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The Risalah and the Ashmawiya
2 answers in 2 recordings, 2015. 2 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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Mufti Abu Layth holds that a man letting his garment hang below the ankles is not haram unless it is done out of arrogance and is at most makruh otherwise, adding that in present-day societies covering the ankles is normal and is not a sign of arrogance.
“so that's once again in summary it is permissible as long as it is not done with an intention of arrogance which once again in our societies seldom exists”
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the principles of the school of Madinah would lend the deen an angle that makes it comfortable for people in the West to embrace it themselves.
“because I do believe it would lend a an angle it would let lend some type of light to the dean that would afford great com comfortability almost for people to embrace the Deen themselves”
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