What is strange about Islam? "Islam began strange" | Mufti Abu Layth

What was so weird when Islam began with the Hadith Islam weird? Now, I don't know that that's an interesting I feel that this is open to interpretation of the Hadith that says Khadim Rizvi says, "If I do it in the naughty place, how do the scholars find out?" Khadim Rizvi I think you've already been doing it to an entire nation.

No, I'm just joking, joking. Right, so Right, so but Islam weird. Right, now this means that Islam began as a stranger or something strange or different. And and the Hadith says and a time will come when it will return to being something strange and different.

Now, people I'll tell you how some people I'll tell you how the wrong interpretation. Okay, this is what it doesn't mean. Let me tell you this. What it doesn't mean is that some people walk around let's say the streets of London, walk around I don't know UK, walk around in the United States, in Europe dressed like foreigners, strangers because they're wearing a job what looks like a frock.

So, they're wearing this big kind of Saudi let's say garments and and they're walking around with kind of flip-flops on and they you know got the Saudi scarf on and people are like, "Whoa, you know, who's this foreigner? Who's this stranger?" And so they're saying, "Ah, so you're treating us like a stranger." But the Islam weird. This is not what the Hadith meant, 100%.

It was nothing to do with I know, if you start dressing It's like tomorrow if we all started dressing like I don't know in in in the Chinese Chairman Mao suits or or we all started to dress like I don't know, the Hindu Brahmins and then obviously people would think, "Whoa, why are all these people dressed like that?" And then we're like, Badal Islam ghariba.

This is not what it meant. Islam was never a fashion accessory. It was never a fashion statement. Islam comes back to what humans are actually humans for. The intellect. It was to do with ideas. It was to do with reason. It was It was It's a faith construct. It's something that is comprehended.

It's something that is understood and believed. It's not So, the fact that it came as something strange, the Hadith states that in time to come maybe people maybe it will get so enshrouded and clouded by other perceptions that people will have to strip away these things once again.

And I feel in many ways that's like challenging a lot of the new superstitions found within religion. Challenging the institutionalization of faith and returning to a dean of of what was the fitra of a natural state. So,