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11 answers in 11 recordings, 2017 to 2023. 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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· Ruqya and the Quran as a cure: spiritual diseases, not cancer
The Quran's description of itself as a cure refers to the spiritual diseases of the heart, not to physical illness, for which the Prophet instructed people to seek medicine.
“if a person has cancer you don't say I know let's sit down and read the Quran in the cancer will go away the Prophet never taught you to do that”
43:12TranscriptCite 2018-01-02-S07corrected
· Does Islam allow gender transition for someone diagnosed with gender dysphoria?
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes there is permissibility where there are legitimate biological concerns, with medical experts giving their input.
“where these cases are legitimate biological concerns I believe that there is permissibility where there are legitimate biological concerns and the medical experts can have their input”
1:18TranscriptCite 2019-08-14-S01corrected
· Is it Sunnah to drink camel urine as medicine?
Mufti Abu Layth says that one should not drink camel urine and calls the idea nonsense.
“can you drink camel's urine or should you drink it no you should not okay that is nonsense”
0:00TranscriptCite 2020-02-16-S01corrected
· Is hijama (cupping) a sunnah I should practise?
Mufti Abu Layth says that hijama to him is not something Islamic.
“hijama is uh you see hijama to me is not something Islamic but it was being practiced not only by ancient Arabs in the medieval times it was a huge Christian thing”
1:24:29TranscriptCite 2020-08-04-S17corrected
· Does the Quran or Sunnah say anything against psychedelics?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that nothing in the Quran or Sunnah forbids psychedelics, that Allah could have forbidden these natural substances had he wished, and that they are non-addictive and therapeutic, unlike alcohol, which causes deaths yet is not banned.
“if Allah wanted to make them haram he could have made them haram they they are part of nature”
36:01TranscriptCite 2020-10-17-S08corrected
· Is it haram to have an anal swab test for COVID?
Mufti Abu Layth says that a rectal swab test for COVID is permissible if that is the test, and that it is not haram.
“So but the question is can is it is it permissible to to do that to have a swab test like that and the answer is of course if if that you know if that's the test that's the test”
53:22TranscriptCite 2021-02-02b-S09corrected
· Is it okay for adults or children to change gender?
Mufti Abu Layth says children should not be put through gender transition until they can make the decision for themselves, setting aside intersex conditions.
“you shouldn't put children through this kind of stuff until they can't make a decision for themselves”
34:31TranscriptCite 2023-02-22-S06corrected
· Can a pregnancy last for years, as was said of Imam Malik's birth?
Mufti Abu Layth says the old reports of pregnancies lasting years, as with Imam Malik's, can be explained by phantom pregnancies.
“so research in recent times has shown and several Muslim researchers and medical researchers have found have researched what they call Phantom pregnancies”
6:53TranscriptCite 2023-03-10-S02corrected
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
