# Jealousy, entitlement and the critics who resent his following - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/7/ - Date: 2021-04-06 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (36:02–42:30) - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ85AUzeK5w&t=2162s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/ **Topics:** The Mufti and the channel; Responses to critics **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says much of the hostility he receives comes from jealousy and a sense of entitlement among critics who resent his following. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says many critics act out of jealousy: in their minds they are cleverer and more deserving than whoever has what they want, and he says such feelings of entitlement are why they are deprived. He says people resent that he has a following although he has no sect or denomination behind him, speaks openly, says when he thinks something is not haram and wears an earring and a necklace. He turns to the critic who made the reaction video, quoting parts of it about the people who share, subscribe and donate to Mufti, and says such hostility makes his day. He jokes, when told people demand to know how he earns money, that he is a film critic. ## Transcript (machine tier, 36:02–42:30) [35:41] audience and recently he's been doing a lot of talks in Mirpuri as well. So there's all of that as well. Now people are just they feel that why is he getting attention and that's it. So people this jealousy this one not nice. Speaking of jealousy [laughter] jealousy, there's there's so many people, you know, I just you you've realized how many people hate on you just simply just out of jealousy. [36:19] It's like they can't you know that like people feel that okay you see in everybody's head in everybody's mind not in everybody but in a lot of people's mind they always assume that they are always [snorts] more intelligent. Yeah, [laughter] you know that it's true though, isn't it? [36:44] In everybody's mind that they think not in most people, especially these kind of, you know, these kind of you get these mulas and these kind of uh like in their mind they think that oh yeah, you know, this guy might be clever, but I'm more clever. [laughter] This is a natural default dumb assumption, but it's it's the default assumption for a lot of these people. So when they see someone else now one they think they're more clever but two this is the most important point remember this point people in life generally people feel that not only are they more clever but they or intelligent but they [37:23] feel they are more deserving. This is an important point. There is this uh this kind of this kind of like u this this kind of they feel that I inherently am more deserving than whatever this person has like he has it why why I deserve it and they believe that within that you know I if anyone it should be me [laughter] you losers [38:00] So what happens is they get really um it kind of boils their blood that why do people and then obviously you look at somebody like me come on people come on you know somebody like me who's going to be I'm going to they're going to see me sit here I don't you know I don't have the backing of a denomination I don't have a sect backing me or pushing my stuff at all. [38:29] Um, you know, by people's standards, I'm very wacko, crazy or whatever. I say all kinds of things. Yeah. And I have a totally bizarre sense of humor. So, and I say whatever I feel, you know, like I say things, I say my I speak openly. Like, if I think I don't think that's haram, I I'll say it. And I don't care what people think. [38:55] And this ability right naturally it resonates with people. So hence people you know your love and support and all of this and people like it and it's a following and then people think how does how how [laughter] they think the guy's got a goddamn earring. He's got a necklace on. I mean he doesn't wear a hat for God's sake. [39:21] How can people follow him? And this is what makes a lot of people burn honestly and because they feel that they are more deserving of this stuff. Now clearly the fact that they covered this kind of deserving thing so much is the reason why they're deprived. [laughter] It's true though, isn't it? You know people who are just natural. [39:47] You just do something. You just be yourself. It's not like you're not doing something which is some kind of oh I'm doing it for this I'm doing you're just doing it you know you're connecting you're teaching you're reaching out you're just being you people who have this kind of oh this is my birthright this is it belongs to me belongs to me me it's it's almost the law of nature that they don't get it those people rot that's the uh And this is the same with uh our beloved Ganguti as well. [40:23] You know, I wanted to like obviously we're going to take a little look later on at his clip, but if I just summarize two key points, it's not just the stuff that he's saying. It's the idiots. Now, if you are sharing his stuff, what the hell is wrong with you people? Like you you'd pay money to someone when he says crap [laughter] like that. What the hell is wrong with you? May maybe maybe he has an arrangement like payback. [40:52] Bro, bro, [laughter] this you have you have like freaking sucker born every minute, bro. If if he was on his deathbed and he was going to do Toba, I would I would like cut the cords, bro. [laughter] What's your message to the freaking idiots that subscribe and share and pay him and freaking [laughter] damage again? Look at this. It burns them. How? Why do people like, subscribe? Why do they pay him? [41:18] [laughter] This is, you know, like really burns people. People are like, "Yeah, why [laughter] [laughter] this one? This one?" Honestly, really and and I love it. [laughter] You people g this is going out to you guys. [41:45] You know people they it really gets to them isn't it? He he lives this lifestyle. Somebody sent me on social media there was something circulating. We demand to know what does MUI do? How does he get money? [laughter] I'm a movie critic man. That's what I do for a living. Why? Why? Why? Why are you hating on my passion? [42:10] [laughter] I love it. Honestly, it really it makes my day, you know? I I read this. People send it to me sometimes and I'm like, "What?" [laughter] They're like, "Oh, why? Where? I want to know why. Why?" So, but it's all it's all good. It's all good. Right. So, people speaking. Ah, right. Speak. [laughter] world to add a bit more you know speaking of passions and I've spoken of perfumes previously people right here ah ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment zZ85AUzeK5w/s/7. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zz85auzek5w/s/7/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.