# A critic's reaction video: the Wahhabi jibe and the setup - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/30/ - Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:06:48–3:10:56) - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=11208s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/ **Topics:** Responses to critics; Salafism and Wahhabism **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth introduces a critic's reaction video that he says distorts his views, and trades jokes about the label Wahhabi. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth turns to the critic's reaction video, made with a second presenter, which he says cuts and pastes his opinions out of context and misrepresents them. He plays parts of it in which the critic calls him a Wahhabi, and responds with jokes about Wahhabis as 'wobblers', saying Wahhabis hate being called Wahhabi and mocking Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. He says he will comment on only a few points, briefly. ## Sources and names cited - Wahhabi - Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab ## Transcript (machine tier, 3:06:48–3:10:56) [3:06:27] Uh why Pakistan the holy land? I know. [laughter] Mo Mard has asked, "Is it haram to pee in the shower?" Mo, you're doing it, Mo. You're [laughter] I hope you're not doing it. These people, man. Right. [3:06:54] Look, these people need to seriously We We're dealing with the Antichrist for God's sake, and you're peeing in the shower. What the hell's wrong with you, man? Right. Let's move on people. Let's move on. Right. We also had my beloved. Beloved. Yeah. Beloved. Beloved. Beloved. Right. [3:07:18] The beloved. You know, I realize the beloved is upset. People is upset. Is this one not nice, man? And look at this. You're wahabi. You're a wahabi. Why man? Why? This is the sort of [ __ ] that Wahhabi would say. [3:07:42] Huh? Because what happens when you wobble? Tell me. Huh? You fall. When you wobble, you become a wobbler. [laughter] You know that's the truth though is it they hate that you know honestly they hate the fact that they are Wahhabies. [3:08:11] [laughter] He gets so offended. It's like know it Wahhabis have got such a bad rep. It's so true though. But because you know [laughter] the Wahhabies are like it's like a nutcase cult, isn't it? And you know it's not well it's not a fault. Just stop you know worshiping Muhammad Abdul Wahhab the the nutcase and [laughter] and everything will be okay. [3:08:38] But yeah, it's like Wahhabi and it hobies. Of course, Wahhabi. [laughter] It's like, well, oh well, listen you Wahhabi. Don't wobble then it you wobblers. [laughter] Wobblers are doing it though. You guys are doing it. You know you [laughter] wobbling wobbling all. But anyway, so what have we got? [3:09:06] Our beloved has done a whole video on my heresy people. Where did I put it? Right. So there it is. Where is it? There it is. Right. So I'm joined by my good friend Ali Ali. Right. So people right I have to we're gonna let him do one one [clears throat] moment. Let me just bring this up. [3:09:33] Right. So, I'm joined by my good friend Ali. Ali, good friend Ali. Ali Abu, we're going to let him do most of the talking. So, basically what they do is they have a uh what he does is he lies. He lies openly. He doesn't care, by the way. He doesn't believe he has a reaction video. Um [snorts] he's decided to bring on his friend Borat. [3:10:00] [laughter] A Borat. So Borat has joined Baba Fared Gangutelli. And what they've uh decided to do is like a reaction video about several of my opinions. Obviously several things cut and pasted, distorted. [3:10:24] I mean, it's not that you see, it's not that I'm not saying those things, but they're distorting it in a context. Like, they'll cut it short. They'll kind of show certain things and then obviously misrepresent as well. So, here, if we go back, we've got there they are lying is haram. And the question about the heck am I harming people is that's I'm I'm serious. [3:10:55] So first of all lying. Now this is there's only a few things I'm going to comment on. Now this is just a very brief uh summarized version. Now I've got a whole video explaining this. Now they're not you know just because they believe that to state something as it doesn't correlate with reality means God must burn you in hell is stupid you know like if I said now I'm drinking water and I said I'm drinking Pepsi and I said yeah somebody asked me oh are you drinking something I said yeah I'm drinking Pepsi God's going to now burn ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment zZ85AUzeK5w/s/30. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/30/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.