# Should Sunnis preach to Shia Muslims about what they get wrong?

*Should Sunnis preach to Shia about their practices?*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/7/
- Date: 2023-02-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Muslim Scholars Allying With LGBTQ Community ? | Mufti Abu Layth (35:08–37:42)
- Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=2108s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/

**Topics:** Sunni-Shia dialogue; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Dawah and debate culture

**Question as asked:** Why not preach to Shia Muslims about the things which are wrong and have become taboo in their religion?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says no: it only leads to sectarian fighting. Answer people who come asking, but Sunni-Shia debating does no good.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he is not personally for Sunni-Shia debating because he feels it does no good and only does harm.

**Evidence, his words at 37:02:** “I'm not personally for all the kind of Sunni Shia debating thing because I feel it does no good it just does harm” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfS_0uGn4E&t=2222s)

## Longer summary

The caller asks a second question: why scholars do not preach to Shia Muslims about practices he regards as wrong. Mufti Abu Layth says it just turns into argument and sectarian fighting, since people are born into what they are; he is open to discussion but sees many of these as moot points where each side keeps its view. Mufti says it is better to let people walk their own path and, if someone comes with questions, to sit with them and provide answers, but that he is not personally for Sunni-Shia debating because it does no good and only harm.

## Sources and names cited

- Shia

## Transcript (machine tier, 35:08–37:42)

[34:31] children I would I would say that that you know you shouldn't put children through this kind of stuff until they can't make a decision for themselves because that unless unless it's a different because there are some conditions which are different from childbirth it's very you know like you have certain where the doctors from childbirth would say that oh like they born with both genitalia and they both inter yes yes I know inter kind of so that's different I'm not talking about that that they do from a childhood kind of and stuff exactly exactly but yeah so this um thanks for

[35:07] inside my my second thing second and last question I have to go on beauty yeah I think we we'll wrap this has gone on yeah go on well why not to uh preach and not directing it towards you I'm directing in general towards scholar why not to preach Tash Muslims if prach sorry like Shia Shia Muslims Shia because I my background is I was born and brought up as a Shia but then I went through researches on our own through

[35:47] our own books and now I follow those things which I found correct according to my own research so you can say I'm the cast cast out okay okay so why not to from background why not to preach to Shia about the things which are totally uh wrong and uh have become Taboo in their religion in their a you see I okay look I right I this is the thing I feel that

[36:24] um it's it this is it what what happens is it just becomes an argument a debate not sorry not just a debate but an argument it just becomes fighting sectarianism you see people people are what they are they're born on it they sure look people can change I I get this I'm not against uh you know being open to discussion but I feel that some of these are moot moot points like they're not going to get anywhere you're just going to have a view they're going to have a view and you're just going to clash bet it's better to let people walk

[37:02] their own path some people you know through as they question things they may feel yeah this doesn't add up to me or I want to ask someone sure in that case if somebody comes to you then discuss with them but I feel you taking it to people just leads to kind of sectarian fighting and if they come to you then by all means you know you talk you sit down you you provide answers but I yeah I I'm not D I'm not personally for all the kind of Sunni Shia debating thing because I feel it does no good it just does harm and people but I have a question then why as a part of her Duty

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment mOfS_0uGn4E/s/7. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mofs_0ugn4e/s/7/

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