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11 answers in 8 recordings, 2020 to 2021. 11 with a checked position in his own words.
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· Is it halal to eat crocodile?
Mufti Abu Layth says crocodile meat is halal in the school of Madinah, in which only pig is categorically haram.
“crocodile meat is halal in the school of Medina all kind of marine life in a sense all anything that's from the sea”
1:52:30TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S32corrected
· Is it haram to eat dog meat?
Mufti Abu Layth says dogs are not haram to eat according to the school of Madinah, though people do not really eat them.
“it's not Haram in the Sharia to eat it so dogs are not Haram but people don't really eat dogs”
1:55:35TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S33corrected
· Is non-halal chicken and beef actually haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not feel it would be haram if a person ate non-dhabiha meat, but that because of identity Muslims should stick to halal meat.
“So if a person ate it, I I don't feel it would be haram, but I feel because of the identity factor, we should stick to halal meat.”
2:32:52TranscriptCite 2020-10-27-S23corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says that in Islam everything in the sea is halal, according to the school of Medina.
“so in islam everything in the sea is halal okay that's according to the school of medina”
45:58TranscriptCite 2021-01-12-S10corrected
· Is it haram to eat with my left hand?
Mufti Abu Layth says eating with the left hand is not haram.
“but I'm just saying if you can't fine eat with the left hand it's not Haram”
2:42:40TranscriptCite 2021-01-19-S35corrected
· Is it haram to eat meat that is not halal-slaughtered, like a non-halal burger?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that eating meat that is not dhabiha is not haram today, because the primary purpose of halal slaughter, distinguishing Muslims from those who offered meat to pagan gods, has lapsed, while he still supports and advocates halal meat for its remaining identity value.
“if a person ate it i i don't feel it would be haram but i feel because of the identity factor we should stick to halal meat”
1:17TranscriptCite 2021-01-26-S01corrected
· Is pork the only meat that is haram in the Maliki school?
Mufti Abu Layth says that in the Maliki school no meat is haram to eat in and of itself except the pig.
“but in and of themselves no meat was haram on earth whether it was from the sea the land or the sky nothing is haram bar pig in the maliki method”
30:36TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S05corrected
· Why did Imam Malik say nothing between spouses is haram and only pork is forbidden to eat?
Mufti Abu Layth says that imams such as Malik, in ruling that nothing sexual between spouses is haram and that no meat but pig is haram in itself, were not advocating those practices but defending the principle that no one may declare haram what Allah has not, since a scholar is not God.
“what imam malik was doing was he was defending the principle it's not about whether people do these things or not”
4:21TranscriptCite 2021-03-05-S02corrected
· What does Mufti Abu Layth think of France banning the hijab for girls under 18?
Mufti Abu Layth says that if France has banned the headscarf for girls under eighteen it is an abhorrent breach of basic human rights that he strongly condemns, while he also opposes pressuring girls to wear it and holds that it should be a genuine choice.
“I find that really shocking and abhorrent and so in clash with the basic fundamental human rights that are a cornerstone of modern civilization.”
1:23:35TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S13corrected
· Are insects haram to eat in the Maliki school?
Mufti Abu Layth says that in the Maliki school almost everything is halal to eat except pork and what is sacrificed to other than God, that carrion is avoided for health, that insects are not haram, and that ritual slaughter applies only to domesticated livestock.
“So similarly, people generally don't eat insects. But insects are not haram. Okay, that doesn't make it haram.”
1:56:20TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S20corrected
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.
“Allah loves his creation. Why doesn't he? But there is free will. Um Allah does not despise his creation like that.”
2:10:23TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S22corrected
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