# Does Allah love everybody?

*Does Allah love everybody? Hating actions, not creatures, and the pig*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/22/
- Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:10:23–2:13:03)
- Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/fko_fzwwnba/s/1/; general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=7823s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/

**Topics:** God and the divine attributes; Food and drink

**Question as asked:** Does Allah love everybody?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Allah loves His creation and detests harmful actions, not creatures. Pork being forbidden, most likely for hygiene, does not mean God hates pigs.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says Allah loves His creation and detests harmful actions rather than creatures, so pork being forbidden, most likely for reasons of hygiene, does not mean God hates pigs.

**Evidence, his words at 2:10:23:** “Allah loves his creation. Why doesn't he? But there is free will. Um Allah does not despise his creation like that.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=7823s)

## Longer summary

Asked whether Allah loves everybody, Mufti Abu Layth says he feels He does: Allah loves His creation and does not despise it, though there is free will, and what He teaches He detests are harmful actions and those who commit them. He says pork being forbidden does not mean God hates pigs; the ruling came down in the Jewish scripture and was inherited by the Islamic tradition, most likely for hygiene, since undercooked pork is still a common cause of food poisoning. He questions narrations of Jesus killing pigs on this basis, and jokes about those who deny evolution yet would have pigs simply appear one day to be hated.

## Sources and names cited

- report: isa will descend break the cross and kill the pigs
- Isa (Jesus)

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:10:23–2:13:03)

[2:09:51] They do these kind of um with certain Sufi tarikas do thicker on certain sounds like who are who are who like he is he he is he but it's really this this sound that they're getting into and this kind of hypnotic trance but yeah I would say God transcends all those limitations and he uses that language because of our human limitations absolutely mu does Allah love everybody I feel he does.

[2:10:23] Allah loves his creation. Why doesn't he? But there is free will. Um Allah does not despise his creation like that. Yes, this actions that he tells you that he despises. When people are intentionally causing harm, when people are causing hurt, they are doing these things. Allah teaches you that he dislikes detests those actions.

[2:10:49] and the the people who qualify with those actions but not his creation you know people even things like like pig just because it's haram doesn't mean Allah hates pigs this is stupid you know hence it's ridiculous that in religion people have you know they carry these views they say God hates these creatures why why does he hate these creatures just because you were taught you know in in the Jewish scripture it came down and and the Islamic tradition inherited that practice and it was most likely just hygienic that the pigs and the food

[2:11:26] poisoning that they were causing. So it was made haram and even till date actually you know pork if not cooked well can is one of the the few commonly consumed meats that leads to food poisoning. So you can see that there was divine wisdom and you have to understand most the world and how it operates. So okay, something was made haram and that ritual has been kept as haram. It doesn't mean God hates pigs, you know, and hence you get these narration, Jesus is going to run around killing pigs.

[2:11:57] It's like why? [laughter] It's like it doesn't make any sense. These are God's creatures. Why is he going to, you know, if God hated them that much, why did he make them? [laughter] That too, according to these people, they deny evolution. So according to them, God just made pigs one day. They they just didn't exist and then pigs existed and then God just was angry with them. [laughter] I mean he did it.

[2:12:25] It's like according to the you know the the a lot of these religious people who deny evolution they don't even say they evolved. They just say that and even if they evolved, God was behind the evolution. But still according to these people, they just appeared one day like there was just no pigs here on this plane and then tomorrow voila, they were just pigs. And then God was angry as well at this just [clears throat]

[2:12:54] [laughter] a pigs. [laughter] Pigs have had it. Don't worry. Wait till Jesus gets here. Right. Speaking of that people, we have our beloved. Our beloved. Yeah. Our beloved. We have to go to our beloved. Not not this beloved.

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment zZ85AUzeK5w/s/22. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/22/

Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.