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15 answers in 8 recordings, 2017 to 2021. 9 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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· If a religious figure does something wrong, should people expose him online?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that if a crime has been committed it must be reported to the authorities, that vigilante justice is haram, and that a haram act that is not a crime is for Allah alone to judge.
“vigilante justice is haram for a valid reason in Islam it is not okay for people to get together and say we will do vigilante justice”
10:43TranscriptCite 2017-09-29-S04corrected
· Is it Islamic to name and shame someone for a sin?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that publicly naming and shaming a person for a sin is a modern tabloid practice with no basis in the Prophet's example, since the Prophet addressed wrongdoing without naming anyone.
“this is a 21st century Western tabloid tabloid ISM culture that you are exploiting that you are building your faith upon this is nothing nothing from the teachings of Islam”
18:21TranscriptCite 2017-09-29-S06corrected
· Did great scholars like Ibn Hajar have private lives that would be condemned today?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that conduct such as Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's marriage to his wife's former slave girl was never treated as abuse of power or as grounds to warn the ummah against him, and that the word abuse should be kept for real abuse, not the breaking of corporate rules.
“when people use words like abuse they are dangerous words because they imply the real abuse not just oh you know you may have broken some rules of corporation”
32:22TranscriptCite 2017-09-29-S10corrected
· Do Muslims online have the right to demand evidence about a scholar's private life?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the public is not a court and has no jurisdiction to demand or weigh evidence about a person's private life, and that everyone has a right to a personal life.
“there's no evidence to bring we are not a court this is not court right none of you are have jurisdiction there is no evidence to bring”
37:27TranscriptCite 2017-09-29-S12corrected
· Is cyberbullying and attacking someone's honour haram in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that harming the honour of a Muslim is graver than destroying the Kaaba, as the hadith he cites says, and that bullying, cyberbullying and maligning people's character are haram.
“recognize that bullying is haram cyberbullying is haram maligning people's character is haram destroying the honor of other muslims is haram stay away from all of this”
45:43TranscriptCite 2017-09-29-S13corrected
· Do women really curse more than men, as the hadith says?
Mufti Abu Layth says the report contains a factual error, since men always outperform women in swearing in every culture.
“it is unquestionable in any culture that men always outperform women in swearing right so this is one important point that this is actually a factual error”
19:12TranscriptCite 2018-07-29-S04corrected
· Is it wrong to preach modesty to society?
Mufti Abu Layth says there is nothing wrong in having a message about modesty.
“wear as modesty gone and so on but there's nothing wrong in having a message about modesty”
10:30TranscriptCite 2020-04-28b-S03corrected
· Why does the Quran talk about something as small as the Prophet's dinner guests?
Mufti Abu Layth says the verse on the Prophet's dinner guests shows that micro-transgressions such as imposing on people are not to be disregarded, and that these etiquettes are building blocks of a healthy society.
“he also mentions micro transgressions that don't harass people don't become a burden on people unnecessarily don't kind of impose yourself that these etiquettes two are the building block of a healthy society”
1:12:58TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S17corrected
· Is it haram to flip a coin to make a decision?
Mufti Abu Layth says flipping coins is not haram.
“no it's not haram flipping coins um clear shukran for the stars it's not haram to flip coins but i would say look”
3:16:17TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S36corrected
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