# How did Lupe Fiasco discover Mufti Abu Layth? *How the guest found Mufti Abu Layth: beyond the Salafi YouTube wall* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/ - Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (1:54:40–1:57:50) - Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiiPEhuiHA&t=6880s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/ **Topics:** The Mufti and the channel; Social media **Question as asked:** How did you come across me? **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The guest says he found Mufti Abu Layth while looking for alternatives to the Salafi content that dominates Muslim YouTube, and values his different point of view. ## Longer summary A viewer asks how the guest came across Mufti Abu Layth. He says that during Ramadan he becomes sensitive about whether he is doing things correctly, and that for a long time YouTube Muslims like him, outside a Muslim community, kept hitting the same wall of hardline Salafi content with no difference of opinion. He says a video of Mufti's popped up offering another point of view and showed him what the Malikis are about, bringing balance to largely uncontested narratives. He adds that a Salafi preacher's practical advice did help him come off his wudu obsession, though other things sounded medieval to him, and that he and Mufti have exchanged questions by direct message for a couple of years. ## Sources and names cited - Lupe Fiasco (guest) - Salafi - Maliki - wudu ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:54:40–1:57:50) [1:54:00] same circles um he had did an album he was working on i think a movie or an album or something in chicago um and we were kind of we're in the same circle in terms of studio and music folks in the city um but i haven't i didn't have like a super deep kind of relationship with him like that not as like how i know kanye or i know jason and similarly dave chappelle yeah i met david i met dave how many times do i met dave i can't remember most vividly was that a con my friend robert glasper is a jazz musician he does these jam sessions and he brings out everybody like everybody just come out and like dave [1:54:39] chappelle was just there like on the steps and we had a a nice little chat he's a he's a cool brother man he's a cool dude yeah i love his comedy i love it and of course oh man there was a question here that how did you how how did you come across me actually that's a a good question let me let me let me massage my ego hey get the biceps make sure you hit the foot and the trap stop [1:55:15] getting trapped um again during ramadan man you get super sensitive about things and you want to find out you're wondering like man am i am i doing this correct right um oh oh i'm studying i'm in the weeds of study and uh for a long time man like i'm glad you're on the scene right now um because for a long time you would hit the same youtube wall you know you would hit the same uh uh kind of folks the same kind of salafi uh super like heart that like it's just like i because that's all you really got you know um and you don't really kind of get [1:55:54] that difference of opinion someone someone like someone like me who's not really in the music in a muslim community you know for some folks it might be they might have that same issue but for youtube muslims like myself um you're kind of at the mercy of the content that's there um and so you know i i was probably looking for something and something popped up um and you you had a video on it right and it's kind of like oh here's another point of view right and you get into your point of view and it's like oh so that's what the maliki's are all about okay [1:56:30] you find yourself like you know you you're aware of the meth abs um but i mean who has the time to get like super deep right you just kind of go off the super what's on the surface and so fortunately again fortunately glad to have you you know on the scene uh what took you so long to at least at least bring a little bit of like you know balance to some of the narratives that are going to get pushed out if you look at just kind of youtube or the social media space or even just google something right a lot of kind of like hardcore solo feed kind of stuff pops up and it's kind of uncontested yeah and you that becomes your thing and it doesn't and i don't want to say that that some of that stuff hasn't helped it [1:57:10] definitely did like watching this one salafi cat uh and not to disparage any salafists but it uh it it gave me a kind of protocol to kind of come off that voodoo obsession yeah you know and it was like bro like think about something else there's bigger fish to fry and it's like don't worry don't worry about whether you did it three times or two times or forgot to do your face or something like that right um and like if you want if it's really that bad do this if you're really that bad do that and it's just very practical and and done but then it'll be something else that's like i don't know if i believe that like i don't know that sounds a little that sounds a little medieval right there but i don't know so it's that's how i kind of got him got into with with you and i think we've [1:57:49] kind of been in like the dms over the past like a couple years or so yeah just kind of throwing questions and you were humbly able to respond i'm at your service i i mean look at that people if you've got lupe on youtube watching me oh my god you're part of the discord wow so one of the questions that what is what is your what is your journey here forward because you'd made an announcement about kind of putting up the gloves and and so what what is what is your trajectory uh conceptually moving forward ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment oYiiPEhuiHA/s/23. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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