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20 answers in 13 recordings, 2017 to 2021. 10 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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· Can Islamic punishments like stoning and cutting off hands change with time?
Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding the hudud would today be substituted, by demand of the Sharia, with penalties relevant to the age such as custodial sentences.
“in my understanding in this day and age the ha dude would be substituted by demand of the sharia so they would not be things like in my understanding definitely not things like stoning”
2:36TranscriptCite 2017-09-14-S01corrected
· Would the Prophet really call a woman wearing perfume a fornicator?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report slanders the Prophet, since calling a woman a fornicator is qadhf punishable under the Quran and, for the Malikis, regardless of intention, and the Prophet was never obscene and would not have labelled women this way to deter them.
“this is the Prophet would never ever have said something like this this is a slander against the honor of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam right that he would speak about women in such a way”
15:38TranscriptCite 2018-05-04b-S03corrected
· Why did some classical scholars rule that apostates be executed?
Mufti Abu Layth says that where classical scholars prescribed capital punishment they were addressing what would today be treason or rebellion in a very different world, that those rulings do not apply today, and that the whole world doing the same then does not make them right.
“any of these rulings today clearly do not apply many of these scholars have said today”
8:56TranscriptCite 2018-05-10-S03corrected
· Does Islam say homosexuals should be thrown off buildings or executed?
Mufti Abu Layth says there is no sahih hadith in which the Prophet spoke about homosexuals, that he does not believe the reports of Ali ordering executions to be authentic, and that the claim of a consensus that anyone who commits homosexual acts deserves death is false, since the jurists disagreed and the Hanafis held it is not a hadd.
“now people have started to say that there is ijma that these people have anybody who commits homosexuality deserves death this is what they're saying that is nonsense that is nonsense”
5:24TranscriptCite 2018-12-20-S01corrected
· Is homosexuality haram in Islam, and why were the people of Lut destroyed?
Mufti Abu Layth says the overwhelming majority of scholars held homosexual acts to be haram and he accepts that they are haram, while saying that the punishments scholars assigned varied between places and changed over time, that the people of Lut were destroyed primarily for rejecting their prophet, and that the ruling does not require hatred.
“most outright majority did say it's haram some did disagree so just being honest and being objective and transparent majority accepted it haram and we accept it's haram”
22:31TranscriptCite 2018-12-20-S03corrected
· Should a person accused of magic be killed?
Mufti Abu Layth says that this is unfortunately the state of Muslims and why they are a laughing stock.
“you would see the fire but you're just blowing into cold ashes this is the state of Muslims unfortunately you know so this is why we are a laughing stock”
10:09TranscriptCite 2020-06-01-S03corrected
· Was Sudan right to drop its alcohol and apostasy laws and end flogging?
Mufti Abu Layth says flogging in this day and age is nothing but damaging to Allah, His Messenger and their message.
“this kind of thing in this day and age is nothing but just damaging to Allah and His Messenger okay and their message”
2:08:38TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S36corrected
· Did Maliki scholars really allow fines instead of hudud punishments?
Mufti Abu Layth says the fatwa on punishing with wealth that he cites was acted upon as the law and understood as the sharia for hundreds of years.
“but some great people have said this and it was acted as the law it was understood as the sharia for hundreds and hundreds of years”
3:14:58TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S35corrected
· Are children held accountable in Islam for bullying or hurting others?
Mufti Abu Layth says children are still accountable in their own way, commensurate with being a child, so the laws for them are more relaxed and less stringent than for adults.
“they would still be accountable in their own way you understand so naturally the laws pertaining to children would be more relaxed and more less stringent than they would to adults”
2:38:48TranscriptCite 2021-02-16-S48corrected
· Does an Islamic judge always give the maximum punishment for theft?
Mufti Abu Layth says a qadi's judgement would be not unlike how the courts work in England today, and that is how the Sharia would work, more or less.
“yes he would take into consideration the circumstances it would be very it would be not different from how the courts work let's say in england today that would be how the sharia would work i mean more or less”
2:40:37TranscriptCite 2021-02-16-S49corrected
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