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16 answers in 13 recordings, 2014 to 2024. 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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Mufti Abu Layth recommends understanding the words and translation first, memorising in a fixed place at a time that suits one, familiarising oneself with each verse before a break, then memorising the verses cumulatively, practising them in salah, recalling them at night and reading them to a teacher the next day.
“repeat the first one and the second one and then do the third one so you're doing it like that so you're kind of adding them along it's an accumulative effect”
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think Islam emphasises giving up sleep, but rather being effective.
“it's not necessarily an T sleep it's just trying to say that be you know effective so you could still get all your hours of sleeping but just be effective”
Mufti Abu Layth says there is nothing wrong in Islam with wanting to be rich or to have a lucrative business, so long as wealth is held in one's hands and not in one's heart and one keeps a purpose.
“There's nothing wrong with these things in Islam. Allah is Al-Razzaq, yarzuqu man yasha. Set these dreams, become these things.”
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