# Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: answering critics, soft drinks and Syrian rue

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/7/
- Date: 2020-10-27 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (46:55–50:22)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TqWuUumCg&t=2815s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/

**Topics:** The Mufti and the channel; Intoxicants and substances

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says he only answers persistent public critics, that non-alcoholic drinks are halal, and that he has not read the reports on Syrian rue.

## Longer summary

Told that someone he had mentioned the week before had made her account private, Mufti Abu Layth says he is not interested in being petty: when people back off he backs off, and he responds publicly only to persistent public attacks. Asked whether all non-alcoholic beverages are halal, Mufti says of course. A viewer asks whether he has read hadith in the Twelver Shia tradition recommending harmala (Syrian rue) as incense and drink; he says he has not, asks for them, and says he has heard it was used as incense and drunk, as Rumi and others mention.

## Sources and names cited

- halal
- harmala (Peganum harmala, Syrian rue)
- Twelver Shia
- Rumi

## Transcript (machine tier, 46:55–50:22)

[46:54] I mentioned her marriage to Yaser Pasta I know that's not the original. Look, I did not I I you can look I did say last week I'm not interested in being petty. Okay, I'm not petty. Ruthless maybe not petty. So, you know, when somebody backs off, I back off. It was only when people publicly attack me that I retaliate and respond publicly.

[47:25] So, that's to me that's fair play. it's fair game when they kind of like back off and say, "Look, I don't care." You know, if that's the attitude, then I'm not going to, you know, persistently go after people like that. My point is, you should just stay in your lane, that's all. And somebody did mention something about uh a marriage on my last uh on the last episode, but I didn't actually go into it because I said, "Look, I don't and I'm not interested in being petty with people." That's how it is.

[47:58] It's these other You see what it is is these haters, they that are persistent, then I have to reciprocate, you know, this are reciprocity. [laughter] That's what it is. You missed my super chat, Kamal said. Let's go back and check Kamal's super chat, people. What is going down?

[48:23] I don't see a super chat here. No, no, no, no, no, nope. Nothing. Right. So, I'll take a look. I can't see it. Ismael Aram says, "Uh, are all non-alcoholic beverages halal?" Of course. I mean, I don't understand why they wouldn't be. You explain that to me. Sauran Osman says, "My Abu, I love you, brother.

[48:50] Love you too, man. May Allah keep you smiling. Stay blessed. Much love for the super chat." Right. So, right. Somebody says, "My can you say the [laughter] Horri is going to come at the end when I do the masala. That's when is going to come right blood is haram.

[49:20] Uh Kamal if you can resend that I will take a I tell you what let me check on this thing on this I can sometimes go further. I have a different setup here as well. Uh um [clears throat] Salam Mui Ryan Christian Chris Christensen says uh have you read any of the 12 a hadith regarding the recommended ritual use of haral Syrian rue as both an incense and drink?

[49:49] I haven't. Do send that to me. It'd be interesting. I have heard that it was used in um as an incense and it was definitely drunk as uh Roomie and other people mention it but I haven't read any of the literature on it. I haven't read the Shia literature or any Sunni literature on it. Kamal, I found your super chat. Much love. Salam Mui 43. If you think you can't do justice to the orphans, can you explain explain what justice here means?

[50:21] [clears throat] Oh, this is to do with UH [laughter] I understand this is to do with marrying polygamy. Uh uh what is it? If you fear that you will not be uh and then Allah goes on to say and you will never truly be just.

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment w6TqWuUumCg/s/7. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/w6tqwuuumcg/s/7/

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