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27 answers in 20 recordings, 2014 to 2025. 11 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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· How can young Muslims be made interested in their faith?
Mufti Abu Layth says everybody should on some level be learning Arabic.
“everybody on some level should be doing Arabic everybody should on some level be learning Arab it's not a difficult language”
40:05TranscriptCite 2016-12-21-S07corrected
· Was the hoopoe in the story of Sulayman really a bird?
Mufti Abu Layth says the reading of the hudhud as one of Sulayman's intelligence agents makes sense given the verbs used, which refer to human beings.
“he stuffs the image stuff see it is something that does make sense given the kind of constant verbs that are used referring to human beings”
20:26TranscriptCite 2019-01-08-S04corrected
· Does a hadith tell women to pray in a closet?
Mufti Abu Layth says the makhda' in these reports was the sleeping chamber within the inner part of a house, not a closet or cupboard.
“this was called a Mazda okay now it is not a closet that people had you could even if he said the term chambers he could have said chambers but not a closet it's not a cupboard”
8:08TranscriptCite 2019-05-04-S02corrected
· What does the word nikah actually mean?
Mufti Abu Layth says that linguistically the term nikah just means sex, while technically it refers to the marriage contract.
“linguistically the term Nika just means sex that's all it means”
6:26TranscriptCite 2019-05-10-S02corrected
· Does the word 'women' in Surah al-Talaq rule out children?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the word nisa with which the passage opens is never used of a little girl, any more than rijal is used of a boy, and that the passage's provision for pregnancy shows it concerns adult women.
“nobody refers you do not refer to a six-year-old girl as a woman or a seven-year-old girl or an eight-year-old girl”
24:47TranscriptCite 2019-07-25-S08corrected
· Does mushkil mean ambiguous or problematic?
Mufti Abu Layth says mushkil has been used technically both for texts that seem to conflict and need reconciling and for what cannot be determined, so both sides have a point, and that Yasir Qadhi was probably using it as the common Arabic word for problematic.
“you see now to be fair the mushkil could mean both ways i mean it wasn't mushkil is sometimes used historically to be technically used to mean something um that may appear ambiguous”
6:47TranscriptCite 2020-09-02-S03corrected
· Was Adam's garden of Eden on earth?
Mufti Abu Layth says the common understanding is that Adam was on earth and that his jannah simply means a garden.
“the common understanding is that adam was on earth okay that his janna just means garden in arabic”
29:15TranscriptCite 2020-09-22-S04corrected
· Is the Quran a miracle that proves Islam to everyone?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran is miraculous in the emotions and experiences it creates subjectively, but cannot be called a universal miracle that makes everyone who hears it Muslim.
“I said look the Quran is miraculous in the emotions and the experiences it creates subjectively but you can't say this is a universal you can't say well look anybody who hears the Quran will become Muslim”
1:27:28TranscriptCite 2021-01-05-S18corrected
· Did Ibn Ashur say nothing in the Quran goes against the second coming of Jesus?
Mufti Abu Layth says that in Ibn Ashur's words the Quran does not deal with the second coming when it counts out the blessings of Jesus, rather than saying nothing in the Quran opposes it.
“the quran does not encounter this argument doesn't when it's counting out the blessings of jesus”
19:16TranscriptCite 2021-02-02-S03corrected
· Why does Surah al-Kafirun say 'ma' (what) instead of 'man' (who) for God?
Mufti Abu Layth says that, as he assumes and understands it, God knowing best, ma in 109:2-5 qualifies not just God but how God is to be perceived.
“but i'm assuming that here you're kind of qualifying not just god but how god is to be perceived”
1:19:55TranscriptCite 2021-02-16-S24corrected
· Why is lanasfa'an in Quran 96:15 written with an alif, and is it a mistake?
Mufti Abu Layth says that writing the emphatic nun of lanasfa'an with an alif is the traditional way of writing it.
“that is actually the traditional way of writing it now as time developed and generations became much more a writing people they popularly started to write it the other way”
20:18TranscriptCite 2024-09-29-S04corrected
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
