Thoughts on my landmark video of 2017 - Age of Aisha | Mufti Abu Layth

mufti how do you feel your debunking aisha's marital age has impacted muslims generally have you received negative backlash or inspired people to see the truth that's a very good question i am glad you asked that i you know it's one of the most it's one of the most proud moments really that i have that or you know there's a great sense of pride in some of the actions i have done in in life some of my accomplishments wallahi has been that

that i have i produced that video and i really hammered this point i'm really honestly like i'm being honest whether people appreciate it or not i have so like i'm so happy that i did that and i walked that path okay that's as far as the decision of doing that as to how it's been received my um my my kind of interaction with people

has been so pleasant and so kind of rewarding on that video i have had so many people namely women i mean particularly women who were kind of not indifferent but were isolated from religion they had become they had kind of become separated and divorced from the faith because of these things like the age of aisha now this and there were a series of

other things as well that seemed very nonsensical to them and it seemed very kind of brutal and the fact that it's attributed to god and his messenger made them have a a repulsive distaste towards allah and his messenger and although many of these women who did contact me in this last let's say couple of years many of them may not have taken an open battle

against this topic so they may have just silently retreated because it's not a battle worth fighting that because you know how the mullah on the religious people the kafir kafirs indeed blah blah blah murtha and you know and then and and then these women don't even know about islam so it's easy for them to just start getting hammered by loads of people and people will say oh they uh what is it ex-muslim ex-muslim and oh you're not wearing hijab you're not doing this you're cursed you're cursed and then trolling and hating so it's not it's not healthy for anyone let alone a regular person from the public and that to somebody who doesn't know

about islam so most of these women have just kind of secluded themselves from religion but just left it and almost a few actually abandoned islam and some may have kind of kind of detached from it but maybe not openly abandoned it and then they came across my video and because that age of aisha videos well i did that very seriously and it was a um you know something that was to tackle to take the bull by the horns and

um and they watched it and then they contacted me many of them seriously wallahi and you know that and for many of them it was not only a lifeline but it was a rope that that kind of reeled them back to the faith so i'm i my the the response that i've received has been overwhelming overwhelming by common muslims who are my target audience the mulvis for the most part their response has been either insecure or

it's been um kind of negative and that's because they feel that it has basically you know it it's disrupted their trade you see because their trade is being the clergy and part of being the clergy is you cannot question these things that we have laid down and remember that's also handed down to them so they are not allowed to question it and they know they're not allowed to go against this ruling and most of them have been teaching this ruling that no you can marry little girls in islam now this will then one it will say undermine the

authority two they're not allowed to question their superiors so and they're not allowed to question bhagathi and so it's just too much like even though i do feel that most these movies they don't have a personal acts to grind in this issue i feel that if they're superiors like let's say their teachers had the courage to say this that yeah bukhari we don't care it's wrong they would happily most of them would flock with their teachers but because their teachers have a blind following attitude just like their teachers did so they're not allowed to go against them

and they don't have the courage to challenge it because if they challenge it they will lose their livelihood because they will be you know they'll lose their job they'll lose their circles they'll lose their so it's better to just kind of told you know just hold the line just go with it and they don't like that i've challenged it because when i challenged it i brought evidences now the common person has access to these evidences and they then present it to them and they can't argue back and they can't so if this is why they don't like what i've done i don't think it's the topic itself for some of them it may be the topic itself but

most of them i think the topic they don't they're not personally i don't think most of them would want to support that topic it's just this stuck you know like where do we go like this is our livelihood this is our field we can't speak against it it's like if you're a doctor and you have a totally different practice a way let's say you think out of the box you can't kind of go around preaching like that as a doctor you have to follow the pharmaceutical kind of guidelines you have to follow the kind of medical general board of practice and how they do things their protocol they and you could have genuine

ideas you could just be somebody who thinks out of a box and has a theory in it but at the end of the day it's your livelihood that's at stake and you're not prepared to do it so you will just go with just hold the line