Are People Excused from Accepting the Message of Islam Today? -Mufti Abu Layth

You know, when Imam Ghazali says that, if the a true image of Islam doesn't reach a person, so those A distorted Yeah, image reaches a person and he rejects that. Yeah. Yeah. Masha'Allah, some genius just called me. Right, so great. On that too, on Facebook.

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Are they answerable? And he said he doesn't believe that they're answerable uh because the the faith has been distorted. I would definitely say uh sorry folks, those of you just logging back on, that's because we're disconnected. Um I would say that that definitely applies today. The message of Islam has by far been distorted. So people generally are excused by default.

It doesn't mean that you wouldn't speak about the faith, but what it means is that for people finding the faith to be nonsensical, that's because it's presented in that image. It It is unquestionably. The media has a lot to do with it as well. But then we don't help ourselves either as Muslims. Like the recent Asia Bibi case and these kind of things are good examples of you know, Muslims taking to that meme Oh, blood.

Let there be blood. You know what, this kind of like this thirst to to So, it's a very distorted kind of image, you can imagine. So, I do feel and I'll tell you something even greater than that. Allah, I'll do better than Imam Ghazali's quote here. Better than Ghazali. Sorry, sister.

Right. So, Imam Ghazali had said that. But, better than him on this masala. Look at everybody thinking, what could this possibly be? I better quickly make up some stuff now just to just to live up the hype. Right. So, is Al-Qadi al-Baydawi.

All right, from the Hanafiya. People, see. Now, al-Baydawi in his book on uh in his uh I believe it's the Tawalih. Is it? Right. So, in that book, he discussing this masala and and some scholars before him as well. And Baydawi agrees with it. Other people have highlighted this as well, al-Ubi and other people in their tafasir.

But, uh that if a person just see like he tries to reason and tries to uh think that is there a God? Like somebody asked me this question before that what if reason leads you away from God? That what if somebody does reason and the result of their reason is nah, Islam ain't true.

Then he writes that al-kafir that does that that does his own ijtihad, he says your job for him. That that is that inshallah person is fine. That he tried his best. And so, even if reason does lead you away, but it's what you have. So, that's actually a very interest and it's amazing that these quotes exist by scholars who are reputable that are often quoted, yet these kind of quotes won't be shared with people.

Just eternal damnation, eternal damnation. These kind of quotes. And coming back to uh