# Mufti Abu Layth mocks a critic's clip on intimacy and slit bedsheets

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/32/
- Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:11:27–3:16:06)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=11487s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/

**Topics:** Responses to critics; Intimacy in marriage

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth ridicules a critic's story that intimacy was once seen as so foul that couples used slit bedsheets.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth plays, several times and with laughter, a clip in which the maulana recalls being shown by a grandmother bedsheets with a slit, used because intimacy was considered so spiritually foul that it was allowed only for the minimum needed to procreate, followed by immediate repentance. Mufti mocks the idea with jokes about ghosts and Halloween, and then digresses to joke that elephants are self-conscious, showing a book on animal minds.

## Transcript (machine tier, 3:11:27–3:16:06)

[3:11:01] us much entertainment but He doesn't stop there. You see, Chri cupcake, [laughter] he goes further. He also shares with us uh in you know transcendent values of the art of love making.

[3:11:26] [laughter] No, I don't make this up. You know this our beloved speak about the love. What this one? Let's see. Let's see what Cupcake has to say. Right. So, you've got here for all of us. You mentioned that uh uh as kids they saw that the sheets, you know, had like a small slit in it and that uh those were the sheets that uh their grandmother showed them that that they used to use back in the day, the bed sheets.

[3:11:55] Why? Because [laughter] Is that nothing? Is that is the Oh, yeah. I I I need this tutorial. [laughter] [laughter] Slit.

[3:12:23] What? What? What's this advice? Let's go back to his he mentioned that uh uh as kids they saw that the sheets you know had like a small slit in it and that uh that those were the sheets that uh their grandmother showed them that that they used to use back in the day the bed sheets. Why? Because they considered the they considered the act of making love to be so abhorentt and so spiritually foul that uh it's only allowed only for the minimum amount of time it takes in order to make uh to to procreate and then afterward a person should immediately uh repent from it.

[3:13:01] [laughter] How do you imagine that? You go into a room and the other person's dressed as a ghost [laughter] Halloween. [laughter] You're like, but seriously, this is [laughter]

[3:13:33] [gasps] So you're like, "Yeah." [laughter] And then you get the slit and you go like this and they go, "Look, one eye the [laughter] [laughter] [gasps] guys. One more time. We got to We got [laughter] learn the adab.

[3:13:59] Learn the adab. Sheh is speaking every calorie matters. [laughter] He mentioned that uh uh as kids they saw that the sheets you know had like a small slit in it and that uh those were the sheets that uh their grandmother showed them that that they used to use back in the day the bed sheets. Why? Because they considered the they considered the act of making love to be so abhorent and so spiritually foul [laughter] that uh it's only allowed only for the minimum amount of it takes in order to make uh to to procreate and then afterward a person should immediately immediately [clears throat] repent from

[3:14:39] it. Immediately [laughter] sat on a [music] wall Humpty Dumpty. [laughter] [music] [laughter] His love through true love.

[3:15:10] He hasn't changed [laughter] means obviously he's good friend loyal elephant in the movies. [laughter] No, y elephants are very intelligent beings.

[3:15:38] Honestly, it's just self-conscious. You know, [laughter] they are what's I'm being honest. Yeah, I've got a book here somewhere to prove it. Look at this. I've got this book. Inside animals hearts and minds. [laughter] All right, people. You know what? We're going to wrap this up. [laughter]

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment w6TqWuUumCg/s/32. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/32/

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