you want to black that much just just tell me so I can prepare so I can kind of

14:54

like put on that oh really Wow like calm down for God's sake so people I think with that right so so what is going on what is going on is shaykh abdullah bin baya the current dawn of Maliki knowledge no I don't know I don't think so but shaykh abdullah bin BAE is definitely a Maliki scholar he's definitely a great scholar I don't I don't say he's the the dawn somebody asked how is that bullying you see asking for clarity because I'll tell you it's bullying because what you're doing

15:33

is you're just pushing the the agenda of sectarianism on the back of trying to say if you don't we will declare you a deviant and I believe that some of them are prepared to call him a kafir and others might say he's no longer a Sunni and he's now out of the fold of them mainstream Islam why because he simply refuses to give comments on certain people's beliefs like if he refuses to call certain people a cafe who on earth put anybody in charge anyway you know this ain't you know a to these people I tell them they say your dad's Deen you

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know you check out who you want and you bring in who you want it's because of this behavior people are sick to death of this religion or of any religion so we need to kind of calm ourselves this Deen is from Allah it's not for us to country we can teach that look this is how we feel the main teachings of Islam are but it's not our duty to chuck him out of the deen and chuck her out of the deen and then Chuck everybody you know until there's just me and my village left in there all right

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, April 6). People Attacking Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mlnpcjxypqm/
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