Recordings › Why people run from the Bukhari debate? | Mufti Abu Layth · 20 Oct 2020 › Segment 3 of 4
Why do preachers attack views in public that they tolerate in private?
muftis salafis salafism wahhabi wahabi wahhabism shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs ummah umma ummat barelwi barelvis brelvi barelwisPreachers controlled by their crowd: audience pressure and the shaykh who was friendly off camera
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This segment6:37 to 10:33 · 3 min 56 sGeneral teaching
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMost preachers are controlled by the crowd that follows them: the same figures who are friendly off camera attack Mufti Abu Layth on camera because their followers expect it. Al-Farabri likewise took an opportunity that brought fame, which does not oblige others to be blind.
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Mufti Abu Layth says most people take what brings them value, and that al-Farabri, like any other human, saw an opportunity that brought fame, wealth and status and took it, which he does not call evil; but nobody told others to be blind, and one can still think that something is dubious. The guest says, in fairness to one critic [?], that he is tied up because a large part of his audience is hardline Salafi, so he tries hard to please them and has no flexibility in what he shares. Mufti agrees entirely, adds that his point is not about that individual, and says the guest has hit the nail on the head: with most preachers, the crowd that follows them actually controls them. When the guest notes that another figure is from the Barelvi community rather than Salafi, Mufti says it is the same thing, and recounts a shaykh [?] who was decent, friendly and joking off camera, recalling their time together in Damascus, but who turned serious and hostile as soon as his camera was on and would not even call him Mufti on air. He says such people have no personal problem with him and some say they would like to hang out with him; one shaykh messaged him in the morning proposing to meet and that evening called him a deviant in a public talk, which Mufti exposed, after which the shaykh blocked him. He concludes that they do this only because of pressure from a following that expects them to behave a certain way.
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followers i said i i'm certain that they would exponentially grow if i was to do that and and this is and he's asking me surprised because the truth is most people out there if something will bring them some value they would take it you know it's capital at the end of the day if and when it's a commodity they would wear a thought they and then they get later on caught out for being fake now this thing brought in fame this brought him money bought him wealth they bought him status i'm not saying he was an evil person i'm not saying that he was just like every other human who's who saw an opportunity and took it
but nobody told other people to be stupid you know just because a person had an opportunity and you took it you don't need to be blind you can still think okay wait a minute hmm this is this is a bit dubious but yeah you know to me to be fair for uh farid however you say his name i feel like he's kind of tied up um to an extent because a large part of his audience is like hardline uh hardliners you know hardline selfies so he tries a lot he tries really hard to please his audience he can't he doesn't really have any flexibility when it comes to why he shares
his content i you know i i agree with you 100 ahmed and this isn't about by the way what i'm saying isn't about him uh this is generally and i think you know what you've said you've hit the nail on the head that that is exactly the case with most of these preachers that most of the preachers ironically the crowd that follows them actually controls them it's weird because the crowd you like
he's not salafi he's from the bravery community yeah he's you know same thing you know when when we had this thing with shaykh when we were off camera he was absolutely decent with me you know very friendly cracking jokes doing all of this as soon as he put his camera on obviously our camera was still rolling we just haven't released we just haven't released our footage right but obviously his camera when he put his camera on he'd go serious he wouldn't crack jokes he'd be very anti-me but as soon as the camera he stopped his
camera he was very friendly it was like oh don't you remember we were this we met up in damascus don't remember we did this we did that and oh yeah man musty musty you know but otherwise would he even call me mufti no off camera i mean on camera never call me mufti it'd be like abu leith you know but but off camera absolutely friendly because he doesn't have a personal problem with me even though he disagrees with my views which is fine he even thinks i'm pretty certain you see a lot of these people say this they say oh yeah you know mufti is the kind of person would like to hang out with but you know it's just his views shaykh was messaging me at that time was
saying oh yeah you know how about we hang out more and we do this and then he went on his lives he was saying i'm a deviant and then i exposed that i said look oh look he messages me in the morning saying hey we should hang out and then in the evening he's doing a public speech saying i'm a deviant and at the job now obviously then he got offended and blocked me but my point was that look these people are only doing this because of the pressure because the following expects that of them that the following says you have to be in a certain way you know i remember
years ago yeah i was on uh this kind of platform about it was called something like uh multaka or something as a whatsapp platform i think it still exists but they used to this is years back when it probably now it's much bigger but at that time it had maybe 50 people on there but he had all these shirts on the you know these sheikh haitham had that from the uk uh uh he's a selfie as you know he had um what's his name
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