# Opening: riba as a complex, over-claimed and symbolic subject

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/1/
- Date: 2017-10-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Are Mortgages & Bank Loans Haram? - Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:04)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdrbLyGY70&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/

**Topics:** Riba, mortgages and loans

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Riba is a complex but over-claimed subject that has become symbolic in Islam. Mufti Abu Layth asks viewers to bear with a detailed explanation.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth opens by saying he is coming to the issue of riba, jokes about provoking people and deleting annoying comments 'because I can', and asks viewers to focus. He says that in his understanding riba is an incredibly complex yet over-claimed subject, in that too many people feel they understand it, and that the concept has become symbolic within Islam. He greets viewers joining late, asks them to like and share the live feed, and says this is an interesting and important point from which he would like many people to benefit.

## Sources and names cited

- riba

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–2:04)

[0:00] All right, coming to this issue of riba. Right, so I'm going to need some of you. Uh It's done, people. It's done. Don't worry about it. Is that the devil's sign or is that the devil's I don't know whichever one. I'm trying to provoke people anyways. You know when people you know when people get agitated I just love pushing their buttons even further. It's like sometimes people will make annoying comments and I'll delete them and they'll say Oh.

[0:28] Mufti Abu Layth, why did you delete my comment? And delete it again. And I'll say because I can. Why did you do it? Because I can. Right, so All right, now coming to Okay, this is going to need a bit of focus.

[0:54] Riba. All right, okay. Now Riba is an incredibly in my understanding an incredibly complex yet it's an over-claimed subject. Like people feel too many people feel that they actually understand riba.

[1:18] And two and it's become symbolic. This is the problem. That riba has the concept of riba has become symbolic. With uh within Islam. Right, ahlan wa sahlan those people just tuning in. Ahlan wa sahlan if you'd like the actual Sorry, I get distracted.

[1:43] Some people are trying to correct my drinking. If you click like and share the link uh share the live feed get it out this is an interesting and important point on riba. I'd like many people to benefit. What's life if not lived and absolutely what's life if not lived on the edge. That is something I say. Right now I I need us to understand something here.

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment ucdrbLyGY70/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ucdrblygy70/s/1/

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