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Motivation and purpose

16 answers in 13 recordings, 2014 to 2024. 10 with a checked position in his own words.

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  1. 20141 answer · 1 checked

    · What practical techniques help me memorise the Quran?

    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”

    11:31TranscriptCite 2014-01-18-S03corrected

  2. 20191 answer

    1 answer not yet checked
  3. 20203 answers · 2 checked

    · Does Islam want me to sacrifice sleep?

    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”

    2:11:35TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S37corrected

    1 answer not yet checked
  4. 20218 answers · 4 checked

    · How can I make the new year a more positive one?

    Mufti Abu Layth advises that people stop responding with negative words such as not bad and respond with positive words instead.

    “never you know stop that don't ever respond with not bad respond that I'm good. You know, great.”

    1:37:29TranscriptCite 2021-01-05-S21corrected

    · Should my faith make me happy?

    Mufti Abu Layth says faith ought to make a person happy rather than hateful or bitter, and that Islam is meant to complement day-to-day life.

    “if you say you have faith in your life you ought it ought to make you happy”

    30:27TranscriptCite 2021-04-13-S07corrected

    1 more checked position in 2021

    · Is it wrong to want to be rich?

    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.”

    0:00TranscriptCite 2021-07-04-S01corrected

    4 answers not yet checked
  5. 20221 answer · 1 checked

    · Am I only praying because I fear God will punish me?

    Mufti Abu Layth says salah does not benefit God in the slightest and that it is only the worshipper's devotion that reaches God.

    “your salah does not benefit god in the slightest nothing we do benefits god nothing okay it is just your devotion that reaches god”

    0:38TranscriptCite 2022-04-16-S01corrected

  6. 20242 answers · 2 checked

    · How much does Allah love me?

    Mufti Abu Layth says Allah has an unimaginable love for each and every one of us.

    “so simple yet profound and we know it but we need to deeply realize it and that is the unimaginable love that Allah has for each and every one of us”

    0:02TranscriptCite 2024-03-04-S01corrected

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