Following Minority Opinions, Establishing Caliphate and Hudud Punishment - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki

so I really I've been releasing some of these videos which are Q&A videos on that on a course that I delivered Co delivered with Cher Akram medley and and the main course the bulk of the course dealt with gin possession demonic possessions being a myth and that's going to be released tomorrow inshallah so look out for that the second part of the course dealt with the concept of magic not you know this kind of hocus-pocus that unfortunately many

Muslims believe in so that is right so that is the second part that will be released soon in Charlotte and then we had a Q&A that followed up with several kind of controversial questions which are myths as well so the first one we released that upset a lot of people was this thing of are you allowed to follow opinions which create ease in

Islam and chef Akram Ned we he he clearly made that very clear that that not only are you allowed to do it but you ought to do it for you ought to create ease for other Muslims this upset a lot of people the second question was about is there an obligation to have a Caliphate in Islam that chef Akram not we and myself we clearly responded that there is no obligation in Islam to have a Caliphate system or an empire system that these things were just contingencies the main thing was Muslims

connect with the Lord yes when they live together as a society society has rules and Islam had kind of given certain rules but it was never out and about to try to establish Empire and in fact Empire has a lot of harm's because he always takes religion down the road of institutionalization now so we clarified that that obviously upset certain people especially groups like his but the hadith incredibly upset them and they were really more so upset that I mean they knew that I was going to say that anyway to that question but they were really upset that chef Akram Ned we and

you know may Allah preserve him and bless him had also said that right now then there was a third question that can that certain things like because if there is no obligation for this ideal utopium Islamic state there are certain laws in Islam which are seen as unfortunately they clash with modern-day ethics would Islam does Islam change have the capacity to change it's laws with time does it have this

inbuilt mechanism and I've responded by saying that Islam actually mandates it actually demands that its laws reflect the ethics and morals of the age and part of this expansion which I I demonstrated I said in the clip so those of you that haven't seen that clip please do it's only a five six minute clip I explained in that and do like it share it get it out there well hamdulillah we have had some very some incredibly positive feedback as well it is important sometimes because what manifests to a lot of people is the hate

because it's easier to spread hate and I do get a lot of supportive private messages I get loads al hamdulillah and people are always kind of encouraging me and that kind of stuff is important and especially it's good to put out there as well so it's good to if people can leave positive kind of a remark so just for other people because knowledge is important but common knowledge is just as important so sometimes it's not only important to know something but to know that people know that you know it is also important so do kind of share and

like so I responded by it to give you for those of you that haven't watched the video in demonstrating that Islam was always meant to reflect the ethics of its age you see is ethics always vary between times and civilizations so you have Allah says that about each prophet lay cool enjoy alarming that we placed for all of them all of them Shara that that Allah placed for them a Shariah woman Hajin and a methodology

that varies so each and every prophet had something unique for them I mean some of them may have come in the same place so they were just confirming each other but generally when that whenever they were part of a different a different generation there was variations now I mentioned that this could never have then been the objective so even our shul in East of Seir has a whole section lengthy paragraph several paragraphs dedicated to saying that alcohol was always permitted before Islam

now now some people may disagree with that but he is a legend to me and one of the greatest my first mother said the commentators on the Quran that has been he has a tough seed a commentary in 30 volumes and was deemed the shell islam of the Mauna Kea now he has a lengthy section elaborating on how alcohol was always permitted prior to Islam and he mentions that through biblical sources we even see that there's a likelihood he says a strong likelihood that prophets of the past also drank so he says that we can't say with certainty but the traditions seem to demonstrate it but

what we do know is alcohol wine was not prohibited before we know that certain foods certain animals with certain hooves and things like this were prohibited they were seen as immoral for the people of Israel but they moral for us we were see we have seen that certain laws for certain people were different so how are these how is morality changing according to God because God is constant so how is and this you see it doesn't make any sense to use the

abrogating method response because the abrogating response makes sense only if you're dealing with the same generation or the same civilization to say well okay they're getting ready and then we're going to change it when they reach this stage but those people never got to change it at all so bunnies really always stayed Haram for them but a different people come and hey it's not her Haram for them and a different people come and hey it's halal for them and a different people and so so the point here is this goes to show that

rules were never the objective in Islam okay they were never the objective they were simply solutions to people's problems in line with their ethics of the age and it's important to understand what we are and this is God in general this in my understand somebody's this is what you could term the God of Abraham but God although I disagree with the way God is presented in and the Old Testament I do not that is not my

concept of God the this Yahweh that is presented who is very kind of condoning of murderer and genocide and all these kind of things God as I understand him is he is the absolute in terms of compassion and mercy that is that is God so the picture that certain that definitely the Old Testament has and unfortunately some Muslims have as well unfortunately many Muslims might have is that of God in the Old Testament they have a picture of this kind of mental

image of Yahweh from the Old Testament that is not my understanding of God or Allah Allah always tells us the Prophet always reminded us bismillah al-rahman al-rahim the most merciful the most compassionate this is God okay and people might say yes but he has other names but yes but those names are at times used to to kind of bring people into check just so to kind of intimidate and threaten people so as to prevent them from oppressing other human beings

so that's that's where the way that definition comes