# Does the Mufti teach disrespect for the Prophet? *His record of defending the Prophet's honour against disrespectful narrations* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z__38zt8flq/s/3/ - Date: 2020-04-07 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (8:19–12:46) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__38zt8FlQ&t=499s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z__38zt8flq/ **Topics:** Replies to attacks on the Prophet; The age of Aisha; Responses to critics **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: he says he has repeatedly defended the Prophet, denying that he married a child and rejecting narrations he finds insulting. Those accusing him took none of these stances. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he has stood up for years and said that the Prophet did not marry a child. **Evidence, his words at 8:57:** “for years i've stood up and said that the Prophet did not marry a child” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__38zt8FlQ&t=537s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says sectarian preachers use such distortions to call him a kafir and stir up people's sentiments, which he says is why the youth are fed up with the mullahs. He lists positions he says he has taken in defence of the Prophet: that the Prophet did not marry a child; rejecting the narrations that magic made him clumsy and impotent, that Musa ran naked, that he took Safiyya as wife right after her husband was killed without waiting for her 'iddah, that he lusted after Zaynab, and the report in al-Bukhari that he told a woman to give herself to him. He says those who accuse him did not take these stances. He rejects the claim that he is a closet atheist, saying that if he were one he would announce it and does not care what people think of him. ## Sources and names cited - Aisha - report: magic was done on the prophet and he became impotent - report: musa ran naked so that people could see he had no hernia - Musa (Moses) - Safiyya bint Huyayy - Battle of Khaybar [?] - 'iddah (waiting period) - Zaynab bint Jahsh - report: the prophet said to the woman give yourself to me - Sahih al-Bukhari - kafir ## Transcript (machine tier, 8:19–12:46) [7:41] they pass away so and I'm pleased if you've got any questions on this watch my clip I actually begin by saying this is a very sensitive subject now to tell people that I'm teaching Muslims to disrespect the Prophet is such a burden this is such a lie and this is exactly the sectarianism that I condemn this is the reason that people are so disenchanted with this theme that the [8:18] youth are fed up with the mullahs that they can't put up with them that you see all you're doing is rather than refuting an opinion you're saying that oh I know I've got an opportunity to say this is a gustar key and this guy is a careful that is your concern you your concern is not even the issue it's an opportunity to say I know let's pretend this is what he's saying and let's use that to call him a kafir and evoke the sentiments of people to say he teaches disrespecting the Prophet wallahi i ask people is it and i said [8:57] this too i said this to share her sorrow i say this to share her sorrow i say this to all my haters yeah when it came to the age of the wife of the prophet who stood up now she has wrought because his feeling embarrassed is leaning this way for years i've stood up and said that the Prophet did not marry a child and that is disrespectful when these people taught that the Prophet had magic turn onto him and he became clumsy and he became sexually impotent I said that is disrespectful and condemned that teaching when they said that the prophet [9:36] Moses ran naked as it says in bihari and people were looking at his testicles to see whether they were swollen or not I said that that is nonsense that how do you insult our prophets when they said that the Prophet took Sofia after the Battle of of he bore and then just took her as his wife without any full aid even though he her husband was just murdered and then had sex with her and which would just be rape and these people are like okay with that I replied to that saying that that is utter [10:14] nonsense that the ADA states that she must wait this long and I showed all the narrations I have a clip when these rewired came about Zeynep radi allahu on her that this is how the Prophet lusted after her and did this and did this I made a video with research to show that this is nonsense this is an attack on the honor of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so what I am asking when they's the hadith in bihari when they say that o the Prophet tried to touch this woman in Buhari and he said give yourself to me I said that is nonsense you cannot prove this hadith [10:53] in fact I don't even know why you picked mihari above the Quran you can't even really prove bihari I took this stance none of these people did and hurts me just as a person I mean look you can do what you want but to say that oh I'm teaching people this is my mission to teach people to dishonor the prophets then why am i going around showing defending the honor of the prophet sallallaahu ellipse and the other prophets on all of these things with the way all these movies and mullahs just say uselessly just tell [11:31] people to accept them they say oh don't worry married a child it back then they did things like this what do you mean they did things like this so this so these are the kind of misunderstandings that people are promoting I mean they're propagating this about me and you know oh that what I'm teaching is kufur I'm teaching people I'm a closeted atheist and I just want people to become atheist you know if I wanted to be an atheist you think I would give a damn about what any of you would have to say about me well lucky if I want to be an atheist I would announce it I wouldn't give a damn [12:09] yeah I look at me I mean I see here teaching I say in a t-shirt I have a goatee I've done this I have an earring for God's sake you know like does it look like I care about what people's opinions are I've been teaching a lot of what I've taught has been counterculture I've been teaching for a few years now does it look like I get offended by oh you know people's simple opinions on me if I was an atheist oh I'm so scared to announce it the truth is that I believe in Allah I believe in his messenger yes ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment z__38zt8FlQ/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/z__38zt8flq/s/3/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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