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16 answers in 14 recordings, 2017 to 2025. 13 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 I brush my teeth with toothpaste or use mouthwash while fasting?
Mufti Abu Layth says he would encourage all people to brush their teeth when they are fasting.
“so I would actually encourage people I would encourage all people to brush their teeth when they're fast especially”
5:44TranscriptCite 2017-05-17-S01corrected
· Does Ali's saying about wiping the socks prove that religion is not based on reason?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report attributed to Ali that the bottom of the khuff would deserve wiping if religion were by opinion is weak in its chain and absent from several versions, that Malik's Muwatta records wiping both top and bottom, and that rituals are practices rather than claims against reason.
“this hadith I don't personally even in that narration I don't accept it to be sorry there are huge problems in the chain”
1:01:59TranscriptCite 2018-04-09-S13corrected
· Is it a sin to pee standing up?
Mufti Abu Layth says urinating standing up is absolutely fine and there is no sin in it at all.
“so it's absolutely fine don't worry about it relieve yourself”
1:17TranscriptCite 2019-09-17-S01corrected
· Can I wear perfume that contains alcohol?
Mufti Abu Layth says perfume with an alcohol base is pure and there is nothing to worry about.
“is it pure or is it nudges it's pure absolutely there's nothing to worry about”
1:50:34TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S31corrected
· Can I take a mortgage, and can I urinate standing up?
Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, the riba of the Quran refers to loan-sharking and not to regular bank interest.
“my understanding is that ribba is not ribba of the Quran is referring to loan sharky. It is not referring to regular interest that that takes place in the banks.”
38:14TranscriptCite 2021-01-05-S10corrected
· Do I lose good deeds if I keep a dog as a pet?
Mufti Abu Layth says owning a dog does not make you lose rewards.
“So, you mean can you own a dog? Uh does it impact do you lose rewards? No, you don't.”
40:53TranscriptCite 2021-01-05-S11corrected
· Do I have to be in a state of purity to say verses of the Quran?
Mufti Abu Layth says these kinds of hadiths are to him an encouragement showing that the deen ought to be very natural to our lives.
“these kind of hadiths are to me and an encouragement to show that the deen ought to be very natural to our lives”
43:52TranscriptCite 2021-01-12-S09corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says smoking does not break wudu.
“so smoking does not break the woodoo it is only the only thing that breaks the woodoo is is relieving yourself”
38:30TranscriptCite 2021-01-19-S12corrected
· Will I go to hell for not shaving my pubic hair?
Mufti Abu Layth says nobody is going to hell for not shaving pubic hair; it is a hygiene matter.
“nobody's going to hell for a mustache and nobody's going to hell for not shaving the uh pubic hair”
1:03:44TranscriptCite 2021-01-19-S16corrected
· Can I do tayammum instead of wudu if water makes my cough worse?
Mufti Abu Layth says someone whose cough worsens with water may perform tayammum, since the Quran allows it for those with an excuse, and that the person judges for themselves whether the excuse applies.
“if you need to do them you can do it look it's in the quran tiemoue is there as well okay so if you have an excuse it's your excuse to judge”
40:39TranscriptCite 2021-01-26b-S09corrected
· Should I use water or toilet paper after going to the toilet?
Mufti Abu Layth says a person should always, if possible, use water when cleaning after the toilet.
“a person should always if possible use water water people water obviously if if you're stuck and you don't have water then you will uh use paper”
1:22:51TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S16corrected
· Are disgusting sexual fetishes between spouses haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says that fetishes involving impurity, however disgusting, are not haram, since contact with impurity is unclean but not forbidden and only God declares something haram, and that what consenting spouses do in private is their own business.
“So my response which is still the same that these kinks or things like this as sickening as they may be to people doesn't make them haram.”
1:07:07TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S11corrected
· Language embeds power: 'inconvenience' versus 'hardship' in tayammum
Mufti Abu Layth says that the moment we deploy words we embed power structures, maybe subconsciously.
“the moment we deploy words we are agents of power we select words maybe subconsciously but we embed power structures by the use of words”
28:50TranscriptCite 2023-02-13-S05corrected
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