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17 answers in 13 recordings, 2020 to 2024. 8 with a checked position in his own words.
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· Should Pakistan allow a Hindu temple in Islamabad?
Mufti Abu Layth says he supports building places of worship for other communities in Pakistan, which is a nation-state in which all citizens are equal.
“I actually I do support them building for other cultures in Pakistan Pakistan is not a Khilafah for God's sake it's a nation state”
1:43:29TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S26corrected
· Should Pakistan allow a Hindu temple to be built in Islamabad?
Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims have become bigoted and intolerant, demanding tolerance for themselves while opposing a Hindu temple in Islamabad, and that he supports building places of worship for other communities in Pakistan, which is a nation-state of equal citizens and not a khilafah.
“i do support them building for other cultures in pakistan pakistan is not a khilafah for god's sake it's a nation-state”
29:14TranscriptCite 2020-07-16-S09corrected
· The Peshawar courtroom killing of an Ahmadi accused of blasphemy
Mufti Abu Layth says that, although Muslims generally do not accept such beliefs, a person claiming to be a prophet is not automatically insulting the Prophet.
“Now obviously as Muslims generally we don't accept these beliefs but it doesn't mean if somebody says that that they are automatically insulting the prophet”
1:46:29TranscriptCite 2020-08-04-S21corrected
· What is the solution to the Kashmir conflict?
Mufti Abu Layth says that ideally Kashmir could just become independent, part of neither Pakistan nor India.
“this is what i ideally opt for is that kashmir could just become independent um so as in not part of pakistan not part of india”
2:04:51TranscriptCite 2020-08-24-S29corrected
· Why is Pakistan so full of religious extremism?
Mufti Abu Layth says the CIA and the war against the Russians played a facilitating, enabling role in boosting the extremist tradition in Pakistan and the Islamic world, though they are not solely responsible.
“the cia and the war against the russians you see you can't ignore the role that these people played now it's not entirely their fault they're not re solely responsible for the phenomenon but they played a facilitating enabling character”
1:57:10TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S24corrected
· What was Mufti Abu Layth's madrasa in Pakistan like?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Barelvi scene in Pakistan has only recently become extreme.
“you understand like so the brillvi scene in pakistan has only recently become extreme”
2:06:08TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S26corrected
· What does Mufti Abu Layth think the solution for Kashmir is?
Mufti Abu Layth says that Kashmir, unlike Gaza, is a heavily militarised zone, that India would not pay to relocate its people, and that the ideal solution would be independence for part of Kashmir, such as the valley, with buffers kept so that Pakistan is not left vulnerable, though he expects none of it to happen.
“ideally for the kashmir issue i would see this is what i ideally opt for is that kashmir could just become independent”
23:12TranscriptCite 2021-05-17-S07corrected
· Mufti Tariq Masood's remark on scribal errors, and Islam as a deen of mercy
Mufti Abu Layth says that Islam is a deen of mercy.
“firstly I want to highlight this thing of saying that they should Islam is a dean of Mercy okay the messenger of Allah sallallah alaihi wasallam came as a mercy for the entire worlds”
3:12TranscriptCite 2024-09-29-S01corrected
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