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Genetics and marrying relatives | Mufti Abu Layth

ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis ummah umma ummat

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Choosing a spouse · 1The marriage contract · 1The wives of the Prophet · 1

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Adam Mira's ass bro do you shape your eyebrows the concerns I don't if I'm surprised they appear that way but I suppose it's hard I mean fondly rugby huh it's the Lord and His blessings he showers them on whosoever he wills that and I suppose a bit of DNA in jeans since my my mom and dad weren't related to each other not that this not that

0:39

there's necessarily anything against incest oh sorry I mean cousin marriages [Laughter] thank God I mean nobody in my immediate family did things like that cousin marriages and I'm so glad I just think sometimes that these things I just must be just so incredibly awkward

1:10

it's like sometime you must be looking at them at the other partner and thinking wow I mean I can literally see my granddad in you I mean I can literally see my granddad and Grandma because they also your granddad Engram oh god I Benji oh sorry sorry sorry but I'm easy I'm

1:40

just joking obviously those of you that are married to your sisters and I mean sorry cousins no offense no hints you know just joking joking it's okay yeah what Oh what's a bit of intimacy between cousins huh now let's let's take a look what is going on man what is bothering me

2:16

can one get married without a Wally I do believe I do believe that you can get married without a Willie and I've got a whole video detailed on that where I showed the hadith and how the hadeeth are not sorry awry somebody said didn't your prophet get married to his cousin no not like that right okay so there's a difference between and like that you're related somehow but everybody is so different by and large that I suppose is slightly different to actual you know

2:54

within the Pakistani community sometimes they just keep it all within within within within like everybody's just cousins so I suppose maybe things are different if everybody's always different you know the mother's different father's different all these people are always different than one person through the mother she's related like this but everybody else her father's different and I think you're talking about Zena bent Josh who through her mother was related to the Prophet at there but through the father and the entire tribe and everything was different so in that sense I mean that's that's not what I meant when I was saying that

3:34

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, March 8). Genetics and marrying relatives | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nivzcdjxc2o/
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BibTeX 
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Genetics and marrying relatives | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {3},
  date = {2020-03-08},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nivzcdjxc2o/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}