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Thoughts on Shaykh Ramadan Al-Bouti | Mufti Abu Layth

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Uh, Mufti Saab, what is your view on Sheikh Ramadan al-Bouti? I think Sheikh Ramadan al-Bouti, you know, was a great scholar. He was definitely a scholar of his time. Um, I've benefited a lot from some of his books. I love his Q&A books, Ma'a al-Nas. I've got at least two two of them. I don't know if he's got more of them. But, um, Uh, and I think it's a shame that he got caught up in this whole political thing in Damascus in Syria and But, I mean, khair, I did meet him in my lifetime and uh and in his lifetime, sorry, in my

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lifetime. I suppose in my lifetime, too, but in his lifetime. I did meet him and I attended only a few of his durus, not many. He used to hold uh live durus at a masjid and the and it would be rampacked, seriously. But, yeah, it's a shame the whole politics and everything.

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Right, may Allah grant him an elevated maqam in Jannah. I mean, it's a shame. You know, this whole thing it got it See, it gets what it's always political. Rajniti people, Rajniti. You know, there was this thing between him and I think Sheikh Yaqoubi and the whole um and their followers and things like that.

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Thoughts on Shaykh Ramadan Al-Bouti | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {3},
  date = {2020-03-03},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tzngkxyiaxu/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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