Is swearing upon other than Allah shirk? | Mufti Abu Layth

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your opinion on whosoever swears on anything other than allah has committed shirk you see there is a hadith that man halluf a beret dealer he forgot a shellac but this it depends it depends if it's done in that religious way then it falls under kind of silk like falls under not really having you know having that true faith in God but most people who do this won't do this under a religious kind of banner like they might just say so for example people say

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things just out of cultural norms like they might say things like I swear on my life now they say that because they've heard that so often and and it just becomes an extension of a public usage I don't these people are not thinking when they say that that I'm saying something of like a religious ceremonial value so I don't believe that that when they do it although I wouldn't you

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know encourage that kind of culture of this kind of I swear on my like people say I swear my I don't know if their parents have passed away for example I swear on my parents grave and I swear on this and I swear on that I don't like that kind of culture I find it a very medieval kind of way of thinking and I discourage it and it's it's not and that's my understanding of its status within Islam it's not seen as a good thing but I don't think it's the way people do it yes if somebody felt that you know this is a religious act

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now I'm taking a holy oath and my oath instead of on God will be I don't know on on you know I the holy planet Mars for exam or Saturn or this kind of stuff would be then considered shook but most people don't do it like that in fact I don't think yeah

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2019, September 27). Is swearing upon other than Allah shirk? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zpzpjqjgkco/

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  title = {{Is swearing upon other than Allah shirk? | Mufti Abu Layth}},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
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