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Opening reflection on everyday miracles and an introduction of Mufti Abu Layth

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An introducer reflects on everyday life as a miracle and introduces Mufti Abu Layth's studies in Damascus, Islamabad and Karachi.

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An introducer opens the gathering, recalling a saying that walking on water, in the air or on fire is no miracle but walking on the earth is, that every step, breath and heartbeat is a miracle, and that the greatest is belonging to the ummah of Muhammad. Likening blessings to aid packages dropped to the displaced, the introducer says today's package has come via Birmingham and introduces Mufti Abu Layth, who confirms in passing that he studied in Damascus first. According to the introduction, Mufti studied in Damascus for about a year and a half, memorised the Quran in Islamabad, completed the Dars-i Nizami in Karachi and a two-year mufti course, then a master's, and is studying for a degree in psychology.

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[Music] he said in our last discussion that if you were to walk on the Seas this is not a miracle if you were to walk on the Seas this is not a miracle and if you were to walk in the heavens this is not a miracle if you were to walk on the fire

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this is not a miracle but to walk on earth is a miracle and every step that you take is a miracle and every breath that you take is a miracle and every heartbeat is a miracle while but the mightiest miracle that you have is the mightiest of Mighty of Miracles that you have is that you are from the um of muham and whatever Allah subhah wa taala

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has given to this this um he's not given to any other um why because of the Prophet so he's given giving us Allah is giving us special things because of the of the prophet and this is why our tradition calls us to expose ourselves to naat to breezes that are sent by Allah subhah wa ta'ala and each Breeze brings packages of and an and Barat and today alhamdulillah like you know when you are displaced you see it on news on the news people are displaced

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and so on and you see planes passing over throwing over packages to sustain them in the same manner Allah subhah wa ta'ala throws these blessings upon you in packages and in each package like we said and today alhamdulillah Allah subhah waala has given us a package the package has come via Birmingham alhamdulillah so we we are very honored really honored it's a pleasure to host really someone who's coming

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forward to represent the of the Prophet preserve him and bless his parents this is very important that we shouldn't forget the parents of the people uh the Sheikh is from here alhamdulillah he traveled first to Sham did you go sham first I did yeah yeah he went to sham so we say that we Allah bless our sham and he was there for about year and a half in in Damascus taking from the of sham and then he went to Pakistan to

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Islam Abad where he memorized the whole Quran and then he went to Karachi and yes Pakistan is not only known for kebabs and roties but we have real great Mah in Pakistan and Indo Pac so from there alhamdulillah he went through the whole D naazia program and then afterwards just to add top of that mallah he did a 2-year Muti program so alhamdulillah after qualifying he came back alhamdulillah he did his Masters he's a teacher uh presently I'm told that he's doing a degree in Psychology alhamdulillah so we really need to

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2016-12-21-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2016, December 21). Opening reflection on everyday miracles and an introduction of Mufti Abu Layth [Video, segment 2016-12-21-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/1/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2016. "Opening reflection on everyday miracles and an introduction of Mufti Abu Layth." Video, segment 2016-12-21-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded December 21, 2016. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/1/
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@misc{abulayth-2016-12-21-S01,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Opening reflection on everyday miracles and an introduction of Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2016},
  month = {12},
  date = {2016-12-21},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/1/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2016-12-21-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}
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