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A Reply to Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi on Sahih Al-Bukhari| Mufti Abu layth

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1 · 0:00Opening: al-Yaqoubi's heated public remarks about Mufti Abu Layth, and the title 'His Eminence'Responses to critics · Views on contemporary scholarsmachine 2 min 35 s0:00on YouTube
2 · 2:35What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi?Views on contemporary scholars · Cults, clergy and religious abusemachine 4 min 01 s2:35on YouTube
3 · 6:36How did Shaykh al-Yaqoubi become so influential in the UK?Views on contemporary scholars · Cults, clergy and religious abuse · The Indian subcontinentmachine 3 min 57 s6:36on YouTube
4 · 10:33Does Mufti Abu Layth regard Sufi tariqahs led by pirs as cults?Cults, clergy and religious abuse · Views on contemporary scholars · Britainmachine 2 min 36 s10:33on YouTube
5 · 13:09Did Mufti Abu Layth mock Imam al-Nawawi?Sexuality and orientation · Responses to critics · Scholars and imams of the pastmachine 3 min 50 s13:09on YouTube
6 · 16:59Why did medieval scholars like al-Nawawi write that boys are prettier than women?Sexuality and orientation · Scholars and imams of the past · Responses to criticsmachine 3 min 55 s16:59on YouTube
7 · 20:54Is al-Yaqoubi's edition of Sahih al-Bukhari really the most authentic copy on earth?Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate) · Views on contemporary scholars · Cults, clergy and religious abusemachine 3 min 55 s20:54on YouTube
8 · 24:49Would Mufti Abu Layth debate Shaykh al-Yaqoubi on Sahih al-Bukhari?Sahih al-Bukhari (BukhariGate) · Debate challenges and reviews · Views on contemporary scholarsmachine 2 min 15 s24:49on YouTube

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so share here could be Sahib right what is going on with chef yaku be right so first of all there was a video somebody sent me chef yaku B was discussing some of my comments in a very heated compassionate kind of response saying this person how dare he mock a man no we and how dare he say these things about homosexuality and then how dare he you know and he calls himself a Mufti how to

0:38

be honest okay hello kooky baath karenge cook cooking bath water so we should we kind of speak honestly and free I was I was kind of amazed that he would actually speak about me in a public gathering and and partially flattered [Laughter] your eminence you eminently eminently flattering me cozy you know dil mera duck duck Dali right

1:17

so I thought okay this is interesting because I wouldn't have thought that Kobe would make a reference in a public place to me saying that you know this guy calls himself a Mufti and is from here from the UK and obviously who else is the helm of tea either Oh click you know if you just use the word Musti on its own for either ve Adi Nukem right you're having bandana cheese okay

1:50

readable he Abu layth al-maliki right so so this is how homosexuality thing and Imam Noah's comment or not I'm gonna I'm gonna come to that but just speaking about chef yaku be now I have actually I don't have anything against chef yaku sorry his eminence what is this Eminence thing about by the way I mean royalty somehow he wrote what's this royalty thing like I mean

2:30

who calls himself his eminence I know he's gonna say I don't call myself but he doesn't stop it either stop it stop teasing me this one right I don't call myself the most graceful but if you guys call me I don't mind either you know this happen don't mind her don't mind so he cools he doesn't cook okay but I he definitely okay with it this is definitely rolling with it

3:08

this his eminence royalty look at the end of the day I think to be fee as far as beef subs go and shares go I actually like chef Muhammad yaqoob' he's as far as they generally go he's from the more level-headed kind of you know peers of tariqas these peeps who lead a whole lot as a leader it is in essence a cult right but they lead a coat but he's definitely much more balanced he's much

3:47

more and he is knowledgeable I mean I don't know exactly how knowledgeable because I've not never really watched anything with in like with actual where he of the one two things I've seen they're just like generic talks they just like you know just be good and be nice so I don't I've never seen him discuss a like a deep issue I mean maybe he hasn't put those videos up on online but if he does that would be awesome we'd get to see that side but I would believe that he definitely comes from a family of scholars and he he's not just like one of these Peter sobs that is just like you know

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know anything and just just got handed a silver spoon he's not like that in fact many years ago our paths cross crossed over two decades ago in Damascus at that time chef yaku B Saab was he was he was nothing special really and had no real importance in that sense to him I mean I know his father was really steamed in in Syria at that time but in the late 90s I met him was it the late 90s or early

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2000s ago I met him in Damascus just briefly and just shook hell nothing that he would remember of course it's you know the problem with me is that it's not when you first meet me it's our second meeting if our paths cross again then be sure to note that they will this time they will not go unnoticed but the first time I don't expect him to remember me but he was not somebody of great prominence in Damascus at that

5:42

time he was known as in like you know of him but they weren't people around him he never had that kind of entourage he never had that you know share share share say IDI everything none of that business he was just like a normal guy just walking I think he was teaching at one of the Institute's and he would just come out just normal you know you could just go up to him people did they didn't know he was that he was this sure and he's still a chef in all of all of what he is today but he just was like a regular like an academic like that but respected revered I'm not saying people disrespected him but he never had this

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cult at all not even remotely at that stage unbeknownst to him the future was to unfold many things amongst them great power Allah so over the years he's obviously chef Jacoby has come to the UK but this is nothing new Shelia who be had been coming to the UK for many years never gained any serious prominence he used to come down cells and people would take him on tour tours and things like this but I think it was

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around maybe the late 2000s maybe it was around 2010 or maybe a bit before that maybe like mm NATO sonae I don't know exactly but it was around the late 2000s that there were some politics went on and he the people that used to involve themselves with Jeff yaqoob' kind of ditched him and they boycotted him and I think they claimed there was some scandal or something but I don't know usually scandals are always to do with women usually but I whatever the situation was by suppose that's buried

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why why did I mention it are they gonna hate me for say relax I'm sure he's answered a I'm sure he's answered but there was whatever so they left him chef Thiago be was then kind of fostered by people up north now in the north within the UK we have Midlands and North we have a very strong bravery community now what chef here who be was to discover was that it was a great potential hidden within the DC community that he hadn't realized the kind of

8:14

level of devotion borderline hero worship that goes on within the DC community I don't think he was truly exposed to that because the people he was exposed to in Damascus were kind of like students that were going over from America and from and they weren't that kind of they weren't the kind of hero worship kind of they were that maybe one or two but not so many now he then embarked on this thing and you can see this transformation so he comes to Birmingham and he comes to come call via and you'll see one of his great initial speeches of chef yaku

8:53

B was one way he actually praised mallanna a charlatan we the great the open D Scala in a Braille we must a mistake that chef yaku B was swiftly to learn that is never to be repeated so chef yaku be soon acclimatized to the kind of DC politics of the do Bundy's embroideries and quite swiftly in time would distance himself completely from the do bond the kind of heritage of the subcontinent not entirely but he would kind of go a bit quiet on it because he

9:31

realized that ok the market lies with the Braille v's the brilli is really absorbed chef yaku be I mean he could not share he Akoo be could not give them enough he completely consumed anything that he had to offer and wanted more so sure he aku be really found you know like they say in Arabic like what did that Barletta who you know he found what he was looking for this this was it I mean he rose to great prominence on the back of

10:09

the DC community within the Midlands and the north of England because they took it to another level I mean we're talking about unfathomable doors unlocking both of wealth prosperity money power dynamism I mean it's it's amazing people with great you know people that run corporations and things like this they will back you as a piece odd so his shift kind of really wound to this you see this and and then he kind of comfortably settled as this tariqa I've run this study are you're all my kind of

10:46

mureeds and really took these bites rains and that is the making of what you have now as share Hamlet his Ilia Kobe Sahib and as far as spear subs go I don't actually mind him I think he's actually definitely better and a good version of the pizzas because they can be highly exploitative highly exploitative beef subs can be and they usually are they're usually very abusive usually all about power money things like this but I mean definitely he is a

11:23

he's from the better kind of if you are to join AC to me all of these practices are cults but if you are to join a cult then I suppose his cult is definitely a better and less harmful cult to be in then other cults I mean it doesn't mean it scandal-free I mean there was this huge in the last two years a huge scandal to do with the charity SKT this charity which allegedly allegedly masala I don't know the reality but apparently they were key devotees of chef yaku B who gave him a position of prominence

12:02

which he then wished to take over the entire charity and when they originally got rid of him eventually so he got rid of him he sent messages around saying everybody's - all my mureeds are to boycott that charity I mean hims accusing them of mishandling funds but I think the Charity Commission did clear them but that's beyond the point maybe they whether they did mishandle funds is not unbelievable but since Muslim charities are usually quite you know not always so scrupulous on these things but once again you can

12:39

see this wielding this power mureeds my want my memories to boycott this I bring this to the table the sense of power you know a two decades ago the chef yaku B that I that I fleetingly shaked hands with in the streets of Damascus could never have envisaged that a day would come when he would make a threat to wield such power against a huge million power you know million how strong at least or millions of pounds strong charity or an organization

13:16

but so this is the the making of of these shakes of tariqa so that's a bit of the kind of what we've got in front of us now shakey aku be his eminence he said about about me that I mocked Imam no we now I did not mock Imam no we to start off with firstly I mean that's obviously I don't know whether he watched my whole thing I doubt he watched my whole thing which in in that case he should not have passed judgment

13:55

on it in that you see I caught you out either you watch the in which case are you teasing me naughty naughty you watching my videos and if you say you didn't watch it then I'll say ah say you passed judgment on me without watching you naughty naughty this one check mate check check check mate so chef yaqoob' he he kind of got really worked up and you see the truth

14:33

is truth be told the cook I don't make a claim I've read what imam know we had written i've got a lengthy discussion on youtube which speaks about homosexuality and islam a diverse history in which i mentioned that look people in the past and and it's a very nuanced conversation or logon having a recording you can watch it by all means do watch it you like subscribe quick plug this so look however what i was simply doing was reading so i've read what imam know we said and i said look you have to acknowledge that iman know he is

15:12

speaking as though it's a given so in his day and age he's assuming everybody has a bisexual nature to them because he's saying that look Oh because he writes in his book that everybody knows that young boys are far more you know prettier than many women and you know that's building on a a kind of given a positive axiom if you like that everybody is bisexual in nature like if I said that so if I said for

15:52

example imagine I said something like look anybody that is left alone with a million pounds would would at least consider stealing it now you see when I make and I I would believe that I would say that because I would assume that most people by and large have the desires of temptation to of greed most we all have a sense of greed now you could say how control disagree but if I was to say any person left alone with a million pounds would have would be

16:27

tempted to steal it now mom no we saying any person left alone with a young boy would be tempted to have sex with him or at least look at him sexually now I would I would think huh what oh boy that escalated quickly so you see now if somebody because Imam no we made that claim and he's not the only person many people before him made it because in the

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day and age they saw that as a kind of given now they weren't homosexual in today's day and age sense and I'm not saying Imam no he was homosexual but I said he acknowledges a fundamental bisexuality that he feels is intrinsic in human nature and ubiquitous ba now just quote that back to me you see but he does feel that he feels that this is these people or you know this is a given that der everybody would relate to what I'm saying so and there's

17:46

nothing so shocking about that that these the medieval Muslims and the medieval Arabs and the medieval kind of times people had a what a kind of sense of there was pederasty okay which is like what the Greeks had with boys that they had these sexual and romantic romantic relationships with bullies and they felt a sense of attraction to boys and by boys they didn't mean they meant like boys in their mid late teens that's what they meant so Socrates speaks about it Plato Aristotle these people would have all had relationships with boys

18:25

through Symmachus who's a contemporary of Socrates says in his famous quote that as a young boy I seduced the men from their wives and as a grown man I seduced the wives from their men ha ha var threesome ACCA's grew I'll kick a can me okay also another eminent philosopher of the past racemic us was a also very intriguing philosopher who believed in might is right but put that aside fast-forward to what a man know we were

19:02

simply articulating what an expressing was the sentiment of his age yes oh I wasn't mocking him when I'm saying that I was saying what he was saying mocking if you if you mean by mocking I'm making this up it's written in his book and some War hobby from Saudi tried to refute me on it by he made a live video that went on for an hour where he says this Abu layth guy is a deviant that jarate he says he says I'm gonna read it out and he reads it out and go and he says and they are prettier than

19:40

most women or many women and he says well duh that's because he goes I can answer that that's because many women are ugly [Laughter] needless to say this guy looked like a Neanderthal that had on that had gone long term that suffered from chronic depression himself that's what this Saudi Wahhabi looked like but yet he had the audacity to say many women are ugly I thought but see so this is this is the

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thing it's like he could have just said this Saudi maja B could have just quite easily said I'm not gay you could have said I'm not gay it's just that this it's just that there's so many sexy boys around that's the equivalent of what's going on here right so so my and the other thing with His Eminence his eminence is his eminence because his his eminence chef yaku be sorry I just find that

20:58

hilarious his eminence he has released a new Buhari sorry a copy of Buhari and i and because he made an advertising claim that is the most authentic copy on earth so I picked up on that because I have a thing me and Behati have a thing we so he chef here who be said my copies based on the salt on here but then every copy of ahadees is based on the salt on here so I don't know I think this has got back to him so now he's apparently backtracked and now apparently chef yaku

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be saying no what I meant was that my copy is based on the salt or Nia which is the most authentic copy so basically every copy of bihari oneth is the most oh sorry most the majority the overwhelming majority copies I don't mean some exceptional ones the overwhelming majority copies of hary on earth or the most authentic copies that's the equivalent of me saying this athlete is the best and then when you say but really that guy outperformed him in this and this guy

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outperformed him in this and this guy I performed him in this I say no no my friend right number wrong door number next door what I mean this athlete is the best this athlete is human and humans are best so this one best price I give you you know this one best price ha ha so the response was that this athlete he human being human being best best best so so because this is Sultan eeeh all

22:53

copy Sultana Sultana copy best guru love you yeah I love you my myself so this this is but obviously these kind of things go on why but this look this is really just business I've got nothing against business I'm I love business business I love this in in saving was it not Private Ryan the other one with where is that see where the Smalley pirate he says I am NOT I'm know some of

23:32

in Latin I am businessman so this this captain Phillips ROTC so I love business I've got nothing against business and I think look this is a business thing and that's fine and I feel that what Sharia Kobe's journey like many others and before him it's gone from the word which is the the kind of message to adding the flesh which is the corpus people

24:08

you see now once you add the copis it is from there only a tiny step to cooperation won't occur as Anil Kapoor subset I want to get for this is so it doesn't take long and I'm not against that and that's all fine may may Allah give him more money more money and more money sub kodi neeya may Allah give everybody why not chef yaku be so that I've got nothing against but I just feel that

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using you know like these kind of tactics is problematic yes big problem you know no way no he is not nice you know this one and I would love to have a discussion with chef yaku beyond Sahil Bihari if he claims I watched a clip of chef yaku be saying it's impossible impossible to doubt side body I thought confidence to monopoly what is

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the poet say he says a burka tajalli cotton a hunk o be Musa some joy I'm turning in Georgia job Jacobi latte you know he says that we're not the Mount Sinai that we will just crumble come through nahi George Alger's capture him of Karbala joy now whenever you want come face to face I would love to have a discussion because each this this claim

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that it's impossible to prove to have any doubt with Sahil Bihari I think this song this won't be claim they claim not nice get it becomes muy muy muy complicado my complicado so hip so if Sharia Kuby does watch this and you would of two and if he's interested I'd love beyond it to have it would be respectful it would be civil the propriety of his eminence would be maintained I would maintain the etiquettes so right so

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about and they can give me the list of but they can't tell me that don't they dare tell me you're not allowed to I will be myself but I won't be out it will be very civil very friendly but I know it would never happen Jesse I could become Lois a bar tinker thing but anyway so that's chef yaku be let's move on

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