# Opening: welcoming Shaykh Atabek Shukurov and an audio check

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/1/
- Date: 2021-01-29 · Kind: announcement · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Atabek Shukurov | Mortgages, Madhabs & Molvi-ism | MindTrap 48 | Mufti Abu Layth (0:08–2:37)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtwyWCa2-pQ&t=8s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth welcomes Shaykh Atabek Shukurov from Uzbekistan, introduced as a voice of reason, and checks the audio.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth opens the MindTrap and introduces his guest, Shaykh Atabek Shukurov, as a treat for the evening. He checks with viewers on Facebook and YouTube that the sound is coming through, and the guest thanks him for the invitation. He introduces the guest as a scholar from Uzbekistan, the region of Bukhara, who has spent many years teaching online and in person and challenging ideas, calling him one of the pioneers of rational thought and a voice of reason.

## Sources and names cited

- Shaykh Atabek Shukurov (guest)

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:08–2:37)

[0:07] All right people. All right. people. All right.

[0:35] And as always, people. So, I have a treat for you tonight, people. All right. People, people, people. Right, let me bring up right before you. As you can see, Allah Akbar. Look at that. The esteemed guest tonight is none other than the legend, the man, the myth, Shehab Shakarov.

[1:07] All right. Sheh to the show. Thank you for the invitation. Thank you very much. It's an absolute honor she having you here. I'm just going to do just check with the listeners and the viewers that they can hear us uh all fine. So guys, I'm just this is just an audio check. I don't want these precious words to go uh unheard.

[1:34] So let me just check if you can just is the volume coming through all fine. I'll just check with uh Facebook and YouTube. Right. So people if you can hear us all fine. [clears throat] So all right somebody says this is an awesome mind trap. All right. See, it hasn't even begun. And there you go. The presence of the sheh himself has done this people.

[1:59] It's [laughter] all right. Sound is good. Right. So, Sheh Shehab needs no [clears throat] intro people. Those of you that have heard of Bkari, it is from that same region in our times hails all the way from Usbekistan people. That's where the old Bkhara of old is the modernday the contemporary Bkari Shehikh Atabek who spends most of his time many years invested in teaching people uh online whether it's been in person he's been lecturing he's been challenging all

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment rtwyWCa2-pQ/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/rtwywca2-pq/s/1/

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