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113 answers in 56 recordings, 2017 to 2023. 17 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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· Shaykh Abdul Majid's civility; the 'Mufti' remark clarified; music in front of one's daughters
Mufti Abu Layth says that not wanting something done in front of one's daughters does not make it haram, since everything has its time and place, and that he does not consider such things haram.
“just because you wouldn't do things in front of certain people doesn't mean that you consider those things wrong”
2:30:30TranscriptCite 2018-03-13-S40corrected
· Was Aisha really nine, as Yaqeen Institute concluded?
Mufti Abu Layth says that a marriage of the Prophet to Aisha at six would be disgusting and did not happen, that the question is plainly a moral one, and that the few chains of the report of her age are all unreliable.
“six years old that is a tiny girl that's disgusting that it did not happen”
3:52TranscriptCite 2018-11-30-S01corrected
· How should I deal with religious circles that pressure me into beliefs?
Mufti Abu Layth advises religious people to expand and burst the 'religious people bubble', which he calls among the most judgmental places to be trapped in, and to be true to their faith and to themselves rather than be bullied into beliefs.
“if I could give you guys advice those of you that are religious gradually build you you know expand this bubble and then burst it and then just live your life”
10:17TranscriptCite 2019-08-21-S03corrected
· Is it a sin for a Muslim woman not to cover her hair?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that scholars who say covering the hair is not obligatory have a valid position, that wearing hijab is a good thing as part of a woman's identity, and that not wearing it is an equally valid opinion and not a matter of going to hell, since only modesty is explicitly established in the Quran and the sound Sunnah.
“some who are but feel it's not an obligation I would say that that equally is a valid opinion as well”
9:31TranscriptCite 2019-11-03-S02corrected
· Does the Quran forbid Muslims from being friends with non-Muslims who challenge Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth says the verse that believers will not be found loving those who oppose Allah and His Messenger was revealed about Muslims who kept ties with tribes confederating to attack the Muslims, and that it does not forbid friendship with non-Muslims, as the permission to marry Christians and Jews shows.
“this verse was revealed at a time when Muslims were being attacked and they and the non-muslims were forming allies and a confederation of different tribes to attack the Muslims”
5:08TranscriptCite 2019-12-12-S02corrected
· Is it a Sunnah for women to pray in a wardrobe or the innermost room?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report used to call women praying in a wardrobe a Sunnah is a weak and in fact false hadith, not a saying of the Prophet.
“because he is this weak hadith which is a false hadith people it's not even a saying of the Prophet”
5:05TranscriptCite 2020-01-17-S02corrected
· Is it wrong to preach modesty to society?
Mufti Abu Layth says there is nothing wrong in having a message about modesty.
“wear as modesty gone and so on but there's nothing wrong in having a message about modesty”
10:30TranscriptCite 2020-04-28b-S03corrected
· Will there be a discussion with someone from Hizb ut-Tahrir?
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not respect HT at all and thinks they are a cancer in this ummah.
“Yeah, sure. I mean, I'm, you know, I don't respect his at all. I think they are a cancer in this ummah.”
1:23:35TranscriptCite 2020-08-04-S16corrected
· What does Mufti Abu Layth think of preachers linked to extremism?
Mufti Abu Layth says that his approach is that any extremist sympathisers are poison.
“That's that's my approach that any extremist sympathizers definitely the these people are poison.”
2:22:51TranscriptCite 2020-08-04-S27corrected
· Does mushkil mean ambiguous or problematic?
Mufti Abu Layth says mushkil has been used technically both for texts that seem to conflict and need reconciling and for what cannot be determined, so both sides have a point, and that Yasir Qadhi was probably using it as the common Arabic word for problematic.
“you see now to be fair the mushkil could mean both ways i mean it wasn't mushkil is sometimes used historically to be technically used to mean something um that may appear ambiguous”
6:47TranscriptCite 2020-09-02-S03corrected
· Is it haram to take part in another religion's rituals, like eating prasad at a gurdwara?
Mufti Abu Layth says it is not haram to eat the prasad offered on a visit to a gurdwara, because the objective of going is to experience what those people do.
“do i feel it's haram to have that prasad no because you are there your objective for going there is to experience what these people do”
2:53:35TranscriptCite 2020-09-22-S28corrected
· Can there be a balanced view on whether jinn possess people?
Mufti Abu Layth says there can be no balanced version of a supernatural claim, since jinn possession is either real or not, and that if disobedience, missing prayer or riba invited possession then most of the globe would be possessed.
“because there is no balance to nonsensical it's either sensical or it's nonsensical”
7:46TranscriptCite 2020-11-21-S03corrected
· Is football really more haram than alcohol and gambling?
Mufti Abu Layth says a fatwa declaring football more haram than alcohol and gambling is the most ridiculous fatwa he has come across in recent times.
“Now, I'm not even into football, but I have to say that is the most ridiculous fatwa”
2:13TranscriptCite 2020-12-16-S01corrected
· What do you think of a particular online activist?
Mufti Abu Layth says that anybody who tells you that we need to take over the world should set alarm bells ringing.
“anybody who's just after political you know global domination anybody who tells you that we need to take over the world”
2:21:08TranscriptCite 2021-01-12-S33corrected
· Why is quoting science to defend hadith like camel urine risky?
Mufti Abu Layth says that when you quote scientific material to prove absurdities, it will more often than not come back and sting you.
“you see when you quote scientific stuff to prove absurdities it will more often than not come back and sting you and bite you in the rear end”
1:34:07TranscriptCite 2021-02-16-S29corrected
· Does today's Hanafi madhhab reflect Imam Abu Hanifa?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Hanafi madhhab as it is today is like a Frankenstein compared to what Imam Abu Hanifa was.
“the math hub itself is it's like a completely it's a it's a different it's like a frankenstein uh to what imam of hanifa was”
1:57TranscriptCite 2021-04-27-S01corrected
· What do you think of the rational readings of the Quran on the Marvelous Quran channel?
Mufti Abu Layth says he personally does not agree with the view, if he has understood it correctly, that Zakariya married Mary and was the father of Jesus.
“i mean i don't agree with that in personally if that is the view”
5:05TranscriptCite 2022-02-19-S01corrected
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