# Ismail Patel's published exchange: the apology and the 'academic' consulted

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/s/3/
- Date: 2020-08-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Farid Gangu Teli leaking Yasir Qadhi's emails | Mufti Abu Layth (5:11–8:46)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDD_GyzI9Dg&t=311s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/

**Topics:** Dawah and debate culture; Social media

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Ismail Patel published his email exchange with Farid, in which Farid apologises for the leak and says he had consulted Abdul Rahman Hassan as an academic.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says that Shaykh Ismail Patel has this week published on his Facebook page the transcript of emails between himself and Farid, and shows them on screen. He reports that in them Farid apologises for the mess but at the same time says he was in touch with one of the UK's finest academics, and reveals, to his own laughter, that the academic in question is Abdul Rahman Hassan. He jokes about the honorific attached to Farid's name in the emails, says he could not help himself, and sums up that the leak is now owned up to.

## Sources and names cited

- Farid [?]
- Shaykh Ismail Patel
- Abdul Rahman Hassan

## Transcript (machine tier, 5:11–8:46)

[5:01] it transpires people that behind all these d's was gangu delhi with the big g this one this one so it now appears you see oh no all right now that wrong one there right we've got his uh let me just bring up his emails so it's been recently a sheikh ismail patel he revealed he revealed how many bills

[5:44] [Music] so let me can you see these this right here is the transcript to the emails people that you can see that are on ismail patel's facebook page where he's showing the emails between him he's finally only revealed them this week where he's speaking back and forth to gangutili and he's kind of apologizing but at the same time saying

[6:21] i was in touch with a really big this is another one where he's saying i was in touch with a really this academic one of uk's finest academics and guess who this academic is people because at this stage you're probably thinking who is this academic the academic that he's speaking about is abdulrahman hassan [Laughter]

[6:55] [Music] abdul rahman was this great academic so he was sharing them with him as you can see here is part of an email that once again i do apologize to you for the mess fareed [Music] full name gangutili full name alhaja what's this one huh

[7:30] [Laughter] i couldn't help it people i couldn't help it i had to i had to do this okay but this [Music] i didn't realize he was khajah

[8:03] [Music] so right here anyway coming back to uh these emails you've got it was leaked you've got hajja does bring it back in here he owns up this did make me think actually was that what the ts stood for in his ts [Laughter] in 90.

[8:45] so all this fitna all this drama come on like think about it we're thinking you know yes really dug such a deep hole that a portion of the ummah has drowned that's we hear reports people have apostasized they've had doubts in islam they've you know they've done all of this who was behind this i would never have thought it was our very own our very own goody oh my god

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment WDD_GyzI9Dg/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/s/3/

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