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12 answers in 12 recordings, 2019 to 2025. 8 with a checked position in his own words.
Indexed so far: 259 of 1,859 recordings (1,904 answers, 2014 to 2025). Anything below may change as the rest are indexed. Limits of the data
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· Is it wrong to judge someone who has become an atheist or left Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth says that if a person is an atheist it is their choice, as there is no compulsion in Islam, and he does not judge people who have doubts or have left the faith.
“if a person is an atheist it's his choice or her choice I believe there's no compulsion in Islam”
13:56TranscriptCite 2019-08-01-S03corrected
· What was al-Ash'ari's argument against the Mu'tazila about God always doing what is best?
Mufti Abu Layth says the paradox in the debate attributed to al-Ash'ari is where the Mu'tazili view that God is bound to act by a fixed rule crumbles.
“in the afterlife and it and this kind of paradox is where the Methuselah kind of thing crumbles”
51:39TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S11corrected
· Can non-Muslims be saved according to Sunni scholars?
Mufti Abu Layth says that, without saying any of them are necessarily right, these broad views on salvation and hell are all part of the understanding within the Sunni tradition.
“i'm not saying that any of these are necessarily right but what i'm saying is there are all parts of the the understanding that we have within our tradition”
4:02TranscriptCite 2020-08-19b-S01corrected
· Can a Christian really speak with God?
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes that anybody and everybody has a direct line to Allah, whatever they call him.
“God is not the God just of Muslims or of Islam. I believe that anybody and everybody has that direct line to Allah whether they call him God”
1:52:12TranscriptCite 2021-01-05-S25corrected
· Is it unfair that some are born Muslim, and is God's throne literal?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran's description of God establishing Himself over the throne is not literal but a literary expression meaning that the kingdom is His.
“it just speaks about that the throne is the that the lord established himself over the throne meaning that the kingdom is his”
2:52:39TranscriptCite 2021-01-12-S39corrected
· Are the Prophet's parents in heaven or hell?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's parents are unquestionably from the people of salvation.
“the prophet's parents are unquestionably from people of salvation just as anybody before the prophet”
2:14:22TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S28corrected
· Will Allah judge someone who follows only the Quran by the Quran alone?
Mufti Abu Layth says that he personally finds it very arrogant for a human to presume who will go where in the afterlife, which only Allah knows.
“this is me personally i always find it very arrogant to to assume on these matters about who will go where in the afterlife”
3:13TranscriptCite 2021-10-25-S01corrected
· Will gay people around us make Muslims gay?
Mufti Abu Layth says the fear that people being gay will make Muslims gay is, in his view, an unnecessary insecurity.
“you know it doesn't I think this is an unnecessary insecurity like some people have like oh my God oh my God we're all going to become gay”
28:02TranscriptCite 2023-02-22-S05corrected
How many of these answers cite each (guest speech left out). Cited means named as evidence or discussed, not necessarily accepted: open the answers to see which.
These answers state a view in order to discuss it, often to reject it. They are never read as his position.
Cite a statement by its id: Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment id, with the date and the address of its page. Citation formats
