# Who is Mufti Abu Layth's message aimed at? *His mission: reaching Muslims disenfranchised with the faith* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nzdioi1jwwm/s/1/ - Date: 2018-04-23 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is My Mission? -Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–3:57) - Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t9ei_hrzl84/s/1/; general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZdIoI1JWwM&t=0s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nzdioi1jwwm/ **Topics:** The Mufti and the channel; Reason and revelation; The second coming of Jesus **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** His message is for the majority of Muslims who do not practise or feel Islam cannot stand up to reason, to show them that it can. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says he is not part of a sect, Sufi order or group, and that people who learn from him do so of their own goodwill. He says his message is not for the small minority of hardcore practising Muslims but for the majority who do not practise, and especially those who feel the deen is mythology that cannot stand up to modernity or criticism. He says he disagrees with a shaykh [?] who said Muslims cannot do dialogue, and that he intends to show throughout his life that Islam stands the test of reason and will embrace science. He says this is one reason he struggled with the belief in the coming of Jesus, which did not make sense to him, and that he is prepared to discuss it but not at the cost of people losing heart in Islam. ## Sources and names cited - Isa (Jesus) ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–3:57) [0:00] my whole mission my whole thing is really look I don't have I'm not part of a sect I'm not part of a Sufi 30 car I'm not part of a group or an order or people who come kind of like associate with me or like me or learn from me this is just from their own goodwill this is just from their reason they come to I don't have a following or like that I mean you could say maybe I've fallen but I don't have a kind of sect but what my mission is my message is not to hard core railways or the open these hardcore [0:38] kind of this kind of minority sheer minority of religious hardcore practicing Muslims my message is actually to the majority maybe 90 over 90% of Muslims who are not practicing and then maybe a strong percentage of them who are unfortunately disenfranchised with the theme the people who today feel that the Deen is nothing but just mythology and fantasy and and they feel that this is just like culture it's okay but we don't really it doesn't it can't stand up to the West it can't stand up to modernity you can't [1:16] stand up to true criticism these people are who I talk for you know that is my people who struggle with faith that is who I'm reaching out to now for somebody like that to give me a message and tell me they're struggling now that hurts so look I I realized that look I've so this was a disaster as far as I'm concerned okay this was an absolute disaster because unlike I know chef s rods words that we as Muslims can't do dialogues I [1:54] disagree and I will what is he my meat this is the evening life Allah gives me strength I will demonstrate throughout my life whatever I have capacity that Islam does stand the test of that alone is messenger not unreasonable you can bring me any I believe that Islam will not only stand but it will embrace the message of science and reason that the greatest challenges that [2:30] are put to Islam I do not want to walk away from them in just saying huh but we believe this I want to stand the test and prove that Islam cannot answer them that it can that these people who are disenfranchised with Islam who who have kind of drifted away I want to extend that rope to them and with the words of Allah WA or C mu B happily ladder hold on to that rope and to kind of reel that back in for them that look Islam doesn't [3:08] have to be a fantasy religion it makes sense lies not some sadistic you know some kind of the God of the Old Testament he is a God that is encouraged us about reason this is what this is what my message is about and this is one of the reasons why I kind of struggled with this coming of Jesus because I did it didn't make sense and I'm prepared to talk about this unprepared to present why it doesn't do that I'm prepared to do these kind of things but not at this cost not at the cost of people once [3:46] again becoming disenfranchised and and losing kind of just heart losing heart in Islam not at that cause ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment nZdIoI1JWwM/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nzdioi1jwwm/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.